A reminder to try a little optimism

Remember the absolute shitshow that happened with the Kalandra league, the nerfs, and that one development post by Chris?

Remember the shitshow that happened with Archnemesis?

Both were major controversies in the community, but eventually GGG did listen and reverted the Kalandra nerfs and reduced Archnemesis to much clearer and fairer monster mods.

Obviously this one might be different and GGG might actually be abandoning PoE 1, but it's not like there weren't times before where the community thought that PoE is dead while it wasn't.

The two are not comparable.

Differences of view are fine; even to be expected. Outright neglect, is not.

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Ondrashek06#5795 wrote:

Remember the absolute shitshow that happened with the Kalandra league, the nerfs, and that one development post by Chris?

Remember the shitshow that happened with Archnemesis?

Both were major controversies in the community, but eventually GGG did listen and reverted the Kalandra nerfs and reduced Archnemesis to much clearer and fairer monster mods.

Obviously this one might be different and GGG might actually be abandoning PoE 1, but it's not like there weren't times before where the community thought that PoE is dead while it wasn't.

I could accept this if there was a new POE1 league in the past .. checks notes.. YEAR, it will literally be heading towards 1.5 years since the last poe1 league before they get anything out IF they even get it out at all.

They have recycled settlers 3 times now.

At what point does optimism become naivety or even desperation?

The current state of PoE 1 offers very little to be optimistic about.

I'm not sure if "nerfs and mob mods" are even comparable to situation we have now

I never gaf about nerfs and all that jumbo stuff, even loved and was excisted when they changed Exalt to Divine thing
The only one who went apeshit are botfarms and sellers in SC

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stormyknight#7628 wrote:

I could accept this if there was a new POE1 league in the past .. checks notes.. YEAR, it will literally be heading towards 1.5 years since the last poe1 league before they get anything out IF they even get it out at all.

They have recycled settlers 3 times now.

From the poe wiki:

"Settlers league is the current challenge league. It launched on July 26, 2024"

Not sure what notes you were checking. The league is 9 months old.

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Fapmobile#0758 wrote:

From the poe wiki:

"Settlers league is the current challenge league. It launched on July 26, 2024"

Not sure what notes you were checking. The league is 9 months old.

I mean... 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖗, it's not like GGG are launching a new league tomorrow.

It's still April, just about, and their current plan is for June, not May. Now they previously planned for late October. Then they pushed back to February. Now they think it might be June, and we've not seen a single scrap of concept art - that they've even started working on the league is... one hypothetical possibility, among others. Stormyknight's cynicism is justified, imo.

I would have expected Path of Exile to be trying to compete with Diablo IV and Last Epoch. At the moment, it seems like they're trying to compete with Star Citizen more than anything.

Where's Harvest? Where's multi-mod benchcrafting? Where are the Charms?

And most importantly: Where the fuck is TotA?! >:)

The game has more character checkboxes than it has reliable solutions for them. Same can be said for the current development cycle.

I actually can't even enjoy my latest creation because the server keeps booting me non-stop. It's short of a miracle for me to be able to complete a map, as of currently.

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Fapmobile#0758 wrote:

The league is 9 months old.

And that fact should make us... Optimistic!?

I want to be optimistic but the beatings continue.