Seeing the absolute nuclear meltdown happening in the Path of Exile community right now, I'm genuinely thankful for everyone around here - both the studio and the community, for being the way they are.

Sure thing, neither of them is perfect, both DE and us have their ups and downs, their things to be proud of and their bad apples, but in the end i genuinely feel like this game for a long time has been THE book example on how to both develop a large scale game and raise a community around it. And i hope that people here appreciate it too - it doesn't take much to rail the playerbase against you, but (re)gaining the trust and good intentions takes years.

As someone who's been playing both games in and out for 10+ years, i just wanted to say to everyone here - thank you.

^{A bit of context for the non-PoE-playing crowd - due to the development of PoE2 (and rrrreally poor resource management, as the game director stated himself in today's PSA}) ^{the usual content production for the first one has been indefinitely put on hold for the first time since the release in 2013. The community is now overreacting in a really toxic and miserable way, constantly comparing the studio to Blizzard, Asmongold (?}) ^{and such, openly wishing the newer title to fail, and doing chargebacks on past supporter packs (think our Prime Access bundles}) ^{because "they've been funding another project with my money".}