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2836742981#3689 เขียน:

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AintCare#6513 เขียน:

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karsey#2995 เขียน:

The steam chart number highlights need to stop.

It's a blind statistic that people are holding up to validate their own opinions about their perceived negative aspects as if it lends them credibility - it doesn't.

PoE1 had a similar situation when it released where people were clamoring about it being a dying game that was only initially pumped up off of D3-failure-fumes. GGG has the dedication and the business model that creates a great game. Chris even did a presentation on this once I think about "games being designed to be played forever" or something like that. It's an iterative process.

That process takes time and testing to ensure a quality product and PoE2 is not going to be an exception.

It's 60% still in the oven and arguably higher quality than most other ARPGs out there including it's predecessor, so I don't see how anyone can look at this situation - especially in the context of the development efforts which were applied to PoE1 and we know will be applied to PoE2 - and say anything about this game is "dead" or going in a "bad direction". You'd have to have the most negative of filters draped over your perceptions and be stuck in some sort of bad-player echo-chamber-hell to have this mentality.

I'm already having tons of fun in this game - new content and characters and weapons and skills coming down the pipeline? I am excited! I don't care if there's 5k, 10k, 20k, 100k, or 500k concurrent players on Steam - this has never been a factor in my enjoyment for any game.

yup, unfortunately some ppl use it in attempts to manipulate the devs into giving them what they want. the culmination of it was patch 0.2. I never seen such behavior on scale 'in person' but its unsettling and I don't think it will just stop. and yeah core of the game is great, well made and thought out on balance as well.

You are completely wrong about this. No one wanted what was launched in 0.2. It was not player feedback. Players wanted more viable builds and build game diversity. Instead, they nerfed everything across the board with a hammer.

Most people in 0.1 were talking about better trade experience, better end game mapping, smaller maps or movement speed, and loss of xp on death. None of that was delivered in 0.2.

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Steam player counts aren't everything... but the sequel game having worse average player count than what the first game was regularly pulling almost a decade ago - that's not nothing.

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Azimuthus#1135 เขียน:

POE2 average player count is higher than of POE1.

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AintCare#6513 เขียน:

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2836742981#3689 เขียน:

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AintCare#6513 เขียน:

yup, unfortunately some ppl use it in attempts to manipulate the devs into giving them what they want. the culmination of it was patch 0.2. I never seen such behavior on scale 'in person' but its unsettling and I don't think it will just stop. and yeah core of the game is great, well made and thought out on balance as well.

You are completely wrong about this. No one wanted what was launched in 0.2. It was not player feedback. Players wanted more viable builds and build game diversity. Instead, they nerfed everything across the board with a hammer.

Most people in 0.1 were talking about better trade experience, better end game mapping, smaller maps or movement speed, and loss of xp on death. None of that was delivered in 0.2.

i mean my point was exactly that. people review bombing the game because their 'requests' were not fulfilled. so i'm a bit confused rn

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Azimuthus#1135 เขียน:

POE2 average player count is higher than of POE1.

As of this message, the average steam player count in the last thirty days is under 9k & was under 16k for the month of June.

POE1 was pulling better numbers than this back in 2016-2017.

Maybe some people are ok with that, but just my opinion - I would hope they would've had alot more growth in retaining players than that with their sequel game, over so many years.

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2836742981#3689 เขียน:

Bro my bad, I was tripping when I read your post and thought you meant the devs delivered everything the players asked for in 0.1 into 0.2. I agree with you although some of those QOL changes requested are a good thing.

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As of this message, the average steam player count in the last thirty days is under 9k & was under 16k for the month of June.

POE1 was pulling better numbers than this back in 2016-2017.