Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

[InD_ImaginE]

A game fully playable free with one inconvenience of bad inventory system which you could simply solved by multi-boxing being people main problem is retarded.

There are probably dozens of problem the game has, but monetization ain't one. Heck if you sheckled out 30 bucks like you would for a complete ARPG on the market and use them to buy only stashes then you already get a better game than most competing ARPG in the market.

 

[Damned Registrations]

The sad thing about it is that the stash tabs aren't really a sustainable income for them anyways, at some point you have as much as you're willing to manage and you don't need to spend any more on them, while the game continues to crank out content. So in the long run they need to make their money off hats anyways and could have gotten away with a decent inventory system instead.

I wonder though, if the stash tabs are like a microtransaction gateway drug effect- get people to spend a tiny bit on a stash tab to feel good about using the store so they buy hats later? I'm sure they have a ton of data on which sorts of people buy what things in what order.

Do addicts even need gateways? Seems to me that they'll buy anyway no matter what. I bought my bare minimum of tabs and haven't looked back ever since.

I mean, it's not like a propensity for addictive behaviour is a binary thing. If it were casinos wouldn't need to bother coaxing people into spending money by boozing them up and everything else they do. Hardcore gamblers will piss away their money on lame shit like online poker or lotto tickets sure, but people in the middle only get sucked in when other factors are involved as well. It would be naive to think GGG hasn't invested a lot of time and money on figuring out how to get people to buy their hats.

 

[PapaPetro]

With every new piece of information my excitement for the league dies.

It's not washing the bad taste Synthesis left in my mouth. That league made me realize it felt more like work than fun, especially when grinding out another Headhunter.

 

[Hyperion]

The sad thing about it is that the stash tabs aren't really a sustainable income for them anyways, at some point you have as much as you're willing to manage and you don't need to spend any more on them, while the game continues to crank out content. So in the long run they need to make their money off hats anyways and could have gotten away with a decent inventory system instead.

I wonder though, if the stash tabs are like a microtransaction gateway drug effect- get people to spend a tiny bit on a stash tab to feel good about using the store so they buy hats later? I'm sure they have a ton of data on which sorts of people buy what things in what order.

Do addicts even need gateways? Seems to me that they'll buy anyway no matter what. I bought my bare minimum of tabs and haven't looked back ever since.

I mean, it's not like a propensity for addictive behaviour is a binary thing. If it were casinos wouldn't need to bother coaxing people into spending money by boozing them up and everything else they do. Hardcore gamblers will piss away their money on lame shit like online poker or lotto tickets sure, but people in the middle only get sucked in when other factors are involved as well. It would be naive to think GGG hasn't invested a lot of time and money on figuring out how to get people to buy their hats.

Stash tabs are likely not the gateway drug, they're there whenever you need them at your convenience and feel you need more stash space. They also go on sale quite frequently, so you can get them at something like half the listed price no problem. Now, if you take the angle of someone watches a streamer and sees they have something like 150 stash tabs and something in the insecure part of a gamer's brain goes off and thinks, "Wow he has XXX tabs that I means I need those too!" you'd have a hell of a point, and I'd be shocked if seeing their favorite streamer with MTXs didn't cause a chain reaction of sales.

The most obvious exploitation of addictive personalities is the loot box, since they're gambling in every possible form of it. Even worse, they probably get even more money out of people who get 1 or 2 pieces of an armor set from their set of boxes, then drop ANOTHER set of cash on the individual pieces when the armor set is released a few months down the road.

But where they really make a killing is the supporter packs. Once they release new packs, the stuff in the previous is gone for good. They're exploiting that fear of missing out on a 'limited time offer' people can get. Especially if they kinda like the look of the stuff, but are on the fence of whether it's worth it or not. Once they hear it's gone, they probably figure it's better to just spend the money since they won't have any opportunity later.

 

[ArchAngel]

So about that Balance manifesto. RIP Elementalist, you were fun while you lasted

 

[Sykar]

So about that Balance manifesto. RIP Elementalist, you were fun while you lasted

Wait, what? Elementalist is my main, what did they do?

 

[ArchAngel]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2512662

The Elementalist's Beacon of Ruin notable has been changed, no longer granting proliferation of elements, and with a lower value of minimum shock. The shock benefit provided too much power in combination with increases to shock effect, while the proliferation had significant effects on performance, regardless of whether it was being taken full advantage of. We'll be replacing or changing this and other sources of proliferation in the future.

 

[Sykar]

What a crook of shite.

 

[T. Reich]

9000hrs in paint for all my homies who are still burnt out from the Synthesis:

 

[Baron Dupek]

New update is out, can convert maps to any league, still - old map tabs remain

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[thesheeep]

What a crook of shite.

Ah, c'mon. You knew it was going to happen eventually.
GGG giveth. GGG taketh away.

 

[SirSingAlot]

shit, new Cyclone gets a lot of added flat phys damage.
i mean Abyss jewels will get gutted, but still

 

[Zdzisiu]

shit, new Cyclone gets a lot of added flat phys damage.
i mean Abyss jewels will get gutted, but still

Also, the new cyclone will work with infused channeling since it is now a channeling skill.

 

[Cyberarmy]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2513456

Some nice looking new gems right there.

 

[ArchAngel]

I am still playing Trickster spellcaster. Fuck melee range, it is best way to die fast.

 

[Hyperion]

shit, new Cyclone gets a lot of added flat phys damage.
i mean Abyss jewels will get gutted, but still

Also, the new cyclone will work with infused channeling since it is now a channeling skill.

Plus the new node that gives 20% chance for Endurance Charge and Frenzy Charge when you get hit

 

[Perkel]

Biggest change in meta since monster patch years ago:

Rare and magic monsters get extra 30% life at lvl 1 and around 100%+ at 68
Should properly change a lot meta.

Reading patchnotes melee effectively got like twice damage buff and there are shitload of changes that further improve it. Shitload of mechanical changes to skills.

 

[ArchAngel]

Biggest change in meta since monster patch years ago:

Rare and magic monsters get extra 30% life at lvl 1 and around 100%+ at 68
Should properly change a lot meta.

Reading patchnotes melee effectively got like twice damage buff and there are shitload of changes that further improve it. Shitload of mechanical changes to skills.

I doubt it. Best DPS/clearspeed skills will still delete them like always.

 

[Gerrard]

The Duelist area is a clusterfuck.

 

[abija]

Reading patchnotes melee effectively got like twice damage buff and there are shitload of changes that further improve it.

Really? Where?

 

[Jaedar]

The Duelist area is a clusterfuck.

Yes, and lots of insanely strong stuff. +1% to all max resists and +5% physical damage reduction on one node is just ridiculous in terms of defensive power. A bunch of charge generation, melee range...

This rework has delivered much better than self-cast rework so far. Wonder if it will hold up in actual play.

 

[Gerrard]

There's also "5% reduced elemental damage taken" on the Crystal Skin node. It's Jugg time.
The lack of consistency between "Physical damage" and just "damage" or "attack damage" on different weapon nodes is retarded. There's even one on the old duelist 2 hander wheel where the entire wheel is physical except one notable.

 

[abija]

All two handed nodes are physical now. Probably wrecking ball is just a mistake.

 

[frajaq]

I can't make sense of this starting Duelist area for Lacerate, guess gonna wait for guides on the forums yet again