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

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girng wrote:

Pretty good write up

It's funny because Chris/GGG have always wanted a level playing field for new leagues. This entire priority thing is a complete opposite of that

The racing and competitive esport is the invention of the so called deity of POE. Why would The gaming world be in the control of the evil deity? GGG did become just another company which puts profits over player enjoyment. Many are now dedicated GGG worshippers and devoted zealot. People are telling me if GGG do what they tell them to do they'll let the evil deity freely rule over the fantasy world.

"Save POE!", the peasantry shouted. No no no. I tell them, it matter not. This land is Corrupted and it will soon spread. Flee and escape, my good man. For it is really the only good solution.

Hey I guess i'm pretty H&S core gamer,
It's cool to see this topic,
I got banned last year even tho I always played the game with honor, my registration date was during beta and yet, I got no message of any sort to thank me.
they claim me to do RMT (without proof and I swear the accusation is false) tho my name account name was *djellabah and accuse me of complotism tho the foreign-sounding could be a strong factor.
See ya boys

I just stopped the support. I don’t spend another cent here. And I regret what I spent. Not even that league I was able to play. I was disgusted with what this game became after tencent.

No regrets ever. You make best decision with information at hand. lookin back iz like asking for superpowers to look into future. Just dont buy another


My grandfather says you cant always make right decisions but you can make a wrong decision right. Same deal.

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TreeOfDead wrote:

Streamer privilege finally removed BUT what about Streamer RNG???? when Streamer rng will be removed?

GGG likes add extra loot and good planned rng while gives other shitty rng and nolucky drop/craft

Yeah this seems very unfair.

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ivqancorp wrote:

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TreeOfDead wrote:

Streamer privilege finally removed BUT what about Streamer RNG???? when Streamer rng will be removed?

GGG likes add extra loot and good planned rng while gives other shitty rng and nolucky drop/craft

Yeah this seems very unfair.

About as unfair as you ignoring mentions of your giveaway.

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girng wrote:

Pretty good write up

It's funny because Chris/GGG have always wanted a level playing field for new leagues. This entire priority thing is a complete opposite of that

ye and also they said they wont make what was done with delve boss and challenges in delve conditions kills and looks what now?! same mistake with trialmaster and conditions kill...

gj gj (not)

As a wise man once said to another... (not so wise) man: You're gonna look awfully silly with that... [little] knife stickin' up your...

Note: What's in brackets was added by me.

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TBorgezHU3 wrote:

I just stopped the support. I don’t spend another cent here. And I regret what I spent. Not even that league I was able to play. I was disgusted with what this game became after tencent.

I still can't draw a straight line from the Tencent acquisition to where GGG are today. Business-wise it was a good call, but I don't think it was good for the game. If that means GGG's PoE peaked a while ago, so be it. Move on, make a proper sequel. But even that is too simplistic: most of the sale money went into private investors' pockets, and maybe they don't want to risk trying for a second miracle. Even Chris, or perhaps especially Chris, probably doesn't want to go through all that again. After all, he's putting some amazing ideas that would work much better in a new game into PoE 1 and calling the chimeric result Path of Exile 2. Talk about throwing in the towel...

And maybe that was part of the deal too. Tencent didn't buy Chris to fund a great game he might spearhead; they bought him to keep making money from the great game he already did. PoE's profitability is unquestionable. A new game, far less so. And GaaS do not go gracefully. They are very rarely succeeded by a proper sequel.

It's really hard for me to imagine Chris isn't a little miserable these days. Sure, he's personally wealthy as fuck but his greatest work, GGG itself, has lost its glamour. The number of unforced errors accumulate, errors the old GGG wouldn't have made. There is no way he enjoyed writing that apology but he knew he'd have to, immediately. Bosses usually don't eat shit like that -- middle management does. And when bosses do, we kind of respect it because we know the buck stops with them. Chris no longer owns GGG or PoE. The buck doesn't stop with him. He'd just love you to believe it does.

And, pun incoming, it's all about not stopping those bucks now.

Maybe that's as straight a line between the Tencent acquisition and where GGG is today as an mtx-flogging service provider as we can expect.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

where GGG is today as an mtx-flogging service provider as we can expect.

Similar thing happened with the game Continent of the Ninth. When it was first released and published by the developers, there was no pay2win or questionable MTXs in their cash shop. Now, the game has insane pay2win items in their cash shop that are for instant gratification. Their MTXs items nullify PvE/PvP aspects and degrade the game's replayability

Obviously, it's not the exact same comparison, but I do believe it's similar. Why you might ask? Because of $.

The saying $ is the root of all evil really rings true. And not in the philosophical sense, but in the gaming industry as well. It's really sad.