I hate to type “LOL” - but that made me laugh - this is nowhere near as bad as the Wolcen launch.
EHG deserves some slack; it’s their first big launch. I remember when PoE was called “Path of Disconnects” and then the string of leagues where Chris Wilson was regularly making abject apologies after the first weekend shenanigans.
Impacience grows quickly, I understand. But I think if they have that perspective they would already have pointed that to calm down the public opinion on this…
If you take a look at the updates on that, they are consistently giving to usreal time progresses and transparencies…
it really doesnt matter what people are saying in here. The fact of the matter is people paid for a product and the company behind it didnt deliver. Yeah the overall game itself is good, but they didnt take the right precautions in order to help themselves in this situation.
The devs have even said they really dont know what the actual problem is. Most of them are in over their head if that is the case.
First impressions are massive for the casual gamer. most are like oh hey i hear this game is good, so they buy it on release and find out that they cant play for a few days. most will just move on and request a refund.
Im fine playing offline in the meantime, but now controllers are bricked. So now the game is literally unplayable for me.
So much is unknown without being a fly on the wall. That’s on top of not being a dev and the ignorance that comes with that towards the process. But I think it’s worth highlighting two things.
Judd said they went into this thinking they were over-prepared (you can see that in the 6pm statement in this thread from yesterday)
I’ve owned this game in early access for the past 2-3 years and the 50 hours I played it everything worked flawlessly. Don’t even think I encountered a a bug or a connection issue one time
So, with that being said. Where I normally would be critical, for eleventh hour I’m actually willing to give the benefit of the doubt. But I understand and respect why people are upset. Especially people who are new to the game.
Really? Before today, I’ve enjoyed playing this game as it developed. Yeah, the last day or so has been unfortunate, but my irritation is more with myself, because my muscle-memory is backwards between skills and potions, and I hose myself using up my potions in boss fights.