Five Weeks into 0.2.0, POE2 is Down 93.2% Players All Time & 83.9% from Patch Launch

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Galtrovan#5344 が発言:

Haven't we all seen this before? Hollywood telling the fans they are wrong. Isn't really working out for Hollywood is it.

Alas you rare right.

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Haven't we all seen this before? Hollywood telling the fans they are wrong. Isn't really working out for Hollywood is it.

Gotta hate when the playerbase is out of touch /s

95% of the playerbase left and this is really bad from a financial POV. At this rate they won't able to sustain "the vision" (even though nobody wants it anyway except a few ultras).
GGG decision showed us that they are entitled to this "vision" and won't even drift away from it.
This leads to 2 consequences :

1. GGG won't change POE2 game direction unless they are forced to do it. On top of that, the studio blatantly ignore whatever isn't matching with their ideal (cf mutliples interviews from John).

2. As any company, both GGG and Tencent have for goal to make money. Usually, important decisions regarding business strats are being made after the annual return wich is being held early march for GGG.
That said, POE2 got massive income coming from the paid EA and supporter packs. This income will most likely soften the terrible results coming from the vision, and the lack of income associated.
This means we won't see any real changes until april/may 2026 unless the financial metrics show a real danger for the studio and Tencent decide to snap off POE2 direction.

So stop blaming the current state of the game as it won't have any results. Instead ask for more of this nonsense such as adding hunger metric slowing you down even more when you're hungry with a walk/run system like D2, implying a food system, reverting the portal update and go back to a single one etc. Even though the game is in a bad state it can be even worse. Your only hope is to see the game crumble and rott to a point where GGG/Tencent can't ignore the situation anymore.

Don't need to go into much detail.

The end game mapping system is boring and not engaging.
FIX IT.

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neostars#6701 が発言:

Don't need to go into much detail.

I mean, you absolutely and unquestionably do need to go into at least some detail if you expect anyone to be able to act on your feedback.

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xPimousse#3057 が発言:

That said, POE2 got massive income coming from the paid EA and supporter packs. This income will most likely soften the terrible results coming from the vision

I don't understand what makes you think there's anything to soften -- PoE2 EA has been a massive success for GGG - larger than they ever expected. They don't really need any more income between now and 1.0. The funding they secured was more than enough to cover the remainder of development and the marketing of the full release. Anything they make in the meantime will be gravy on top. These are not "terrible results" by any measure.

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Kerchunk#7797 が発言:

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neostars#6701 が発言:

Don't need to go into much detail.

I mean, you absolutely and unquestionably do need to go into at least some detail if you expect anyone to be able to act on your feedback.

It has been explained in excruciating details hundreds of times, every single day people by the handful post the exact same complaints.
Please don't act like GGG are lacking sufficient data to act upon in order to save PoE2.. trolling helps no one.

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 が発言:

Please don't actually like GGG are lacking sufficient data to act upon in order to save PoE2.. trolling helps no one.

I'm not acting like anything guy. I'm just telling you that PoE2 doesn't need saving. It's absolutely fine.

I looked at playtime data for all ~170k reviews and activity between people who reviewed the game positively vs. negatively is not significantly different. If anything, negative reviewers are playing more often.

People didn't "quit playing" because they don't like the game -- they're just waiting for it to be finished because most people don't want to play unfinished games.

The project is fine. PoE2 is fine. Even if it wasn't, you certainly wouldn't rescue it by bullying Jonathan on the forums.

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Kerchunk#7797 が発言:

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 が発言:

Please don't actually like GGG are lacking sufficient data to act upon in order to save PoE2.. trolling helps no one.

I'm not acting like anything guy. I'm just telling you that PoE2 doesn't need saving. It's absolutely fine.

I looked at playtime data for all ~170k reviews and activity between people who reviewed the game positively vs. negatively is not significantly different. If anything, negative reviewers are playing more often.

People didn't "quit playing" because they don't like the game -- they're just waiting for it to be finished because most people don't want to play unfinished games.

The project is fine. PoE2 is fine. Even if it wasn't, you certainly wouldn't rescue it by bullying Jonathan on the forums.

You looked at the playtime data for 170k players? How did you get that data? I think most will know you are full of it. The playyer count on steam continues to dive. The game is NOT fine if it is to be a long term product and not a flash in the pan. And they lost half the players that didnt come back for patch 0.2.0 and will lose another half for 0.3.0. There are a very very small group of people that think this is fine but even they are badly wrong. If the numbers keep going this way most likely TenCent will cancel the project. Recent times is littered with the corpses of cancelled projects like this.

Fortunately people like you keep arguing and bumping the thread so I still have hope they will figure it out. If the put out 3.26 and it rockets in player base those players will come back to POE2 forums going "hey wait, you know how to do this, how could you mess it up so badly?"

A week since I posted this and players on Saturday night are down to 29,282 from 39,791 last week. 10k in a week. A couple more weeks and old POE1 mught have more players.

Which reminds me ... going to play my POE1 char.