The reason this game may die

So the game will die because he whirling blade into the giant glowing rune of death on the ground? So by that logic every game put out should be dead by now because they all have telegraphed 1 shot moves....you so smart.

so dark souls will die too?
POE is in the Gold tier of steam in 2018... so much for dying :)

What's the scale of your prediction? I mean during the last year PoE got more and more players and it is actually already, what, six years old? So if you said 'within the next few years' that already seemed like a bad prediction. If you say within the next few decades, that is (arguably) quite reasonable but has nothing to do with your 'problem'.

One wierd thing I've noticed quite a bit over my 30-odd years in gaming:

The games/franchies which are frequently declared "dead" or "dying" tend to also be the ones which manage to last the longest, or seemingly go on forever. Meanwhile, the huge-name titles that will "kill every other game" tend to either be riddled with problems, provoke a massive player backlash, mysteriously vanish without trace (or never even arrive), disappear almost overnight when the next "big thing" arrives.

I mean, look at RuneScape: people have been declaring that game dead since 2007, but the game's still ticking along quite nicely as it reaches it's 18th birthday this weekend - that's TWELVE YEARS of people predicting the end of the game, which still hasn't come to pass.

PoE was released in 2013, and after SIX years it's still breaking records and reaching new heights of popularity... yet people just ignore that and insist it's going to die every other day.

Now if we assume that people have over a decade margin of error on their predictions for PoE, just like with RuneScape, then that still puts the eventual death of PoE at or beyond somewhere around 2030... is that *really* something we should be worried about?

Plenty of games which people predicted are going to die actually died. Know why? Because it is common in every active gaming community to get such predictions. They ultimately mean nothing and cant be used for anything.

Sky is falling guys, stay indoors and play PoE.

Over 7 years i learned one thing, either this game isn't dead, or it's the most beautiful corpse there ever was.

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BleedMeAnOcean написал:

Welcome to the ARPG genre.

"Welcome to arcade genre" you wanted to say, right?

Because in almost every other ARPG, you CAN build yourself defensively enough to not suffer from random oneshots out of nowhere.

If we put multiplayer games aside (where the "oneshot" fall of one player in teamclash isnt so decisive, "Oneshots" are intended to happen mostly in arcade games (where most things oneshot you, but are avoidable by design).

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MortalKombat3 написал:

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BleedMeAnOcean написал:

Welcome to the ARPG genre.

"Welcome to arcade genre" you wanted to say, right?

Because in almost every other ARPG, you CAN build yourself defensively enough to not suffer from random oneshots out of nowhere.

If we put multiplayer games aside (where the "oneshot" fall of one player in teamclash isnt so decisive, "Oneshots" are intended to happen mostly in arcade games (where most things oneshot you, but are avoidable by design).

And you can't do that in POE? To quote our beloved dinosaur "LOL???".

There's nothing that even gets close to killing my dual Nebuloch Juggernaut, even in Betrayal with rank 3 syndicates.

People generally don't, but they definitely can build that defensively and eliminate, with great ease actually, all potential one shots in the game. Okay, barring perhaps uber Atziri flameblast, but come on... WoW has killed people standing in fire since Molten Core vanilla and you can't really call that one anything other than casual.

Guys. GUYS!!!!!

The next MMO will kill WoW for sure, it is dead in the water now.

I will admit to having quit the league already this season, but I am such a PoE nerd I moved to Standard to finish my Poet's Pen build and fill out my now reset Atlas.

So statistically I am still a player, but I am not in the League. Earliest I have quit a league since 2015, even earlier than Bestiary.