Knee-jerk balancing while ignoring obvious shit you could be fixing

Why does this happen so every-fucking-time some popular streamers come out with something that people might potentially benefit from?

The ghost loot explosions have been in the game for over half a year (people have been talking about this since Torment league was live), granted, Empire's Grasp didn't exist back then, but now all of a sudden just because some videos and screenshots come out (where people are getting a lot of items) you basically rush to hotfix it out of the game. Meanwhile, you ignore obvious problems (with the EXACT SAME MECHANIC) like the AI being completely retarded, causing them to get stuck and do weird nonsensical shit ALL THE TIME.

I'm not complaining about the fix itself. I haven't even done this personally, but it's clear to me that you didn't intend for people to be able to drag half a map worth of mobs into ghosts. I'm complaining because it's become so insanely obvious that the main factor in how quick you are to fix something is how much are people able to gain from it.

How about instead of reactively hotfixing everything even slightly beneficial out of the game, you actually fix the shit that we've known about for a long time being broken or in need of fixes? Shit like the problem I brought up in another thread a few weeks ago (about the marketplace pedestals blocking projectiles when they clearly shouldn't) which was probably even seen by you, but will still most likely be ignored because nobody benefits from it (despite the fact that it's a problem that has existed FOREVER and has yet to even be FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGED by you).
Update: They actually have acknowledged this since I made the thread, here's a link to the post.



As a quick aside, GGG has effectively created an atmosphere where it makes no sense for anyone to ever publicly disclose any type of beneficial methods of doing stuff that they come across. As soon as other people start finding out about it, they just fucking remove it from the game before anyone else can benefit from it. Every single time something like this happens the first thing everyone thinks is, "Well, this is going to get patched," because that's exactly what will happen if people are able to gain material by using it.

Is that actually what you want? For people to be afraid to talk about doing cool stuff because they're worried you'll remove it if others find out about it?

Werd good post. And lightning warp has been broke since 2.0.2 release Chris said he'd fix it.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1401038/page/3
Still no fix.

Too busy nerfing some fun instead I guess

My thoughts exactly, not that I care that much, I've definitely gotten some good stuff from ghosts but damn, was it that big of a deal to deal with over basically everything else right now?

Yes. I agree with all of this. I've been saying the same thing for quite some time now, every time something fun gets discovered, I'm afraid it'll get patched. If I make a cool build, I don't even post it to the forums because I'm worried that it'll get nerfed. Even if it's not even really that good. I just don't want to take the chance. And what makes all of this worse is the people who read posts like this, and then say things like "No, you're just bad. All these things need to get nerfed, you just aren't good." or "You don't know what you're talking about." etc. Every single forum post about a problem that doesn't pertain to "muh supporter benefits", is immediately flooded with people disagreeing with a blatant problem. I doubt if the devs will ever go back to how involved they were with the community. Let's see how this Q&A goes. I bet it'll be a bunch of "This was intended".

Wait wait wait wait wait...

So you guys are saying that instead of implementing a mod that reduces the knockback chance on enemies they REDUCED the Ghosts boost to drop rates ?

What the actually F*** ???


This is ridiculous.

So that means that if someone manage to kill bosses with 1 shot, you guys will remove the boss ???

I can't believe in this. It's not about the ghosts itself, it's about this retarded logic that GGG keeps following for no reason.

It's the same with the nerf of map drops. They didn't want people to reach level 100 too fast.
So they punish everyone by nerfing map drops. Instead they could have just increased the XP needed to level from 90-100 to punish the people wanting to level to 100.

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Hilldrake escribió:

This is ridiculous.

But cheap and fast. GGG can't stand players having fun for too long.

Yeah and with this... they can keep it! ITs pretty sad when this game gets to the state D3 has more to offer right now! REALLY fucking sad! But what do i know... im only a dumbass with a roster full of broken builds in standard and bullshit i dont enjoy in Temp Leagues! If i wanted to play Trade Simulator i would do it IRL where it actually benefits me and family! Not in a video game! Especially with the fact that even if i was to find a way to make good currency to enjoy the game it will just get nerfed into the ground by the time i get it going! If you find something in this game fun and effective its probably getting nerfed soon! I mean you can only see this happen so many times before you naturally draw this conclusion!

The reason why this received attention so quickly is that it negatively affected Path of Exile's economy by flooding the market with an inordinate amount of items.

If we needed any further proof that nothing truly matters more than POE's economy in the dev's eyes, this is it!

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Demonoz escribió:

Yeah and with this... they can keep it! ITs pretty sad when this game gets to the state D3 has more to offer right now! REALLY fucking sad! But what do i know... im only a dumbass with a roster full of broken builds in standard and bullshit i dont enjoy in Temp Leagues! If i wanted to play Trade Simulator i would do it IRL where it actually benefits me and family! Not in a video game! Especially with the fact that even if i was to find a way to make good currency to enjoy the game it will just get nerfed into the ground by the time i get it going! If you find something in this game fun and effective its probably getting nerfed soon! I mean you can only see this happen so many times before you naturally draw this conclusion!

Ironically people used to bash D3 constantly for things such as AH and cookie-cutter builds,lack of diversity, etc . Meanwhile, GGG is going to the same direction (except for the AH part which would have helped) lol. Let's nerf stuff for 1% of the people and screw 100% of the people with it.