Developer Questions and Answers

hey staff, please listen to the question from the people who played the game

not the one only login and chat on global 1

see their challenges and u will know between the one who played the game
and the one that only spamming le toucan in chat

- Are there any plans of developing the diversity of servers locations ? (Im still getting 220 ping with the closest server)

- Loading screens can be very long and annoying and contribute greatly to some players having a frustrating game experience (non-fluid). Is anyone at GGG in charge of finding solution (i.e. pre-loading conneted areas while playing as long as it doesn't impact performance, as an option)

Thanks !

Trade is fine.
Trade keeps me coming back.
No other relevant game has anything like it right now.
Embrace the beautiful beast, stop trying to slay it with an auction house!

I would speculate that the conscious decision not to put an auction house in the game has retained far more players than it has driven away (myself included).

Millennials hate interacting with other humans. I get it. (looking at you LFR)



My question to the staff:

What is your favourite New Zealand Snack?

I would do unspeakable evil for some Burger Rings.

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Andrermpocai wrote:

As someone working on game design since 2016, I have a question about something very simple that bothers me greatly.

Is there a reason every single door in this game doesn't behave like memory/incursion doors? I get that the doors blocking line of sight (specially for "blinks" like blink arrow) is kind of gameplay depth, but i don't think that mechanic generates any meaningful decisions or gameplay at all. The correct line is always clicking it and it would be a HUGE QoL improvement to have them open automatically when approached.

This is very minor but bothers me a lot and feel like something thats in the "But everyone does it like this" category, as in, no one ever thinks about it cause its always been like that.

Thanks!

Maybe bot deterrent?

fisrt sorry for my bad english

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Spider蛛 wrote:

Good to see lots of new players with private profiles responding in the forums about game design issues.

So if a person have a private profile, or doesn't have a badge :" u're one of the best poe players" or "u spend 47185785954548948 hours on PoE", U can't criticize a part of the game ?

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Spider蛛 wrote:

Trade is fine.

Yes lose half an hour to buy a single map is fine, alt tab 30time to poe trade and spamming 30 times a generic answer like : @XXXX Hi, I would like to buy your Random Tier Map listed for 1 chaos in Synthesis (stash tab "Selling"; position: left 1, top 1) is really fine.

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Spider蛛 wrote:

Millennials hate interacting with other humans. I get it.

By "Interacting with other humans", u mean alt tab, and copy paste in ur chat a generic answer from poe trade ?

And after the seller add u to his group, all u do is "visit hideout", "trade" and that's all. (oh I forgot, the seller whsip you "thanks, gl hf" with an another 3th third party tool like mercury trade and u are instantly kicked out of his group.)

What a good social interaction with players :).

edit: like other people said, u can use the actual trade system for item, rare, unique etc. But for map and currencie it's just frustating to lose half an hour instead of kill bunch of mob in map. It's an Hack&slash, not an hack&slack.

How do the devs feel about the seemingly decreasing identity of game content?
I remember it was officially mentioned in the past that ggg likes everything be possibe to drop everywhere. However, this sems like an increasing cluttering and in some cases thematicly odd concept in nowaday PoE.
Delve is a good example in this case. Next to its core items & encounters (fossils, resonators and cities/bosses), there is a large number of more and less fitting content in the Azurite mine: In theme with dark and hidden encounters there is breach, beyond, harbinger, rouge exiles and warbands. However, its also possible to obtain elder/shaper influenced items, aspect items, sealed prophecies and large numbers of maps which seems faily out of context and strange.

-> Are there any plans to exchange less fitting drops in favour of more thematic loot in recently implemented content? Or to reevaluate the drops in such manner?

This game just need a simple functionality to "force" the trade at a fixed price. If an item is for sale at x chaos, just buy it, erase it from vendor's stash, move it to buyer stash and do the same with currencies.
No need a complex trade system.

That will avoid people manipulating the prices and also solve the trouble to get maps for 2 alcs

In the development of POE, what is a moment when you were:

1) the happiest?

2) the saddest?

3) the most regretful?

4) the most afraid of?

5) the angriest?

6) the most relieved?

will you ever support Linux?

Will there be a detailed (as detailed as the trade section of pathofexile.com) search and alarm system in consoles? Especially in ps4?