Dead game brought back to life?

[Omega Sirius]

Why is this game all of a sudden so popular? They release a new update or something? I never even heard of it. What's with the sudden spike of players?

[EntityO]

New content is fire, play it!

[ŁōãF]

I mean you could atleast say something funny and work for your jester awards.

[Tyyne]

Yup, huge patch dropped on the 17th.

[Dracuras]

sheesh, its not like they've been broadcasting about this update for like 2+ months or anything.

[NotxEevee]

Originally posted by Dracuras:

sheesh, its not like they've been broadcasting about this update for like 2+ months or anything.

Probably a Steamdb[steamdb.info] enjoyer considering LE is currently trending there.
But yeah, you'd think someone looking at trends/player numbers would atleast do basic research before asking this kind of question. The response they want is quite literally in the most recent post on the damn store page...

[PvWolf666]

The reason it was dead was it was at the end of the old season

[Níðhöggr]

Well the game peaked at 250k last year. It was hyped by sponsored streamers for the past week. So we have a mix of old players who want to try the new update and players exiled from poe2 out of frustration.

The game will return to hibernation in a month. I've reached the empowered monoliths today and the endgame seems the same as before.

[EntityO]

Originally posted by Níðhöggr:

Well the game peaked at 250k last year. It was hyped by sponsored streamers for the past week. So we have a mix of old players who want to try the new update and players exiled from poe2 out of frustration.

The game will return to hibernation in a month. I've reached the empowered monoliths today and the endgame seems the same as before.

Endgame is way different than before, reset your echoes.

[Codeman Fluff]

Originally posted by Omega Sirius:

Why is this game all of a sudden so popular? They release a new update or something? I never even heard of it. What's with the sudden spike of players?

The biggest reason was that, while the Aberoth update (1.1) added a pinnacle boss to fight, it didn't fully touch on reworking/revitalizing the Monolith/echo system which was admittedly a bit stale.

The Devs took the feedback of what was lacking and instead of pumping out another season in 3-4 months, they sat and cooked Season 2 chocked-full of content for 8 months to make sure they got the feedback right.

This was easily the smoothest Season launch I've experienced across any ARPG ever, so it goes to show they poured a lot of love into this Season.

[Dev3ko]

Originally posted by Omega Sirius:

Why is this game all of a sudden so popular? They release a new update or something? I never even heard of it. What's with the sudden spike of players?

New patch, bring it back to life for 3-4 weeks. H&S genre

[Mordy]

Originally posted by ŁōãF:

I mean you could atleast say something funny and work for your jester awards.

When they're as lazy as they are stupid, this is the best we're getting.

[Redeemer]

Originally posted by Mordy:

Originally posted by ŁōãF:

I mean you could atleast say something funny and work for your jester awards.

When they're as lazy as they are stupid, this is the best we're getting. :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

PoE raised em right!!