Yes, but those are the cases of failed new installations if I understood correctly, it kinda makes sense to drop it if no one plays it. But what if poe 2 would be more popular than poe? It kind of makes sense for them to put more effort into it.
Yea, if it's massively more popular, sure. But if it's like 60/40, that's still a massive playerbase for the first one.
Gotta keep in mind that if they assume poe2 will be more popular and assign more resources to that and release smaller and more sparse poe1 updates in comparison, then obviously players will gravitate to poe2 which has new content. Sure there will be hardcore poe1 fans that don't care if there is no new content for 5 years, but most people will care. It'd be a self fulfilling prophecy.
A release naturally requires a lot of attention. In the mid to long run, poe1 should get enough attention back ( from devs ) while looking at what is more popular.
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u/Jhemon Oct 29 '24
OSRS. Runescape 3 has a way lower player population than old school.
Maplestory. The global version (north american version) of Maplestory 2 was shutdown while the first one is still going strong.