Developer Questions and Answers

What inspire GGG to make Path of Exile? A song, show, game, or maybe person?

- What holds the future for summoners? It's a pain to get a little disconnection and have to re-raise every damn spectre and zombie, it's our weapon, it's not fair for it to be so painful to prepare for battle compared to EVERY other character, and that includes PVP.

- Do you plan to rework endgame events such as CTF or even add sieges and those kind of things? Nobody participates and I have no fun losing time in leveling new characters and new leagues, my YEARS were spent perfecting the ones I have and they have no use more than mapping over and over and over and over and over again...

- I was happy with the poe.trade site until people started playing other leagues and don't want to switch to sell, so, any updates of a much needed offline auctionhouse?

- Chaos builds still feel a little boring and simple, very few skills were implemented, any new ideas/skills to implement in the future?


Keep it up, thanks for doing these Q&A, speaks very good of you.

What is the take out of choice when burning the midnight oil in the office there?

What is the funnest bug you guys have ever seen in action for whatever value of funnest works for you guys?

Is it in the lore cards someday for people back in Oriath to care about what happened to leadership in Wraeclast? Do we get to see that story someday?



re: MTX and other things I'd buy...

Is it possible to get more voice acting for the characters as a purchasable pack? I'd pay as much as a supporter pack for that stuff. :)

Would it be possible to re-skin Hideouts between the types so that if I wanted the forest set, lots of green and trees, but the coastal hideout, I could do that? Again, worth a supporter pack to me. :)

I know there is a deep backlog of unique items to be developed for players, will you guys be putting that back on the market as a thing we can buy into eventually?

Seeing how there is already 16 pages of questions ahead of me I'm sorry if I repeat a question.

Been playing from the "beginning" and haven't looked back. Been some hiatuses in between. Some things that I always wondered was....

1. When can we see a comprehensive (or basic) breakdown of minion skill stats?

I love my necromancer, but I've always been kinda bummed that there isn't really a breakdown of stats for their life/damage/resistances/etc. I can pool numbers and do equations, but if I wanted to do math I'd take a calculus class, right, I'm lazy and like video games. Help us undead lovers!

2.Will the trade-game be addressed soon?

I know this has been asked, but I'm concerned as well...

3. Where is the LORE!?
The story is all over the place, yo. I want to immerse myself in all the backstory of the Empire of Eternals, and the Karui, and the Vaal, and all that jazz. But it's all pretty confusing. I want to know that stuff. The story. I love stories. That stuff gets my dick hard. If that is the point and it will all make sense in the end then I'll grit my teeth and wait, but I want to know when The Complete Encyclopedia of Wraeclast Knowledge is gonna hit the libraries...

Regarding a question outside of the game iteself:

4. Did the early crew of GGG all come from game/software design backgrounds, or did you guys do that as a hobby and eventually launch into the greatest game ever?

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Honestly, there is so many games out there that I hear about being the best game of the year, with this-and-that. But time and again I come back to Path of Exile. This is my favorite game, period. And the people at GGG make it happen. I just want to give a shout-out to them for bringing us hours of fun and frustration. Someday I hope to be apart of a team that brings people the same satisfaction, for now, however, I'll sit in front of the screen and grind.

Thank you GGG...

One of the earlier videos on the GGG Youtube Channel is a Presentation about the random level generator.

Can you maybe make an updated version of that or say more about the inner workings of your engine?
Maybe something more in-depth about the performance issues and what your plans are to fix them.
Or about the generator behind the labyrinth.

Thanks as always for being awesome!

Will ♫ "Other View - Exile" ♫ ever be back? :c

One more question (for now)...

Will there be any team or group events?

I've done a couple race events (not many), and some leagues (not all), and I've always picked up on the loneliness. Unfortunately a lot of my buddies (xbox players) aren't into dungeon crawlers. So most of the time I just solo. Solo play has it's benefits (that's what she said), but I always wished there was more options for dedicated team/group situations.

I can create or join a game to kill a boss or whatever, sure, but there isn't that essence of being a team/group, like say a MOBA. I know the intention of this game isn't to be like that, but I think it would be nice to join a party with a dedicated mission or "quest" involved.

Thanks guys...

My fps drops substantially at the second phase of the Dominus fight to the point where i only get a new frame every 5 seconds or am even getting disconnected. Are there any plans to optimze this for other owners of older PC's ?

This is my machine:
Core2Duo 2.4 ghz
3GB RAM
Geforce GT 440
No SSD
Win7 64 Bit

Thanks in advance!

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b89251173 wrote:

What inspire GGG to make Path of Exile? A song, show, game, or maybe person?

Diablo 2

What do you consider the biggest succes within PoE?
I mean, was there a point where all you guys just raised your hands and smiled becurse you achieved a goal.





can we get a riddle for some secret in the game?