We should've been less harsh on Chris

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Sadaukar#2191 wrote:

Back then, there was barely any YT content for games.

Have you forgotten how PoE1 was advertised mostly through YT, with GGG later thanking Total Biscuit (RIP) and Kripparian for it ?
WTF Is... - Path of Exile ? — TotalBiscuit — 5 Sept 2011
Path of Exile - Exclusive Shadow Class Footage & Update — TotalBiscuit — 8 May 2012
Path of Exile - End-Game Dungeons — TotalBiscuit and Chris Wilson — 20 Jul 2012
[Path of Exile] Kripp's PoE First Impression — Kripparian — 31 Jul 2012
«This game has some serious potential to be the best out there.» heh

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There was no Trade webside or indexers, u had to manually sift through forum threads to find items.
The systems that PoE introduced worked in that environment.

Nowadays u cannot have a "crafting" system that is purely RNG and hope ppl would use exalts to gamble on stuff instead of just alt+tab to an automated indexer that would find them an upgrade within seconds.

It's funny you would say that (in the context of «gaming landscape») when PoE1 came out a few weeks before Diablo 3 with its infamous Auction House...
[Diablo 3] Exploiting Bidding Strategies — Kripparian — 29 Jul 2012

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The same goes for build variety and balance... news travel fast nowadays and when broken stuff gets discovered it takes merely a few hours before most people know about it.

Sure, «news» perhaps travel a bit faster today, but you still sound like one of those people that pretend that the World Wide Web and chat and build guides on forums didn't exist when Diablo 2 launched in 2000...

I mean collectively sure but I personally was never that harsh on Chris, he frequently made choices I didn't agree with for reasons i thought were stupid.

However that really doesn't matter, they collectively still made a game I love and kept coming back to each league.

Was the community too harsh on Chris? Absolutely, but they are too harsh on everyone its the nature of the internet to magnify the worst while the normies just aren't there at all!