Another Game of the Year Award

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DalaiLama написал:

Some snippage.

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TheAnuhart написал:

It is a pretty clear fact that orb drop rates are bad, bad for the game, bad for crafting, bad for retention.

Now, whether there is denial, or ignorance, I don't know. Probably both.


But wait, how can this be a niche game, if the niche it pleases requires so many non-niche players to feed the orbs?

Answer? It can't. It can, and will, fold.
The model GGG chose fails at retention in so many ways.

The number of orb drops and the chances that the orbs will craft a usable item are somewhat out of balance. (Not quite enough orbs)

Crafting a high end item, and the number of orb drops is not not enough if you are trying to do this on a regular basis.

Crafting a top end item, and you will probably need an entire season's worth of orbs on average to get there.

The higher you go on these crafting tiers, the bigger the "luck" factor can be.

Does crafting need to be improved? Yes - with some additional targeted crafting recipes and the middle range and slightly above. Recipes with more than a single mod.


The "niche" that this game appeals to, does not "require" any crafting to succeed in. If crafting were required to succeed, there would be problems.

Judging by past experience, what would benefit the crafters and all the people wanting better drops the most would be Act 4.

Before act 3, there was no alchemy recipe, nor fusing, chance, scour or regret recipe. 6 linking items was still possible, but fusings were in much greater demand.

The Eternal orb is relatively new, and it is intended to be a very expensive way to allow do -overs to try to get the mods you want. Before the eternal orb, it wasn't possible to use more than 4 (usually 3) exalts on an item.

If GGG adds in more vendor currency recipes and higher level areas (especially a higher level act boss) than people will naturally have a lot more to craft with and a better base of items to start with.

As long as we keep the posts civil and constructive, then GGG can gather feedback from them and make changes to the game as necessary.

If you have specific suggestions for improvement, than by all means post.

I sincerely doubt GGG will make the game easier or shower players with great items in a short period of time.

That doesn't mean they can't and won't find ways to make the game more rewarding for players.

Ideas and suggestions will do a much better job at getting there, than repeatedly pointing out the same dislikes.

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briefmortal1453 написал:

I can't seem to find this mentioned anywhere, but i was just browsing last weeks PC Power Play, an Australian magazine also sold in NZ, and Path of Exile is their Game of the Year.

I'd post a link but the magazine's website is about 2 weeks behind the printed copy.

GGG obviously already know about it though, as Chris did a small interview for it.

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Arrowneous написал:

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briefmortal1453 написал:

I can't seem to find this mentioned anywhere, but i was just browsing last weeks PC Power Play, an Australian magazine also sold in NZ, and Path of Exile is their Game of the Year.

I'd post a link but the magazine's website is about 2 weeks behind the printed copy.

GGG obviously already know about it though, as Chris did a small interview for it.

 PC-Gamer 2013 awards don't even give PoE an honorable mention. A few issues back just the announcement by Blizzard of what's coming in D3 Reaper of Souls got them the cover and a full article. I guess hosting your own game convention (Blizzcon) does give you media attention and publicity that no one else can afford to do. Last fall (OB PoE) PC-Gamer gave a very small plug for PoE as a free-to-play arpg. Since then there hasn't been much until the on-line edition of PC-Gamer reviewed PoE and gave it an 84 out of 100 score.

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ToxicRatt написал:

and still no answer. LOL.

Brian didn't even apologize for his remarks I doubt any kind of answer is in the works. This thread probably become officially dead the minute he made that post because if anyone else made that post mods would have removed it.

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ToxicRatt написал:

Still waiting...

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ToxicRatt написал:

better than dead silence but then again I don't really think he will reply.