Yes, because that site is soooooo reliable.
If you look at Last Epoch stats, it says 1.3M active players (it’s not anywhere near that) and peak viewers in the last 30 days as 3k (it’s 20k). If it can’t get the numbers right on game that is 100% trackable on steam charts, why would it get anything near right on a game that is split?
According to steamcharts, PoE had a peak of a little over 200k in the last year. According to GGG devs, steam is 50-60% of players (probably more these days). So PoE doesn’t have more than 500k, tops.
Yeah, the tencent tin-foil hattery. Tencent has zero to do with Blizzard and Blizzard never showed numbers unless it was convenient.
And tencent is a partner with EHG and yet all numbers are available. But yeah, I’m sure it’s all because of lizard people tencent.
I don’t know why you had to go pull the “soulslike” argument when it has nothing to do with trade (let’s ignore the fact that nothing in LE is soulslike, it’s just a term people are using these days for “I have to look at the game when I’m playing instead of watching a video on another monitor”).
Wow, you’re all over the place lately. Comparing players/devs to terrorrists and communist tyrants. That really helps your case.
And yet the same toxic practices exist in GW2 that exist in PoE. Namely, price fixing, sniping, etc. Much like it let’s you pretty much stop playing the game entirely and spend the whole time just buying and selling.
There are plenty of players that don’t like this environment (which was my point above, but to which you replied about soulslike stuff).
Do you?
Funnily enough, previously you had said:
Even though you now complain that the game is soulslike. Even though it’s easy. But yeah, it’s soulslike.
And so on and so on. You hate trade, you hate bosses, you hate RNG drops, you even say this is the worst ARPG you played in many threads. In fact, I have to scroll a lot to find a post from you saying that something in LE is good.
RMT will always exist. It exists in GW2 as well. It’s unavoidable.
As for the other part, no, it doesn’t have to be free. When you have a free market in games you get price fixers, snipers and scammers.
When instead you turn trade into a glorified vendor shop, then players can still use trade as a tool to get gear without having to deal with all that.
You want to play the market. We get it. It sucks that you can’t, but there are plenty of games for that.
We don’t want to deal with toxic trade practices. EHG gave that to us. I hope it never changes. If it ever does become a free market like PoE or GW2 or every single other ARPG out there, I’ll probably stop playing. Or at least play a lot less.
Trade doesn’t need to change. It’s just targetted at other types of players that aren’t like you.