Why is everyone playing POE1 all of a sudden?

[Voodoochile]

I opened twitch and all streamers are suddenly back to POE1.
What's up with that? I'm taking a break from both, so I'm not really up to speed. Did a new season hit POE1 or something?

[The_Driver]

Sort of...
https://steamcommunity.com/games/238960/announcements/detail/503943021791805442

[Voodoochile]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Sort of...
https://steamcommunity.com/games/238960/announcements/detail/503943021791805442

Interesting! I stopped following POE1, because I thought they said development is over. Guess not...cool

[Shajirr]

No PoE 1 is still continuing development so far, and PoE2 had no new content in a long time so many quit for now, people thought they would get faster development progress in EA. A ton of stuff is missing still.

[Weird Grim]

Originally posted by Voodoochile:

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Sort of...
https://steamcommunity.com/games/238960/announcements/detail/503943021791805442

Interesting! I stopped following POE1, because I thought they said development is over. Guess not...cool

Only the fearmongers said development on poe1 was over, it ain't over it's just delayed, this league is a what if league of stuff that was canned.

[Xersin]

The event in PoE1 is a little bonkers. Neither the new ascendancies nor the new Atlas mechanics are even remotely balanced, but it's not really unbalanced in a bad way, more in a "they'd need to take fifteen nerf bats to it before letting this anywhere near the actual game" way. Even in white maps, I'm getting like six different mechanics happening at the same time.

And since PoE2 is in a holding pattern right now, people are playing the game that has stupid fun while we wait.

[Random009]

Ye cuz of this update to poe2 is pushed back for a month, if not more, wait and see I guess.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by Voodoochile:

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Sort of...
https://steamcommunity.com/games/238960/announcements/detail/503943021791805442

Interesting! I stopped following POE1, because I thought they said development is over. Guess not...cool

What they said is that they were and are going to continue development as planned, but they underestimated how logistically challenging and time consuming making PoE2 content/patches would be, while still doing stuff for PoE1 over the past few months (Holidays etc.). So new league for PoE1 was delayed.

They started working on this quicky Legacy of Phrecia event to make up for that and went bonkers with new experimental ascendancies and map device mechanics based on Relics. Easy to do in a pinch because it's an event that won't carry over at all and is short lived.

But we get to play around with these quirky mostly OP ascendancies and get a free cool Armour Set out of it that's already enabled in PoE2. :)

[kw0lf.tw]

b/c ggg abandoned fixing poe2 bugs

[SpottedHare]

It has content, POE2 has promises of nerfs and some bug fixes.