Could all of you who say you've quit the game

And you forget the amount of marketing was very low and 1.0 will break the EA numbers very easily. This game does not need 100k concurent players, just FYI

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SolusiRadikal#3269 wrote:

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

For an Early Access release missing half the campaign , half the ascendencies , half the weapons , and so on ... all of that with an unfinished Endgame content ? Those are extremely good numbers that are only contested by delusional people trying to warp facts & reality .

You forget the hype factor + marketing material via gameplay and promisesss which i think the main reason why POE2 got lot's of player to begin with. Now the honeymoon is over and you see lots of people parroting the exact same issues all over the place about this game direction and QOL.

If dev doesn't address this issues ASAP, there is a chance that next EA league won't have the same hype as the first one, even with new content whatsoever due to bug & balance stuff.

PoE 2 is not good it's just hype
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PoE 2 is only played by casual & newcomers , loyal fanbase hates it

That was parroted enough back in December , the current numbers continue to prove these beliefs were lies from people trying to cope . And there's no discussion to have if your argument is "wait 10 years and you'll see that i was right" . Out of all the PoE 1 seasons ever made , only a few had much less players turning in compared to previous seasons . Expecting a sudden radically different outcome here is wishful thinking : predictions of PoE 2 crashing hard in popularity did not happened , are still not happening , and are very unlikely to happen according to GGG track-record . These are just facts .

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BigBeuss#5956 wrote:

Personally I think that coming on a forum to report leaving the game with some whining is beyond ridiculous. If this statement is accompanied by constructed and reasonable feedback that's something else but it's a rare thing.

First, in poe2 case, constructive feedback is obvious: exp penalty, revive penalty, and portal penalty should all be optional, with additional rewards if playing with penalties. Scalable difficulty levels exist since first videogames 40+ years ago, and serve as main "you actually can please everyone" solution, only GGG still remains unaware of this:)

Second, how many dozens times should one copypaste his various constructive ideas and suggestions from one topic to another before realizing GGG couldn't care less? They may budge in aspect they don't care about, but core pillars of the Vision are impervious to any feedback, even streamer one. Best case, your feedback is ignored, worst case GGG does the opposite.

When ruthless came out in poe1, only minority of audience remained there. Result: GGG invests who-the-f***-knows how many millions of dollars to make a new game around Ruthless:) If nothing else, observing this case is very interesting from financial perspective, a company that purposefully and repeatedly abuses their players, and players who keep paying company for this. Which is why remaining more or less active on this forum is interesting even if you quit playing poe2 already.

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SolusiRadikal#3269 wrote:

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

For an Early Access release missing half the campaign , half the ascendencies , half the weapons , and so on ... all of that with an unfinished Endgame content ? Those are extremely good numbers that are only contested by delusional people trying to warp facts & reality .

You forget the hype factor + marketing material via gameplay and promisesss which i think the main reason why POE2 got lot's of player to begin with. Now the honeymoon is over and you see lots of people parroting the exact same issues all over the place about this game direction and QOL.

If dev doesn't address this issues ASAP, there is a chance that next EA league won't have the same hype as the first one, even with new content whatsoever due to bug & balance stuff.

Another factor, casuals play one or two hours a day, there is Christmas and new year, travel, etc, people have lives outside or the game not everyone play ten hours a day, so this january 'casual' feedback are coming, after 16 patch everyone 'saw' GGG true colors.

So if you play 30-40 hours since you bought the game you are finally level 80 and started seeing these things, this is why POE2 will fall even faster when people say 'but POE1 was like this' these casuals will leave even faster, GGG is stupid for getting holiday just when they launch their game it is a dumb decision, if they take holiday at the end of the year and launch in mid January so they could fix the game... sigh but who I'm to tell how their business should be managed.

You're asking for people to not post negativity... in a feedback forum?

Bait used to be believable.

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Echothesis#7320 wrote:

When ruthless came out in poe1, only minority of audience remained there. Result: GGG invests who-the-f***-knows how many millions of dollars to make a new game around Ruthless:)

everyone did quit

That's quite the statement , based on what metric exactly ? Sanctum League performed on par with the previous Leagues before it , and every leagues released since did strong numbers or even broke the ceiling .

If your metric is longstanding forum whiners jumped ship since Ruthless , that's normal & nobody care about that .

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MSMagu#0469 wrote:

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SolusiRadikal#3269 wrote:

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

For an Early Access release missing half the campaign , half the ascendencies , half the weapons , and so on ... all of that with an unfinished Endgame content ? Those are extremely good numbers that are only contested by delusional people trying to warp facts & reality .

You forget the hype factor + marketing material via gameplay and promisesss which i think the main reason why POE2 got lot's of player to begin with. Now the honeymoon is over and you see lots of people parroting the exact same issues all over the place about this game direction and QOL.

If dev doesn't address this issues ASAP, there is a chance that next EA league won't have the same hype as the first one, even with new content whatsoever due to bug & balance stuff.

Another factor, casuals play one or two hours a day, there is Christmas and new year, travel, etc, people have lives outside or the game not everyone play ten hours a day, so this january 'casual' feedback are coming, after 16 patch everyone 'saw' GGG true colors.

So if you play 30-40 hours since you bought the game you are finally level 80 and started seeing these things, this is why POE2 will fall even faster when people say 'but POE1 was like this' these casuals will leave even faster, GGG is stupid for getting holiday just when they launch their game it is a dumb decision, if they take holiday at the end of the year and launch in mid January so they could fix the game... sigh but who I'm to tell how their business should be managed.

The irony is that it wasn't the first time GGG released something before taking a holiday break and coming back to a raging dumpsterfire.

But yeah no, it's probably not a good idea to release a beta version of the game riddled with bugs and economy-crashing exploits before going on a holiday. I'm not one of those entitled people who think GGG staff doesn't deserve time to spend the holidays with their loved ones, but I think it would've been better if they had stalled the release until after that was done.

If someone quits the game because of content in the game, they should DEFINITELY say what that was in the feedback section of the forums, as intended by GGG.

Right, only positivity bias is allowed here. Silence everyone that doesn't like the game because you can't handle opposing view points.

yeah, leave without leaving any feedback. I'm sure that'll help the game grow.