So.. This is the GGG logic.

Lets sink our Carier, so our light cruiser can sail..

Good one.

Now both games are dead.

GGG have a sunk cost fallacy with PoE2. PoE1 has the uglier graphics, worse UI and "no WASD"; any new player will naturally prefer PoE2 to PoE1.

I hate PoE2 and love PoE1. PoE1 has about 2-3 "expansions" until it's in maintenance mode. Which is ok because I can probably play a classic version of the game at that point, which I've craved since the alienating Oriath Expansion.

Pretty graphics and UI mean nothing if the game is deisgned to be as unfun as possible.

Please GGG dont let PoE1 die. Most of us love it and want to continue playing and supporting it.

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Ivanovv83#6618 wrote:

Lets sink our Carier, so our light cruiser can sail..

Good one.

Now both games are dead.

Wouldn't it be fun, if all the people calling both games dead, were not allowed to play them anymore? Like, at all?

So when in fact they turn out not to "dead", they can't play the game they've so clearly ruled out?

PoE has had doomsayers proclaiming the death of PoE for the last 5+ years (way before PoE2), and yet, they keep coming back to it?

All I can say is see you in 3.26 and 0.3.
Still the best games in the genre.

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FalkenRaiding#1068 wrote:

Wouldn't it be fun, if all the people calling both games dead, were not allowed to play them anymore? Like, at all?

So when in fact they turn out not to "dead", they can't play the game they've so clearly ruled out?

So the games can get even more dead?

"Game dead" doesn't necessarily mean people believe it's going to stay dead forever. But as of now? It's dead - and it's only GGG's fault. No one is going to play a live service game where the developers show no interest in the game. Why should the players care when the developers don't?

If GGG show (with 3.26) that they really care, (some of the) players will return and the game will be revived - at least for a time, depending on the quality of the league.

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

Pretty graphics and UI mean nothing if the game is deisgned to be as unfun as possible.

Sadly there is a whole bunch of people that don't care about anything but pretty graphics and everything that isn't up to par gets labeled as "outdated".

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

Pretty graphics and UI mean nothing if the game is deisgned to be as unfun as possible.

Yep, its still unfun like dick-punch.

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AlexiaRP#4088 wrote:

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

Pretty graphics and UI mean nothing if the game is deisgned to be as unfun as possible.

Sadly there is a whole bunch of people that don't care about anything but pretty graphics and everything that isn't up to par gets labeled as "outdated".

And such people play those "pretty graphics: games for like a week maybe two, then forget the game exists because they are busy with new eye candy.
Catering to such people in F2P game that relies on long-term support from playerbase is pretty good way to fail.