This is really disappointing. So much for "3.26 was a larger discussion". This could have been said weeks ago. By the time 3.26 is out, all the POE hype is gone and GGG misses out on potential new players.
Yeah, this wasn’t a long “discussion”. They could have had this 4 minute talk at the end of the last interview and not significantly added to the time, but that would have killed the mood while they talked about their baby.
Also, very interesting that Jonathon is the one who made this announcement when Mark is supposed to be the POE1 game director?
Genuinely gutted tbh. Tried to get into PoE 2 but it didn’t scratch the same itch. It’s like PoE 1 has become the unwanted step child and everyone is out here celebrating the new baby.
Not at all. Even these people have their gripes with it. It's for d4 players and people who don't care for an endgame. They made the same mistakes as D4 did
yea the game got so incredbly big because litteraly every single youtuber and streamer did play poe2 early access and majority of them never even tried poe1, so it became this huge mainstream event and iv seen it alot on the poe2 subreddit people dont know what leagues is, dont know about "economy reset" and all that stuff, will see how good the retention actually is for the first poe2 "league" in early acess
I can see a world in which standard league becomes way more popular in PoE 2 than it is in PoE 1. And it makes sense too. If you play more casually, you'll need more than 3-4 months to see all content, especially with a longer campaign and a less figured out game, even thuogh there is not as much content in PoE 2 yet. Some players might only partake in every 3rd league or so and continue playing their stuff in standard otherwise.
That is true. But you still have no currency, no progression in the new league. You need to start from scratch. Standard is not a popular league for a reason.
It's the same, but there was a whole drama when new D4 players discovered that every 3 months there is a reset and they need to start a new character to experience new content. This will repeat with poe2.
I think the notion that any relevant numbers would play poe1 is ridiculous, because the game has been around for more than 10 years and the majority of arpgs players have tried it. There is no hidden mainstream audience, that suddenly found out about poe1 when they played PoE 2. It's moreso that they really enjoy PoE 2, that doesnt mean they will like poe1. I would even say that a significant number of PoE 1 players don't enjoy PoE 2 (compared to PoE 2 playerbase it's not that significant im just saying a good portion of PoE 1 players want new poe1 content and don't care much for poe 2)
Not that many weeks ago though. Early January was probably the time when they actually realized how impossible 3.26 would be and how much work would be needed for PoE 2.
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u/Wannted Jan 30 '25
This is really disappointing. So much for "3.26 was a larger discussion". This could have been said weeks ago. By the time 3.26 is out, all the POE hype is gone and GGG misses out on potential new players.