Path of Exile Dev Tracker

Since Twitter enjoys showing everyone your liked tweets it should really have a like option that explains, “I liked one aspect of this tweet but not the weird controversial aspect. Don’t get the wrong idea.”

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I heard a rumour that I don’t want to be contacted by streamers - I absolutely do! Sharing information with streamers means they’ll share it with their community. It’s a very efficient way to share info. It’s also handy to hear about hot topics in their communities. Message me!

Thank you so much for being here with me.

It’s given me all the more reason to love what I do. Every single day, I feel a tremendous amount of gratitude to be in this role. It has been an amazing ride and I can’t wait for the years to come from one expansion to the next.

It worked tremendously. I got through that difficult patch within a couple of weeks and I was back to being in love with what I was doing again. Being on Twitter and having close communication with Path of Exile fans has taught me so much about being a community manager.

My motto in life is that for things that are difficult and scary - the answer is to LEAN INTO IT! Embrace the discomfort and strip as many experiences from the lesson as you can.

It was at this point I decided to make my Twitter account. I wanted to lean into it. I didn’t feel like talking to people so I decided to find a way to talk to them even more.

I started to question whether I was even cut out to be a community manager. How can you manage a community if you don’t want to read their comments? There’s just no way. I started to feel really bad and consider what my options were.

I asked myself if I was going to quit. The answer was no. Therefore, the solution was to find a way to get through it and use it as a way to improve what kind of community manager I am. I pondered on how to do this.

I was reading through the feedback and was having a hard time stomaching the level of hatred people were sending us. I got to the point where I didn’t want to read ANY comments let alone the critical ones - which otherwise has never been the case in my six years at GGG.

During this time I was also withdrawing from some medication I was on for a nurological disease I was recovering from which was a surprisingly tough roller coaster so it certainly made managing the community a little more challenging at that time.

When we launched Beastiary there was a lot of criticism of elements of the expansion. Most of this criticism was valid and lead many of our decisions when we changed the content. However, the level of vitriol in parallel to this criticism was disproportionately high.

Why I joined Twitter - a thread 👇

(A message to my Path of Exile fans)

I never thought I would be this excited about creating spreadsheets but here we are. It never fails to bring me joy. #gamedev what have you done to me!