From their garage to this. That is passion, which creates great things like this. I hope there will always be people like this who innovate and put their passion into it, without the corporate greed machine.
Their success has less to do with blizzard and more to do with their huge amount of funding they have from their parent company Tencent. POE2 should be a lot better than anything Blizzard releases because Tencent has way more money than Blizzard. Or at least, they did. Now that Blizzard is owned by MicroSoft things could change since Blizzard finally has more funding to make games like GGG does. GGG has had an advantage for several years now and still took them a long time to release POE2, which to be fair, seems more like an update than a new game (which is fine).
@tbone8358 you are dead wrong. Diablo 4 took longer than poe 2 to develop and way way more money. D4's budget was huge. Its not a money thing, it's a passion and corporate thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if the team of core developers was actually smaller for D4 than for PoE2. Blizzard has been restructured multiple times in the last years, they fired all the good devs, hired inexperienced new ones and in the meantime GGG just kept working steadily for over 10 years. The release of D4 still was probably the biggest marketing campaign for ARPGs in general and both LE and PoE profited a lot from it as well.
It's nice to see the good guys win, in a world of AAA devs that dgaf about gamers and quality. It restores a bit of faith in humanity to see that the small company can organically grow itself into something big here and uphold the same values.
Good guys? How would you know they’re good guys? That’s quite the baseless assumption. Small company? They’re owned by Tencent which if I’m not mistaken is the biggest gaming company in the world besides MicroSoft
im looking forward to playing more today, after the long waits last night it was just not optimal, i played for like 2 hours and had terrible drops, absolutely got wrecked by all bosses, but the game does look amazing, soon as i drop a unique ill be happy xD
I really hope GGG doesn't go on the path of all the other companies that got huge success like this: blizzard, ea, ubisoft, activison they all started small, hired a bunch more developers and eventually expanded to become what we hate today. Loving poe 2 so far and hope the quality and polish continue.
Haha that first comment was me about servers being up Monday. Man what a good game thank you for the stream watched you and you got me interested in this game weeks ago. Main reason I played. Cheers man!
I'm waiting on a computer that I ordered over a week ago so I can get started on this game. I might just preorder on my Xbox account just to test it out this weekend then start my permanent account going when I get the new desktop.
It’s no surprise the servers are crashing. I’d estimate closer to 2million players and with that many people trying to sign in simultaneously, even the best servers would struggle. They probably should have did a staggered launch… but hey hopefully it’s up by tomorrow. Way to go GGG!
Guys i have a question: I bought Vaal Supporter pack and now have an additional code for the early access, i can give that away right? To a friend? I'm sorry for the stupid question, just uncertain on wether i have another code now or it's just MY code.
1million is just the amount of people actively viewing on twitch. That's not to mention other platforms and just people who are just playing the game at home. So yeah 1 mill viewers on twitch is a huge deal.
I have a few hours in I’m not impressed. Some of the problems I’m having I’m hoping are my misunderstanding of something. I do not like this gem system thus far. If you have any lag trying to work around boss mechanics is horrid.
A game hyped by all streamers for months is now played by all streamers in the first couple days and PoE cultists are following you. Congratulations, you won. In a couple weeks you'll all move on to hype the next BIG thing.
Hope they fix it for release, because on console so far is terrible 😢i mean the performance, ths game is not too bad so far, only the combat not smooth enough. And the movement, no controller control over the character speed.
yeah dominating just twitch, the PAID early access was worse than the PAID early access for Diablo 4. I bought it on steam and the store page didn't say I had to link my account and now their site is down. Of course streamers got access though
LOGIN!
Bitch, im trying lmao
KEY!
Doesn't let us LOGIN :(
I'M TRYING 😭
Everyone's trying to log in lol faaak
I saw it peak at 1.3M....actually just....insane
Really felt like a historical day
Now what’s it at? lol this game is really bad.
@@adamcunningham8044 Nice bait
@@adamcunningham8044 Still #2 on Twitch
lol this comment is really bad
@@adamcunningham8044 Now we're playing the game, mr. negative nancy.
And 24h later max 300k.
In 4 weeks we are back on the 5k Mark.
1.2M now
I waited 20+ years for this! Diablo 2 has a worthy successor!
PoE was a worthy successor, fuck you talking about.
From their garage to this. That is passion, which creates great things like this. I hope there will always be people like this who innovate and put their passion into it, without the corporate greed machine.
1,1mil now but servers not being up yet might drop it a bit
it will drop when the servers are up, people will stop watching and start playing
That's exactly it @@practic4l349
@@practic4l349 that and since its evening in EU some will stop for the day and hope for tomorrow morning instead
@@practic4l349 Which is very good.
@@practic4l349 they will keep the stream on for drops lmao
I'd like to thank Blizzard for their unwavering contribution to the success of this Company.
Their success has less to do with blizzard and more to do with their huge amount of funding they have from their parent company Tencent.
POE2 should be a lot better than anything Blizzard releases because Tencent has way more money than Blizzard. Or at least, they did.
Now that Blizzard is owned by MicroSoft things could change since Blizzard finally has more funding to make games like GGG does.
GGG has had an advantage for several years now and still took them a long time to release POE2, which to be fair, seems more like an update than a new game (which is fine).
@@tbone8358No…
@tbone8358 you are dead wrong. Diablo 4 took longer than poe 2 to develop and way way more money. D4's budget was huge. Its not a money thing, it's a passion and corporate thing.
@@cooper5602not realy even rax said this is like the 3rd version of disblo 4. sometimes games go into developer he'll and relese half baked
I wouldn't be surprised if the team of core developers was actually smaller for D4 than for PoE2. Blizzard has been restructured multiple times in the last years, they fired all the good devs, hired inexperienced new ones and in the meantime GGG just kept working steadily for over 10 years.
The release of D4 still was probably the biggest marketing campaign for ARPGs in general and both LE and PoE profited a lot from it as well.
It's nice to see the good guys win, in a world of AAA devs that dgaf about gamers and quality. It restores a bit of faith in humanity to see that the small company can organically grow itself into something big here and uphold the same values.
Good guys? How would you know they’re good guys? That’s quite the baseless assumption.
Small company? They’re owned by Tencent which if I’m not mistaken is the biggest gaming company in the world besides MicroSoft
im looking forward to playing more today, after the long waits last night it was just not optimal, i played for like 2 hours and had terrible drops, absolutely got wrecked by all bosses, but the game does look amazing, soon as i drop a unique ill be happy xD
1.3M 🎉
Meanwhile D4 players are enjoying their cookbook 💀💀💀
There are no D4 players
D4 cook book? Contains recipes such as... boiled hot dog water, canned peas, and of course my favorite bull crap sandwiches
Hey clown, you’re comparing a brand new game to one that came out 18 months ago. Not the best comparison.
Actually, I was playing D4 while waiting 3h for the PoE2 servers to come online and had quite some fun on the PTR 😏
the same people who are triggered by the term diablo-like still comparing poe to d4. just move on, both can co exist and I played both.
It'll be interesting to see how it translates to players over the weekend
I really hope GGG doesn't go on the path of all the other companies that got huge success like this: blizzard, ea, ubisoft, activison they all started small, hired a bunch more developers and eventually expanded to become what we hate today. Loving poe 2 so far and hope the quality and polish continue.
They will eventually
@@kannnnn392 Not all companies do. Look at Larian.
Crazy thing is they had around 3h of issues and now it's been perfectly smooth since
Rax, love your content keep it up dude
This is actually insane!!
peak of excellence!
Reached 1.3 million 2 hours after launch, WHILE they were struggling to fix the servers and nobody was playing yet. Let that sink in.
Haha that first comment was me about servers being up Monday. Man what a good game thank you for the stream watched you and you got me interested in this game weeks ago. Main reason I played. Cheers man!
This game is awesome!!! Played Witch and really enjoyed that char! So easy to watch your minions crushing the enemy. All you have to do is dodge lol
I'm waiting on a computer that I ordered over a week ago so I can get started on this game. I might just preorder on my Xbox account just to test it out this weekend then start my permanent account going when I get the new desktop.
This is a revolution Kev. Viva la causa.
Congrats to GGG’s. 👏🤝🍻
Wow, this game looks just like the twitch website
1 million viewers and people aren’t even playing yet.😂
D4 took 6hrs or more for servers on launch GGG 1.5 hrs and no problems
Three hours late but flawless once I got in. Good launch as far as I'm concerned.
Same. Took me a while to kill stuff as minion witch but level12 in area after Hunted Ground. Taking a break
Yep. I don't even have any queues no more.
Highest peak 1.3mil viewers. Holy jesus
LEGENDARY STATUS
My account is locked and I can't receive the fking email to unlock it.
Why is it locked?
Diablo had pretty much the same amount of launch. Hype doesn't mean the game is good. Even thought their game IS good
And btw, the number of viewer is boosted by the twitch drops. Like always.
Damn this game is awesome
I was in hell waiting for the servers to come online then was in heaven when I started playing. GG GGG!!!
Ah twitch, 90% ads that you cant skip, and maybe 10% empty chairs on pause screens.
Anyone know roughly when early access may end? Thank you very much in advance!
6 to 12 months from now.
Its over 477K now o_o
blizzard left the chat
400k viewers now
It’s no surprise the servers are crashing. I’d estimate closer to 2million players and with that many people trying to sign in simultaneously, even the best servers would struggle. They probably should have did a staggered launch… but hey hopefully it’s up by tomorrow. Way to go GGG!
Lol, Ziz and Asmon had about 200k of those viewers
This is the real D2 successor! Bravo 👏
We have come very far. From 17 damage to 1 million viewers. What a journey! (scnr)
From Software, Larian, and Grinding Gear Games, you guys are all we have left in our corporate hellscape. Thank you for all your hard work
2:24 - is d4 better than poe?
Not even close
At release Diablo 4 had 941,000 viewers on Twitch
of course it's dominating twitch majority of people cant log in.
Guys i have a question: I bought Vaal Supporter pack and now have an additional code for the early access, i can give that away right? To a friend? I'm sorry for the stupid question, just uncertain on wether i have another code now or it's just MY code.
LOGIN
peaked at 1.2m
So exciting.
Login simulator 😂😂😂😂
yo Raxx,
Can you share your frozen orb /meteor build ? :p
I don’t think I will enjoy the game but trying to out today
Unable to login. I am so not surprised.
Edit: I don't really care I can't login, It's going to be a long journey.
I got a screen shot of 1m viewers
I'm so glad you started playing games other than blizzard games lol
Raxx I want to ask a favor just be honest is POE2 gonna be as good as S4/5 of D4 S6 was trash
Pure passion
is one million considered a lot for a game release?
1million is just the amount of people actively viewing on twitch. That's not to mention other platforms and just people who are just playing the game at home. So yeah 1 mill viewers on twitch is a huge deal.
D4 had like a 950k
I was there!
PoE2 passion project
D4 cash grab
poe says my account doesn't exist at login, anyone else?
I have a few hours in I’m not impressed. Some of the problems I’m having I’m hoping are my misunderstanding of something. I do not like this gem system thus far. If you have any lag trying to work around boss mechanics is horrid.
I was here at 1 mil
Incredible
1.2 mil
This game is really something special. I want to take my time with it!
1.2m for a beta is a bit nasty. D4's got a few hundred k i think, full launch was 1m.
this isn't Betas early access beta was Done months ago
🎉
congrats for the diablo-like launch!
6mil players trying to log on rn
krusty old Diablo vet here. Part of me wants to check this out but a larger part of me is just not up for a whole new huge learning curve.
Give it a try. Can't lose anything
You'lll be fine my friends & i leaRnt together. The complexity is what makes it fun
WE WILL HELP YOU! Log in and give it a try. 😊
its a game dude.
Considering d4 takes 2 brain cells, your brain should be well rested to learn this.
so its not gonna be f2p for 6 months?
Yo
A game hyped by all streamers for months is now played by all streamers in the first couple days and PoE cultists are following you. Congratulations, you won. In a couple weeks you'll all move on to hype the next BIG thing.
cope
Letssssss gooooooo
❤
Deserved
Viewing the login screen :(
Blizzard also started in a garage.
Poe2 for arpg = bg3 for rpg
Its not even close how much better poe2 is over d4
1 M
Its a new game. What do you expect? Lets wait 2 weeks and see how many views its getting.
D4 Bad
😂
o7
D4bad and exile like confirmed 👌😅😂😂😂
wAHT da point if you can't log in?
d4 peak 954k viewers >> POE2 destroys d4
What a scam
Ought to give refunds for ea !!
Hope they fix it for release, because on console so far is terrible 😢i mean the performance, ths game is not too bad so far, only the combat not smooth enough. And the movement, no controller control over the character speed.
yeah dominating just twitch, the PAID early access was worse than the PAID early access for Diablo 4. I bought it on steam and the store page didn't say I had to link my account and now their site is down. Of course streamers got access though
First time being first 🤣
D4 second expansion will be better than POE 2
Dominated as a failed launch. Love to see it, get the sheep normalized so they just accept paying for a product they don't receive 😂
82% very positive on steam. Just say you can’t afford $30
Btw D4 at that time had 400. No not 400k. 400.
Shocking, a new game is doing well on twitch after its first day launch. . Who would have thought.
An early access game that hardly anybody were talking about 2 weeks ago aside from the ARPG blasters…so yea it’s huge
@@zachchasteen1164Wowowow gta6 devs crying cause no wayyy they can hit 1 million viewers next year 😂😂😂
@@DarkWanderer666if you compare this game with gta6 then it's successful yes😂😂
Bros pretending every new game gets a million views on twitch
Good for them. I refunded and will wait for 1-2 patches to iron out the bugs. The game feels half baked. Especially the movement.
Dominating twitch by steaming a game that doesn’t work rofl
Congratulations GGG! Twitch count is the #1 goal of every gaming company.
Not it isn’t lol