Developer Questions and Answers

How many push up can you do?

When do we get a Soulles Watcher(A3 sewers) Cthullu end game boss???

As path of exile grows, and in turn grinding gear games as a company, have you thought of developing other games (in particular -- an MMORPG)?

The disappointment of Diablo III, and/or the search for the Diablo II experience is what has turned many on this game from inception. I think as a team many of you guys were inspired by Diablo II as well. The game offered a variety of builds and choices whereas Diablo III offers each class maybe two builds at end game. This over-simplification however is a trend for all Blizzard games at the moment. It leaves quite a gap as far as the MMORPG genre goes -- World of Warcraft despite being as popular as it is, is a pretty bad mmorpg, yet arguably the best available on the market.

With Brad McQuaid making Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen there might be some competition in the market if the game turns out well but I think the market is still quite large and profitable, and ready for big changes as far as game philosophy goes which is where your company would have the edge.

Are there any skills, passives, weapon types, curses or other gameplay aspects that you thought would be way more popular when you designed them but ended up mostly ignored by the majority of the playerbase? If so, which ones, and why do you think they never "kicked off"?

@Andrew:

I noticed with Atlas of Worlds that a quite a few areas of the game got some pretty subtle, but powerful sound redesigns. I particularly noticed that the Vaal Oversoul fight seemed a lot more robust, acoustically. What considerations do you have when updating or remixing sound for older areas or monsters?

Can we get Izaro as a player character 'skin' to overlay on top of any character?! That would be awesome, his voice is perfect.

Why does the mtx tab not have the same functions as the other tabs?
why cant you move the items around or even fit all the mtx that you bought?
why is there no collect all mtx button that transfers everything back or tells you where it it?

I want to continue to support the game but its getting a bit annoying now after a lot of packs.

Also is GGG out on the stock market, if not then why not?

There is some degree of unrest amongst the community regarding plans to release PoE on console gaming ports. What can you say to those who are worried about the following two aspects of the future of PoE to assuage their doubts?
1. The content and in-game mechanics of PoE might suffer because of inherent constraints of non-PC platforms: In the long run, PoE will be "dumbed down" to meet those inherent constraints for the sake of uniformity across all platforms
2. The development of PoE might suffer because resources which would otherwise be able to be devoted to the future development of all aspects of PoE will need to be siphoned off to develop additional platform development and support

Thank you.

What text editor / ide do you guys prefer to use?
How hard is it maintaining a code version in a project as huge as this?

I can't play minion builds because the game lags immensely when I do. Femurs of the saints is still an unusable item. Any patches or fixes coming to fix the issue of minion damage recalculation on the fly without crashing the server? Or what's your current stance with minions in general? I think Mon'Tregul was a step in the right direction, but Zombie Ai and pathing is rather terrible.