Why does Fextralife have Path of Exile 2 already?

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Ispita#4020 wrote:

Who has even been given access to? Streamers? I mean ehh... how can anyone claim world first act 3 boss kill or world first 100 after knowing so many people been playing the game. There is no race to be had when 99.9% of the playerabse don't even know what the first zone looks like.

they do now after fextralife just doubled down after that "miscommunication" and then put up full image and text guides for every act 1 and 2 boss, names and all. pretty sure that would go against the NDA but it's doubtful that this guy even cares.

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lagwin1980#2224 wrote:

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Ispita#4020 wrote:

To me all of that is an issue because they have an advantage and the game is solved before it is even out.

What's the advantage though? it's ending up like a void league it's just lasting longer, people should really stop trying to compare with other people, it's very likely that you would always be disadvantaged even if everyone gets a clean blind start.

What a horrible take.

"even if it WAS fair, you probably wouldn't win. Ergo we don't need it to be fair"

If this was a single-player only game sure, but come ON

do you even listen to yourself?

You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that Fextralife doesn't suck. Hint: they do suck. Hard. Any other review site is probably fine, but Fextralife is a cancer in the gaming community. GGG shouldn't be giving them access to anything at all, and certainly not long before giving that same access to their very active and engaged streaming community.

If fextra got a copy i agree with the outrage. POE has always been my place in the gaming industry to escape from Gamerant, TheGamer, Fextra, etc because the game was too complex for them to make guides, they are just not genuine people while i loved POE. To see POE support these entities that constantly spread misinformation about their own game is pretty sad. I guess GGG needs to go for the money, though (huge fucking mega sigh I thought we gave them enough)

How many other "game reporters" have access to the game before release?

When the embargo is released on December 6th there will be full build guides then???

This is really disappointing....

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tbarabasz#0671 wrote:

How many other "game reporters" have access to the game before release?

When the embargo is released on December 6th there will be full build guides then???

This is really disappointing....

Why does it matter if there are a million videos with every guide imaginable the minute the embargo is lifted?

You do not have to watch the videos.

It will not affect your gameplay or how immersive you make the game unless you let it

high quality guides from fextralife

Was watching Raxxanterax’s livestream today and while watching a POE2 video a streamer posted, he noticed a player in the game was level 67. Hopefully that was a developer.

Doubled down with a guide lol. Didn't think I'd be losing hype the week of EA release.

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Mojoxx#2639 wrote:

Doubled down with a guide lol. Didn't think I'd be losing hype the week of EA release.

If the fact that a random publisher of information, like them or not, had the ability to publisher information that you made the decision to go to and read/react to lowers your hype for a game I honestly do not think you were hyped in the first place.

Do not watch streamers, do not click on YouTube videos, do not go to third party sites and involve yourself with content and then get mad that you ingested that content.

It is the age of the internet, you cannot keep information secret for ever. If it wasnt Fextralife it would have been someone else. I bet when that video was posted GGG sent mass communications to all the different publishers (which I am sure there are probably hundreds) who have early-early access making their release schedule for information clear.

The only reason why this is such a big deal is because it was Fextralife.