Path of Exile: Sacrifice of the Vaal Full Information

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t_golgari wrote:

WTF?

How do you get on in real life? I can't have gold medals from Sochi, because they are one of a kind and only for the 100some human beings capable of winning olympic gold. I don't like that, not giving all the peoples the same rewards for everyone.

That is the purpose of a competition with a price. Giving it to everyone devalues it. Making it a microtransaction that CANNOT be SOLD is the only way of doing it. Forum titles (special ones), Microtransactions and news posts highlighting players. Thats unique, that's an incentive to players to do the stuff and it doe not, in ANY way, corrupt (pun intended) the game.

Oh, and just because you did not get it: They are not giving away items. They are giving microtransactions. Those can't be sold. At least that is what Chris said. Microtransactions.

You can grind for your uniques as everyone else, but you are, same as me, not a nolifer that can take 2 weeks of and compete for those prices. Get over it. You can still try to defeat the dungeon of Atziri. You just won't get a reward for it, because you will not be one of the 50 first.

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Well this is super disappointing. I thought the vaal orb would be like a chaos and you could reroll til you get the mod you want. Pretty stupid to use if you can never use currency on the item again. Seriously diminished my excitement for the new league.

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t_golgari wrote:

Oh, and just because you did not get it: They are not giving away items. They are giving microtransactions. Those can't be sold. At least that is what Chris said. Microtransactions.

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PhreEkGarden wrote:

Wtf, why are you still guessing about the orb, when they just spent the time to write up exactly how it will work?

They clearly said after you corrupt something ONCE, no other modifications can be made to it.

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Mivo wrote:

If these were rewards for a race season consisting of many short, temporary races, I'd feel differently about them, because the only way to succeed at them is by playing and being good. The same does not apply to these 100 MTX rewards. (Same situation as with the gold medal example: no matter how much money you spend, you cannot buy the win.)

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Odoakar wrote:

Yay, more RNG-_-

I guess eternal orbs just went through the roof in price. Not only do you not know which random mod you can get, you can pretty much brick your item. If you are not rich enough to eternal/corrupt/eternal.