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We care more about making a good game than we do about vanity metrics like player concurrency records. I suspect this is because we're gamers first and businesspeople second. The direction Path of Exile was going in over the last year was breaking player records but wasn't really leaving us...

BuT ThEy ArE BuFfInG MeLeE.

This feels like China teamed up with the Democrats to ruin my fun grinding game. I just wanted to play video games, man. The economy, the culture, the jobs, and now fucking PoE is going in the same direction. China and the Democrats, ruining everything.

I used to start every league with an Ancestral totem build (whatever the AOE one is). Easy, scales decent, and can do most of the original Atlas without too much problem. It was slowly being outscaled by new content when I stopped doing it. I now start every league with Cyclone (crit of late)...

People like playing mines/traps about as much as they like totems. It was moderately niche until spell totems increased in popularity at least. Maybe this is the big totem/trap/mine meta push.

We want to provide new avenues for players to mitigate Bleed, Corrupted Blood and curses, given how common Bleed and Curse removal flasks were. As a result we have added extra support on the passive tree to mitigate Bleeding, Corrupted Blood and Curses, through new stats on existing notables or...

We are buffing melee. Scratches chin: A couple of existing supports have had a downside added, allowing us to keep the damage multiplier relatively high. As an example Melee Physical Damage now grants supported skills 10% less Attack Speed. Right. And let's nerf Fortify in the ground because...

That's the same drug they give you when they need you conscious but pliable for things like wisdom teeth extraction and butthole scopes and the like. I did the minimum research but it looks like they still use N2O for wisdom teeth (?), but they do use drugs like diazepams for colonoscopies -...

Insert EQ level up sound here. Edit, wait - or the quest complete sound (this was the only clip I could find on youtube):

So here is a little diversion from the upcoming league discussion. I am leveling a char through mid maps this afternoon and running Syndicate while I map. I hate the Tiny Trial (I just skip it every time) so I am trying to get rid of and/or delevel Guff as much as possible. I have...

I am not sure I understand what you are trying to relate here? What exactly do you mean by "finished"? The game is not "hard". As a matter of fact it is super easy, with any build, really. But the difference between having fun grinding and saying "fuck this game" is a fine line for most...

I got a PSP when it was originally released and then gave it away to my nephew after taking it on one vacation trip. I am just not a handheld player. And I would rather read on the commute than iPad or phone so call me old school. I will second/third/infinity the Steam controller being the...

Double post, thanks Obama.

While the autistic min-maxer streamers are what bring all the boys to the yard for PoE, it is the unwashed masses of casuals that pay the bills for GGG. Why they would nerf player damage across the board which would, seemingly, make the game harder and less accessible to the average Joe, I...

Is this what they want? They can has if they want!

I am not sure I could count the number of poops I took while reading the manual tomes for games like M1 Tank Platoon, F19 Stealth Fighter and the like. Edit - Hunt for Red October also. I had an Amiga.

Okay so I am half way through watching this movie, and I hate it. It is contrived, forced, and fucking boring. I thought 1 was a revelation. And 2 was meh (it took me 3 tries to watch it through). And here I am thinking to myself the only reason I am watching this movie is because I am...

And really, really, REALLY big teeth.

While we were looking at the style and the hair and dat ass, you were looking at Game Over. Why are you such a virgin!? I kid, I kid.

I will admit just the previous 10-20 posts in this thread from 2017 had me crying from laughing. That is some classic shit and I am not sure I ever read this thread. Awesome necro, is what I say.

Goddamn the fucking '80's were amazing. We were living our best life. it is so trash in comparison now it is amazing. I know every generation feels the same way, but has there ever been this much dichotomy?

I remember those commercials. Aired a lot on the american channels in the NE

I am going to alienate Nirgon and Chuk here, but I believe Saves Christmas was, in my opinion, the single worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life, and I saw it in a small town theatre when it released in '88. It has yet to be dethroned.

Gay bicyclist alert.

It's on my list. I think it was on sale last week, believe it or not, before the Summer sale. I am wishy washy on every game the publishers of Hades made. Everyone says it is amazeballs, but I am still skeptical. I guess some react in exactly the same way to my BUY AT FULL PRICE...

I picked up Monster Train. Enjoying it so far! Darkest Dungeon is worth full price, buy it if it is on sale!!!! I have Hades on my list but the sale is still not deep enough for these shallow pockets.

A complete lack of insecurities over whether or not you have a visible booger in your nose is a freedom hard to give up as well. Just kidding. If you don't have a mutually beneficial agreement with your friends to always tell a bro they are nose packing/fly down/etc you do not have friends.

Yeah, I've owned it from the beginning. To the developers' credit, they actually worked through an Early Access and FINISHED the game, with massive free updates. It was impressive and rarely seen anymore. I sound like a shill. I think perhaps now that it is "done" they may think HARDER about...

Edit - I need a job. This is my third triple-play post in as many days.

If this quote is actually attributable to him, I am astounded something logical and relatable came out of his mouth. Because he has been an insufferable twat for nigh on 10 years now. Have you seen his Trump art?

This was one of the long standing games at the bowling alley, one of only two places in my little town where there were video games (second was a sketchy arcade I was not allowed into when I was younger). I played the SHIT out of this, it was pretty much a muscle memory puzzle game wrapped up...

The most hilarious thing about Rust is that you can find the most backwards, unpopulated server in the world, build a base, advance through the technologies, and someone will still seek you out and raid you. One active base on a server and some dickface will spend the time to search the entire...

I could not even fathom playing Conan on a PvP server. It would just be Rust without the machine guns. I will say I DID enjoy Rust for a good while. But the off line raiding really kicks you in the nuts and after a while you hate humans too much to ever play again. At least in Conan you have...

Good choice. Terraria is as near perfect a game as you can get, and essentially created its own genre, much copied but never duplicated. And that is just vanilla - there is an additional world of mods as well I have never even touched.

I am currently unemployed in a flagging industry more and more taken over by young, know-nothing idjits. I was lucky that I saved a bunch of money over the last 5 years predicting an industry lag may happen. And I learned my frugal nature straight from my Dad (he was, realistically, a cheap...

Ok, day 1,000 in Noobie's Return to PoE. I just did my first 10 boss Maven fight (Valdo's Rest). Interdasting. So the Maven is just GGG's tacit admission that the power creep in the game has gone ballistic, right? Maven/Xibit: Hey I see you like bosses so we put bosses in your bosses to get...

My Dad died just before Christmas day last year, and I had to say good bye to him over Zoom while my sister sat in his hospital room beside his induced-coma body, waiting to give the go ahead to pull the plug. I will never forgive our society that. Never. Never, ever. The Old Man and I never...

I remain adamant (for years now) that some form of Leaguestones would be simply amazing. That remains, to this very day, my favorite league. But, clearly, GGG does NOT want overt player choice in end-game grinding, and I have no idea why that is. And while we are (were) talking about good and...