Developer Questions and Answers

Are you going to continue unique balance changes, that you started in betrayal patch?

Any plan on potentially adding league mechanics (like Syndicate encounters, alva incursions, or niko's sulphite) to zana map modifiers? Or, any ideas on increasing the ability to select which league mechanic you want in your maps?

What is the point of loot explosions?

Everyone plays with loot filters. Nobody ever picks up those whites, blues and 95% of rares. Maybe it will be worth to reduce amount of loot clutter?

Any chance that with upcoming rendering rework players will have more settings?

What do you think about auction house for maps/currency/fragments/etc only?

Hey there,

How about optimization on ps4? Whu dynamic resolytion not correctly working on ps4?

Do you have plans for Guild hideouts, where guild members can gather, trade or exchange items, chat, play little mini games or some rounds of "public PVP" etc, as suggested by the community long ago?

Do you have any plans regarding the recent abundance of time/resource sensitive content that actively punishes you for choosing to do anything else?

What I mean, is stuff like Incursion, Synthesis, Delve, Betrayal, where you hit the point of: "You must now spend your resources or miss out on any future resources."

From what I gathered, the reason I did not enjoy this league much is the sheer amount of things I'm incentivized to do, not because it's fun—The game in general is fun—but because I'll be technically losing out if I do not.

I like incursion, I like delve, betrayal, and even the idea of synthesis. I hate the feeling of, "Oh hey you have to do this now or we will punish you for it." I really don't think that's the kind of incentive that is conducive to a fun gaming experience in the long run, at least not for me. I like grinding things in my arpg's and I'd love to play for a few days, and then rock out multiple temples in a row. Or do that Uber elder fight, but in the middle of killing the guardians I have to run synthesis, a temple, some delve, and a safehouse, when all I wanted to do was fight the boss. Right now they feel too much like an interruption to the game.

With love, some guy from Finland.

What was one of the funniest things you've all seen in Developing a mechanic, be it a silly graphical glitch, odd audio things, etc. I love hearing about the silly things that we never see before they are fixed!

Have you ever considered doing a Legacy league v2 to further experiment with direct integration with previous league systems into the core game?


I.E. (Talisman, Warbands, Darkshrine) unlike with Delve, Synthesis, and Betrayal league mechanic. Where previous league mechanics like Talisman are more of a side/extra thing that happens at seemingly random.

Do you think path of exile could be successful if the POV was set up third person similar to WOW, Tera or BDO?

Hi peepz,
I'd like to know a lot about how you organize the development of the product. Do you guys use scrum? If so, how did you cut the teams? Who is in charge of the backlog? Are there scaling frameworks you use? Are there several sub backlogs? How do you prioritize features?
Excited if that questions gets picked :)