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SaltyWeasel Feb 20 @ 4:47am
Why does no one talk about Chris Wilson leaving.
He left on the 21st of January
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Defeye Feb 20 @ 4:49am 
Because the figure he got makes a lot of noise.
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SaltyWeasel Feb 20 @ 5:00am 
Originally posted by Defeye:
Because the figure he got makes a lot of noise.
Beside the point, a lead leaving a studio and POE2 being received pretty poorly and POE1 going downhill its pretty safe to assume something is happening the community is not aware of.
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Sihmunath Feb 20 @ 5:26am 
Who is Chris Wilson? I just play a game I'm not devs fanboy.
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SaltyWeasel Feb 20 @ 5:54am 
Originally posted by Sihmunath:
Who is Chris Wilson? I just play a game I'm not devs fanboy.
Who do you think are the ones creating the games?
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John Cena Feb 20 @ 6:05am 
Originally posted by Sihmunath:
Who is Chris Wilson? I just play a game I'm not devs fanboy.

he made path of exile in his garage
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Lyc Feb 20 @ 6:05am 
Well, it wasn´t chris, for quite some time now
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Leon Feb 20 @ 6:39am 
he's not been around for over a year its been coming everyone that knew already really expected it so its not a shock tbh.
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Operation40 Feb 20 @ 7:02am 
Hawg made a tribute/parody song about it.. it's a bit rough around the edges, but at least it's not AI
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YMD Feb 20 @ 7:52am 
On the contrary, I think Poe2 was game of the year. Everyone was playing it, and granted that the Honeymoon phase is over for now, at least until the next Beta League restart.
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Severus Snape Feb 20 @ 7:55am 
tencent all in xD
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Deadly Feb 20 @ 8:15am 
Poe 2 is dying already... Maps are just horrible system so there goes endgame..players down to under 70k ... So only way to judge is to wait 13 years and then see Poe2's numbers...
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Balekai Feb 20 @ 9:11am 
PoE2 is dying?

It still has 85Kish active unique players in the morning after 3-4 months.

Many PoE1 leagues struggle to keep 60K players after a week or two.

It's doing pretty good for no real content changes/additions other than some small map additions and endgame tweaks while still missing 2/3rds of its content lol.

Now if you mean "dying" as in losing player count over time. Yes it is just as any game does and of course if GGG never did anything else on the game yes the game would naturally die. This is EA though and there's a lot more content to come. :p



The way PoE1 works (and likely for PoE2 on a larger scale), is about 60K-100K players at league start for 2-3 weeks, then it drops off dramatically to like 5K-20K players for 3 months. Then restarts with a new league.

PoE2 you can probably bet based off PoE2 active numbers so far, the game will be pulling 300K to 500K players at league starts after full release and going down to 80K-120K for a few months until the next league start. That's not counting GGG's expectation of possibly doubling their player base with full release compared to EA (that said EA was really hyped up so not sure myself how many new players are out there).

That's if they don't mess up PoE2 content of course, and/or whether people get bored of iPoE2 easier than PoE1 long term. So far it seems to have more staying power than PoE1, for now.

As for Chris: He deserves whatever good that comes next for him. He's put in his time! :D
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Sihmunath Feb 20 @ 9:23am 
Originally posted by SaltyWeasel:
Originally posted by Sihmunath:
Who is Chris Wilson? I just play a game I'm not devs fanboy.
Who do you think are the ones creating the games?
You asked stupid question you got answer why people don't talk about him. #nobodycares
Last edited by Sihmunath; Feb 20 @ 11:16am
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Astasia Feb 20 @ 9:24am 
On January 21st Chris stepped down as a registered director of GGG in the business forms New Zealand uses, with Jonathan now in primary control. That doesn't mean Chris left the company, there's been no confirmation or evidence that he left. All we know is that he is no longer a company director (CEO/owner/whatever). This isn't really news, there's a reason Jonathan and Mark have been doing most of the "director" stuff lately. Maybe Chris left, maybe he took a more hands off position to chill, maybe he's working on a different project, who knows.

When Bex left there was a public announcement, I would assume the same will happen for Chris, they were both very public facing employees. Once/If that announcement happens more people will talk about it, until then, there's still like a dozen threads on the official forums about it.
Last edited by Astasia; Feb 20 @ 9:24am
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SaltyWeasel Feb 20 @ 7:07pm 
Originally posted by Sihmunath:
Originally posted by SaltyWeasel:
Who do you think are the ones creating the games?
You asked stupid question you got answer why people don't talk about him. #nobodycares
The question is in the title and you still decided to click it, bad impulse control?
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