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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuFCnwXCWU Fire traps seem pretty fun.
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May 20, 2018 19:02
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DaveWoo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuFCnwXCWU Hey gently caress you trap nodes you're taking up the cast speed nodes I wanted.
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May 20, 2018 19:16
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DaveWoo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuFCnwXCWU I'm tempted to try a Fireball build out as a starter build with that Combustion support that's replacing Chance to Ignite. I could go totems, or I could go self-cast with the option to then have Vaal Fireball ready all the time too. Decisions. 
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May 20, 2018 20:00
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gonna be interesting to see how this pans out https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/8kx39s/tencent_has_invested_in_grinding_gear_games/
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May 21, 2018 02:32
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queeb posted:gonna be interesting to see how this pans out Hoping that any lovely tencent influenced changes stay quarantined to the chinese version and GGG can continue doing their thing with the non-chinese versions.
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May 21, 2018 02:46
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Well color me worried.J posted:Hoping that any lovely tencent influenced changes stay quarantined to the chinese version and GGG can continue doing their thing with the non-chinese versions. 
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May 21, 2018 02:50
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So how long out are we from tencent owning all videogames, 10 years? 15?
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May 21, 2018 02:50
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DaveWoo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuFCnwXCWU That sure is a burning swastika.
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May 21, 2018 02:51
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queeb posted:gonna be interesting to see how this pans out Yikes
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May 21, 2018 02:54
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queeb posted:gonna be interesting to see how this pans out congrats chris on your new fleet of ferrarris rip poe
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May 21, 2018 02:55
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Well poo poo, time for everyone to go play Diablo 3fahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha that's right, there's basically no competition for PoE.
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May 21, 2018 03:03
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welp. the day i stop spending money on poe is here i guess
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May 21, 2018 03:11
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please remember to buy the $480 supporter pack this league. the small indie game studio needs your help to stay in the black
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May 21, 2018 03:12
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The only difference this is gonna have in the game is that they'll make less skull-based MTXs. I actually wish Tencent had more to do with the games they own because then maybe PUBG would have the features that Tencent's mobile port has.
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May 21, 2018 03:12
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Can someone explain for those of us who never go on reddit?
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May 21, 2018 03:24
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George posted:Can someone explain for those of us who never go on reddit? GGG sold a majority share of the company to TenCent, the Chinese colossus of a company.
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May 21, 2018 03:26
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ggg doesnt own their game anymore
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May 21, 2018 03:26
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instead of praying to chris for mirrors its this guy now 
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May 21, 2018 03:31
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J posted:Hoping that any lovely tencent influenced changes stay quarantined to the chinese version and GGG can continue doing their thing with the non-chinese versions. what are some examples of lovely tencent influenced changes that have happened to other games bought by tencent?
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May 21, 2018 03:34
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Jinnigan posted:what are some examples of lovely tencent influenced changes that have happened to other games bought by tencent? 
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May 21, 2018 03:36
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ndub posted:please remember to buy the $480 supporter pack this league. the small indie game studio needs your help to stay in the black itt we pretend that most people bought the packs out of charity and not because they love internet dress-up 
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May 21, 2018 03:37
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yes, but i also felt okay about spending way more than i otherwise would on f2p cosmetics because i liked ggg
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May 21, 2018 03:42
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Just lol if anyone was buying supporter packs as supporter packs and not as faux-wealth status symbols, what exactly makes people think GGG is a struggling indie company? Take one look at any town instance and tell me they're not making a loving killing on MTX.
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May 21, 2018 03:57
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Awesome! posted:yes, but i also felt okay about spending way more than i otherwise would on f2p cosmetics because i liked ggg You can still support GGG, developers of the most actively updated free game on God's green Earth, who still are going to be dependent on a stable game revenue not to suffer corporate intervention since TC's whole shtick is not touch on a working formula and leave international game clients alone. Unless you derive some wicked self-serving pleasure in thinking you were one of the big whales entirely responsible for GGG being able to exist, in which case I hope we no longer have to deal with weeaboo's swords. Elentor fucked around with this message at 04:00 on May 21, 2018 |
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May 21, 2018 03:57
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TheRat posted:itt we pretend that most people bought the packs out of charity and not because they love internet dress-up let's pretend most people bought the packs for internet-dress up and not because they want to lord forum titles over other people
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May 21, 2018 03:57
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i went poking around the chinese website (with my dismal chinese literacy) and i didn't find this but i did find resurrection tokens (resurrect without losing xp!) and ?? i think for-pay talent tree resets??
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May 21, 2018 03:57
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the games Tencent buys, it's largely to add pay-to-win stuff to the chinese version because that's huuuge over in china, but they leave the western version alone and just rake in the money from chinese whales?
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May 21, 2018 04:01
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the games Tencent buys, it's largely to add pay-to-win stuff to the chinese version because that's huuuge over in china, but they leave the western version alone and just rake in the money from chinese whales? Yeah that's why others and I are trying to explain that most likely nothing will change. Tencent seldom touches on the international business model and most pay-to-win stuff stays in China/South Korea. Almost every game, Asian or not, TC-bought or not, that gets distributed in Asia has a bunch of P2W elements in Asia.
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May 21, 2018 04:03
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Elentor posted:You can still support GGG, developers of the most actively updated free game on God's green Earth, who still are going to be dependent on a stable game revenue not to suffer corporate intervention since TC's whole shtick is not touch on a working formula and leave international game clients alone. ive given them less than 1k so i dont hold any notions of being a whale. i trusted that poe would remain a game i wanted to play for years because chris believed in his core vision. chris is no longer in control so i dont have that trust anymore. tencent might never interfere with the game in any way but the possibility is there and will always be hanging over the game.
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May 21, 2018 04:11
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the games Tencent buys, it's largely to add pay-to-win stuff to the chinese version because that's huuuge over in china, but they leave the western version alone and just rake in the money from chinese whales? quote:Will Path of Exile become Pay to Win? Hint: Chinese-only servers are not "international" servers. So basically Tencent gave GGG a dumptruck full of money to let them P2W all the Chinese, on the condition that they leave the rest of it alone.
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May 21, 2018 04:18
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that was written by chris who no longer controls what happens with the game.
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May 21, 2018 04:19
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Awesome! posted:that was written by chris who no longer controls what happens with the game. Yeah, I understand that, but Tencent isn't dumb enough to ever antagonize the pre-existing fanbase. There's more than enough money in it for them to stick to the Chinese market forever and never screw with the rest. Sure, on paper Tencent can always pull rank, but Chris says he's still involved and I'd believe it. He seems like he would do this all for free if he could.
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May 21, 2018 04:22
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Good for them for cashing out and getting out of a poo poo industry games undoubtedly going to go to poo poo but eh
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May 21, 2018 04:25
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tencent seems to have this policy by now of not loving with whatever made their purchases good. at worst, i'd expect to maybe see more lootboxes but they've already been propagating those in increased fashion regardless, so that's not really a radical development. yeah sure it's possible tencent will suddenly decide to hate money and make a 180 on a long-standing policy but insofar as I'm aware they're kept sated by the fact they can just exploit the hell out of the china market instead and just let the US side do whatever to keep providing them with a good base to do so with. like sure, there's the possibility, but is it really worth getting all up and bothered for what is ultimately, due to historical precedent, a very slim chance? i guess i might be worried if this news came with chris dropping out, but since he hasn't, i think it's fair to give the studio the extreme benefit of doubt they've accumulated over the years over what is already a really unlikely possibility to begin with.
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May 21, 2018 04:34
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Is there any actual evidence of Tencent ruining the non-Chinese versions of games they've acquired? I asked my friend who has played LoL since it came out and he said the game (generally) only got more polished and had more direction after the acquisition.
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May 21, 2018 04:39
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Awesome! posted:chris is no longer in control so i dont have that trust anymore. Awesome! posted:that was written by chris who no longer controls what happens with the game. You're being childish. TC built a lot of goodwill over not loving up with the international market, and they're not gonna ruin that free pass for buying with no resistance every company ever over Path of fraking Exile. By the same metric you can't ever listen to anyone other to the major shareholder of the company that owns any other company because literally everyone else is not in control. Did a Game Artist say something? Useless because he's not in control. Did a game designer say they want to do x? Garbage, he answers to his capitalist overlords. I'd be more worried about Chris cashing out and retiring now and the game falling into someone else's hands. If you're worried about the "hanging possibility" of something happening, there was more precedent for a company like GGG to sell the game to an invasive owner in the past than there is precedent of TC loving up the western market, so if you're gonna feel anxious about hypothetical scenarios you should be more relieved that GGG wasn't bought by _insert a number of other intrusive publishers with a track record of cancelling projects, disbanding companies and limiting game design decisions here_. Elentor fucked around with this message at 04:48 on May 21, 2018 |
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May 21, 2018 04:43
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space marine todd posted:Is there any actual evidence of Tencent ruining the non-Chinese versions of games they've acquired? I asked my friend who has played LoL since it came out and he said the game (generally) only got more polished and had more direction after the acquisition. Don't they have an owning share of Epic and, by extension, Fortnite? Game seems fine to me, pay2win-wise.
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May 21, 2018 04:46
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you can say im being childish all you want but at the end of the day its my money and if i no longer feel good about giving it to ggg i wont do it anymore.
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May 21, 2018 04:48
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people out here really thinking chris wilson's goal (making money, through developing a complex ARPG) is meaningfully different from tencent's goal (making money, through owning an ARPG)
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May 21, 2018 04:51
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Awesome! posted:you can say im being childish all you want but at the end of the day its my money and if i no longer feel good about giving it to ggg i wont do it anymore. you can do whatever you want but youre just being the videogame version of 
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May 21, 2018 04:53
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