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Oh boy Athene... now that's a throwback

I remember him and krippy doing the world first shit in D3 I was really young. Can't believe how long it's been.

@@esrbin95 he's doing cult stuff now and has been for a while, lol

Bro that's a throwback. Still remember Kripp getting me into PoE with his OG ground slam build. And of course the classic clip "She corpse exploded the corpse of the boss" rip clip

@@Lo0nex_ Yeah I know, what a shame ...

Dunno bout you, but i've been falling asleep every day to kripp Hearthstone videos for around 6 years now :D

hearing about old PoE makes me roll my eyes

@@mooseclamps Try it one a 2010 years computer with a terrible 512kb adsl line. That was my setup when I started playing back in 2012. I believe I was a masochist back then because I played lots of hardcore

@@Varangian_af_Scaniae Played since closed beta and went hardcore from the get-go.... It was an interesting time. Ripped so many characters before any of our friend group even got to maps lol.

Kripp talking about old poe reminds me of a grandpa talking about the good old days

2011 was a different time and they had a lot of drop only gems back then.

Yeah same, a lot of PoE's initial success was because of Kripp I think we were many people that joined beta because of him.

@@metamon2704 I did as well =) Although the game beat the shit out of me something fierce and I never even got out of white maps. It wasnt until I tried spectral throw on its release that I made it to yellow maps for the first time.

@@TheSpencer1000 the buzzsaw build was great. the good old days :)

He started playing because he saw me trying out the game

Same here, although I didn't take the plunge until 2014.

It's almost like game design is WAY more complicated than people realize

​@ticklord especially a game that has a 3 month content cycle that no other game really does cause its a crazy idea.

I need that clip right now. I can't find it on google.

You people are creatures haha

This is one of the changes I hate the most...

Huge agree! The gating of support gems was at times frustrating, but also at times a huge relief and a feeling of euphoria. When the ruthless beta first came out, I found a bonechill support gem and everyone in global was losing their shit, and that feeling of "wow, I found something special" is unforgettable. Of course, I traded it with Ziz for numerous other support gems 😉

​​@@fakeplaystore7991 nah bro,go splash in the small pond

Horrible take. Only people who play poe like a full time job think this. Getting cool loot that changes what you can do or how far you can progress is the point of all ARPGs. Getting less loot sucks and getting a bunch of useless loot sucks. But getting everything too fast or easy also sucks. My main problem with the game is loot feels pretty much pointless unless you get a grail item or currency. It’s why I mostly play standard. I play league sometimes but it is just frustrating grinding or trading to get a tabula rasa for the 100th time lol. In standard I’m finally able to do almost all content on farm and I can spend 500 chaos on experimenting with items and builds and not feel bad if it’s not that good. I get why people like the league reset. But I hate it. Starting over sucks and it always reminds me how frustrating and boring getting rich again is because loot is rigged to suck 99% of the time.

Well, you can always play Ruthless if you miss old times, with non meta builds a map will probably take 10 mins, maybe even more on a niche build.

The early races were fun.

Idk. Spending development time working on, maintaining, and adjusting a mode that barely over only 10,000 people play on seems like a waste of time and resources. Stuff like this directly eats into things like development of leagues, a perfect example being the shit show that crucible currently is in it's entirety. If it took one dev 20 minutes a day to make all of ruthless functional, sure. However, there's absolutely no way devoting even more time and experimentation into this minuscule fragment of the game will ever be a good decision.

@@Eirud That's purely from a profit/loss standpoint and only from a short term view. If ruthless teaches them lessons they can apply into the core game, it's an investment into the longevity of the core game. Also, that's not accounting for the fact that MAYBE it's not money driven. MAYBE they don't care if it costs them a bit of money to make a game mode the way they want. Chris has ALWAYS said they did not make PoE for YOU. They made it for themselves. A game the way THEY envisioned. They couldn't care less about the money unless it's going to make them go bankrupt. However, regardless of that point specifically, you could view it as an RnD section of a company. Yeah, RnD often times is a money sink when you directly look at it on a stand alone basis. The reality is, RnD is a great investment if you want to keep progressing and pushing the boundaries of your company. Let's be clear, I don't play ruthless either. However, that doesn't mean it's a net negative on my personal experience with the game and could very well make my experience much much better is unforeseeable ways.

the early races were shit, the only important thing was staying awake, atleast races these days are mostly skill based, the whole 50 people that used to race back then made carn's 56 hour push look like a joke. these rose tinted glasses need to stop

Back then was definetly way crazier than ruthless now. Like even less viable builds and towards the end when he keeps talking about how noone gets level 100 in ruthless, thats absolutely how i remember it from those beta races, noone gets 100. Build guides back then allocated points until like 88 or 90, because if the build wasnt already finished at that point, grinding more levels with an unfinished build at that point wasnt something anyone was going to do, your build didnt work if it was done by that point.

I'm fairly certain that the game was intended and designed around players being able to trade. Chris has discussed this multiple times, it's one of the things they are consistent about. With that being said, I do think the game would be better if it was more tailored towards being SSF friendly, even if it was at some of the expense of the economy and trade leagues. It's nice to be able to run content without worrying about losing out on "value".

@@AdamColladoJ The reasoning I have for my statement is that, surely the devs didn't design a boss encounter or league mechanic and then thought to themselves "Alright, I hope nobody engages with this content and go map instead for currency" It just makes more sense imo to make the game SSF friendly. You actually use all the currencies for their intended purpose rather than using them to trade for gear/items. You actually run your conq fragment maps/influenced maps and all the league maps like legion, blight, etc. I'm not asking them to make the game easier, I would just like them to make SSF more viable than it is currently.

Agree. Its extremely stupid and tedious to roll a second char just for the gems

Nobody's making you play it

I hate this the most and also plenty of other certain stuff like Quicksilver flasks being nerfed to 2 seconds... Pantheon being gone... like what? WHAT

ты неправ. и нужно вырезать 90% ненужных механик. когда игра приймет свой вид как в 2009-2011..вот только тогда вней появица смысл и БАЛАНС !

I think this sounds like a pretty reasonable take. Nice!

Can't say based... according to the FBI it means you've been indoctrinated into radical racial ideology. 😂

that's why kripp likes it. all that other shit he says is just cope, it's a game mode where your main advantage is being able to play 14+ hours a day, which is what him and other people mean by "wanting poe to be hard like it used to be". they've been passed up in skill mechanically and don't understand the game anymore so they long for the days when all you did was stay awake for days straight and grind. it's pathetic and I'm glad GGG don't listen to people like this too much

@@doom8274 You guys really need to improve your listening skills holy shit.

@@doom8274 Lmao. The dude isnt playing 14 hours a day anymore since forever. He literally said if ruthless was even a bit scarcer than it is now he wouldnt play, because he only plays 8 hours a day for a week and then is done with the league, if he cant achieve what he wants to achieve in that time hes not going to play.

genius xd

Oh yeah? And you will hate after 8 hours playing 😅

Because you only get gems from quest reward

yeah he's over here talking about build diversity lmao absolutely delusional

(Someone who never played Ruthless)

lol "corpse exploded corpse of the boss" DEFINITELY saved my life back in '12