0.10.8c Patch Notes

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Qarl wrote:

This patch should be deployed tomorrow.

Version 0.10.8c

• Added buff icons for Consecrated and Desecrated ground effects.

bueno

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tbc_of_gen0 wrote:

Some of you really need to take your self-entitlement elsewhere. These guys are making a free game for you. They make an update that you don't like, and you treat them like this? Shame on you.

You aren't thinking this argument through at all, are you. QWOP is a free game, PoE isn't; GGG is a business enterprise meant to make profit off of a commercial product. If people stop throwing money at it, it'll die. The word "free" in its promotion messages is an expected ploy needed for its business model which requires people to be hooked before they start sinking money into the game. You may want to ask those people with "Supporter" badges how free it is.

Now that we got that out of the way, consider the reason people pay for PoE in the first place: it's because they feel potential in this game, because it gives them what other games failed to, because it's rewarding to play, and so on. They do have a moral right to complain about a patch that goes contrary to any (and for some, all) of that. You, on the other hand, don't have a moral right complaining about these people, let alone shaming them.

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magicrectangle wrote:

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Brigs wrote:

For those who see the nerf to curses as a game-breaking change, you should realize that this was a needed nerf. This game is still beta and things will be overpowered and things will be underpowered before things are balanced. Get over it.

It may be needed eventually, but right now "overpowered" defensive curses are the only thing propping melee builds up against certain bosses with absurd one-shot abilities. Nerfing these defensive curses without first addressing that problem just fucks melee even harder - and melee are already pretty fucked compared to ranged.

If this change goes live, the message they're sending is that the only valid gear choice for melee is Kaom's Heart. The fact that one item is the only choice is bad enough, but that further means that dual wield and 1h+shield melee builds are out the window. 2h or bust, because you can't use Koams unless you use a 2h to get enough links.

I'm not going to say that a curse nerf is out of the question, but it is absurd to do it before addressing this issue.

I agree they shouldn't nerf melee builds into the ground(especially before the promised 0.11.0 melee buff), but saying that curses or a single item were the only way melee could get things done is just plain wrong.

The tears in this topic are glorious.

Good on you, GGG! ARPGs suffer from being steamroll games where the only goal is to achieve quicker success in how you steamroll content. It's nice to have one that isn't thus.

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moozooh wrote:

You may want to ask those people with "Supporter" badges how free it is.

100% Free to play, obviously not 100% free to make. Thanks for asking.

You guys rock. I had just made a post about the market place WP being really dangerous for people who have bad computers. 2 days later you guys release a patch fixing it.

It's hard to not want to throw money at you guys with such good developer->player communication.

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Charan wrote:

100% Free to play, obviously not 100% free to make. Thanks for asking.

Exactly. You might also want to point out that from economical point of view there is no difference: GGG are being paid to make and maintain this game, and for the most part the money comes from people who play. No money = no game; the only variable at play here is who pays how much.

But insisting that players shouldn't step up and voice their stance on unwanted changes or lack of wanted ones in a commercial product fueled by their money is absurd, wouldn't you agree? Especially since by that point many have expressed their ideas on how to introduce such a balance change (more) properly.

If anything, people investing into reaching Whispers of Doom shouldn't be affected by efficiency reduction at all if GGG wants anybody to get that keystone at all.

lol at people complaining about the curse nerf as if it was gamebreaking, or something worth quitting over. Bunch of babies, if you want to quit over a needed balance change, clearly along the lines of bringing melee (hopefully by 0.11) up to the same level of viability with other builds without the need for cheesy strategies involving curse stacking, then go ahead.

Noone cares, the game won't fail because of it, and you will be back the very next day anyway. :D

This nerf is going to be game breaking...the reason enfeeble was so good was because without it you can often get one shot, even if you have high HP. The solution now is going to be to stack even more HP/ES and to get kaom's heart.

This is a terrible change that will probably kill hardcore even more.