Path of Exile is Coming to Xbox One!

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T713R wrote:

For those who are skeptical about how it would work with a controller, I actually play P.O.E. already with an Xbox controller and XPadder. I don't know how GGG is planning on mapping it out, but with one of the back trigger buttons held down you can change buttons from primary to secondary functions. this makes it so you can have twice the amount of options as there is physical buttons on the controller. That is enough for all the spell slots as well as the important hotkey buttons. (Inventory, auto-map, switch weapon, quest log, highlight ground items, etc.) My previous experience with the ARPG genre was Champions of Norath, Dark Alliance, and Diablo 3 on Xbox 360. When I started playing them on PC, (Diablo 1 and 2, Fate, Dungeon Siege) I was used to using a controller and my shitty little laptop is cheap and awkward and kind of unresponsive so I decided to see if I could get them to work with a controller and I have no problems. That being said, I am not some super elite player where an entire map explodes when I walk through it so maybe there is some limitation with this setup and that level of play that I am not aware of. I support the idea some have had on here that they should include the controller option for PC users when they get this thing launched if that is possible.

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cipher_nemo wrote:

• Development organization and porting. We don't know how you internally will divide up your development, but the last thing your playerbase wants is to have new bugs introduced by changes for XPoE. Keep that port separate, and please use the PC version as the original trunk in your software developer, in that all updates and new content is developed and tested first on the PC, and then ported to XPoE, not the other way around. And please keep the balance of PoE separate from XPoE!!!!
  
  

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cipher_nemo wrote:

• Community. Do you plan to keep the XBox One community separate from the PC community? There's no doubt in my mind that XPoE players will find their way here en masse. Do you plan to launch an XPoE forums and site? Do you plan to integrate both communities and add some sort of visible way to identify which account is for which platform? We already have enough trouble between Steam and GGG clients in the community-driven Tech Support area on these forums. Flooding the forums with XBox woes would drive much of the Tech Support community away and burden your own support even more. But ultimately mixing the platforms would just add unnecessary stress to a community where some are already pissed off about this console launch. Personally I'm willing to keep an open mind, as it all depends on how well GGG handles this.
  

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DarkKaine wrote:

[...]Also why Xbox One out of all platforms. Was Microsoft that desperate to have exclusives on their system after shutting down their studios and cancelling their games one by one? PS4 has a much higher install base and much better performance. With Nintendo Switch you'd be able to play it on the go in handheld mode. But nope, lame boring xbox version it is. But yeah, the XBOne is pretty much just a glorified peasant PC so I can see that it would require the least effort to port.

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iNSiPiD1 wrote:

This could be a potential disaster for GGG.

Now you mean to tell me you've found a way to get this game to run near flawlessly on a turd called the XBOX One?

Either:

1) you optimized the game, and neutered it for the XBOX One to make it work
2) you did not optimize the game for the XBOX One (in which case it will be a terrible failure)

If it's 1) then you'll probably get a pass from the PC community, because we basically don't want to play a neutered version of the game and only accept the performance problems because we want to play your vision of the game in its entirety.

Either way, my advice is BE CAREFUL, you're definitely playing with fire here.