I was simply more curious about the aspect of why starting 3 weeks ‘late’ for a CoF player would change anything.
Sure, someone can have the feeling of urgency which comes with not having the full timeframe available to achieve their goals.
Also sure, streamers have other demands overall, that’s a given.
And also sure, if it comes to competition every second obviously counts.
But what I was curious since Abomb did push so harshly for ‘only Day 1 starts are viable’ basically was to get to know what exactly the reasoning behind that would be for a simple… normal… non competition, non-streaming CoF player would be… why it would have any relevant importance besides the perceived - and viable - aspect of urgency (which plainly spoken at 1 month late starting would still provide 3 months in-cycle likely).
I’ll likely be taking a vacation now so I can focus on LE for the launch. I usually schedule my free time around big game launches so I can blast and theorycraft. It’s vital to be ahead of the pack and at my desk soon as the servers come up.
Herd mentality is a very very big deal in video games. It’s the perception of the player. Right now player perceive LE as a dead game. So they don’t even bother trying it, they will play PoE 2 or some game that has more hype and players.
If a game isn’t growing it’s dying and no one wants to start playing a game in decline. They want the new hotness to engage in the social hype around it. Which is why some games take off and other completely fail.
Sure did and some likely might not support GGG anymore. I’ve seen a lot of divided people and the only ones that look like the bad guys is Tencent and their dirty move. Jonathan from GGG said they had no choice in their launch date on the 4th. Okay so why is that? Tencent trying to be dirty? Would love some more details to that statement.
Reasons why starting on about day 1 matters to me;
Starting day 1 best way to generate hype amongst friends, with a clear start date to focus on. We’re all non-trade, but if we don’t all start on the same day, char levels are all over the place.
Custom build/experimentation. It’s easier to focus on what I want to try, if I know there isn’t a bunch of theory craft already out there somewhere. Easier to ignore what others are doing.
All that said, day 1 isn’t so important that we all won’t just go, “ok, yet another shit show launch, we’ll try again tomorrow”, if there are launch-day issues. And none of my 50 year old-ish+ friends are staying up late to play anything. We really have very low tolerance for any friction. It’s a game, not a job, not an alternate life.
I Agree. But to be fair they just made major changes, major dog changes, now where is Last Epoch so we can play a real game and not this POE2 clown fiesta. POE2 doesn’t even know what it wanna be yet, but for now it wanna be worse than D4 sadly. Last Epoch would have had the launch of their lives if they didn’t delay, I know why they delayed, just sad to realize that it coulda been massive
