Gameplanet coverage of Path of Exile

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Gaza wrote:

love the jab at Australians...

I LOLed - what are the tensions NZ vs AUS anyway?

"By launch, the developer intends to make approximately 1,000 passive skills available to players."

I would appreciate we players having influence on at least few of them.

Well if you want to make an influence talk in my spell thread!. Dunno if itl work but its always nice to say ideas. Never know.. If someone comes up with a real cool idea they make take it into account and make it.

I won't contribute with more ideas until GGG mentions at least one we forum users suggested and debated already will be implemented in PoE, or until they ask us about - and guarantee implementation - for some aspect of the game.

Nobody has really asked to implement anything. Someone will bring something up then everyone will argue the shit out of it and draw no conclusion : /.

But I guess what you say is fair enough. Hard to get excited with suggestions when nothing happens with them.

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tormenta wrote:

I won't contribute with more ideas until GGG mentions at least one we forum users suggested and debated already will be implemented in PoE, or until they ask us about - and guarantee implementation - for some aspect of the game.

I actually did expect more in the developer discussion section or whatever. All they have is a death penalties thread. They should have had a town portal thread, a loot thread, and probably some skill discussion threads.

As for guaranteed implementation...that's kind of asking a lot. I would simply be happy with them asking for discussion on specific things and replying to the feedback, etc. The final implementation would be up to their choice. But if they consistently chose something that the players didn't want then I guess they'd run into disappointed players

Personnally, I can make up suggestions and stuff, but I keep in mind I didnt touch the game yet.
So each time I make up a suggestion I can wonder about its accuracy.
If developper suggestions is not yet a place where there are a lot of discussions and stuff it might be because we user didnt even try the game.

I think that every player has ton of suggestions for any rpg that they are playin, im not sucker "wow this game is better than D3".
But I think for that part, GGG did something really great.
They didnt ask us about whatever suggestion we would like to implement in the game, because they know they will just not be able to insert every ideas in the game.
I know a game which is Elemental War of Magic, this game is in beta stage and the developpers ask the players to write up all their ideas and suggestion, and you know what? They dont even read those.


At first I even wanted to avoid the suggestion part on the forum, usually those sections are among the most active ones, and in another hands the most useless one.
But here, there was just one thread, and this thread has been initiated by a developper. This is way different from what I am accustomed?

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"Grinding Gear points out that they’re doing their internal play testing on the US servers (from Titirangi) and that the game is quite literally being optimised at

-international traffic speeds-"

excellent planning .

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tormenta wrote:

I won't contribute with more ideas until GGG mentions at least one we forum users suggested and debated already will be implemented in PoE, or until they ask us about - and guarantee implementation - for some aspect of the game.

i would be more interested in knowing how many passive skills they have at the moment than naming random boosts in a thread at this stage

guaranteed is never going to happen, would prefer a list of some which are set in stone and then we can have a discussion about them and what MIGHT be appropriate to add to them.
personally i would wait until the beta starts before having people discuss them in regards to adding to the number. easy to say this and that but until we play it who knows

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FruitLord wrote:

I actually did expect more in the developer discussion section or whatever. All they have is a death penalties thread. They should have had a town portal thread, a loot thread, and probably some skill discussion threads.

yea i agree, although they are fairly active on the forum explaining things, to anyone who has not been around since last year it may look a bit empty

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tormenta wrote:

I won't contribute with more ideas until GGG mentions at least one we forum users suggested and debated already will be implemented in PoE, or until they ask us about - and guarantee implementation - for some aspect of the game.

I think it's fine if they keep us in the dark a little about stuff we suggest/debate about on these forums. The more we talk about them, the more ideas and pros/cons get posted, which is good info for them to have. It's probably hard for them to chime in and say, "this is how it's gonna be" because they're still in alpha. Also, they do answer a lot of questions on these forums, while obviously being quite busy.

I think they read the suggestions, but ultimately it's their baby and they decide what they want. We don't know what they have in store for us, so we can't judge the game with the same information they have. I am actually very impressed with how they handle things in the forums, if you compare it with 'that certain developer' at least :)