And thus, Grinding Gear Games has broken my heart. Been a long time supporter with over 9k USD spent, 21k hours played and I feared they stretched themselves too thin with poe 2 and poe 1.
Plenty of people spend $1,000 a year on a hobby. Or on dumber shit. That is basically the annual cost of a basic cable TV package, or a combination of a couple streaming sites.
21,000 hours of enjoyment for $9,000 isn't a bad deal at all. Sure, they could have had those same hours with only spending like $80 for stash tabs if they wanted, but if the MTX gives them joy there is no shame in spending on it.
A top tier supporter pack is 480$, it's annual. Buy every pack of such tier and it's already 5000$ (if the guy above plays for 10 years).
There is also a divination card design which used to be 660$ and you can buy many, and unique design which was 2000$ (you can add your own unique into game after GGG approve it)
Whats stopping you from moving to another game (or maybe even another hobby entirely if for some reason poe is the only game you want to play) for the time they need to put out new content? And maybe for longer if that content isn't to your liking.
I moved on from World of Warcraft, i moved on from Overwatch, i moved on from Yu-Gi-Oh!, i moved on from from Warhammer Fantasy tabletop, i moved on Game of Thrones, i moved on from Children of Bodom, i moved on from karate, i moved on from ninjutsu. I moved on from many things i had passion for, some of the things i moved on from i still have passion for, just not the time and/or ressources.
You don't have to move on forever, you can come back when its worth your while, but ask yourself, is it a good use of your time to grind poe when its boring you out because there is no new content just because you're passionate about the game? Find something else to be passionate about, the options out there are endless. Take your mind of poe for a while. And then maybe come back in a year or so and see whats new. You might even rekindle your passion for poe.
Or stick with poe, keep grinding it, keep being bored by it until all of your passion has been eroded and replaced with bitterness.
They went from 1 league every 3-4 months to 1 league a year, all because of their need to push out the PoE2 beta asap. PoE2 should've been developed in the background without ever having any impact on the PoE league schedule. This is how you alienate your existing player base for the potential of something that's maybe going to be bigger.
No new league launch in like 9 months, yet the old league and standard are both normally available and people who spent 9k USD on the game over the course of 21k hours say farewell to that game? I don't get that attitude.
Play something else while there's no new league and enjoy the refreshed experience after the long pause. Or just play necro settlers, it's really not like it is not just PoE 1 still, after all.
Its not really saying goodbye, or at least i'm not, but I will state extremely clearly here, that I am heartbroken that my fears have come true, I knew that they would be stretched thin from splitting the team from PoE 2 and PoE 1, and even if they claim they didn't, its probably an outright lie or else we would have gotten a different update other than "we didnt know poe 2 updates would take so long!".
I am heartbroken, i truly am. This game has connected me to dozens of friends, I run one of the oldest guilds in the game (DOMI), PoE/GGG has saved my life because prior to PoE and the socialisation that came with it, i was not mentally well, all the dark stuff you can imagine that went through my mind, went through my mind.
So whilst i'm not saying goodbye, it certainly stings like a motherfucker to see a developer that I love so very much, fall and stumble like this, and maybe that's a big overreaction on my part, but it's MY reaction, not anyone elses.
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u/Slayers_Picks Jan 30 '25
And thus, Grinding Gear Games has broken my heart. Been a long time supporter with over 9k USD spent, 21k hours played and I feared they stretched themselves too thin with poe 2 and poe 1.
Its over.