Kinda frustrated that my support went for a Consol port instead of fixing and making the game better

I've been a supporter since closed beta, and I have multiple PoE t-shirts from supporter packs. I don't own a console, and I never plan to.

The only thing I'm frustrated by at the moment is the amount of entitled whining on reddit and the forums. You guys are spewing bile and claiming that this is the end of PoE and all sorts of ridiculous nonsense when in fact it's almost certainly going to have a positive impact on the game as a whole.

I suggest you read this interview with Chris Wilson http://www.pcinvasion.com/path-of-exile-impact-xbox-version

With increased revenue from console players they can spend more money on improving the game as a whole, and we've already gotten some benefits from the performance enhancements related to making sure the game will run on a console with crappy hardware.

The thing I'm the most excited about is that the console version will need significant improvements to trading within the game client itself, which we'll no doubt get on the PC version as well. They can't really expect console players to open a browser and use poe.trade. (Oh, and before you claim that they'll take Diablo 3's route and make the game completely self-found: Don't be absurd. GiGiGi has always said that trading is a core part of the game, and they've been reluctant to even make solo self-found a viable option.)

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carkasjak wrote:

The only thing I'm frustrated by at the moment is the amount of entitled whining on reddit and the forums. You guys are spewing bile and claiming that this is the end of PoE and all sorts of ridiculous nonsense when in fact it's almost certainly going to have a positive impact on the game as a whole.

Human beings like to complain.

It's the next most certain thing after death and taxes

You sure your support went into the xbox development and not for paying the cleaning staff?

http://www.pcinvasion.com/path-of-exile-impact-xbox-version

Some more explanations here ...

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carkasjak wrote:

The thing I'm the most excited about is that the console version will need significant improvements to trading within the game client itself, which we'll no doubt get on the PC version as well.

I wouldn't bet on that. The PoE version in China have some difference on the trading part, and nothing has been ported to main realm.

Expecting trading improvements in 2017 ? really ? :D Come on you are here since a while you already know this is an illusion exile.

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carkasjak wrote:

With increased revenue from console players they can spend more money on improving the game as a whole

But when

they've probably been spending money on that port for the last year and half and the port is more likely to be out in 6months if not more

then, they'll have to work on advertising and growing this console community

it will take time for that console port to be profitable and benefit to the PC version that subsidized it

Im not against a Console port, im just sad that part of my support over the last 6 years, support that was promissed to be for making the game better, has been to create something that slows that told improvement.

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Sexcalibure wrote:

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carkasjak wrote:

With increased revenue from console players they can spend more money on improving the game as a whole

But when

they've probably been spending money on that port for the last year and half and the port is more likely to be out in 6months if not more

then, they'll have to work on advertising and growing this console community

it will take time for that console port to be profitable and benefit to the PC version that subsidized it

Im not against a Console port, im just sad that part of my support over the last 6 years, support that was promissed to be for making the game better, has been to create something that slows that told improvement.

The advertising aspect is actually a lot easier than some might imagine. A perfect example of this is when POE makes this move, there will likely be a Path of Exile "Tile" in the Start Menu of every Windows 10 OS on the planet. (Xbox method of advertising newly released titles for the platform).

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Sexcalibure wrote:

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carkasjak wrote:

With increased revenue from console players they can spend more money on improving the game as a whole

But when

You seem to have missed the part where Breach league was the most successful league ever, and the plethora of performance improvements we've already gotten. I'm certainly not feeling any sort of slowdown in improvements. There has been a steady flow of new content.

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carkasjak wrote:

You seem to have missed the part where Breach league was the most successful league ever, and the plethora of performance improvements we've already gotten. I'm certainly not feeling any sort of slowdown in improvements. There has been a steady flow of new content.

Path of Exile is a veritable waterfall of new content. If I ignored balance/design concerns (oversimplification of decisions presented, i.e. lack of decision pain), I would probably name Path of Exile one of the most amazing games out there. Lockstep and networking improvements were one of the biggest changes in POE for me, that turned it from "amateur, shoddy hobby-project" to "dream game."

Overall, not bad.

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carkasjak wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

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carkasjak wrote:

With increased revenue from console players they can spend more money on improving the game as a whole

But when

You seem to have missed the part where Breach league was the most successful league ever, and the plethora of performance improvements we've already gotten. I'm certainly not feeling any sort of slowdown in improvements. There has been a steady flow of new content.

yeah but they have cut in race season and despite being of great potential, the new league have not been as good as they could have been and on top of that they stopped improving the leagues after their releases

all this coincide with the beginning of the Xbox project