POE2

It's been a very long time since I bought a game and pretty much hated it, and that happened with D4 VoH expansion. I've had more fun washing the dishes than playing that game, don't think I'll ever try it out again
Their after-launch weekend player retention is only 3% to date.
 
Am I tripping or something?
I swear a few weeks ago it was listed free to play, but now it over 500 bucks?
 
Am I tripping or something?
I swear a few weeks ago it was listed free to play, but now it over 500 bucks?

The full release will be F2P, what released now is early access, and to play EA you need to pay, if you buy one of the support packs you get in game currency as well, so it's not that bad.
 
The full release will be F2P, what released now is early access, and to play EA you need to pay.
That...
That is tremendously scummy business practice

We always joke about paying to be beta testers when developers release buggy games, but this is literally paying them to alpha test their game

Ridiculous
They can eat a dick
 
The full release will be F2P, what released now is early access, and to play EA you need to pay, if you buy one of the support packs you get in game currency as well, so it's not that bad.
I seem to have two POE accounts, both of them enabled. Odd :D
 
The full release will be F2P, what released now is early access, and to play EA you need to pay, if you buy one of the support packs you get in game currency as well, so it's not that bad.

Technically it's still free.

If you buy a supporter pack that gives you Micro-transaction currency and unique gear on higher tiers, you get early access.
 
That...
That is tremendously scummy business practice

We always joke about paying to be beta testers when developers release buggy games, but this is literally paying them to alpha test their game

Ridiculous
They can eat a dick

Lol it's not scummy at all? They are not hiding anything and it's pretty obvious that the game is in EARLY ACCESS.

It's one of the best games I've played this year, R500 well spent, hell...I'd spend R1500 for this easy.


Technically it's still free.

If you buy a supporter pack that gives you Micro-transaction currency and unique gear on higher tiers, you get early access.

Yea, that's pretty much what I said? :)
 
I seem to have two POE accounts, both of them enabled. Odd :D

Only 2? I Have 3, one for each system Xbox, Playstation and PC.

You can link them but have to mail [email protected] to transfer the cosmetics to the account you want to use as main. Sadly this excludes PlayStation. PS bought cosmetics can't share to other systems and vice versa. Sony do drop free ones as part of the PS+ Sub once in a while so I suspect thats the reason.
 
Lol it's not scummy at all? They are not hiding anything and it's pretty obvious that the game is in EARLY ACCESS.

It's one of the best games I've played this year, R500 well spent, hell...I'd spend R1500 for this easy.




Yea, that's pretty much what I said? :)
It's ridiculously scummy

Normally a EA version of a paid game is on EA at a reduced price and the price increased to full price when V1 drops. If you support the game in EA you score the game at a reduced price

They are doing it the opposite way
You pay full price for a EA release, but can play free when v1 drops?

That's just weird man

They are using hype to get cash while people test their game for them

Just make it a pay to play game and be done with it
 
That...
That is tremendously scummy business practice

We always joke about paying to be beta testers when developers release buggy games, but this is literally paying them to alpha test their game

Ridiculous
They can eat a dick

You dont have to play/test POE2.
You can buy the Supporter Pack and go use the cosmetics/Coin in POE 1

You not buying Access you buying cosmetics, that you can use in 1 or 2 if you so wish. EA is added as a freebee if you support them

You also get Free EA if you supported 1 over the years.
 
You dont have to play/test POE2.

You can buy the Supporter Pack and go use the cosmetics/Coin in POE 1
Why not just make the cosmetics/coin available for purchase directly in POE?
An actual FTP that is already way past V1.0?
 
It's ridiculously scummy

Normally a EA version of a paid game is on EA at a reduced price and the price increased to full price when V1 drops. If you support the game in EA you score the game at a reduced price

They are doing it the opposite way
You pay full price for a EA release, but can play free when v1 drops?

That's just weird man

They are using hype to get cash while people test their game for them

Just make it a pay to play game and be done with it

You are overthinking this. As @AlphaJohn pointed out there are multiple ways to get access to the EA, it mostly comes down to buying a support pack for some in game currency (if you're new like me), in exchange for that you get access to one hell of a game.

In any event, you can just wait for the full release if it grinds you this much
 
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Many people didn't even have to pay for EA, if you supported PoE you got given keys for free.

As it stands, even with the game being EA, I'm having a better, albeit much more challenging, experience than D4 which was 3 times the price
 
Many people didn't even have to pay for EA, if you supported PoE you got given keys for free.

2 late now but there was plenty of threads on Reddit of said people giving away keys. I had 2 that I gave to friends that use to party with me in D4.

As it stands, even with the game being EA, I'm having a better, albeit much more challenging, experience than D4 which was 3 times the price

Ditto
 
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