I know we criticize Blizzard's mtx but have you seen PoE mtx?

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I took a break and came back to over 3k sitting there.

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That’s nice but has nothing to do with what Boredumb said.

Also: that means you’ve been gone for like two and a half years. So in two and a half years you can buy one thing. :rofl:

Edited because I can’t math.

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Was it that long? It’s not a very good game tbh

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I just think it’s funny that like everything people hate and complain about with WoW is seen as acceptable in PoE.

Seasons?

Grindy?

Infinite scaling difficulty?

Meta builds?

Complicated skill trees?

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Well, I can see having a conversation with you about the actual topic isn’t going to happen. Bye bye.

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there’s no “must collect everything” mentality there though.
you just get something you find neat if you want to support them or even nothing at all.

personally i dont buy stuff there anymore since they’re 100% tencent now.
i gave them my fair share back when it was a wholesome small indie company :wink: enough to get invited to the EA without buying anything new anyways.

see, i gave them money when i wanted to, on my own terms, and now i don’t have to give them anything at all ever… there’s no sub fee coming to harass me. it’s great.
*not to mention there’s no p2w token that i feel like i should buy whenever my gold mYsTeRiOuSlY dwindles down.

(i dont feel like i need to support it anymore since it’s 100% tencent now but before that i would buy a supporter pack when i enjoyed a league… on my own, because i wanted to, without having to. it’s a different vibe)

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Dang man take a pill :rofl:

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Drop in the bucket compared to the biggest battle from Eve Online. The battle of B-R5RB cost players an estimated $378,000 in actual player investments.

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Does anyone miss the days when it wasn’t assumed you’d be taking out a loan in order to actually play a game post-purchase?

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As long as it’s cosmetics I don’t care what they charge.

I’m not buying any anyway.

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Well. They are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAMES.

PoE2 is that game. PoE is known and built its following on those foundations. And with PoE2 it stayed true to them. It catered to what its players wanted, and to what the vision of the game is.

I dont know what point you are trying to make here. The systems, grinds, meta builds, infinite scaling, and complicated skill trees, are the strengths of PoE2 and the PoE brand as a whole. Its not that people find them “acceptable”. Thats why they play the game.

WoW is not that game. WoW isnt even that genre. I struggle to think of a parallel to your statement. The only thing the two really have in common are that they are video games in a fantasy setting.

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It’s gives the equivalent of 24 wow tokens at just the baseline price of $480.

Then for what is basically free:
4 or 5? EA keys
A bunch of:
Transmog
Portals
Pets
Hideouts
Weapon effects
Etc

Pretending this is a ripoff is disingenuous at best.

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Good :+1: /10char

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As a general rule I’m more tolerant of MTX in a free to play game than I am in a game where I have to both pay a box price and a subscription. That said, I still have my issues with PoE’s monetization.

Though if you really wanna see monetization that has completely divorced itself from sanity, you should look at Star Citizen. We joke about taking out a loan, but that’s a game you’re actually gonna have to do that to buy the “everything” package.

Of course if our standard for things becomes “Don’t be as terrible as the worst company in the industry” then it’s just a race to the bottom where things only ever get worse and worse.