Jonathan is a lying PoE. The entire company has been working on every poe league this entire time. Poe2 development literally stopped during Heist and others. He means 8 people I.e game designers, but that's always been the case. The entire company stalls each league making items armours icons anims sound rigs effects and all of it.
Poe2 has taken 6 years but it's actually only had about 3 years dedicated dev time across all that time if I were to guesstimate.
Mark, Jonathan and others are terrible producers and can't run shit properly and overscope and then cut each time.
PoE2 is smoke and mirrors, it's a mod of PoE1 that got out of hand.
I'm telling you, the entire company has been working on PoE1. I primarily work on PoE2, and I have been stalled and pulled off onto PoE1 every single league every single time. The only people in the building constantly working on PoE2 are the environment artists, and numerous tiles etc and work of theirs has been stolen for poe1 leagues over these years.
Entire animation team stops PoE2 work and works on league npcs and monsters and all that crap each time. PoE2 has limited weapons available in EA because the skills and animations still don't exist for most of it. Claws and others are cut from the game.
I firmly believe PoE2 is some kind of trick aimed at making flashy looking trailers purely to suck a crowd in day1 for a hollow game that makes Tencent a heap of MTX cash and then Jonathan bails like Chris and Erik already have (both no longer work at GGG)
Chris is a figurehead at this point he's not been in GGGs office for over a year now. I've literally not seen him in probably longer than that. He has absolutely zero involvement with the game currently.
He made enough money to fund his black lotus obsession.
Retirement, game isn't what he loved anymore, he hates zoom zoom and is a melee enjoyed and even poe2 melee sucks, that's why I think he doesn't care.
Either that or weird contractual share purchase obligations idk. Erik became an employee of GGG rather than a head after he sold his shares, Chris I think couldn't do the same. They literally outlined an agreement to hand full control over to tencent by *checks watch* before now actually.
It's fully Tencent owned now and there's alot more Chinese in the office now.
I'll say it again, PoE2 is just marketing trick to make cash as they tuck tail and run. I If PoE2 doesn't do Elden Ring level numbers I think you'll see Jonathan dissappear into retirement.
Entire point of PoE2 is just to sell day 1 mtx packs. The most important thing I house right now development wise is not bosses I, content, game balance, it's making sure the supporter packs are ready. Jonathan lied to you all about the three week delaym it's because the MTX packs that are the entire reason for EAs existence aren't ready yet. It's that simple.
Man hours are being constantly pulled off of real game content to make mtx. This game would be so much bigger and better if our whole staff was actually developing a game not skin packs adjacent to one.
Early access packs are kiwi pets in themes, vaal and maraketh etc and a bunch of usual armour sets and shit themed after bosses from the game Sanctum is one of the three ascendancy trials.
PoE2 is a crap game made for pretty trailers but plays like arse and has no depth only cookie cutter builds, there's like 3 ways to build monk at best in total.
Wish was a larp.
PoE2 was something many of us were excited for but it's been bastardised too many times and so many good things gone. PoE2 endgame is just a bunch of league mechanics slapped together with a Civ map. Combat is one sided where pure melee is utter garbage and everything is balanced against crossbow shattershotgunning the entire screen.
Jonathan turned the game from what was going to be a return to more dark gritty dungeon crawling and deep mechanics with more complex systems into just a top down shooter. Every single skill is just lightning lasers or projectiles. Crossbows were ruined by him and are just laser rifles because he loves Destiny. Swords have never been touched ever in the entirety of PoE2s development and I don't think they even exist, I've never seen them ingame apart from one time during exilecon some made it in build and then disappeared.
If you like shooters PoE2s gunna be great for you. You'll come to understand that soon enough.
Yes, I know [ ranged is intrinsically better than melee ] but they made it way worse and they could've at least made melee zip in and travel further and do more damage, stun etc
They literally said once I overhead them am that melee in poe2 is meant to be bad damage because ranged has magic and guns and a sword shouldn't do more damage than a fireball or gun.
They're instead making melee the Tank builds that just do low damage and instead have alot more life and defense.
Playing as melee in Poe2 fucking sucks.
I've been at this company 8 years now and the promise was always to make melee great again, and we were. Then Jonathan came in and fucked it all up and made the entire game hyper shooter focused. I'm almost confident when you finally see daggers you'll basically just be shooting lightning from them.
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