you are likely correct. but i would say its magnified to a much greater effect now that kraftons on top
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With the population down to a peak yesterday of only 1300 players none of this is going to matter unless we can get eyeballs back and each week it’s just getting worse and worse.
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sadly thats where its going. the only way LE can survive is by taking a few hits for a year or 2. but i m not confident that krafton is going to allow that.
i m pretty sure LE can be saved, but the effort required is substantial that i m not confident krafton is willing to further invest to fully push LE to where it needs to be
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Yeah, plainly spoken I still can’t quite wrap my head around why Krafton actually acquired EHG. Sure… for us it keeps the game going… but for them?
Obviously they think it’ll turn a profit in the future, but from my perspective I can only see it as a ill-advised investment.
First off… the state of the company in terms of experience and setup, they’re not well suited to providing a quality product still.
Then we got the type of product, in direct competition with absolute monoliths.
And even worse the timing with PoE 2 going extremely well, and PoE 1 catching up on QoL massively, all while TL:I goes decently well and D4 is at least existing.
All in all it would even be under good conditions a struggle to provide a profitable product, but just so many aspects speak against it to become one long-term instead of being ‘buried’.
That’s obviously taking the acquisition amount into consideration, it was a substantial chunk of money which has to be remade, and especially a company like Krafton usually doesn’t go beyond a 5-year plan, commonly even lower because of the heavily shifting market sentiment, which makes it a bit… ‘odd’ to see. I don’t see a way to recover this sheer amount of money in a relatively short timeframe, expanding into consoles will not change that.
Which I think is what they built upon, to get the shelf-price income from there before the product starts ‘fizzling out’ afterwards potentially.
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As of now we are under 1000 people a day…
900 people yesterday with lows in the 600s… Brutal