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Thanks for taking questions and continually seeking ways to improve the game, keep up the good work! My question was how many of your team members complete 36+ challenges each league? I know you've shown the distribution of the general player base in regards to challenges completed, but I'd be curious to get an idea of what it looks like internally at HQ. Thanks again!	Posted by ClockworkUtopia#6250 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:36:32 PM Quote this Post
* - Will we see a cutthroat pay league option? * Poe Pvp experience https://youtu.be/Z6eg3aB_V1g?t=302	Posted by Head_Less#6633 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:39:32 PM Quote this Post
What's your philosophy on the bigger expansions now that you made all the acts needed to get to the endgame? Do you think the current big, complex leagues are sustainable? It seems like sinking a lot of money for stuff that should be discarded given the limited space to add stuff to the main game. Add a Forsaken Masters questline https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2297942	Posted by NeroNoah#1010 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:42:57 PM Quote this Post
" SlaserX wrote: Why do you refuse to budge on improving Trade, despite the fact that the Trade Manifesto is entirely based on false assumptions and bad guesses? Edit: Due to negative feedback on reddit due to the wording, I'll put it another way. Have you considered listening to your players about the trade experience, just like you finally did with the desync issue (which lead to the discovery and fixing of several bugs in predictive mode that made the game actually unplayable, due to desync [This one's for you Oos]), or are you going to ignore the feedback of the general population of the game that trade is not a good experience, and not worth the risk (as we've seen in the rates of more than 90% of the playerbase not engaging with the system at all, rampant posts about scammers who go unpunished, the system seemingly built to enable underhanded behaviors like pricefixing, etc.) this is one pf the hugest questions. Hope they will answer to this, and not just with couple of words..	Posted by Melanholic7#2425 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:44:32 PM Quote this Post
" SlaserX wrote: Why do you refuse to budge on improving Trade, despite the fact that the Trade Manifesto is entirely based on false assumptions and bad guesses? Edit: Due to negative feedback on reddit due to the wording, I'll put it another way. Have you considered listening to your players about the trade experience, just like you finally did with the desync issue (which lead to the discovery and fixing of several bugs in predictive mode that made the game actually unplayable, due to desync [This one's for you Oos]), or are you going to ignore the feedback of the general population of the game that trade is not a good experience, and not worth the risk (as we've seen in the rates of more than 90% of the playerbase not engaging with the system at all, rampant posts about scammers who go unpunished, the system seemingly built to enable underhanded behaviors like pricefixing, etc.) I just want to say to you to not be bullied or care about what reddit thinks. You showed genuine concern over a real problem that GGG isn't tackling. Market manipulators have been gaming the economic system for many years now and they have not done anything directly about it other than banning botters which has helped but they do need to add a market like they did for the ps4 and xbone versions. Tala Moana, Exile.	Posted by Jpope3614#6557 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:47:02 PM Quote this Post
Are there any plans to decrease item drops in the future? I enjoy having a variety of item classes to chose from, but the current state of normal/magic/rare item drops in endgame seems off in my opinion. Playing a ~ 100% quantity map with 3-4 sextants and loot filter on “default” shows this just fine I think. I saw games freeze when pressing alt (to show all items) after clearing a map or loot explosion from league content. The amount of loot may even make it harder for new players to enjoy and understand the game. My only idea to solve this would be to limit item variety once you reach maps. Did you discuss this topic before? tl;dr: Too. Much. Clutter. Last edited by itsamemarkus#2065 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:49:55 PM	Posted by itsamemarkus#2065 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:47:11 PM Quote this Post
Are design descisions of league mechanics that require a lot of stash space influenced by potential stash tab sales? (e.g. non stackable delve resonators and fossils, fractured rare items) I don’t know if this is too tinfoil, but I noticed an increased number of league mechanics that require you to have a lot of stash space. So there is this new Synthesis league and nobody knows what’s good or bad before some external source publishes data mined mechanics; meanwhile a ton of (non hideable) fractured items drop... Then there are delve fossils and resonators. It has been discussed before that there are some technical challenges because of resonator sockets. But I wonder, the first internal playtester that did a delve session for a few hours must have noticed that stash tabs filled up pretty fast. Guess my question is: Do you intentionally increase inconveniences regarding stash space for more stash tab sales? Or do you expect players to interact with the crafting part of leagues more frequently so that you assume most resources will be consumed? Last edited by itsamemarkus#2065 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:49:27 PM	Posted by itsamemarkus#2065 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:47:53 PM Quote this Post
What are - in your eyes - the key requirements for a starting game designer (not developer), for example for a game like PoE? Or can you not start your career as game designer (except when developing your own game, but then you would also need to have the skills of a developer) and instead have to get into some company first in a different role, hoping someone there will listen to your ideas, before you can switch to being a game designer (which would allow you to get the experience required to apply for jobs as game designer somewhere else, e.g. GGG)? Last edited by ArgentumWulf#7200 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:48:53 PM	Posted by ArgentumWulf#7200 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:48:05 PM Quote this Post
Will you ever consider opening up old leagues (maybe voided?) for those of us who either were not present for them or ran out of time to complete the challenges within them? Now that you rolled out the ability to pay for private leagues, I'd love a second shot to play older content between leagues or to attempt to finish challenges I didn't get to finish because of real life commitments.	Posted by wakasm#2856 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:52:06 PM Quote this Post
Any plan to improve minion tooltips? We know the team saw it, but since then everything has been silent. Since 3.7 is going to rebalance melee can we hear about what kind of role GGG envision melee builds should have? What do GGG like about melee gameplay, what do they dislike? From GGG's perspective have previous melee rebalance's been successful, or well received? If not, how has that impacted your process when addressing any/other area's of the game? IGN: Victory_Or_Sovngarde It's not a 13 week development cycle, it's a 13 week supporter-pack cycle. You can play any build you want, as long as it's the current meta.	Posted by Ashen_Shugar_IV#4253 on Apr 22, 2019, 7:54:54 PM Quote this Post