The Problem Isn't Jonathan

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Seikojin#1601 schrieb:

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Mashgesture#2912 schrieb:

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I couldn't agree with this more.

Folks be actin like GGG owes them something. These people are pouring their all to make content for two games and continue the improvement and development of their narrative.

Not saying that missing features and promises aren't a bad thing. But blaming is not needed. Just a bunch of wasted time and air.

They don't owe us anything,but you seem to be forgetting that this is a paid beta along with people funding them with supporter packs.

We can literally all leave tomorrow because WE don't owe THEM since we're the consumers.It is not our job to love something broken and unfinished.

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Megami83Tensei#9384 schrieb:

For fear or getting probation again I'll keep it light and sweet:None of the game design decisions are a fault of poor time management,but rather unwillingness to bend his "vision" no matter how detrimental it is.

You only need to look at the fact that they nerfed incinerate totems and how spell totems were implemented to understand that.NOBODY asked for "build 3 charges then you can use totem",and nobody wants it,but instead of changing that around they hyper-fixated on nerfing a singular build in it because it was getting around their clunkiness.It isn't a budget or manpower issue it's one man wanting a game that's basically Dark souls but without the fun part of it.

Odd isnt it, when people dimiss concern violently, their posts are left untouched, but when people do bring legit discussion without emotion, the mods come in like a swat team.

games junk and so is this company

Stop wallowing in your stupidity.
An issue of skill for sure , step it up devs

We are in a similar bad feedback loop of some other games. basically devs end up out of touch with players, don't act or even consider feedback, fail to fix issues or bugs even reported from previous leagues and just keep on pumping out more leagues and more MTXs to siphon money.

If they don't have the staff, it's probably in there best interest to focus on one Path of Exile at a time.

His stubbornness and vision hurt PoE2 a lot. It can be great game.

The best things in human history were created by people who didn't cater to an audience: paintings, music, literature - you name it. The most beautiful creations are great because their authors didn't listen to people who often have very different opinions about what a work should be. Those creations are great because the creators had their own idea of what the result should be. Imagine if someone like da Vinci had held daily meetings consulting everyone who had anything to say about his next painting. He didn't and now we have a beautiful artwork.

Sometimes what we need and what we want are two different things. Look at EA games: they develop the same titles over and over again annually. People like the games; they are entertaining, but are they really outstanding or memorable?

TL;DR: Let him cook.

If anyone reads this thinking that I believe that they don’t deserve criticism is missing the mark. Unless you are in the room with mark and Jonathan, I would refrain from making assumptions about their character. Criticize the game, and be loud about it. Character assassination needs to take a backseat.

I mean, he openly stated he directly worked on both the Vaal temple.mechanic AND the performance optimization for 0.4 and both of these things have been pretty big failures.

And when they tried to make the vaal temple better in the latest patch, not only did it not make it better, it also made the performance even worse.

I won't blame Johnathan, but if you asked me to put the blame on someone, I don't think you could get away with placing it on anyone but Johnathan.