An Open Letter To Grinding Gear Games
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Hi GGG,
No unhinged redditor rant here. Just wanted to let you know that this wasn't it. Whatever the mitigating circumstances may be, you didn't handle this well at all. I would have thought that by now you understood that a comms strategy of absolute silence wasn't something that your player base enjoys. I would have also thought that you had learned a lesson about doing massive and entirely predictable damage to the economy of a league on exactly no notice. It would appear I was mistaken and that is unfortunate. Your decision making for this early access has been pretty questionable from 0.1 and every time you say you hear us and you get and you'll do better, you don't. You are wearing through your customer's good will at a rate that I don't think is sustainable and I think your player counts reflect that. Anyway, the moral of the story is that if PoE 1 is going to suffer for this game, you're going to need to do a LOT better in just about every area going forward. The trust is gone. Thanks ขุดครั้งสุดท้าย เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 16:34:55
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" it's just corporation. Have you seen Johnathan to talk with community? no.. before he did. Now it's just sad corporation and same stuff like happened to blizzard. He is not a "player" he is buisness guy they did not even know what they want to do with poe 2: poe 2: was promoted as slower and methodical which sucess on 0.1 they making it more comparable to poe 1 - with same pace and gameplay poe 2 is poe 1 now due to how fast it's and there's 0 of methodical and slower gameplay in it so it's stick to poe 1 player base they want to make hardcore game for casuals with methodical gameplay while making it to be like poe 1 - where nothing is visible on screen. How dual-sided it's is unpseakable. and they even told they want to satisfy zoomers and people who enjoyed promised methodical gameplay while it's not possible as zoomer will always progress atlas faster in 1min maps while methodical poe 2 enjoyer will make one map in 5-8 minutes which need slower "options" to be profiteable like 1000-1500% more. แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย saashaa#5518 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 14:58:00
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" Bro 0.4 is much slower than previous patches. I'm in SSF right now crawling thru map tiers and it definitely feels different. The only mechanic where I must care about not being swarmed is breach. Everything else is slower and easily readable now. |
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0.4 is easier than 0.3 the game is too fast and too simple. |
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Absolutely agree, trust is gone.
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This is a bit of a hot take...
GGG either needs to expand their team more and/or increase the time between leagues again because the quality of content has been dropping quite a lot. Tech debt is coming back to bite them with each expansion for both games adding more bugs, crashes and performance issues than there really should be. I'd like to see them do a 3.28 for 4 months > Phrecia-like event for 2 months > PoE2 0.5 for 4 months > PoE2 Event for 2 months > Back to PoE1 3.29. Basically up each game's patch cycle to 6 months. I think over time GGG has gotten their community used to expecting a huge expansion every quarter, but as I eluded to earlier, such an insane pace has really added to their tech debt and they are struggling pretty hard with overall quality and untested, poorly implemented features. Both sides, GGG and the community, kinda shot themselves in the foot over time with these expectations and cadence... and its all starting to unravel. Backlash is becoming more common. |
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https://x.com/pathofexile/status/2007906112981577865
"We recently released The Last of the Druids Mystery Box! With 63 microtransactions inside (including variations), our artists put a lot of effort into making each one look great. Check out some of the concept art for this box in today's news post." what can i say,nice job GGG. | |
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I dont understand why GGG always go radio silent, seems like they want to find a solution before they communicate. A quick post to acknowledge the community and say your looking into things would be nice though.
I'm hoping 3.28 gets some love Bring back mercs Dont be another 2.0 league mechanic Hell maybe bring Tota back its been a popular demand But 2 poor leagues in a row now accross both games makes me wonder if they can sustain the current patetrn. My trust is not gone yet. แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย AngryOldGamerr#4793 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 16:17:13
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" To quote DM after his trip to their studio "They have your money they don't have to do a damn thing". I think we are feeling it |
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