Streamer priority confirmed. PoE is free to play, so play it for free, but Boycott GGG.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Honestly, has anyone here EVER seen a successful company that treats their worst and their best customer equally? Like what kind of world do you live in? From a business perspective it's common sense to be more hospitable towards a customer that brings you lot's of money than towards one who hardly ever purchases anything and only complains about everything. Obviously you aren't supposed to do it so openly because otherwise you're in for a hippocrite attack like this one but really, that's their only mistake here, they got caught doing the same thing everybody in the business world does every day.

To GGG streamers are worth their viewer numbers in dollars. You're average f2p player on the other hand means zero money. Those two will never be equal in GGGs eyes and it would be outright stupid to see or treat them equally.

I agree, which is why GGG claiming otherwise all this time has been proven a lie. This lie was the foundation of their entire model.

You cool with them lying to you?

If not, you agree with me. If so, that's on you.

Not a big Asmongold fan but he nailed it in this video about the queue controversy https://youtu.be/AZiQRFOptMU

Just apply what he says about Reddit to these forums, some harsh truths in there to the outrage crusaders.

I said that I wasn't coming back after the Harvest clusterfuck, and frankly I'm glad I stuck to my guns!

This is, of course, a shitshow but it's hardly unexpected!

And anyone shitposting that GGG wouldn't tweak drop rate algorithms for streamers, wake up sheeple!

I have no faith, or trust, in GGG. Nor in the upcoming PoE 2.0.
I seriously doubt I will ever play a GGG game again, and I certainly won't pay them a penny.

But watching them implode every 3 months is some of the best comedy available right now!

I am literally expecting salespeople to lie to my face. They want my money and they'll do whatever is needed to get it. It's how the world works. That's why i don't get all this outrage here. "uhh a company has been lying to it's customers". Breaking news. Do you also think politicians tell you the truth? [Removed by Support]

Well, haven't given them any money since the Tencent takeover (although I do still play once in a while).

But ... at the same time, I'm kind of surprised that you're surprised that they give people who advertise their product some preferential treatment.

That's just basic marketing.

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Unquietheart wrote:

Well, haven't given them any money since the Tencent takeover (although I do still play once in a while).

But ... at the same time, I'm kind of surprised that you're surprised that they give people who advertise their product some preferential treatment.

That's just basic marketing.

People is not angry at basic marketing, people is angry at giving advantage to other players in a race AND against what's written in their manifesto!!
It's cheating to break or bend rules in a game, how can you be a player and not understand this? :-(

As topic said, Streamer privalege. Now we don't even know what else they tag players with. They could probably give hidden auras to players that they deal 20% more damage, take 10% less damage etc.

The integrity trust that the playing level field is equal is now lost with GGG since this is exposed. We don't know what shady shiet is going on the back anymore.

I don't think I wanna spend more money on a game that makes these decisions, we will see if they explain what they are doing.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Honestly, has anyone here EVER seen a successful company that treats their worst and their best customer equally? Like what kind of world do you live in? From a business perspective it's common sense to be more hospitable towards a customer that brings you lot's of money than towards one who hardly ever purchases anything and only complains about everything. Obviously you aren't supposed to do it so openly because otherwise you're in for a hippocrite attack like this one but really, that's their only mistake here, they got caught doing the same thing everybody in the business world does every day.

To GGG streamers are worth their viewer numbers in dollars. You're average f2p player on the other hand means zero money. Those two will never be equal in GGGs eyes and it would be outright stupid to see or treat them equally.

what you're saying is stupid... there is another category of players other than streamers and free to play players.... its players who paid many pack , we're not free to play and not streamers and we have'nt priority...
i played 2k hours on the game and paid maybe 500+ dollars, some others surely manymany more...

Personal opinion, if you were a massive streamer i would have been okay with it... IF and only IF GGG would have disclosed that since there was no race this league they were going to give priority to certain individuals who have been paid to play for promotional purpose like Shroud.

The fact they didnt disclose this and the fact that they went into streams and told them instead of explicitly stating it in an announcement is what doesnt sit right with me. If they would have done this in a more professional manner i would have been accepting of it.

Im willing to accept the apology on this, especially since it was a genuine server issue and they explicitly state they wont give priority again. This being the case means we need to hold them accountable as a community here after.

For me this is the perfect league to relearn the game and catch up on 4 years of missed content. I dont want a reset at this point, if they were going to reset it, it shouldve been 3-4 hours in. Its way past that point and my character has already made a shit ton of currency and im not even in maps yet. Im literally in Act 3 with like 100+ chaos~equiv already and i havent even gotten trade whispers yet. I dont even want a reset at this point because my progression for the league is already pretty deep and im sure most feel the same regardless of having a bad start.

Though i do think if they do find anyone who legitimately did duplicate intentionally they should be publically named and shamed, banned. [Removed by Support]

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Tin_Foil_Hat wrote:

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Dear, GGG, if you didn't like a comment, please by all mean, delete it or just hide it. Don't edit the comment.

Thanks.