Bex_GGG

Bex_GGG



10 Feb

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Originally posted by Tryxt

Hoping for at least another 4 more. Thanks for all your amazing work thus far!

At least. Thank you so much <3

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Originally posted by SRLDervish

Yikes that past CM experience..! I wonder which game got to suffer Dark Bex's fury.

Congratulations, we're lucky to have you!

You don't know it, it went to another school.

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    Bex_GGG on Steam - Thread - Direct
I joined the Grinding Gear Games team almost six years ago, but four years ago today I was lucky enough to become the Community Manager for Path of Exile. These have been among the greatest years of my life. I have learned so much about life, the gaming industry, and myself over this time and I can't express enough how grateful I am to be in this position. To celebrate this anniversary, I wanted to answer some of your questions about what my role is like and my time at Grinding Gear Games.

Click here to check out the full news post.[www.pathofexile.com]
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    Bex_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct

" Xedralya wrote: Bex, following your meme-tastic excellent adventure through the community to where you are now has been one of the fun little side-notes of the Path of Exile experience. Thank you for engaging as much as you do, and for lending your personal energy in ways that are surely beyond the scope of your official duties. I don't think anyone would disagree with me when they say ...
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Originally posted by tragicnate

Or perhaps this is the small teaser?

Maybe.

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Originally posted by FORTNlT3

Can we get teaser of the teaser already?

Maybe I’ll post a small teaser in the news today. Maybe I won’t.

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    Bex_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct




I joined the Grinding Gear Games team almost six years ago, but four years ago today I was lucky enough to become the Community Manager for Path of Exile. These have been among the greatest years of my life. I have learned so much about life, the gaming industry, and myself over this time and I can't express enough how grateful I am to be in this position. To celebrate this anniversary, I wanted to answer some of your questions about what my role is like and my time at Grinding Gear Games.

How and when did you start working for GGG? How did you become the community manager?

I started working at GGG in March of 2013, shortly after we entered Open Beta. At that point I had heard of Path of Exile as this cool game being made by kiwis just up the road from me but I hadn't played it. I heard through the grapevine that they w... Read more

09 Feb

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We don't usually post teasers ahead of the announcement because of the journalist embargo. After the announcement is out we typically post 1-2 teasers a day in addition to news every week day. Sometimes we even throw in weekend teasers. This expansion won't be as big as Betrayal but it'll still have the usual things you would expect.

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Originally posted by Meowmeowkittenz

So Betrayal ending March 4th?

Yes, that should be correct for PC. On Xbox One it will end when the next expansion launches, like usual.

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Originally posted by WarriorIsBAE

I know they made a post saying at the end of next week, but what day is that?

The previous dates for announcement/release we mentioned were estimates, but we're now close enough to be able to lock in exact dates. Here's what to expect in PST:

  • Expansion Announcement - Feb 19th
  • Expansion Launch on PC - March 8th
  • Expansion Launch on Xbox One - March 11th
  • Launch on PS4 - We can't confirm the specific date yet but we expect that mid-March is likely.

08 Feb

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Originally posted by HermanManly

I can only imagine Bex's face as she browses this thread... she's probably loving it; knowing just how wrong all of us are

Have you ever been observing someone when they turn around and suddenly lock eyes with you? That's exactly how reading this comment felt. MRW

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    Bex_GGG on Steam - Thread - Direct
At the beginning of this week our Hideout Competition[www.pathofexile.com] concluded. Over the past few days we've visited hundreds of unique and creative hideouts submitted by the participants and today we're finally ready to announce the winners. Click here to watch a video with the top five winners and be sure to check out this news post to view the rest of them!

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06 Feb

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    Bex_GGG on Steam - Thread - Direct
Looking at league statistics is interesting for our designers and a good opportunity for us to see how actual player behaviour might differ to what we expected. Today we're sharing more stats from the Betrayal league, including completion of Safehouses, time spent in the Mastermind's Lair and completed challenges. Click here to check out the full news post.[www.pathofexile.com]

04 Feb

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    Bex_GGG on Steam - Thread - Direct
While we're rebalancing many skills in our 3.6.0 expansion, we're also doing a full rework to two existing skills. One of these skills is Flame Totem, which is being repurposed into a divine-themed skill which has new mechanics that interact with Consecrated Ground and new visual effects[webcdn.pathofexile.com] to match its divine abilities.

In addition to its projectile speed and damage being rebalanced, Flame Totem's fiery projectiles will deal physical damage with half the damage converted to Fire. In addition to some new passives in the Templar's area of the skill tree, this should open up some new synergies with physical conversion.

While Flame Totem is active it creates Consecrated Ground around its base. Flame Totem's special Consecrated Ground also grants immunity to... Read more
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Originally posted by FawkeS_94

I think they posted it earlier that they will release it with 3.6..

Yes, there's been no update to the time line since we last posted about it but we noted a lot of people were asking so we thought it would be good to mention it again.


03 Feb

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    Bex_GGG on Steam - Thread - Direct
At the end of the next week we'll announce the 3.6.0 expansion and its challenge league. When the announcement goes live, we'll introduce a new set of league supporter packs. This means that in two weeks we're saying goodbye to Betrayal Supporter Packs. If you're thinking about purchasing one of the Betrayal Packs before they leave the store but you're not sure you'll be able to do so in time, check out today's news post. [www.pathofexile.com]

01 Feb

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Originally posted by lddiamond

Bex, you are awesome. And this is totally reasonable.

But don't let yourself get burned out. It's all about work life balance, and it would be a disservice to us all if you get burned out from this.

I totally hear you. I have good systems in place to prevent this and catch up on personal time when I needed to.

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Originally posted by dwaters11

so for a friend who wants to know, should they ask questions about when ExileCon tickets are coming to twitter or an official channel?

Either is no big deal.

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Originally posted by aphelion_perihelion

Bex posted this tweet a couple of days ago so I'd like to call attention to it again as it seems some people have missed it. To me it's a pretty clear warning that this open access to communicating with her is being abused and we risk losing that avenue like we did with Chris and support requests here on reddit a year ago.

I noted "especially streamers" in the title because streamers are obviously the most active on twitter by the nature of what they do. I'm not singling anyone out in particular.

Finally, I'm not saying you shouldn't speak up about whatever it is you have to say, just tag @pathofexile instead or post about it here on reddit. It goes to the same place anyway.

I'm so surprised this made it to reddit! It's best I should clarify. There was no drama that set off this tweet. I LOVE interacting with the Path of Exile community on Twitter. It's the main reason I'm even on there and it contributes significantly to my enjoyment of the platform. I really enjoy the interactions I've had with the community there, even on my off time. I think it's helped me get a lot closer to you all and give you a little bit of a peek into who I am outside of my official role.

I posted that tweet so that I could pin it as a handy place to get that information. I get a tonne of messages from people who are looking for customer support, wanting me to process their payments, sending me their bug reports. As my Twitter has grown it's become harder and harder to keep up with telling people where to go for that information and to be honest, I don't really want to spend my evenings and weekends doing that but I also feel really rude and conflicted when I ignore ...

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