8 People at GGG do More Than All D4 devs

Well for a year and a half. It is still impressive with what they came up with. There were some fun leagues.

That reminds me of this great hit from the early 80’s.

Thats because one is worth more than the other, Tencent owns more in Percentage to ggg by a huge margin.

There were so really horrible ones too.

they have 100 devs working on poe 2 not poe. they arnt going to release a half baked , unfinished game like D4 thus the decission to give it one more year development time before beta.

Nah the last few Leagues have been solid. At least I enjoyed them.

No GGG wasn’t a publicly traded company when they were purchased, blizzard was and Tencent bought over 37 million shares of ATVI stock.

Well awesome hope it turns out to be a lot of fun! The whole elden ring but with a hardcore bent thing sounds interesting.

Sanctum was the most popular league since Ritual it ranks 2nd only behind Metamorphosis of the two leagues they’ve had over 30 million people play the league and had over 300k daily users for over 2 months not bad for an Indie company game.

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False equivalence. POE has a solid foundation to build on and is actively working towards Chris Wilson’s goals of counterplay, setup and knockdown, basically meaningful hack and slash. It’s interesting. The demo is strong looking i just don’t know how it works with arpg, since diablo tried to do the same thing in 3 (failed) and i know shely says he wants to do it.

The problem is blizzard no longer has the pedigree. Their last audience success was legion, and they didn’t start taking D4 seriously until they gave shely the project in my estimation and it shows. Their needs to be something akin to maps and they need to avoid their worst blizzard tendencies of “oh there is 150 dungeons yep” i think i can remember like maybe ten distinct ones and i’m fine with puzzles and obstacles but uh… pick up the thing that gives me 25% movement speed and take it to the pedestal has three varieties of the same thing? make this deeper. prisoners are annoying too. Could probably be some kind of bonus chest for how well you complete the obstacle maybe.

POE claims 100 distinct areas and 600 distinct enemies and i believe them. I knew the 150 dungeons thing was bogus and dismissed it from consideration.

still, i’m in a good place. D4 has promise, keep interacting with the players and doing the thing, it’s fun enough and should get better. new league in POE looks interesting after i finish my pass, and two years out from a fresh arpg experience.

As do I. They have been working on PoE 2 for a while and still maybe in a year and a half it will release, maybe. They are fairly careful about that and do not have to answer to higher up like Blizzard does. Well they are owned by Tencent but as long as they are making money I doubt Tencent cares about deadlines and lets them do their thing.

explains a lot most people hated the l;ast 3 seasons. Retention was horrific

Go outside and meet real people.

Awe. It was already flagged and was restored.

Sorry I don’t watch streamers. I was making an anthropological assessment.