Announcement coming soon ™
The announcement of the announcement is here
No, it’s the announcement of the new announcer who will announce the announcement
You mean the announcement of the new announcer who will announce the announcement of the announcement, right?
Welcome Kelly!
Quick off topic question: on a scale from 1 - 10, how awesome are swords in 0.5?
Hope it’s not √-1 since I want them to be real
u/Kelly_GGG
FIRST >:D
Patch notes when?!?!?! <3
Lmao playing into the announcement-of-the-announcement stereotype is a baller move
welcome!
A reveal will be coming very soon for Path of Exile 2
Could you perhaps elaborate what you personal understating of “very soon” is? :) It is a very relative term.
Very soon compared to you writing that or very soon relative to the lifetime of the known universe?
and we hope you’re just as excited as we are!
I think this can be answered with yes. :)
It’s something like “Nearby” in game.
been almost a day. when please?
We are all looking forward to it.
r/YourJokeButWorse
oh yeah like THIS is the one guy that finally took it too far got it
This is the correct one I believe
The introduction of the announcement of the announcement of the announcement.
The Kelly of the Announcement is here
Actually it is ‘The Kelly of the Annoincment of Announcment is here.”
Annoincement? Blight league revamped?
If they announce an improved support gemcutting UI, I will hype.
Announception
What a time to be alive.
They hired somebody for the announcement of the announcement. This patch is going to be huge.
choo choo
curtain rolls up
Hi, my name is Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games
This is the fishing league
LOL!
It is gonna be huge. Something is growing in me
It’s my penis
It might be mine inside yours
Well now I’m imagining us docking, your penis inflating until it ruptures my penis, and you standing victorious over me as I weep in the fetal position
Finally
They announced that soon they will make an announcement on the date for the announcement of news
We must go deeper. The annoucement of the annoucement of the annoucement.
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I mean, that’s what this is no? The guy is announcing that he will be announcing the time when they will be making the announcement.
We are announcing on Reddit that… such announcement was made. I ain’t typing all that again 😂
a teaser trailer featuring the voice of the announcer who will announce the announcement of the announcement. then a 30s short trailer introducing the announcer of the announcement of the announcement, followed by a five minute interview where the announcer of the announcement of the announcement is interviewed with the end of the interview reminding people to look out for the announcement of the announcement.
This post is made of Weapons Grade Soonium that’s radioactive and has a half life of soon.
half…life….3???
To soon
or not to soon
That is the question
Would have likely released by this point, debuting as the Gabecube’s flagship launch title, had component prices not skyrocketed.
Vaal the weapon
You want me to vaal the Tsar Bomba?
I’m gonna go insane
still sane, exile ?
Same here, every single time I get a notification I insta clip in hope for something regarding 0.5, its time to touch grass.
/u/Kelly_GGG good luck
This 0.5 announcement better be the equivalent of a five star course meal.
Me after watching 0.5 patch video
Imagine them trolling the announcement that only says “there’s a new league coming..” title of some sort with a 15 sec of trailer of the ‘coming soon’ slowly zooming in..
And that’s about it.
Why wasn’t this announcement announced?
Consider this announcement the announcement of the announcement.
First announcement down. Two more to go.
announcement of the announcement of the announcement , nicee
Did we just get the announcement of the announcer for the announcement?
Somehow ggg found a way to deepen the hype season.
No this was the announcement of the announcer for the announcement of the announcement..
I know lots of people are hyper-fixating on the announcement of the announcemnet of the announcement, but a leader in the comms area for GGG is honestly huge if it’s leading where I expect it to.
Those who have been around for awhile might know what I’m thinking of, and I am pumped.
Huge welcome in, I’m excited to see where Kelly takes the whole community/social team.
Thanks Tri, I will reply when I’m able to and actually, I do try to look at everything (when humanly possible and at odd hours at a time).
all your hours are odd hours, you NZ people!!!!!1111 😁😁
Could you explain what this could mean for someone who hasn’t been around for long?
In the old days, during a Poe1 giga nerf of all content to rebalance everything to be on the same powerlevel foundation, the entire community not only cried rivers, but straight up cyber-bullied most of the staff who were usually on reddit and twitter, and GGG told all its employees to cut direct communication with the community for a long time
It was even worse than that tbh. The overall community was becoming increasingly negative, hostile, and cynical going as far back as blight league (3.8). Seriously, if you have the ability to use wayback machine or some service to find old threads, you should. It was a bit nuts. It was up and down but always had a strong sense of cynicism every league and it culminated in the 3.15 nerf apocalypse.
Devs noted that they were on Reddit and getting sad by the endless negativity.
They made a post about it. Chris said one of the devs was literally in tears about it.
When Chris posted this the community attacked them even harder.
This lead to GGG basically said yeah we’re never gonna use Reddit anymore. They didn’t for a while.
(Many of us actually collectively celebrated this.)
3.15 was mild compared to Kalandra 3.19.
Chris posted to Reddit last then and his post is the most downvoted post on the sub and leads the controversial list too.
The insults were something else. It was sad to see.
As an aside it was also the first time we got official word it’s not one game but two where he noted he is “Game Director for Path of Exile 1”.
While GGG is already quite superior than most game devs in terms of communications, it used to be even better.
In 2023, right after ExileCon, their head of community management (I am unsure of her exact title), Bex, left the company and has worked at several other places since (like Riot). She was pretty involved in the community, I’d reckon, and there was a time (at least from when I began in 2019 to about 2022, post-Lake of Kalandra release) when her AND many GGG devs were VERY active on Reddit, the forums, Discord, Twitter, etc.
Now, the community management team interacts only when needed and GGG devs hang in some Discords. I’d love to see a growth of the interaction again - it was so cool to read/see/be a part of.
I’m quite optimistic, but I am an extremely optimistic person overall.
Hopefully means better patch notes. But they are pretty stellar already
Uhm? Where? Am I ootl
Im giving them 1 star on Yelp if 0.5 does not meet every expectation that my little sister has of it.
Gonna lock in on her review to determine if it’s worth reinstalling
All hail Kelly. Anyone who attacks Kelly must be burned at the stake.
Seriously tho it is rare a company keeps this kind of line of communications with its community these days. Even if ggg puts out a trash update. Let’s not burn this bridge. I don’t think there is a single company who communicates with their community as well as ggg. I love this part of ggg and hope it’s to stay.
Digital Extremes would like a word with you.
Yay! The announcement of the new team member alluding to the announcement of the announcement of the announcement!
“I like to be straight to the point…” Then proceeds to say an announcement will be “soon” instead of giving a time frame lol
:D right
How is it working with Ba-la-kay? Is he out of his goddamn mind?
he de-ironed his maxed ironman, definitely out of his mind
What a psycho
he’s so gr8 and i always love chatting with him
RAHHHHHH
Crayon eater?
Love to see fellow crayon eaters in the wild
Announcement of the announcement of the announcement
Thanks for announcing this to us!
New announcer introduced themselfs and announced an announcement is coming soon. hype
I just picked up a 32 inch 4k oled, work is slowing down for the summer and im hyped!
Welcome, and thanks for the announcement of the announcement!!!
To be fair, Kelly also says in the forum post.
“Reveal will be coming VERY soon.”
I’m coping for a 23rd reveal and 30th launch.
Did not put it in caps though so chillll
I think Reveal = teaser 23rd. Livestream 30th. week after that
When hiring a Lead team, it means much more in the future. I mean we could possibly see something huge like 1.0, Exilecon… soon and it’s need more man power. Also more interactions post with community!? POE2 is potential and I love to see more. Let’s go Kelly Let’s go GGG Give me 0.5 details soon tomorrow and it’s lovely to all of us!!
A noun: Cement.
ZING
So definitely this Thursday (for Europeans) is the teaser for the livestream and next Thursday is the livestream and the Thursday after that the full launch so:
23.4 - Announcement for Livestream
30.4 - Livestream
07.05 - 0.5.0 release
Welcome on board, we hope you enjoy the ride!
a new level of announcing has been achieved, an employee announcement whom will announce the announcing.
Watch, another season with no sword/axe.
All hype and dandy, but when is soon though?
Next time could we please get an announcement about the announcement of the announcement? Now I have plans and am going to miss the announcement about the announcement
so very soon is what exactly tho?
The announcement for the announcement. We got the pre-announcement today.
The announcement of the arrival of the announcer of the announcement of the announcement.
I’m pretty sure on 23rd of april they will announce that reveal stream on may 1st and then league start on 8
The announcement of hiring someone in charge of the announcement
Im announcing rn guys
The announcement of hot swap between controler and mouse and keyboard is coming too???
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Hopium Prediction:
RF getting added.
Announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement of announcement?
They are cooking something special on this one. I can feel it.
Announcement of the announcement of the announcement of the announcement of the announcement of the announcement
Thanks for announcing the announcement
Ohh boi ohh boi
Better than the hideout communication we got I guess 🤔
Just tell me when to schedule my PTO
”…would much prefer to keep things straight to the point. A reveal will be coming very soon…” very soon is not really straight to the point?
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Yess Kelly! Very soon!!!
Expectations changed, now assuming this means in a couple hours. Already preparing to be disappointed with my own timeline reee
Thanks for announcing the announcement of the announcing the of announcement thanks for announcing it announcing announcing announced annunciation annuity annually annuptials anussus amongsu announcemeing wixkalalzow
The true announcement of the announcement of the patch notes.
The announcement of the announcer who announced she will be doing announcement of the announcement soon.
Ok the bright side, GGG Soon™ is still better than Valve Time™.
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Uhoh
Is the guy behind GGG’s YouTube guides still with us? Liked him
VERY * soon.
Thats a big difference ok?
Soon means this week yay
Congrats on the new role but was that the announcement for the announcement to the announcement
For a communications manager, she sure goes straight to the point - love it!
The announcement of the announcer announcing the announcement?
Certainly this means this Thursday will be the announcement. I kind of hope they stray from the usual cycle, announce on Monday, and stream on Thursday but… That’s just a dream…
Please stop I can only get so erect
Is the announcement of the announcer of the announcement.
Let us share a moment of enjoyment, for the grinding gear games officials have communicated to us their game’s announcement announcement.
I came to check out the new league I guess I’m early.
Make the game free it’s been long enough
It’s like the second announcement that they will make an announcement of an announcement soon.
Hi Kelly
Hell yeah
Why is the title here misleading? This is only indirectly related to the announcement
Announcement of the Announcer of the Announcement is a new one for me
Yay we have a community manager now
Aaw crap, this is hard:
An announcement of the announcer for the announcement of the reveal. And in this case I’m considering the reveal actually as an announcement of the real reveal.
Oh my god, announcement of the announcement of the announcement is finally here! Do not panic, everyone!
Almost sniffed the sim outta my phone tryna get that hopium
Well this confirms poedbs prediction is wrong. Where those down voters now?
Pretty much going to be may 8th release
Praise the announcement! :0
It might not be the announcement of the announcement but this one fixes one of the main issues we’ve been having, communication. Welcome Kelly & your team :)
“A reveal will be coming very soon”
Are we getting full 0.5 reveal on Friday and 1.may release?
Please guys with poe timing XP, is it safe to work Saturday May 2nd or not regarding 0.5 league launch?
They are not going to give us anything soon i believe…maybe some teaser picture or whatever. nothing important.
is the paladin in yet?
My only REAL question is :
Do you have access to the folder with all the GIFS Bex was using for every post reply possibility ?
OR is there anotheeee NEW foldr ?
Do you think well get a release date 2 weeks before release so that thise of us who have a strict 2 week notice for leave policy can put in time off for the launch?
I don’t see them announcing a livestream date just 3 days before it. So most likely 30 April livestream and 8 May release.
Can you please announce this before you announce? This kinda jumpscared me
Swords?
Even the announcement is in Early Access SMH
The rate of speculative streams/podcast/videos about 0.5 is increasing and getting out of hand, GGG has to put an end to this.
The day of the annoucement of the annoucement
All aboard the hype train, next stop Teaser on the Announcement of the Announcement of the Trailer.
Announcement of the announcer of the announcement of the announcement.
I blame Kelly
Finally the classic pre-announcement of the pre-announcement for the announcement of the date of the announcement.
Lmao 🤣 let’s gooooo
chemist FInally…
Hype 2
WHEN!!?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!
A
damn 8 team community members seems abit much noo?
Make it at 23, so we will have D4, AC black flag and PoE2
randomly replying on Reddit
Lol as if, since Bex left literally none of the GGG employees hold communication beyond week 1.5 of a league launch
I’m gonna cum
I am old enough to have seen this episode of Rosanne …. they say “she’s the same she is not the same” bex_ggg
SWORDS n AXES!!
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Is this a good time to ask how PoE 2 is versus 1? I haven’t played since 2 launched. Any new mechanics like rolling?
HOLY FUCK ITS HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
im gonna have a bomb strapped to me at exile con
edit: sorry felt bad after saying this although obviously its a joke
Poe2 LOGOUT
That twitter name is lowkey kinky.
Settle down, don’t scare them off before we get to know them first!
I mean, i welcome them and wish them a good time.
But if my comment (which is just some harmless joke) is enough to scare them off, idk if they are prepared for the job.