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so take this for what its worth, Octavian was streaming POE yesterday and Chris was asked about (if he knew if a farewell was planned, no office retirement ceremony and so forth).

Multiple chat msg's were kinda pointedly ignored as was the follow up chat about chris, keep in mind this is like almost no chat activity so its not like he missed it, even addressing a couple unrelated bits in chat sandwiched between the Chris talk. Then abruptly he said he was ending stream and shut down pretty much instantly. I went to clip it and the vod is deleted. (Or he doesn't have vods turned on which is totally possible, odd, but possible considering he's got old clips from streaming days still up).

This plus the total silence suggests GGG employees are not allowed to talk about Chris, surely this is some sort of falling out.

My personal feeling is that someone was not happy having to put resources into POE1 just because Chris publicly promised it wouldn't be negatively effected by 2. So maybe they clashed and Chris got ousted, and 8 days later that someone made a quick video about how sorry he was but POE1 was going to be relegated to the back burner for a while (which I would expect Chris to not be okay with) then he got the predictable backlash Chris surely told him he was going to get.

It really is shocking they wouldn't post even a polite good bye, but if employees aren't allowed to talk about it, that lines up.

Pandering to players who don't want consequences for their mistakes is a perfect description of what went fundamentally wrong with D3 and 4.
If they wanted mindless mobile game time waster gameplay they sure did make some perplexing choices and marketing statements for 6 fucking years.

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so take this for what its worth, Octavian was streaming POE yesterday and Chris was asked about (if he knew if a farewell was planned, no office retirement ceremony and so forth).

Multiple chat msg's were kinda pointedly ignored as was the follow up chat about chris, keep in mind this is like almost no chat activity so its not like he missed it, even addressing a couple unrelated bits in chat sandwiched between the Chris talk. Then abruptly he said he was ending stream and shut down pretty much instantly. I went to clip it and the vod is deleted. (Or he doesn't have vods turned on which is totally possible, odd, but possible considering he's got old clips from streaming days still up).

This plus the total silence suggests GGG employees are not allowed to talk about Chris, surely this is some sort of falling out.

My personal feeling is that someone was not happy having to put resources into POE1 just because Chris publicly promised it wouldn't be negatively effected by 2. So maybe they clashed and Chris got ousted, and 8 days later that someone made a quick video about how sorry he was but POE1 was going to be relegated to the back burner for a while (which I would expect Chris to not be okay with) then he got the predictable backlash Chris surely told him he was going to get.

It really is shocking they wouldn't post even a polite good bye, but if employees aren't allowed to talk about it, that lines up.

All very plausible. It's unfortunate too, because myself and many others in the community are not upset with Chris retiring. In fact, it's the opposite. If he's ready to retire and move on then 99% of people want to wish him the best moving forward. It's the awkward silence that rubs me the wrong way. The man was in tears at Exilecon announcing PoE 2. Now the game isn't even out of beta and he's gone and not a single mention anywhere, let alone a channel for fans to give their thanks. If anyone from GGG is reading this CHRIS WILSON IS PATH OF EXILE. You can't make us forget.

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