Bye Bye GGG

Chess is an old game, but millions of people still play it, and it's been a very long time since it got any patches. =^[.]^=

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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Jitter912#4278 wrote:

They have a recently released game with problems but immense potential. PoE1 is fantastic, and I’m a fan, but it's not the company's future. It’s now an old game, almost vintage. Investing in it at the risk of PoE2 doesn't make sense.

It's an "old game" because GGG decided to separate them, rather than bringing PoE 1 up to modern standards. They had a solid base game to build from; they could have used that to give us a PoE 1 Remake (!) with balance overhauls, but no, their ambitions were far too high and ultimately got in the way. Suffering from success is what that is.

If you ask me, I think it boiled down to a few points.

A) PoE2, under new leadership of Jonathan, think he can make a better PoE.

B) They wanted to attract wider audiences. Less people will not be attracted to play POE with better visuals. Now you said its a brand new games, & better in every way, & having content creators telling everyone its the best thing in entertainment since Spice girls. People will be more interested, and they succeed.

GGG founders sold all their shares to Tencent in March 2024.
I personnaly think that GGG and Tencent used PoE1 players money and PoE1 fame to do a cash-machine "PoE for casuals", far from PoE1 spirit.
The less they could have do would have been a graphic rework of PoE1 and add the keyboard mov. option.
And with these decisions on PoE1, i feel betrayed and scammed.

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Jitter912#4278 wrote:

It’s now an old game, almost vintage. Investing in it at the risk of PoE2 doesn't make sense.

If POE1 is vintage what is WoW? Anchient? And guess what, it lately had it's highest player numbers ever so please spare me that we need a new shiny thing bs.

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MarsAstro#7928 wrote:

The reason PoE2 was started from scratch is because PoE1 cannot easily be brought up to modern standards - because it is an old game.

That is precisely why a better approach (imo) would have been a remake. It's plain to see, really: PoE 2 is shiny, the new hip thing, but extremely shallow. PoE 1 isn't as popular because eye candy such as D4 exist. Even PoE 2 got the animation eye candy right. The complexity is imo a moot point because with PoE 2 we now know how they could have been able to solve it. PoE 2 also received way different marketing compared to PoE 1. The latter was always marketed as this brutal, highly complex game. Seriously, compare all the media stuff from years ago against the PoE 2 marketing and see for yourself. PoE 1 had a bad rap because they made it so.

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