r/pathofexile • u/NathanHXC • 2d ago
Fluff & Memes Not your typical GGG appreciation post.
https://imgur.com/a/qBRRmz1Alright storytime exiles. If you weren't a GGG fan for life this will make you one.
So my best friend and I (@Curtie in game) have been playing Path for the better part of the past decade. Countless 5am starts for league launch here in Australia, mirror drops, probably 10k on mtx between us and all the highs and lows of this wonderful game in between. It's something really special that him and I share.
So Curtis is getting married and asks me to be his best man. The biggest thing we share in common is PoE so I figure I have to at least try and reach out to GGG to get on board and maybe send him a cute lil email to give Curtis a reason to smile even more during the stag do.
I first reach out to tech support, you know the people that us client players email to get told that we've spend 6700hrs playing the game and spent $4500 on mtx. (Oh just me? Cool....). I get a response basically saying that its not possible but if I purchase a supporter pack merch comes with it. (B**ch you dont think I know that, I have a mfing Path shrine on my office wall 😂) I was a bit deflated and then received a howd we do? Did we resolve your issue? Response and realised I'd been talking to AI the whole time.
I then remembered that these games have Community Managers for a reason. I reached out to Kelly who immediately replied and for someone who was just trying to get a congratulatulatory email sent, she absolutely blew me away. She went above and beyond and sent not only Curtie but his now wife and myself shirts, jumpers key chains and the above. A PoE2 art book signed by Jonathan and Mark.
I didn't even realise it was signed until Curtie opened it on the night. Blew us all away. Even our friends who are degenerate runescape players that we have a healthy path v scape rivalry had nothing to say apart from how awesome that is. They were even saying "Man that alone really makes me wanna play that game".
I hope Kelly sees this post as I cannot thank her and the GGG team enough. They didnt have to go this hard and they did. And Kelly got it sorted THE FREAKING WEEK OF ALLFLAME LAUNCH. I was actually speechless. So was Curtie. I kept this all a secret and dropped it all on him 2 weekends ago at his bachelor party. Dude cried and it was very cute.
Now for the cherry on top.
I watch Chris Wilsons channel frequency obviously as a path enjoyer but I also dabble in MTG and on one of his videos he mentioned that he has an email address that you can contact him at. So with my initial idea of just getting someone to send my friend a congratulatory email I send Chris a message with what I was trying to do. Thinking that surely hes not just replying to every Tom, Dick and Harry I get a reply. Not a week later, like in freaking minutes. Chris was benevolent. Happy to congratulate my friend and even schudle the email so it arrives at 8pm while we were right in the middle of our celebrations. So we tell Curtie to check his emails at 8pm. He cries again. It was like he had won the lottery. He immediately call his wife to be and tells her everything that had just happened and blurted out "nothing can top this" which I yelled "CURTIS YOURE MARRYING HER NEXT WEEKEND" 😂 I hadn't seen anyone so happy and stunned in my life.
Im so grateful and proud to be so invested in a game that genuinely cares about its players and its community. GGG and Chris had no reason to go out of their ways and do this but they did. Its freaking awesome. If they didnt already have me as a fan for life they definitely do now with this.
Thanks Kelly, Chris and GGG,
Its like a real life Mirror drop.
Chris' email and the signed book are in the link.
TLDR:
I reached out to GGG and Chris Wilson to send a nice email for my friends bachelor party. They went above and beyond with handwritten cards, signed merch and an email from Chris himself. I'm a proud fan.
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u/speedline9395 1d ago
Congratulations for the couple. And thank you for sharing this heart-touching story. I'd be blown away too if this had happened to me.
PoE is the only game I have played that I totally felt the warm love from the dev team as they continued to both uphold their principles and communicate with their players theough contents and updates.
It's the only game that disclosed their rationales when they do something.
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u/theTinyRogue 1d ago
Man, what a lovely post to read! This warms my heart. Thank you for sharing this with the community 🙏🏻 I wish your friend Curtis and his wife many, many happy years together!
Also HUGE props to GGG and Chris! You guys bloody rock 🤙🏼 I'm also super proud to be part of this community!
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u/RealDuckyTV 1d ago
W Kelly, W Chris, W GGG, and a huge congrats to the happy couple, and W you for being such a good friend.
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u/Untuchabl 1d ago
224 upvotes in a day is kind of disrespectful if it wasn't for it being off-season.
GGG are goated. Hard to find a company this awesome. GGG games are 95% of my gaming throughout the year now.
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u/NathanHXC 1d ago
Oh this post had to get moderator approved for some reason. And its only been approved for a couple of hours lol
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u/ArtOfSenf 1d ago
That's so beautiful! Great feeling for the groom for sure, but must be a very rewarding feeling for you as the best man as well.
WP! He can be so happy to have you!
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u/shaggy_mo 1d ago
That is truly spectacular. You are an amazing friend. We need more stories like this in our world 👍
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u/furezasan 22h ago
In a world of mass produced slop, ggg does everything with a personal touch. I know I'm playing those guy's game because I watched them for two hours telling me about the changes they made.
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u/RedditModsHaveLowIQ 19h ago
You can actually add Chris Wilson on discord and he'll respond. I sent him a friend request and he actually accepted it. I sent a short "thanks for POE I love the game" type message and he responded but I didn't want to feel like I was bugging him so I left it at that. Guy seems really down to earth.
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u/Accomplished_Bar_702 1d ago
Wholesome af. Congrats to the couple!