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ImaMonstr wrote:

I've played several MMO's over the past 10 years. I have never run across a game with SO MUCH lag/desync/logout issues. This game is broken and I hope ggg can fix it. I bought stash-tabs from ggg and honestly I think spending money on this game was a complete mistake. I think crack would have been a better investment but hey, lessons learned right.

EDIT: I also wanted to add that everyone seems to be quick to say "It's your net/hardware your pc sucks blah blah blah".... If that was the case why wouldn't EVERY game I play lag/desync/log-me-out-for-no-reason the way PoE does? Not saying I never lag on any game ever but this is kinda ridiculous for a dev company that was croud-funded @ over $2.5 MILLION dollars. That's a WHOLE LOTTA server

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GGG is an INDIE game... That means they don't have a large publisher with a billion dollars in their back pocket to throw money at a problem...

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And PLEASE don't ever compare unlike games as "other games work fine"... because that's like saying that just because an apple and orange are both fruits, that they should somehow be the same and be directly comparable...

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I'm not saying GGG or PoE is perfect.. I'm saying it takes a beefy machine to run it without issues, and even then, how well it plays is VERY much based on the type of character and skills you use.

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GGG wrote their own engine rather than licensing a mature one.

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You can dodge in this game by actually moving out of the way of something. It's not some MMO auto-attack on target crap.

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"So, we worked on Path of Exile the entire time," producer and lead designer Chris Wilson told Polygon in a recent interview. "It was basically the reason we created the studio, and it just took a long time to make it. And this is partly because we chose a game that was a bit larger than we could chew, so our intention of getting it out in two or three years was little of an underestimate."

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In April 2012, as they were running out of money and considering asking investors for more money, they became inspired by the Kickstarter success of Double Fine Productions' Double Fine Adventure and InXile Entertainment's Wasteland 2. So Grinding Gear launched a homegrown crowdfunding campaign through the game's official website.

By the time it was done, Wilson said, it generated over $2.5 million USD.

As was the plan, that carried the game into an open beta that started this January. But this week, Grinding Gear will launch a second round of homemade crowdfunding for Path of Exile. Polygon spoke with Chris Wilson recently about the game, the studio and why Grinding Gear decided to launch a second crowdfunding campaign for an unfinished game.

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Wilson acknowledges that Kickstarter is good for shining attention on a relatively unknown game. But by the time that Grinding Gear sought public funds, it had been working on Path of Exile for nearly six years

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"Desync" is a very hot topic. At best it's a minor annoyance when it occurs and at worst it can cause characters to get killed in situations where they thought there were no monsters around.

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Any game has calculations that occur to determine the result of actions. In RPGs, these can range from combat calculations (who did what damage) to important economic transactions involving game items. To prevent players cheating, it's important that these calculations are not done on the gamer's computer, because they can easily modify the result of such calculations.

Because of this, all calculations that affect someone's progress must be done on servers that we control. These servers exist all over the world (Texas, Amsterdam, Singapore and Australia), but due to the speed of light and other physical limitations, it's not instant to send or receive data from them. We typically see response times between our players and the servers of around 50-250ms.

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All online games have this situation.

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Wait until data arrives back from the server before doing anything. This is a very common strategy in RTS and MOBA games.

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If you are close to the server, you'll quickly get used to the lag and everything feels pretty good.

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If you're far away (New Zealand, for example), it feels like you're playing drunk.

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Start predicting the result of the action as though the server said yes, immediately. When the server later gets back to you with a result, factor it in. This is what Action RPGs including Path of Exile do. It means that when you click to move, or click to attack, it occurs instantly and feels great. The problem is what happens when the server decides that the action can't have occurred - that's when the game gets badly out of sync.