Streamer priority confirmed. PoE is free to play, so play it for free, but Boycott GGG.
" This actually remains relevant, and something that is concerning to those that care about the game. It's not the fact that 20-30 people was pushed to the front, it is a very good example of how completely disconnected GGG has become, from their community. "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. " ~ Hunter S Thompson ~
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" well, many posts including yours continue to bump it. | |
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Neckbeard politics continue...
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/988f3369-4b68-4eb9-bc0e-edfce4c3c950
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D2R and LA coming soon
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I agree. Down with this sort of thing.
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" I looked up neckbeard and neckbeard politics. Neckbeard is an amusing insult. I hadn't heard it before, thanks for the amusement. I couldn't figure out what was meant by Neckbeard politics though. It's obviously pejorative but I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to mean. Over 430 threads discussing labyrinth problems with over 1040 posters in support (thread # 1702621) Thank you all! GGG will implement a different method for ascension in PoE2. Retired!
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" Yeah, not an accident if it is planned. ~ Mostly an SSF player.
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Fun fact: I can't grow a neckbeard. I mean, if you're going to get one, a year or so of isolation from absolutely any need to groom is probably in the top spot for likelihood. I sport a simple goatee and mo (what the Dutch apparently call a Talking ...well, you know, THAT word) but the moment I start to get any growth on the neck, it just sort of gets fuzzy and extremely irritating. Off it comes, even if I have zero care for appearance. Comfort is important -- especially when you're not doing much.
___ It is true that it's not an accident if it's planned, but it's equally true that 'we were ready for this' and 'this was planned' aren't the same thing either. I don't believe priority streamer access was ever planned, but I do believe it was a contingency for which GGG were ready. I don't think there was anything accidental about the event -- as noted, PoE's servers can basically be expected to cause some sort of 'subtle fuckery' when put under launch day stress, and GGG decided to throw a paid streamer 2 hours of uninterrupted, optimal play experience at them anyway -- but it is a stretch to say it was planned. Why do we dislike the term 'accident'? Because, I think, it paints everyone as victims. If we say, 'he was involved in an accident', we are implying the accident happened to him. If someone was involved but is considered the reason for it, we say, 'he caused an accident'. There's always an element of bad luck to an accident, a sort of inevitability out of anyone's hands. I think we've seen enough to know that wasn't the case here. GGG were not the victims: it was their servers that went splat (as they always do); it was their decision to test the limits of that splattery with 'a big pile of money' as the gamble. Prominent streamers were not the victim; they benefited from the situation, although a few were unable to resist their nature and squandered it anyway. Less-prominent streamers were victims, lumped in with the have-nots denied the access promised to all. And of course those have-nots, pretty much anyone reading this, were the clearest victims. So we have victims and we have perpetrators, and what was perpetrated was, at least in some way, premeditated. Not an accident then. But also not a crime, unless we ignore the painful reality that if GGG change their own self-imposed laws, their own code, there's not much anyone can do about it. 'Provide a fair and equal gaming environment on launch day' as a long-held law of GGG the game developer had no chance in the face of 'don't set big piles of money' as a real-life law true to any business let alone one that answers ultimately to a company with little interest in fair and equal gaming environments unless the loss thereof means a substantial loss of revenue. 'GGG broke their own word!': I think that's too lofty, too loose a definition of a crime -- crimes typically have punishment dictated by their society, and we all knew GGG would get away with this one and probably the next one too. No recognised law was broken. Not a crime then. I suggest meeting halfway and call it an incident. Whether you skew fully critical and consider it a colossal screw up that revealed GGG's true face, or lean the other way and consider it an unfortunate event to which they reacted as best they could, 'incident' applies equally satisfactorily. There are other words but most of them are too contentious in my opinion. Too sensational or too lax. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.
I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. |
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" bump for relevance and extra BUMP of ignorance ( you´re welcome ) |
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was this really the first league that streamers got privilege or did we just only notice it now because the launch day was so terrible? i'm pretty sure i remember waiting in queue in previous leagues while streamers were playing
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