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https://xcancel.com/pathofexile/status/1884769182409265253

GGG lied. They had said they were working on patch 3.26 and now say they haven't even started it.

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[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why did I look at the replies

[–] dead@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He's LARPing. Elon replies to all of GGG's tweets. Elon is paying a team of at least 4 people to play Path of Exile 2 for him and then brags about being a gamer to his sycophants on twitter. His character is position #3 on the Hardcore leaderboard because he pays people to play it 24/7.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What are #1 and #2 doing to beat a paid team playing 24/7?

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

well they probably don't have an incompetent dipshit stumbling into their account every time he gets high on k and wants the internet to love him.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the Hardcore leaderboard. In the the Hardcore mode of the game, if you die then your character is permanently dead. His account has had 2 characters die within top 100. His current character was created on January 18, so it took around 11 days of playing 24/7 to reach rank #3. Position #1 and #2 are probably characters older than 11 days. Position #1 and #2 also reached the experience cap this week, so it's not possible for Elon's boosted character to go higher than rank #3 now.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dumb question, is there any mechanism in play to keep the #1 and #2 slots playing? Or can those characters retire now and keep those slots indefinitely?

[–] dead@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Those characters can retire for now, but even if they die they retain that position on the ladder because they reached the cap.

Path of Exile 2 will follow a ladder reset design similar to Path of Exile or Diablo 2 or other ARPGs. When a new major patch comes out, there is a game reset, all characters and items are moved to "standard league". Standard league is a snapshotted version of the game where you don't have access to the new content. To play the new content, you have to make a new character and start from scratch. Characters on the new league are unable to interact with characters from standard league. This should happen every 3 months.

When Path of Exile 2 patch 0.2 comes out in hopefully February, the leaderboard will reset and people will have to make a new character to compete on the leaderboard.

https://pathofexile2.com/ladder/Hardcore

Elon's boosted character is Random9#2886

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. Why does he do that?
  2. Does the target audience of this fraud buy it?
[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

1 - because he wants to be perceived at being better than he actually is at

2 - it actually seems to be pushing back a good chunk of the gamer crowd that would usually either be indifferent or clueless on who he actually is

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have nothing to say relevant to this thread, but I love the Sarah and Duck pfp

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Sarah & Duck is best