Path of Exile is Coming to Xbox One!

Ive seen a lot of hate on here for the Xbox port but it is a good business investment. as the game is right now its not a very casual friendly game that means its locked into just hardcore players or passersby. That means the money and company development is gated at just the hardcore income. by porting it they can garner a bigger market. More people=more income. that's good for everyone who plays the game to some extent or another.

All that aside do you really trust GGG so little that you think they are going to destroy the game that you, myself and im sure GGG loves by porting it over and turning it into "casual poop"?

Ive loved this game since beta, sure they have nerfed builds i played or made some content to easy or hard but all in all ive had a great time playing this and have sunk many an hour into playing, i for one am happy to be able to share this game with some of my Xbox friends.

Everyone needs to take a deep breath and not jump to conclusions about what may OR may not happen to this beloved game.

i think you're missing the point i made...

Honestly, I find the secrecy of the emergence of a port is not fair and wrong. I have spent over 150$ last year (for all accounts together). Dear management of the GGG company, do not be surprised if you have to see an income break in one year. I will wait with the next Microtransactions in any case still longer after 3.0 to see if the port does not destroy the game, if 3.0 does not already.

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jozefch wrote:

1. there are 32 and 64 bit versions working on outdated (understand crappy) engine, all have to agree with that! So, why not moving to other engine?

The engine has been refined and tweaked. It's not outdated if it's in continual development.

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jozefch wrote:

2. both versions are quite poor optimized (which is true even when someone may disagree)

An XBox One release made performance a priority for GGG, circa 2015. That benefited all of us. So "quite poor optimized" compared to what? D3? Another current ARPG?

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jozefch wrote:

3. while choosing a new platform, focusing on minor platform (minor - sales on PS4 are 2:1 to xbox, so xbox is really a minor market) is just meh.... there is one big market completely missed - MacOS

Big market is MacOS? Don't make me laugh. ;-) Bigger market is platform independent such as Java or some other language/library set, but then performance would be worse again and people like you'd complain ever more about it.

As for why XBox One and not PS4, the choice should be blatantly obvious: DX11 client. With Microsoft making it easier and more rewarding for Windows games to be ported to XBox One, the answer is right there.

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jozefch wrote:

4. MacOS should bring incredibly more users than xbox who also "produces" more operating profit to GGG

You can currently play PoE on Linux and MacOS X unofficially and not compatible with AMD GPUs, so learn how to configure that yourself.

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jozefch wrote:

Latest DX/version updates of the game are unplayable on my RX480 and linux even with well configured wine.

So you enjoy gaming but own/use a Mac. No one's fault but your own. And one with an AMD GPU. Just swap in an NVIDIA GPU, oh wait, you're on a Mac (ROFLOL). So yeah, you're screwed. I'll have to remember your post when someone with Windows starts complaining on a MacOS X forum. ;-)

Congrats, but you should have fixed the PC first. I dont see how you will make Poe lag free on an 2012 average Computer(=Xbox one)if the game is already lagging on 2017 pcmasterrace PC.
I think you are wasting ressources and we wont see any further developpment before a long time.

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OneInchPunch wrote:

Congrats, but you should have fixed the PC first. I dont see how you will make Poe lag free on an 2012 average Computer(=Xbox one)if the game is already lagging on 2017 pcmasterrace PC.
I think you are wasting ressources and we wont see any further developpment before a long time.

No performance issues on a 2009/2012 upgraded PC, and now a 2016 PC. Perhaps your lag is with your PC, or your connection to the Internet? Millions play PoE just fine with no lag.

This is so sad. Why ggg?

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OneInchPunch wrote:

the game is already lagging on 2017 pcmasterrace PC

Totally imagine you saying this while sobbing all over your keyboard. Master race but laaaaaaag.

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cipher_nemo wrote:

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OneInchPunch wrote:

Congrats, but you should have fixed the PC first. I dont see how you will make Poe lag free on an 2012 average Computer(=Xbox one)if the game is already lagging on 2017 pcmasterrace PC.
I think you are wasting ressources and we wont see any further developpment before a long time.

No performance issues on a 2009/2012 upgraded PC, and now a 2016 PC. Perhaps your lag is with your PC, or your connection to the Internet? Millions play PoE just fine with no lag.

I've got to pitch in here just to say this isn't always the case. Please don't throw a number like "millions" around with no evidence. I've got a Nvidia GTX Geforce 1070 and a Skylake i5 6600k processor on a 70Mbps download 10Mbps upload connection wired directly. There's no bottleneck here in my system but playing summoner builds causes issues and using a skill like vaal cyclone in a breach is a guaranteed slideshow and I'm on low to medium settings with shadows turned off.

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cipher_nemo wrote:

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OneInchPunch wrote:

Congrats, but you should have fixed the PC first. I dont see how you will make Poe lag free on an 2012 average Computer(=Xbox one)if the game is already lagging on 2017 pcmasterrace PC.
I think you are wasting ressources and we wont see any further developpment before a long time.

No performance issues on a 2009/2012 upgraded PC, and now a 2016 PC. Perhaps your lag is with your PC, or your connection to the Internet? Millions play PoE just fine with no lag.

I built my pc last year, and I can run most games on high settings without a problem, but poe does not like amd hardware so I'm screwed. I legit had better performance on my old notebook which had 4 gigs ram, a dual core cpu, and a shitty intel hd graphics chip. This is not cool.

Oh yea and I have a stable 120/10Mbit internet connection too.