Is Grinding Gear Games doing anything about the desync issues?

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Nightmare90 wrote:

They are not that small anymore with 30+ employees, no.
They have issues getting qualified employees over in NZ, yes.

It's their approach that makes the desync situation only a small, incremental progress. They can't approach the problem at it's roots without altering the game integrity or mechanics. So they try to fix symptoms instead, approaching skill and level design itself. It's lengthy and not as effective as approaching the problem at it's roots.

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Gobla wrote:

30+ in game development on the scale of PoE, an international online game, is definitely small.

They could hire 300 and still not be considered big.

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http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/889669

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Chris wrote:

At this stage it looks like the biggest gains will come from improving the resync code so that it rapidly and reliably resyncs the combat situation if things get too desynchronised.

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MaxTheLimit wrote:

OP says stop working on microtransactions, and focus on working on desync. How exactly are the artists supposed to help with desync?

OP talks as though desync isn't being worked on. However, there has been several posts over the past while discussion specific and general changes / improvements to client server sync.

If the OP wants to know about what is being done about desync, above is a large general post. Scattered around the forums and reddit are more.

Does desync suck? YES!
Has it been getting better? Yes.
Is it slow and Frustrating? Yes.
Will it continue getting better? Yes, but slowly.
Will complaining about it being a slow process speed it up? No.
Will it ever be entirely eliminated? Of course not. There will always be discrepancy due to latency between the local computer and the server.

I do wish GGG had huge resources to throw at desync, but they don't. I wish it was something that we saw larger improvements to over shorter time spans, but unless someone throws them a quick 100mil...it ain't gonna happen.