Huh, interesting about the supporter packs. I can't imagine people who bought them this league will be all too happy about that, and as well I imagine the sales numbers for them were rather dismal for them to do this. Makes sense, compared to older supporter packs, neither level on each pack really felt like it was the great deal that many packs have been.
We decided to experiment with selling the packs for an extended duration prior to them going on sale (and I'm pretty sure we mentioned this ahead of time but I'll need to double check that). They're still exclusive to a time period just a slightly longer one. This enables people more ability to pick the packs they prefer and give slightly more flexibility in terms of purchase time frames. With that being said, it would be ideal if this information was more well known so I'm wondering if you had any thoughts about where we could share this information? It's currently on the purchase page and I've mentioned it a few times within the community.
It's a supporter pack, not a "luxary pack". The premise is not that you get what someone else can't have. The premise is you get a somewhat time limited thing in return for supporting the company. The mentality of getting mad because more people have the thing than you expected is so incredibly childish.
To be fair, we do market them based on their exclusivity and have done since Closed Beta. However, historically supporter packs were available for a much longer period and keeping these to a three month window is incredibly brief considering the wider scope of supporter pack availability. Six months is just an experiment for now and we'll see how it goes before potentially making further changes to their available time.
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It's a whole league not just a week.
Ah apologies, I didn't play the last couple of leagues so I wasn't really in the loop with regards to pre-league hype stuff. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, if this becomes a permanent thing the information will naturally dilute through the community over time. For a player like myself however, it's just a bit of a surprise given how things have been done previously.
Understandable.
still no news on affinity stash tab
It sounds like the backend portion of the task has been completed but we still need to sort out exactly how the front end is going to work and then assign UI programmer time to it. I can't confirm yet if that's possible prior to 3.12.
Are we gonna get non-meme vagueish info (before the announcement) about 3.12 expansion like we used to get? E.g.
We'll go into more detail about its exact contents when we announce it, but can confirm that there is a significant balance focus on Melee and a League of a simpler scope than the last few. Our internal playtest version of the new league is much further along than leagues normally are at this point in the development cycle. We're hoping it'll be a new fan-favourite.
The broad scope of this release is a new challenge league (whose name is not on the list, but should be), various improvements to older master content (things like making Sulphite and Betrayal state shared between all your characters in the league), some systems changes we're not yet ready to hint at (which should improve some areas that the community have given us vocal feedback on (not trade)) and all the usual new items, archetypes, gems and so on that you expect from a Path of Exile expansion.
3.9.0 not only contains the usual content you'd expect from a regular Path of Exile release, but also some game-wide expansion content that isn't tied to the league itself. It's a bit larger in size than any other Path of Exile release in 2019. We have been really excited about a league idea that we wanted to do for a while but didn't have the technology or resources to pull off. While we can't share more information about the league just yet, we can tell you that it contains a good balance of risk vs reward, compelling endgame content and is a whole lot less server-melty. Alongside the league and expansion content mentioned above, 3.9.0 contains some new item rewards that should provide interesting new character build options and a fresh metagame. We're also focusing some balance attention on bows, though this revamp isn't of the same scale as our spellcasting and melee changes earlier this year.
Like what things/systems will be addressed.
Is seems I'm waiting in vain ☹☹
It's definitely larger in scope than both Delirium and Harvest.
If this is not ready for 3.12 do you think it will be shipped as part of 3.12.* or would we have to wait until 3.13?
I don't think we'd arbitrarily push it to the next expansion if it was ready to go.
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