For me the Release of PoE2 pissed me so off. That I just bought both starter delux package just support. LE.
Furthermore, PoE2 has just no quality of life and skill tree is even worse then on PoE. Before PoE2 I wont touch before they fixed a lot and it is out of Alpha.
& Don’t change the release date EG only if earlier not later.
Personally it’s not a big deal for me. I play CoF so the number of other people playing at any given time affects me exactly zero. If anything it might be better if I decided to play online this time for some reason. I also just don’t like PoE/PoE 2 nearly as much as LE, so I wasn’t planning to go back to PoE 2 until full release anyway. But even if I was, like I said, without being dependent on trading, the game will just exist until I come back to it, so there’s no need to absolutely play exactly at launch continuously.
As for the companies: I think it’d be different if PoE 2 wasn’t in early access. In general companies shouldn’t just bend over backwards to facilitate a competitor, but I could definitely see the argument for planning league launches around competitor launches just for the sake of not dealing with that competition. But PoE 2 isn’t launching a league, it’s an early access game getting it’s next patch out. It needs to be releasing things as they’re ready for people to test so they can actually stay on schedule for a full release. Delaying those patches by weeks is just going to hinder development at a time when the pace of iteration matters a lot.
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Thanks for that down to earth post there simply.
And yes, you shouldn’t facilitate a competitor, you should only avoid crossing over when your position is still weaker. GGG is in the stronger position so they don’t need to care… every else does. Also the EA aspect for development and also that they wanted to have a 2 month split for releases and postponing PoE 2 means postponing PoE 1 as well. Just not feasable.
Eh at this point LE has to live on its own merits.
if GGG manages to pull off better management down the line, and do staggered releases for poe1 and poe2, there wont be a “time” to drop your patch. but the way I see it, is currently you get 3 leagues a year in poe, if they set it up correctly with poe2, there will be 6 leagues for poe1/2 combined a year. which puts it on average a new league every 2 months, thats such a tight window for LE to try and sneak in as a side piece. I just dont see that happening. if LE cant do more then collect arpg player scraps on downtime, then it just wouldnt have survived long term anyways.
LE needs to find its unique userbase that has no or little poe overlap. LE needs LE players, not poe players with nothing to do.
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For anyone saying EHG should delay the release, they’ll also have to deal with D4 later in the month. Releasing a week earlier is their best bet but it may not be possible.
While it doesn’t impact me, as I haven’t bought into POE2 yet, it will have an impact on total players and how many bigger streamers play it long at launch. Big streamers are free advertisement and advocates of the game.
And I personaly still… don’t care. This situation was doomed to happen sooner or later and I make my choice.
Then they have to play more later on… remember everything that makes a game drag on longer is good. You mentioned that in other threads a lot. The bottle is simply bigger if you are late to the party 
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Still if I were someone who has a saying in PoE2 I would’ve said “Start a week later who cares. We don’t have to fight each other.”.
Noooot quite… not even remotely
For a game market you would love to have an stable equilibrium ongoing where newcomers and settled players both have a place.
LE sadly has ‘market becomes broken’ as default. The equilibrium doesn’t quite land where it needs to be, actually close to so far away that it would be called ‘non functional’.
If I were GGG I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about competitors release dates and simply follow whatever is best for my company rather then taking care of others. In that case I would’ve needed to fight for the position I’m in and I wouldn’t simply let someone else overtake me without them showcasing that they got what it takes to achieve it on their own. Not to speak of letting my customers wait simply to coddle a direct competitor. That would be kinda a shit-move towards everyone playing my game then.
So whoever is in charge there at GGG has made the right decision simply… rather then a wrong one.
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Sure if you satart later you need to play more to get into a good position. That’s equaly the same as uselessly prolonging the game for whatever reason .
I’m a tad bit of a nice person sometimes and one week more or less wouldn’t have hurt GGG given the fact they hadn’t announced anything.
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they should release it earlier. not delay. they had enough time.
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We tell them for years to take their time and deliver a finished and polished product. I wouldn’t care about one or two weeks more because I’m used to wait for EHG to get stuff done anyway 
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guess no point starting to play with 18 days left to season eh?
Depends if EHG does provide a Cycle only headstart for content like with Aberroth. Also if you’re going for MG.
Otherwise there is no difference from simply making a Legacy character and playing on.
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I think, not it is perfectly timed. A lot of people will be disappointed by PoE 2 after playing it for two weeks, will hate something about it and will be glad to join LE. GGG manages to piss off everyone with PoE 2, regardless if player wants to zoom or deliberate gameplay 
As a part of “everyone” i hate to breake it to you but I’m not pissed off.
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Obviously it’s not 100% of players. But a lot.
Oh my bad I’m not a native speaker. Silly me thought everyone is like all the people… like everybody… Seems to be an error on my end then and not a completely silly overexxageration. I’m so sorry.
Since you prefer to treat every word literally — sure, no problem that you are not native speaker and can’t understand what’s reasonable assumption and what’s not, don’t be so harsh on yourself, who knows maybe you’ll learn eventually.
So, not “everyone” then.
If you can’t say what you mean without the reader having to make assumptions as to whether you meant what you said or maybe only half of it or an entirely random % that may not even slightly fit what you said, nuances or not, how on earth can you mean what you say?
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If it’s looks hard to understand, you can just keep in mind that if there is a smile at the end of sentence, it’s probably at least partly a joke and shouldn’t be taken literally.
It’s funny that you go all literal when talking about what a “dick move” is, trying to imply it most certainly is something illegal or immoral.
But then, when someone points out that you’re over exaggerating when talking about “everyone”, you suddenly get back to your passive-aggressive argumentation, pull out some sarcastic lines and act like a victim.
I’m done seeing the same pattern all over, so I’m also ignoring your profile here.
Have a nice day.
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