What is your opinion about new globes?

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Terry_Pratchett wrote:

“Yeah, but…” Fred Colon hesitated here. He knew in his heart that spinning upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a smile and a small bunch of grapes was good solid Art, but putting your finger on why this was the case was a bit tricky.

“No urns,” he said at last.

“What urns?” said Nobby.

“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded weak even to him, so he added: “or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.”

“What about a potted plant?”

“That’s okay if it’s in an urn.”

“What about if it’s not got an urn or a plinth or a potted plant?” said Nobby.

“Have you got one in mind, Nobby?” said Colon suspiciously.

“Yes, The Goddess Anoia Arising from the Cutlery,” said Nobby. “They’ve got it here. It was painted by a bloke with three i‘s in his name, which sounds pretty artistic to me.”

“The number of i‘s is important, Nobby,” said Sergeant Colon gravely, “but in these situations you have to ask yourself: ‘Where’s the cherub? If there’s a little pink fat kid holding a mirror or a fan or similar, then it’s still okay. Even if he’s grinning. Obviously you can’t get urns everywhere.”

- Terry Pratchett, "Thud".

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Necrogue wrote:

Someone on Voat made a patch to restore the girls! Is this legal? I would think so since it gives no gameplay advantage.

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Edit: Official GGG response:

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As the UI is part of the client files, changing this is a bannable offence.

Regards,
Jared

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Because reasons.

Seriously, if something like WoW can enable and disable certain small things like this, why can't POE?
Only reason I can think of is that at some point in the future, they want to make UIs a microtransaction. Either that or as soon as Awakening went live, they fired all their decent coders and replaced them with a potato.

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Eldyrus wrote:

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Because reasons.

Seriously, if something like WoW can enable and disable certain small things like this, why can't POE?
Only reason I can think of is that at some point in the future, they want to make UIs a microtransaction. Either that or as soon as Awakening went live, they fired all their decent coders and replaced them with a potato.

Well, if they changed the globes simply because they wanted to change the style of it (as they claim), then I agree they probably will make it a microtransaction in the future. However, if they really did bend to pressure from the feminists or if they made the change with hopes of being able to reach out to a greater audience whom might be offended by nudity, then I do not think the globes will come back unfortunately. I will say, I am disappointed that GGG chose this route, especially since I always respected them in the past for 'making a game that they felt they would enjoy' as opposed to bending to peer pressure on the subject and selling out. Oh well. I guess Path of Exile must be starting to die as far as popularity and so they are getting desperate and trying to reach out to greater audience. So I understand. It still makes me sad though.

P.S. Don't mock potatoes man. They are delicious and your statement offends me so you should change it immediately or I'll start threads and constantly complain until you do :)

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jeż wrote:

Bex stated that in the "future" they want allow us to choose between several ui styles, so now the question is why it still isn't done, when as we can see it's not that hard, if a poe user made it in his spare time in less than a month. So either poe programmers are lazy/unskilled/total busy or for some reasons ggg don't want us to use old globes. (some1 few posts before made nice point that old globes were same for poe as star for mercedes)

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Xalthotun wrote:

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jeż wrote:

Bex stated that in the "future" they want allow us to choose between several ui styles, so now the question is why it still isn't done, when as we can see it's not that hard, if a poe user made it in his spare time in less than a month. So either poe programmers are lazy/unskilled/total busy or for some reasons ggg don't want us to use old globes. (some1 few posts before made nice point that old globes were same for poe as star for mercedes)

Any news? I wonder when it will be done.