Why are people calling PoE P2W with the incoming Challenges?

No seriously.

Wearing a PoE shirt you won as a prize doesn't provide your characters any boosts or anything.

Yes, stash tabs help with the 90 uniques thing, but contests being P2W is kinda a thing that is not new. Like buying tickets for raffles or pretty much any form of contest at all if you pay someone to help teach/train you.

It's like calling cosmetic microtransactions P2W because they cost money but they don't actually impact character performance either so ?????

Edit:

Let me sum up my point with an image:

Because people can't find anything of actual merit to complain about.

Some people are QQers by nature.

wtf does this thread even mean?

incoming challenges?

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mazul написал:

Because people can't find anything of actual merit to complain about.

Some people are QQers by nature.

really ?

chris wiping is boxer asses for half a year now is a good one i guess.....

"hey lets all use maphack"
"maphack is bad mkayy"
"why ?"
"maphack is 3rd party program"
"so is is boxer"


i could find a ton of complains

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ventiman написал:

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mazul написал:

Because people can't find anything of actual merit to complain about.

Some people are QQers by nature.

really ?

chris wiping is boxer asses for half a year now is a good one i guess.....

"hey lets all use maphack"
"maphack is bad mkayy"
"why ?"
"maphack is 3rd party program"
"so is is boxer"


i could find a ton of complains

what does that have to do with the topic at hand?

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derbefrier написал:

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ventiman написал:

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mazul написал:

Because people can't find anything of actual merit to complain about.

Some people are QQers by nature.

really ?

chris wiping is boxer asses for half a year now is a good one i guess.....

"hey lets all use maphack"
"maphack is bad mkayy"
"why ?"
"maphack is 3rd party program"
"so is is boxer"


i could find a ton of complains

what does that have to do with the topic at hand?

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mazul написал:

Because people can't find anything of actual merit to complain about.

Some people are QQers by nature.

damn people just want to whine , let em whine.

Because GGG incentivized using their cash shop for an advantage...

This "advantage" so happens to NOT be gameplay related, simply for the contest.

because its for a contest, and not in game advantage, i have no butthurt over this.

However, this is grey area to the max... crafty straya (edited)

mod edit: they are crafty kiwi (edited), not australian.

Yeah, gotta hate how GGG is trying to make a buck!

I have no idea who is calling Path Of Exile "Pay to Win", but I can see one specific challenge with a huge potential to meet this description: "find and use all currency".

how long has it been since Open Beta started? 5 months?
I've been playing the whole time, and I have no idea how an Exalted Orb looks like. Mirror? yeah, right.

orbs are RNG, RNG is luck, and my luck sucks.
1 of the 8 challenges on your way to a T-shirt, based on luck instead of skill? bad move GGG.

my reaction to this is "f**k it, so I won't get a T-shirt".
other players' reaction to this, is *opens RMT site* ---> challenge completed.