Where to Find Info on Launch Day

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Jayos wrote:

Switching off of Reddit while continuing with Twitter is strictly worse in every sense for engagement, empirical usage, and of course, supporting a platform that actively promotes every form of hate imaginable. While not every issue needs a social impact attached to it, it's glaring that a website that had active discussions between development/management/PR of GGG and players is going by the wayside at a time during the most unpopular league with the most unpopular changes ever made.

Reverting to a heavily moderated forum with vertical control by the company that has a vested interest in controlling the critical discussion is anathema to the "transparency" and "honesty" that GGG has prided itself in throughout the company's life.

While relatively unsurprising given the financial impact of players voicing their concerns and dislike for objectively bad changes (given the reversions made), it's a marked departure from the culture of GGG that is frankly, troubling. Retreating to a forum in which the discussion will undoubtedly skew toward sycophantic, self fulfilling positivity will almost assuredly lead GGG down the path of so many companies that become fully detached from their community's concerns and criticisms - which are vital to the prolonged success of any venture.

EDIT: Also, functionally this forum is absolutely horrendous for any relevant discussion on any information posted whatsoever. Sifting through replies or pages of replies with multiple overlapping conversations is incredibly frustrating. I would suggest that it's only ever effective, in its current format, of burying any criticism or discussion. Instead, you have like 10 pages of one word "nice" "pog" spam. Simply worse than Reddit in every way.

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DisylusTV wrote:

Thank the lord. I feel like I'm catching a disease every time I go into the poe sub reddit.

Gives the feeling that being a basement neckbeard could be contagious

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Jayos wrote:

Switching off of Reddit while continuing with Twitter is strictly worse in every sense for engagement, empirical usage, and of course, supporting a platform that actively promotes every form of hate imaginable. While not every issue needs a social impact attached to it, it's glaring that a website that had active discussions between development/management/PR of GGG and players is going by the wayside at a time during the most unpopular league with the most unpopular changes ever made.

Reverting to a heavily moderated forum with vertical control by the company that has a vested interest in controlling the critical discussion is anathema to the "transparency" and "honesty" that GGG has prided itself in throughout the company's life.

While relatively unsurprising given the financial impact of players voicing their concerns and dislike for objectively bad changes (given the reversions made), it's a marked departure from the culture of GGG that is frankly, troubling. Retreating to a forum in which the discussion will undoubtedly skew toward sycophantic, self fulfilling positivity will almost assuredly lead GGG down the path of so many companies that become fully detached from their community's concerns and criticisms - which are vital to the prolonged success of any venture.

EDIT: Also, functionally this forum is absolutely horrendous for any relevant discussion on any information posted whatsoever. Sifting through replies or pages of replies with multiple overlapping conversations is incredibly frustrating. I would suggest that it's only ever effective, in its current format, of burying any criticism or discussion. Instead, you have like 10 pages of one word "nice" "pog" spam. Simply worse than Reddit in every way.