PS4 game is unplayable - crushes and performance issues

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1. What platform you're playing on, listing [PS4], or [Xbox] at the beginning of your thread name.

PS4 CUH-2208A

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2. What time this happened

all the time, see video below for more information. at least 2-3 time a day.

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3. Gateway / Location

most of the time i play Moscow GW

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4. Error messages when failing to teleport, or load into a zone.

nope

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5. Are you crashing to the console dashboard, or disconnecting back to the login screen?

console dashboard

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6. If you can reproduce the 100% of the time a video clip would be handy.

can not reproduce it, i did not note any consistent pattern except one thing - almost all the time my fps was like 0-3 before crushed

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7. Are you using a cabled connection, or Wifi.

cable, on PS4 info screen i can see following data:
NAT type: Type 2
download: 100Mbps approximately
upload: 100Mbps approximately

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8. What model console are you using?

PS4 CUH-2208A

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9. Your gamer tag or PSN ID (a private message is fine for this if you're uncomfortable posting this publicly.)

rookie81pwnz

first of all i want to say in my opinion PoE is one of the best games i have ever played.

but now game is unplayable on PS4 because of two main concerns:
1. consistent crushes;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KCXkoroptU
2. performance issues;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVJcyabVgEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLD0VYSmoh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9_3qYomf0

i stopped making any donations because i do not see any will from GGG to do anything with these two points. I started playing PoE in legion and in blight performance is even worse. for me that means GGG does not care about players at all.

the performance issue is not related to a particular build. i played legion with cyclon, ed and had the same horrible performance. Any legion or blight encounters are always result like 3-5 fps.

It might be I am doing something wrong and game is unplayable only for me so I would ask other players to share their experience in playing PoE on PS4. But i would ask to share end game experience, not compaign and early atlas.

And if the problem is not on my side, I am just wondering is there any Q&A team in GGG? If so how is it possible that all these bugs and performance issues were not found during testing phase? And If they were found then why and who made a decision to publish the game anyway? Does Sony has any quality control process before they approve application to be published in PlayStation Store? If so, how can the miss such an issues too and who is responsible for that?

Before PoE I just had no idea tha game on PS4 may crush or has a performance issues. For now from my perspective Sony should remove PoE from PlayStation Store and wait till GGG fix all of these issue and make product playable.

Only one thing I can see GGG is doing well on PS4 is making microtransactions.

So, could you please give me an answer where the problem is:
1. Problem with my PS4 and I should make a ticket to Sony;
2. Problem with PoE;

if the problem with PoE what is the plan? Do you have any intentions to change this frustrating situation?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

PS I will make a post on reddit and ask people to stop making any donations on PS4 till GGG take into account these concerns in their development of another microtransaction pack. It might be I would not get any support from players, but I will try.

three more crushes since the moment i made previous post

Turn off your sounds, let loot sound only, and rebuild your PS4 database, it helped me ALOT, might help you aswell.

Don't expect an answer from mods here.

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Turn off your sounds, let loot sound only, and rebuild your PS4 database, it helped me ALOT, might help you aswell.

Don't expect an answer from mods here.

thx for your advice, really appreciate it.
have just rebuilt a database, nothing has changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u5MO0hiGdw

turned off sounds, same thing, no improvements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ULM9OzThM

so if it does not make sense to wait for the answer from GGG in this thread - is there are any other possibility to pay their attention to the problems they have? or they just d o not care at all?

It wont change the performance, it will avoid crashs for sure, some skills and items just cause more lag than others, or even crashs like Rigwald Quills.

I suggest you to test everything you can and, change items, skills etc, we have to adapt our play style in console due performance being shit, sadly.

About GGG, there was a post made by a mod few minutes ago in suggestion topics, yet they choose what to answer or not.

I haven't played this game for months, but pop back in every now and again to see if there has been any improvement on the performance/bug front. Sadly, it seems it is more than likely every bit as bad if not worse than when I decided to leave.

It's a shame, I genuinely do think this game is pretty fantastic in a lot of ways but the shocking quality of the actual game code feels almost abusive towards players and I genuinely think GGG had some nerve dropping a game with this many issues onto the PS4. It honestly feels like a shameless cash grab. With the high cost of the so-called micro transactions (macro transactions is what they should be called imho) even if I did jump back in I'd make a point of not spending any more money until there were clear signs of improved stability and performance.

if you are interested in to change something, i have made a post on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/user/rookie811/comments/dsilxe/poe_is_unplayable_on_ps4_stop_making_donations/

at least we can try, right?

I really do not understand how this game appeared on the console? have not done any tests before? I know a lot of friends who are disappointed and have stopped playing this game on consoles .. the game has potential, but for nothing if it crashes 3 times per hour, I changed its resolution at 720 ... game beating.