Developer Questions and Answers

I wanted to heed the suggestion of checking if my question has already been posted, but I don't see a search function, and by the time I got to this post, I already see 40+ pages of posts. So please forgive me if this has already been asked.

I never really did well in the race events in years past, but I always enjoyed seeing all of the alt art items that were offered for doing well in such races. I'm familiar with GGG's position on setting up race event and other such non-league events, but I'm curious to know more about GGG's position on offering alt art rewards in the future, whether for race events or something else. I love the challenge rewards given out each league and hope that GGG continues them, but I'd also like to know about alt art items and how GGG sees their place in the future of PoE, if any!

I also see others asking about the start of PoE and asking about the journey. Would GGG's founding members ever be interested in going onto a podcast such as "How I Built This" or something? Like others, I like hearing about startup origin stories, and I'm always starved for more GGG content.

What's the most played class and build from people at the office?

For us more casual players, who often play in Standard because we don't play enough to get but maybe one char near end game in a league, what can you do to help? Standard is a ghost town. What about a new league variation - it is launched at the same time as the new league but allows you to migrate a character over to it so you can continue the journey. This allows folks who like standard to be stable but allows us who want to reach end game to be able to actually do it...

Well, I read a lot of the posts and they are all over the map. Yikes, I do not envy GGG trying to make sense of all this.

Frankly, I give GGG a lot of credit for most of their decisions. Even this league I guess is OK (that's all you will get from me) - it is good enough as long as you have excellent ones every once in a while.

As I have stated previously, the only deal killer in this game - the one issue that has caused me to quit leagues is 6 linking. Back in the day I completely understand that GGG wanted it to be random and rare. But with the power creep and amazing item crafting the player who has bad luck 6 linking is totally 100% screwed.

In my humble opinion GGG needs to realize that 6 links are no longer the holy grail, and that they need to reduce the RNG. The holy grail for the high gameplay player is not 6 linking but it is for casual players and it is a deal killer.

Anyway, I totally get that the best stuff needs to be a big carrot for the streamers and high gameplay players. But, that is no longer 6 links - it is Elder and Shaper items or the one of a kinds or Synthesis stuff.

Who has the most outrageous battlestation at work? (pics would be cool)

Dear GGG

WHen u gonna sort out the chat sistem? I mean the chat and party sistem for players is very bad at the moment, id like to have possibility to find people that do my same maps, or same quest, or other thing together, i feel so lonely sometime i cant find anyone to play with.. the only thing good in D3 was just that... was easy to find player that play ur same map and quest.. pls make this happen..

TY

What is your favourite act to make and play through?

As someone working on game design since 2016, I have a question about something very simple that bothers me greatly.

Is there a reason every single door in this game doesn't behave like memory/incursion doors? I get that the doors blocking line of sight (specially for "blinks" like blink arrow) is kind of gameplay depth, but i don't think that mechanic generates any meaningful decisions or gameplay at all. The correct line is always clicking it and it would be a HUGE QoL improvement to have them open automatically when approached.

This is very minor but bothers me a lot and feel like something thats in the "But everyone does it like this" category, as in, no one ever thinks about it cause its always been like that.

Thanks!

I started playing after races ended, and i was wondering if you are going to bring them back? I love alt-arts and there's now a lot more uniques that dont have one.

Why bosses are so unrewarding compared to their danger?
What do yo plan to do with all farming bots in PoE?