Can we please pause the game when playing alone?

I don't want to get in on this whole debate, but how would that even be realised technically? Diablo 3 really has that? Isn't that one always online as well? How do you pause an online game with a semi-persistent world? The time ingame would still have to progress, right? Otherwise this would be theoretically a way to let regular/map portals never expire. I could open a portal to something valuable like a rare hideout or a hard boss kill and could spam chat (with another char) for hours until I get the absolutely highest offers. This would be restricted to non-party play I guess? What about the hideout, other players can enter there. What about instances with a timer? Incursion, delve, memory fragments? Being able to constantly pause would help in there to get a good overview. Even if the screen would turn blank, you'd just quickly unpause/pause again. So that action itself would probably need a cooldown as well? So many questions.

On a side note, would also probably be abused by hackers to identify certain data points to do something questionable with it.

+1 this and bumped!

I don't trade, I don't play with friends, I don't cheat or hack the client to break the server, and I don't care about ladder rankings. So I don't care how it effects other players. None of that should stand in the way of improving the game for me.

PoE is clearly designed to be a single-player game, like it's spiritual predecessor D2, and that's how it's meant to be played. All this multiplayer BS- parties, chat, and trade- were tacked on as an afterthought, same as with D2, and should be removed, it's ruining everything.

If it wasn't for the DRM, this game would be offline. It would have offline hacks, community mods, and it would have a pause feature by default.

What I want is a pause that allows me one command- cast a spell/curse, summon a totem, throw a trap, lay a mine, before unpausing.

Logout macros are allowed, use them if you have an emergency(shouldn’t be having emergencies that often...)

You can easily pause other multiplayer games

Its not like its PvP game where pausing can be exploited

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MasterTBC wrote:

You can easily pause other multiplayer games

Its not like its PvP game where pausing can be exploited

wut?
this is pve
it would be more exploitable against the monsters :D

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MrsDeath_ wrote:

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MasterTBC wrote:

You can easily pause other multiplayer games

Its not like its PvP game where pausing can be exploited

wut?
this is pve
it would be more exploitable against the monsters :D

Not really
you can log off already or become immune at will

so pausing the game has no effect

Instance could be paused server side, it's pretty much common thing.
Now how game's architecture can allow it or how hard it is to implement it is a different question.

Like someone from alpha who said the code optimization/hardcoding does not make things easy... Reeeeep.

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MasterTBC wrote:

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MrsDeath_ wrote:

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MasterTBC wrote:

You can easily pause other multiplayer games

Its not like its PvP game where pausing can be exploited

wut?
this is pve
it would be more exploitable against the monsters :D

Not really
you can log off already or become immune at will

so pausing the game has no effect

you can log off and you have a chance to stay in game for 5 more seconds
its impossible to be immune atm
so pausing the game would have a big effect

Agree!

This is what I always hated about the lab. My son would be crying in his crib or door bell rings and I could not pause to attend. Basically I'd lose like 5-10 minutes progress in lab using a portal and have to do it all over.