What will happen to POE 1?

[The man who asked]

I read mixed stuff online so I don't really know.
Will they both be different games or will this be like Counter-Strike, where CS2 just "replaced" CS:GO?

[Ronin Gamer]

They plan to keep running it and supporting it with content. Case in point, they've stated they'll release a new season/whatever you want to call it for one of the games, then when that one concludes they'll release one for the other and sort of flip back and forth between them.
If the player base largely stays with 1 or swaps to 2, or swaps between them, I have no idea. Time will tell in that regard.

[SK]

Both games will still be updated.

The original plan was to have PoE2 be an update to PoE1, but as GGG kept changing things they decided to make it separate.

This preserves PoE1 for people who like the faster combat.

The games are on the same engine so they can share content between them if needed.
And currently the plan is to stagger new content releases between the two.

[😎Astran😾]

They'll live in parallel, just like Diablo 3 still has 2M+ peaks while D4 has 4M seasonal peaks (guesstimate by platform numbers)

[DeadlyKitten]

Currently majority of the team was put on developing POE2.
And the few that remained was put in charge of the Seasons for POE1.
I'm guessing when POE2 fully releases it will break in even teams to develop seasons for both games.

[The man who asked]

Won't that just split the player base and make it a worse experience for when it comes to something like trading?

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by The man who asked:

I read mixed stuff online so I don't really know.
Will they both be different games or will this be like Counter-Strike, where CS2 just "replaced" CS:GO?

What has already happened to it. People stopped playing it because it was insanely grindy.

It was already bad enough that you were forced to play the campaign every ... single... time you created a new character, but half the campaign was lazy asset flips. In fact Act 5-8 was the same maps they used for 1-4. So basically you were playing the campaign... TWICE every single time you created a character...

It was absolute torture of a grind.

If they didn't learn from that lesson I know I won't be playing it after the first playthrough.

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by The man who asked:

Won't that just split the player base and make it a worse experience for when it comes to something like trading?

Like I said already, leagues will be brought into one game, then when that one largely concludes the other game will get a league, rinse and repeat.
Also a new game tends to get more attention over the older one, especially if the older one is a decade old.

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by The man who asked:

Won't that just split the player base and make it a worse experience for when it comes to something like trading?

That will definitely happen.
And new players to the franchise will pick the sequel cause the systems are easier to understand on top of the tutorials.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by The man who asked:

Won't that just split the player base and make it a worse experience for when it comes to something like trading?

Like I said already, leagues will be brought into one game, then when that one largely concludes the other game will get a league, rinse and repeat.
Also a new game tends to get more attention over the older one, especially if the older one is a decade old.

The old one was a decade old before it entered beta...

[SK]

Originally posted by The man who asked:

Won't that just split the player base and make it a worse experience for when it comes to something like trading?

Not with staggering the releases.

Most PoE players only play a new league for a few weeks. It starts dying down by week 3-4 and is usually pretty dead by week 8.

[FloRyu]

Originally posted by Bacon Overlord®:

Originally posted by The man who asked:

I read mixed stuff online so I don't really know.
Will they both be different games or will this be like Counter-Strike, where CS2 just "replaced" CS:GO?

What has already happened to it. People stopped playing it because it was insanely grindy.

It was already bad enough that you were forced to play the campaign every ... single... time you created a new character, but half the campaign was lazy asset flips. In fact Act 5-8 was the same maps they used for 1-4. So basically you were playing the campaign... TWICE every single time you created a character...

It was absolute torture of a grind.

If they didn't learn from that lesson I know I won't be playing it after the first playthrough.

What , Poe1 league Settlers of Kalguur , had record concurrent numbers and it's normal that the numbers go down as the league is in the later stages.
Most people play for 1-2 months and wait for next league
Some people, yes don't like doing the campaign over and over , for me it's not a big deal, I have 4500h

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by Bacon Overlord®:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Like I said already, leagues will be brought into one game, then when that one largely concludes the other game will get a league, rinse and repeat.
Also a new game tends to get more attention over the older one, especially if the older one is a decade old.

The old one was a decade old before it entered beta...

So you agree with my statement, thank you. The range of that statement is rather irrelevant.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by FloRyu:

Originally posted by Bacon Overlord®:

What has already happened to it. People stopped playing it because it was insanely grindy.

It was already bad enough that you were forced to play the campaign every ... single... time you created a new character, but half the campaign was lazy asset flips. In fact Act 5-8 was the same maps they used for 1-4. So basically you were playing the campaign... TWICE every single time you created a character...

It was absolute torture of a grind.

If they didn't learn from that lesson I know I won't be playing it after the first playthrough.

What , Poe1 league Settlers of Kalguur , had record concurrent numbers and it's normal that the numbers go down as the league is in the later stages.
Most people play for 1-2 months and wait for next league
Some people, yes don't like doing the campaign over and over , for me it's not a big deal, I have 4500h

No, the overall numbers are less than half of what they were a year ago.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by Bacon Overlord®:

The old one was a decade old before it entered beta...

So you agree with my statement, thank you. The range of that statement is rather irrelevant.

Yeahhh... you don't get it.

I'd act surprised, but I just don't want to.

[FloRyu]

Originally posted by Bacon Overlord®:

Originally posted by FloRyu:

What , Poe1 league Settlers of Kalguur , had record concurrent numbers and it's normal that the numbers go down as the league is in the later stages.
Most people play for 1-2 months and wait for next league
Some people, yes don't like doing the campaign over and over , for me it's not a big deal, I have 4500h

No, the overall numbers are less than half of what they were a year ago.

Based on what data ? https://steamdb.info/app/238960/charts/#48h
229,337 all-time peak 4 months ago plus the GGG client