Developer Questions and Answers

1)
While it was nice of you (and much needed) to add the ability for guild leaders to see the last activity date of their members and, more recently, the logs for guild stashes, can we expect some more guild content by the end of the year? Or is guild content a subject you guys (and gals) plan to address at ExileCon?


But as 1) was kinda touched on by some other people before, albeit more so in a "quality of life" aspect than a "content" one, here's another one:

2)
Path of Exile, years ago, used to have a community that was speaking of one voice when you guys were asking for feedback. Nowadays it's clear this is no longer the case.
There's a lot of flamers/whiners on reddit (and the forums) making it more difficult for legitimate feedback to be seen/debated on.
The Feedback subforums are littered with threads about people giving their 2 cents on what they feel are issues, what you GGG could do better, what the next league should be about...
But for each "issue" there's 5000 different threads.

So I guess the question is, are there any plans to improve the overall feedback process, possibly by you guys making a weekly thread asking for feedback on a specific subject? Or a broad one even.
Or maybe, just maybe, like we have members of the community maintaining build lists, have someone compile and maintain a list of feedback subjects and all threads pertaining to them? Though I do realize that would be quite time-consuming.

Hi GGG,

Any plans on adding an Indian Ocean / South Africa gateway for us, this-part-of-the-world-poe-supporters, to have less than 200-300 ms latency. Do you consider this possibility a waste of money/ressource ?

Thanks.

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Nosweet wrote:

Also, I'd love to can choose if I want to do (or not to do) a master quest in the leveling part. For example, the quest appear only if we speak to the master (as it was with "old" masters). Einhar is particularily invasive.

If you get Einhar while leveling through the main game, you can always just reset the instance.

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SlaserX wrote:

Why do you refuse to budge on improving Trade, despite the fact that the Trade Manifesto is entirely based on false assumptions and bad guesses?

Edit: Due to negative feedback on reddit due to the wording, I'll put it another way.

Have you considered listening to your players about the trade experience, just like you finally did with the desync issue (which lead to the discovery and fixing of several bugs in predictive mode that made the game actually unplayable, due to desync [This one's for you Oos]), or are you going to ignore the feedback of the general population of the game that trade is not a good experience, and not worth the risk (as we've seen in the rates of more than 90% of the playerbase not engaging with the system at all, rampant posts about scammers who go unpunished, the system seemingly built to enable underhanded behaviors like pricefixing, etc.)

^This

Additional: How about Guild Hideouts? Building together with your Guild Members (with option to give them permission to build or not) would be so awesome!

Also: I saw in the last month you go in a direction with showcasing Hideouts/Streamers etc to prefer the well-known guys and went away from showcasing other "little" guys who also have great ideas/streams/hideouts. wouldnt it be better to give them more credit instead of giving the already big guys even more popularity?

Thank you for another Q&A session! Actually I have two questions:

1. What games have inspired you in creating the latest updates? Everybody seen bonewheels and bonfire from Souls series but what about another?

2. Right now PoE content is massive. Don't you afraid that one day this will be too much and you can't adjust all items/prophecy/gems to new addons/patches? What work we must expect in this aspect? :)

Hi, thank you very much for this Q&A.

- Could you please do something about the ever-growing GGPK file that is now over 20GB, which makes the Steam updates take 20 minutes on HDD?
Have you thought about splitting the file into several parts? Say one for textures, one for music, and so on... This way when you only update game mechanics the whole file doesn't have to be copied twice on the disk.
If not, could you please at least say that you know about the problem your Steam users with PoE installed on a HDD have and won't do anything about it?

- Would you please consider improving trade?

Chris mentioned in interview that each league bring new cool items that are around 10% better than core ones. With that said, do you plan to increase difficulty of the monsters at some point (such as life pool, resists) to endure the future?

we are at third league with delve in core game? why you still didn't relased resonator and fossil's tab?
It's because you gain more waiting for people that buy a lot of stashes to stock reso and fossils?

why dont u let us play the content we want?

1) Game
I discovered the "auto gathering loot" system this league in the decaying memories, the Temple etc (my previous league was Bestiary).

Since the game seem to know what is valuable for the player, could we have a similar system with map ?
Auto gathering all the valuable loots in the map after the boss is killed for example.

2) Staff
Beside PoE, what is the Favorite ARPG of the staff ?