What happened to Chris Wilson?

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

they sold their shares and tencent gained full control 7 years ago. the game has had its best years in those 7 years. tencent has done essentially nothing to dictate the direction of the game.

This is my experience as well. Someone might quibble about majority ownership versus complete ownership but the point remains. Tenscent might have some long view chinese world domination of videogames plan (LOL), or it might be pretty much exactly what it appears to be a giant money making machine; but neither 1 or 2 seems to be worse for corporate ownership 2 didn't so much as ship with a extra monetization designed into it. Let alone mobile gacha cash shop nor done anything REMOTELY Diablo Immoral-like

They could (probably should have if they were smart) made you buy stash tabs again, or not allowed MTX to duplicate. POE2 MTX will show up in POE1 for fucks sake. Name another major game that would do that?

They could have a fucking cash shop full of "Level 100 for $199 USD" tons of other games have this shit. So many people just don't have a clue.

The fucking second I see evidence that Tencent has ruined either game I'll be crowing about it the same way I beat the drum of Warrior needing improvements lower right melee being super neglected, POE1 feeling like loot dumpster dropped on a space ship shooter and so on.

Tbh the only sussy thing I see going on is Chris leaving without a farewell and Johnathan making an uncharacteristic short video of a hasty feeling apology about how POE1 was just going to have to take a back seat for a few more months 8 days later.

When I remember all the videos with Chris he was always a fan of PoE 1 Ruthless.
And PoE 2 has a lot of that game design/philosophy.
And that is why I don't like PoE 2 as much as PoE 1.
I don't think Tencent has decided to make PoE 2 like this.
(Tbh I don't understand why anyone would do this ...)

Now has Chris left and PoE 2 is still Ruthless.
GGG looks more chaotic than with Chris but a new game is always a big step (with more or less chaos).

PoE 1 has it's own flaws, some whould have been "repaired" the last years without PoE 2.
But nearly every game developer makes a new game after some years.
PoE 1 is older than nearly every other game even when it was improved so many times.

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Gixxpunk#3348 wrote:

As of March 25, the game and company GGG is 100% owned by SIXJOY HONG KONG LIMITED, a subsidiary of Tencent.

Former owners Christopher W., Jonathan R., and Erik O. have sold all their shares to SIXJOY. They no longer hold any ownership stakes but remain listed as directors—positions that SIXJOY can revoke at any time.

You can verify this information through the official New Zealand Companies Office:
[Official Company Records](https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/1887410/documents)

Additionally, there are unconfirmed rumors suggesting that Christopher W. hasn’t been present in the office for an extended period.

Make of this what you will.

This makes me really sad.
I recently saw his GDC talk about playing poe forever and it made me come back.
It's like Gabe would sell Steam.

This is not a complaint to existing directors.

He was probably sick of Jonathan badmouthing PoE 1 every chance he gets.

On a more serious note; He has "been at it" for 15 years, taking PoE from a garage project to a titan in the ARPG landscape. Now his baby comes second and he has passed the torch, and can enjoy the rest of his life on the Tencent money, spending it all on MTG cards.

Have a nice one, Chris. You've given me a decade of fun :)

i kinda hope he faces an existential crisis and suddenly makes another game to prove to himself it wasnt just luck/fluke and he can do it again :)


he named it Grinding Gear GameS but only made one game really, then vanished. lol


could be a card game since he loves that stuff so much. Do to hearthstone what poe did to diablo. i'd play that for sure.

If POE 1 is 9 out of 10, POE 2 is like 2 out of 10. Nobody play the game any more, the whole mechanic and conception of the game is super bad Diablo 4 alike, it doesn't matter how many hours they put in it, it will be forever bad game. Chris Wilson realised that and lost motivation to be in the development team, so he stepped out for good.

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Lyubomir#4746 wrote:

If POE 1 is 9 out of 10, POE 2 is like 2 out of 10. Nobody play the game any more, the whole mechanic and conception of the game is super bad Diablo 4 alike, it doesn't matter how many hours they put in it, it will be forever bad game. Chris Wilson realised that and lost motivation to be in the development team, so he stepped out for good.

actually feels like diablo 4. maps are tunnels and skill not great as poe 1.

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Gixxpunk#3348 wrote:

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Former owners Christopher W. ...
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hah...

I'd always thought his name was actually ChrisTIAN -- hence the need to abbreviate it to just "Chris" since it's so embarrassing.

Now that I learn it's actually ChrisTOPHER, I'm REALLY surprised...
WHY abbreviate such an awesome name, when you could have mentioned yourself in full as:
"ChrisTOPHER Wilson"
to make it sound so much more BADA$$ ?? :O

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Lyubomir#4746 wrote:

If POE 1 is 9 out of 10, POE 2 is like 2 out of 10. Nobody play the game any more, the whole mechanic and conception of the game is super bad Diablo 4 alike, it doesn't matter how many hours they put in it, it will be forever bad game. Chris Wilson realised that and lost motivation to be in the development team, so he stepped out for good.

Once again, the real world is not sufficient... so just make some stuff up and believe that instead.

We don't know why Chris left, but we can infer some things pretty easily from the fact that he's not posted about it and neither has GGG... this at least implies it was sudden and there was some amount of animosity.

The face of POE has been retired (at least from GGG) for a month and even his friends in the company haven't said a kind farewell?

I can't help but find this suspicious along with the timing of Johnathan's hasty and uncharacteristic "news apology" 8 days after he filed Chris's paperwork.

BTW POE2 is still maintaining a large concurrent player base in month 4 that is not a lot smaller than many POE1 league starts. Despite being paid admission.

But if you prefer to make stuff up about no one playing it then go ahead. I'm posting this for the people who aren't crafting stories so they aren't tempted to believe bad information.

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alhazred70#2994 wrote:

BTW POE2 is still maintaining a large concurrent player base in month 4 that is not a lot smaller than many POE1 league starts. Despite being paid admission.

ah...

...Kids and their silly "numbers-going-to-numbers" games...

Sigh...

Try to see it like THIS:
Diаblо 3 broke MULTIPLE all-time sales records within 24 hours of its launch...

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...do I NEED to continue, or have you caught the general drift of my point already? -_-

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