How you can (fairly) easily increase player retention

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I saw the numbers and wondered what PoE 1 does differently. How do they keep the audience longer? Certainly it isn’t anything like build diversity. Obviously the game has a lot more to do as it suffers from long term bloat but …
The answer is they have the challenges every league. You guys should have those for every league (or season). It keeps people playing “just a little longer” in order to get the portal, pet, whatever it is.

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Really? You didn’t go for the obvious answer that they’e got a decade’s more content to play through each league?

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Speaking for myself (played most leagues since Sac of the Vaal) I keep playing long after I’m tired of the content hunting for challenges. I haven’t played Heist in a long time though I adored that league. Ditto delving.

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Hmm… for most players, getting to lvl 100 in LE is way easier than in PoE (if they get there at all due to the death penalty). hence it takes longer.
Minmaxing in PoE also is harder, due to less deterministic crafting / item farming.
And there even might be an intention to get “wealthier” and wealthier in PoE. I for myself chose MG because trading there reminds me a little of D2, where you had to find a way to figure out prices and stuff. So when I started playing LE, one of my goals was to amass silly amounts of gold. BUT finding out that there is a goldcap, ruined that for me. So yeah, why keep playing that character when it is lvl 100 and fully equipped?

edit: Oh, and not everyone likes twinking. I can’t ass myself to go through the whole campaign in PoE more than once per season. No prob, because there is always something to iimprove. I saw that you can skip quite a lot in LE… so maybe I#ll test that with a new char, when my current one reaches 100 (99 now). Keep playing this one doesn’t make sense to me.

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Need more content, that is all. And better graphics+impact.

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i think league challenges are a great idea but i believe that these last few seasons were not actually “leagues” but rather they were content needed to create a base version of the game. i think the game is the best it has ever been and the core content in it right now is so much fun and fleshed out. its my guess that ehg will start adding league mechanics from here on out and maybe challenges to go with it!

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