Announcing the First Path of Exile 2 Race Event
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no1 curr
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" Yeah, pointing out that this format for a race is not fun for the large large large majority of players who can even make the time to participate is pointless and lacks argumentation. That's literally the majority of the complaints in here. Why isn't this event lasting days/weeks and allowing players to throw themselves at it for as many times as they want to fight it out for the top spot on the leaderboard. You know, allowing everyone, no matter their real life obligations, to at least have a chance to participate if they want. Why is there no participation prices for at least a larger percentage of participants, if not everyone. Something to not make it feel like a complete waste of time if you don't place top dog for the class you pick. Could it be that they want this event to have as little impact on the PoE1 event they have been advertising within PoE2, since the way they have it set up now will make it only last a couple hours and they can pat themselves on the back and say they have done something for PoE2 as well as PoE1? Also in this topic; To criticize that they are likely delaying the release of 0.2.0 to coincide with the end of the PoE1 event that started today is not valid feedback, right? It's just a coincidence that the PoE1 event was advertised in PoE2 and then 0.2.0 suddenly needs a whole more month to get done. Even though they said they had all their development team on PoE2 until that was finished, but somehow managed to push out a relatively complex event for PoE1 with hype and tease reveals in little over a week. That event must have been coded and implemented by wishful thinking, not developers. Also, what does this potentially mean for PoE1? When 0.2.0 comes out for PoE2, will this mean that even if 3.26 is ready for PoE1, it will be held back for a while so it doesn't compete with PoE2 with their hopes being that people will bounce between the two games? I'm all for that being a strategy eventually, but not while PoE2 is in Early Access and in dire need of updates to maintain player interest which has gone from nearly 600k players on Steam to under 100k due to the severe lack of content updates over the past 3 months, now to be 4 months. It's not valid to point out and criticize that a release cadence like this is seemingly making it impossible for them to live up to the 6 months to a year estimated Early Access time frame, as it now seems more like it would need to be in Early Access for over 2 and a half years, in fact over 3 years if they are going to spend 4 months on every increment of 0.1.0 to the version number, signaling a major patch. It's all pointless critique and feedback, right? Last edited by Absconditus#0168 on Feb 20, 2025, 4:49:10 PM
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GREAT thank you!
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" And you keep attacking people and poorly trying to brush it off on me. Nice try, wont happen. " I already answered all that pointless criticism disguised as opinion in a prior post, please refrain repeating yourself, because a lie keeps being a lie even if you tell it twice. |
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" Sounds like maybe this stuff is just worthless to you? If you don’t enjoy/ are bad at speed running then you don’t have to partake. Nobody is forcing you to play this event or path of exile in general. You can leave bud.. I’ve come to understand everyone complaining in here is just a Poe 2 hater. |
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Cool event but it would be a hell of a lot more exciting and appealing if there were lower tiers of prizes and maybe some random ones just given out to anyone who participates, maybe with your odds proportional to the level you reached or something, so even those of us who kinda suck would feel like A) we would at least potentially get something cool by participating, and B) improving our performance would be rewarded even if we don't improve it to "the best player of my class out of tens or hundreds of thousands"
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Some important points:
1) Yeah, they don't have to make an "inclusive race" with rewards for everyone. But they historicaly have done a lot of them. It is not out of the blue that this community expected something like random prizes or small rewards for completition. 2) People are expecting a new reason to play the game. Be it a new patch, a economy reset or an event. Not a reason to watch a streamer playing the game for them. That is why people wanted it to be inclusive. For those players this event sound like a big missed oportunity. It might sound weird when saying something about "needing a reason to play", but that is how PoE works. It is a game that gets almost empty after 1 month each league. That is the reason why we have to get new leagues frequently. 3) Also historically, GGG usually gives what community asks in this kind of situation, so it is no surprise that community is going "too vocal" in times like these. GGG has been feeding this kind of behavior, so it shouldn't be a surprise for anyone that the community can be "toxic" like this. For those reasons, even though community is exagerating, it is not entirelly their fault. |
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" Yeah mate I was bored the first time I read ya post now I am asleep. I will rephrase, I don't care, you are objectively wrong. End of conversation. |
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" If you think calling PoE2 what is arguably the inferior game between PoE1 and PoE2, seeing as PoE1 actually has a well fleshed out end-game and various systems, the inferior game, and as "most disrespectful language", you got some seriously thin skin on the level of those looking to get outraged by everything on Twitter or Reddit. I think these developers can handle it. That applies to "idiotic", "rushed event" and "fumbling hard" comments as well. These are not severely hurtful words. The event for PoE1 is obviously rushed out as fast as possible after they got massive big mad backlash from the PoE1 players over their announcement that 3.26 would have to wait until 0.2.0 was ready for PoE2, since they had pulled all their developers to work on it so it could be released as soon as possible. Where's the illogical lie in this? And there's reason behind saying GGG has fumbled. You can disagree all you want, but they have left the PoE2 crowd (and PoE1 crowd for that matter) in the dark for several months. It obviously has had an impact on the player numbers, which went from nearly 600k to 80k peaks. It has received some good QoL updates, as I've even acknowledged, but nothing to actually captivate player engagement and retention. There has been no content. But what is more frustrating is the complete lack of shared information for an Early Access title. No hyping up what is being worked on. No teasing of things that is more or less ready. It's like we are playing the finalized game and are waiting for 3 month apart league updates, not an Early Access title that receives changes on a far more chaotic release cadence (within reason for the company). What we've gotten in terms of information after a long period of radio silence, was a summary of the (actually decent) QoL changes they've done, then 4 non-descript lines saying they need to work on those things and that they also need a carrot to pull players back to play the patch; but nothing about what that entails. Then we get this race event that from the very way it is set up with its set time on three dates makes it so that several players can't even participate at all, because they can't just drop everything to go play PoE2. How would you expect that to not cause a blacklash. That's a fumble in my book. You can disagree, we don't need to share the same outlook on things. Anyways, to give feedback of how it could have been done to avoid negative player sentiment, which there are aplenty in this topic, all largely complaining about the same thing; that there are so few players that will get anything out of this — should be perfectly reasonable. You need to learn to not read everything exactly as it is written, and rather try to see what the underlying suggestion/feedback is, key word being it's still a suggestion. The developers can choose to do whatever they want with that, regardless of how it is framed or phrased. Feedback is feedback, even when people are annoyed and write "hurtful" things like "fumble" "idiotic", "rushed event" and "inferior game". You honestly come across as some pompous self-assigned authority whose opinions is far more important than those who are complaining with your "please refrain repeating yourself" and grander than thou attitude. But your opinion is no more valuable than those who complain. Your voice carries as much weight as mine, even if you seem to think yourself superior in how you've responded to me, and others in this topic. Fact is, complaints can be just as valuable as praise, to understand what players are or are not resonating with. You can disagree with the complaints. You can think this event is fine. Doesn't mean people can't share their frustrations as well. Feedback is feedback. Get over yourself. We're both entitled to our opinions on the current status quo of the game. I was hardly severely disrespectful nor were I telling developers to off themselves. Not long ago I was very positive about this game. When they did that "We've done this stuff guys, and we need to work on these things but won't share details" post after such a long time with no posts and information updates, I got increasingly more frustrated. That's some more feedback btw. — I want them to communicate more about things to come. No set dates, no promises about things actually making it into a released patch as shown, but small teasers with big disclaimers stating things may change or get scrapped. Last edited by Absconditus#0168 on Feb 20, 2025, 5:53:57 PM
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