Developer Questions and Answers

What is your stance on a public test realm for PoE? Or a 1 week open beta before release of a new league?

What roles was GGG recruiting for first after the original founders decided to grow the company?

Any news on lab enchantments changes?

Based on what factors do you (GGG) think reshuffeling the Atlas every 3 months is something that players would enjoy?

Why was a making a new map series every 3 months without having a solution for the problems it would cause to standard players decided on? What internal analysis mechanics failed and how did you improve those mechanisms for the future?

The trade experience in the game is one that I, and most people I play with, do not relish at all. The problem I have the most is response time and accurate/fair pricing of items. I can whisper over a dozen people sometimes before I finally get a response. I like how I can go to NPCs to convert/buy some forms of currency but other, I have to do the whisper spamming from poetrade to find things I need. Would you consider an "auto buy" system that can automatically handle a trade for someone up for sale on poe.trade without having to group up and trade in person with the player?

Like I have a trade window (or a new auto trading stash tab that I can buy from the shop -hint hint-) in my stash that I have set to allow auto buying. A person online on poetrade sees that I have an item they want. Next to the whisper option is a new button that says autobuy. The game automatically handles the currency exchange for me and puts the currency in a received payment section in the same tab for me to move to the appropriate tab later. I get a whisper in game that jonhdoe has bought my item for x price.

I am interested in the developer's reasons for not implementing an automatic trading system in the game already. Can you please share your thoughts on this?

What was it like at the start of GGG? Back when it was 3-10 people. I love hearing the coming-to-age stories of companies!

Can we please get the old masters back? Yes they were god awful tedious and boring but they had some predictability.

Why we can't use standard alter art item on league? Is that possible in future?

Why races seasons like medallion are gone? Will they return in the future?

Preamble: please allow us to search within this thread if you would like members to check if there are similar questions before.

Question: Do you have any plans to encourage publicly shared information, ala the "official wiki" hosted on Gamepedia? It's very much out of date for numerous reasons: E.g. the ridiculous triple account login process twitch->gamepedia->curse, markup language makes it difficult for people to contribute.