About number of acts and difficulties

Just a thought that traversed my mind,

back when PoE was in beta, it had 2 acts and 4 difficulties, making for a total of 8 'locations?'

now, it has 3 acts and 3 difficulties, for a total of 9

my guess, is that when act 4 will be released, there will only be 2 difficulties, for a total of 8 again

now where it gets complicated is when act 5,6 and 7 will be released

Is GGG going to keep 2 difficulties no matter what, or will there be only one and they'll find a way to extend the game by some other means than going through the same acts only harder?

I'm curious as to what will happen then, GGG did say that they intend to support the game for a decade if I remember correctly, so having up to 7 acts could happen, maybe.

My understanding from following the game and GGG announcements (sorry CBF finding supporting links) is that:

- yes, as GGG releases new Acts they will remove difficulties.
- GGG have loose plans to develop up to 10 Acts, but this of course depends on demand, cost etc etc.

So based on this if everything goes to plan there will be 10 Acts over 1 difficulty.

In the end, there can be only one.

I wonder what they will do with the resistance penalty do...

I hope they remove it, allowing more valid builds and item options to players.

Or reduce the numbers on the resistance tiers a bit to compensate and then remove it.

Not sure why, but my gut tells me it's quite limiting on item options.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Coal48 wrote:

back when PoE was in beta, it had 2 acts and 4 difficulties, making for a total of 8 'locations?'

now, it has 3 acts and 3 difficulties, for a total of 9

my guess, is that when act 4 will be released, there will only be 2 difficulties, for a total of 8 again

now where it gets complicated is when act 5,6 and 7 will be released

Act 3 was released in January 2013. Act 4 might (!) come around that time in 2015 (they said it won't be included in the next 4 month league). That's 2 years development for 1 act, which doesn't seem too bad tbh. So we might see act 5 in 2017, 6 in 2019, etc.

Tl:dr - don't worry about that too much just yet :D

At one time, Chris stated that he wanted to see 10 acts, about one a year. Obviously not going to happen. We'll see Act IV. I doubt we'll see Act V. This game has legs... but I don't expect it to last another three years.