Developer Questions and Answers

I have a question about the gfx-engine. Is there any plans to add physics like ragdoll effects to the game in the future? Would love to see smth like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4Ps3FiDrs in PoE :D

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Are you guys at GGG ever going to upgrade your N64 to an SNES or even an NES?

Now I feel like getting my SNES out! Good ol' Zelda ALTTP. =)

How financially successful are the random goodie box microtransactions? Are they any more profitable than normal MTX or are they about the same?

Is there an (yet undiscovered/non public) exalted recipe beside selling a Mirror of Kalandra?

I am not asking WHAT it is, i just want to know wether there is one.

If not, why?

When will the new trading APIs be here?

Hi Chris !

Good to know you're taking those questions again !

So, here's a question that i had a long time ago and it's always stuck in my mind every time i get a 6S with 3 colors:

"Why the game don't support multiple recipes ?"

Question Explanation:



Thanks a lot for your patience Chris !

It feels like there is not much effort being put in to designing race seasons. What I mean by that is it feels like the last few signature race mods were added to the game without testing other existing mods (Extra Damage, Powerful Crits, Bloodlines) or the early bosses (Brutus, Merveil) with the added mods on every class. Could you explain what kind of play-testing is being done for race seasons? I could be wrong about this claim but I want to know for sure.

Also, will we ever go back to the longer race season format last used in Season 8? Many players on the race forums (including myself) really complain about the race rewards and that there is no incentive to play races now that the season has been shorter and there have been less rewards since then. We also have not had a race reward body armour since Season 8, which is sad since those usually look the best. If there had to be a longer break between race seasons if you made the seasons longer again, that's okay. I just don't like the race seasons being this short.

Thank you for your time.

Hey Chris, Brazilian player here!

Any news on the LatAm servers?
I very much want to use lockstep mode, so we, from the tropical south, need our monkey fueled servers ;)

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on a side note, my painfull relationship with PoE servers improved a bunch. Before 2.0 I used to suffer A LOT from disconections between instances (always at the load screen), and now it doesnt happen anymore, which is great, cause I basically stopped playing out of frustration with this issue.

I want to say I'm sorry if I repeated someone else's question, but 31 and counting pages of questions... O.o

1) For a programmer: What was one of the harder things (skill, unique, keystone, etc) to implement into the game that many seem really intuitive/easy to an non-programmer (outside of lockstep)?

2) For anyone: For someone who has never been to New Zealand but would like to go there some day, what is something you would recommend they go see/do?

3) Do you have cake?

4) What is the biggest disadvantage that GGG has for being based in New Zealand? What is your biggest advantage?

5) For the producers: Which unique (currently in-game) do you find to have the most interesting uses/abuses?

6) Can we have more lore? I really enjoyed the comic books, and I am loooooving all the lore around Wraeclast. (Along with that, will the library texts ever be voice acted?)

7) For anyone: What is your favorite in-game unique monster/boss?

8) Can we have act 4 hideouts (either from another master or for purchase as a MTX)? Limiting to just non-map areas I would love a lava, an aqueduct, or a dried lake hideout.

9) How long does it typical take to go from a piece of concept art to a in game MTX?

10) How hard would it be to make a MTX effect that effects the body of the character, like blood rage does? Has this been considered?

11) What is your favorite line of character class dialogue? What is your favorite dialogue overall (anywhere in-game)?

Sorry for so many questions!

How many more years does POE have?