0.2.0g Hotfix 1

black screen problem 06.05.2025 update how can ı fix ? pls help

why has the client mysteriously updated today with no patch notes or anything from the devs

What happened to GGG

Kudos on making drops relevant. Finally! We have useful loot in an ARPG that requires loot to progress. Like who could have expected such an amazing and genius update.

The Vision and team has done a great job in offering build options too. After nerfing and balancing those OP builds in the first league the Dawn of the Hunt has shown so much build diversity! Apart from the other 10% of players who does not use a spear. Perhaps Dawn of the Spear seems to be a better title.

Can at least predict whats going to happen in the next league. Spear will be nerf hardcore and the next new weapon/class will be the in thing. Cheers

It seems a lot of people are having varying luck with loot after the new patch.

I myself am about to hit lvl 90 and still have not had even ONE Div drop.

And personally I have not noticed better gear dropping, more gear but not better gear.

Sure a yellow chest is now guaranteed to have a rare drop out of it, but the quality of the rares I'm getting anywhere dont seem to roll better than they did before.

Currency still seems pretty abysmal to me, I've maybe noticed a few more ex orbs than before but not enough to make a big difference!

Also at lvl 90 I have got ONE greater jewelers orb, and ZERO perfects.

That is unacceptable in my opinion.

NO LOOT
EVEN WORSE than before

Srsly. I already left for LE, but this patch gave hope so I came back, hopped on my 100+ mf amazon a ran a bunch of t16 maps - ZERO exalts, really ZEEEEROOOO. LOL, how is it possible? Be4 this patch I had at least a few per map. Much less drops in general too
And the transmog hat that I bought in season1 is still not fixed, cause..? "reasons"?
And that rollback of the patch? Seems to me there are some big problems in the coding department at GGG that have nothing to do with the actual gameplay direction. Same reason there's still no AH and we use trade site like 10 years ago. Having you own engine for the game eventually does this I guess.. just imagine the codebase and how many people came to/left the studio over all those years.

Where's the loot GGG? We're fightin' for our f*****g lives out here!

GGG being owned by a chinese company which are more in favour of real money trades is showing up to be the case more so.

They will never admit to it of course.

But when you remove other builds from the equation and make 1 or 2 builds the strongest then you can have mass production of items for those builds and can then target farm production of crafting materials just for those builds to then consume the vast majority of the mirror services which are then monopolized by the real money trading platforms.

GGG will not stop this type of activity because they are now owned by a comany that monetizes the selling of these currencies to get ahead in the season.

The real reason for slowing the game down and "meaningful combat" is to motivate people to buy their speed in a game.

The game generates far more income from selling the in game currencies.

This effectively means the company is printing it's own money with people who play the game for free who then trade the monetizing items to groups who facilitate real money trades. Those resources are funneled to a few of these groups and then those resources are sold to the casual players looking to get ahead.

This has been around for a while now. More prodominant in the Chinese gaming industry. 10 cent was buying a client base to then sell more game currencies to. This is what more traditional businesses do as well for eg. a window company would buy out another smaller window company to acquire the small business client lists which enable the larger company to then have a larger client list to sell their products to. This is often cheaper then to market over 5 years to get more clients when it's easier to use the small company's name as a trust factor to get new clients to buy more products from the bigger company.

The previous owners like Chris and John no longer own any stake in their company.

They sold their stake in this game a while back. Hence this new game direction. And all decisions are made with making profit buy selling in game currencies for real money as that is the objectives of the chinese gaming industry. Chris likely left because he did not want to to have their company move in that direction. However unfortunetly Chris sold majority share making 10 cent majority stake holder and thus 10 cent and it's board of directors decide how this game is developed. John is at this point just a public relations guy who's responsible for dealing with the public and their back lash. John has no control over what direction 10 cent will decide to take path of exile to. And when it comes to making a profitable business, selling in game currency for real money is a big money maker.

So it is no surprise when say Beira's with some decent power gets cut down so as to make sure the popularity remains in builds that make the most money.

Hence why we see lightning javelin untouched, which is a very obviously over powered ability with over 50% of the player base playing.

The thing that is weirdest is this selling of the idea of "meaningful combat"

It's a cute sounding idea. but really John is just trying to get people on board with this idea so as to get more clients to stay playing the game so as to trade in game currencies to the money trading platforms.

I know this sounds very much like a conspiracy. But this is just a business selling a product.

nothing more

And I do a ton of dealings with the Chinese. I know them as a business people. 10 cent was buying GGG to get clients then can sell in game currency to.

This is why path of exile 1 has been abandoned and all development resources were moved to path of exile 2. John made his rehearsed announcements. I know when bullshit is being fed to someone so that it makes them feel okay. I enjoyed this game while it lasted. But when I sit down to play a build, and then GGG takes away the function of the build that's just annoying.

That's like sitting down to play a game like smash brother's and you pick falco, but the next time play falco, they made him as slow as Bowser. You would certainly say wtf happened to this character!? Right?

if you don't get the above reference I apologise. the point being made is when a build feels fun. any change that removes it from being fun is a dick move. People don't play this game to have a chore to do. They want to play a game. What is the purpose of a game? I would think is to have fun, would be priority number 1 where priority number 1 for a gaming company is to make money, not fun.

Hope this helps people understand what things are happening the way they are.

nothing personal just business.

I will be making a copy of this post in case GGG tries to take it down. I know some of the stuff mentioned here can be "sensative" but it's not ment to be malicious in anyway.

cheers

Hello GGG, i would like to ask if there are plans to make the "Sanguimancy" node on Blood Mage to be the same as Smith of Kitava's node where you can get it for free. Blood Mage first ascendancy is just a straight up debufff for the player. Thank you GGG for reading my comment i wish you all the best in life

could guys just focus on POE1 new season please？poe2 is really dumb shit thing