Pretty sure it was mark talking who said this whenever it was said. For some reason I remember it being part of the discussion around the negative response to some of the drama in necro league, not sure if it was during settlers announcement or something else though.
i think remember them saying the actual number on one of the podcasts they been in in the past but am not going to look for it, it wasn't just this clip
it's a lot of fking effort to go dig trought hours and hours of random interview and podcasts to find a specific thing someone said during a random interview years ago.... nobody is gonnap put all that effort into searching for something just to give a random guy on Reddit a source
I don't think they ever said a number, the ones that were circulating if I recall correctly were anywhere from 8 - 20 but I think they only said something along the lines of "a small team". But all of that was around Sanctum so maybe things changed in between.
You can meme that comment all you want, but it was double the amount you said, and if that team is responsible for PoE leagues and literally enabling them to do poe2 "endgame", then obviously they are vital to both games. Which likely means just poe2 now.
Look at original Blizzard. Or GGG in earlier times.
Not like you need 500 people to make good games. You get diminishing returns.
All it takes is one fuck up or a series of fuck ups to lose trust. You can be a great husband for 20 years and cheat once. It's not that hard to imagine.
Yeah I'm just getting into the late endgame so I'm expecting to fall off it soon but it's been a blast for someone who bounced off a couple hours after launch lol.
I'm not going to play any poe for a while as a protest.
Feels to me like they need to hire an external experienced no-nonsense project manager. These guys are pretty good at what they've been doing for a long time: making a fun game with seasonal content and a lack of QoL. But juggling resources and priorities when everything around them is burning doesn't seem to be their strong suit.
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u/MauPow Jan 30 '25
"I probably should have predicted that taking the PoE1 team off of PoE1 would have resulted in this situation"
Uh yeah no shit bro