An Update from Chris

Thanks for the update, Chris! I really loved the idea of Synthesis and am actually enjoying the league thoroughly. While I'm sad to hear that it won't go core immediately, I know it deserves the Beastiary treatment and will come back much stronger in its next iteration. It absolutely makes sense that you have to be selective with the limited bandwidth that you have. Can't wait to see the 4.0 announcement at ExileCon, and the 3.7 announcement in three weeks!

Seriously want to reiterate that sending messages like these, as well as your GDC talk and Baeclast questionnaire, are really awesome for keeping the players like me informed as to your long-term plans. My faith in GGG and the future of PoE is strong because of these!

As a relatively new player, I have loved everything so far, I do not understand everything in the game yet it is vast and complex which is not a bad thing. The biggest complaint I have was not really addressed though and that concerns me, If the loading screen is too long then it disconnects. If I have a Syndicate encounter I disconnect and upon going back into the game the lag is unbearable. I have died before I have been able to move and in some occassions, I have died before the area has even loaded from the loading screen. I am happy that you want to take time, I completely respect that and I would rather have you spend more time releasing something than a game which is almost unplayable which due to the disconnect/lag/death problems mentioned it is at the moment.

As I suspected, it really seems like GGG is biting off more than it can chew.

Hire more people, or scale back the projects so you, don't spread all of the resources so thin that there is only time to develop and launch with zero QA testing IMO

I love this game, but I work as a developer on my own time and I don't sign on to poe to test for and report bugs as i did this league.

Certain bugs are acceptable but synthesis was a product of overreaching. It was a very ambitious league, but you even said yourself that there were a lot of previous obligations going on that had been made which needed to be addressed.

Nobody is happy when this happens. The developers are sad because they worked their asses off, doing the best they possibly could with the little support and resources they were given only to be flamed by the community that the product was garbage.

The community is sad that a product they once loved now incites deep resentment when engaged with.

Both sides are sad and angry, and it's the organizer that is to blame.

You don't want your team to be overworked, but still do a good job then please don't overload them.

I think everyone would rather have something simple that works well rather than something complex that works less than well.

Just my 2 cents, but I'm glad to have read this post and I know that as a company you all will learn from this and improve because you are all artists and geniuses in my eyes. Nobody is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, the key thing is to learn and improve. I'm really excited for the 3.7 announcement!

4.0.0 <3

WTF is this game/company??? i start playing it at betrayal and i really enjoy the game but what astonished me the most was the fact that ggg RLY listen to players. Like people said "synthesis to complicated, hard ,not rewarding etc" (i was just enjoying it at the start personnaly) and 1/2 week later they made it easier and more rewarding. Or a streamer proposed a skin idea and they created it. And posts like this one. JESUS i feel like we don't deserve such a good game/company to produce this kind of services for FREE as I see plenty of people COMPLAINING (go play other game and try to complain u will quickly realize how this work outside ggg game's ;) ).

sorry for the poor english and big thumbs up for ggg

Honestly, don't worry about it. Synthesis wasn't the best for some of us, but the ones of us who understand, understand that we would rather you swing for the fence rather than bunt. We always come back for the start of leagues. We will buy supporter packs and upgrades. Reddit is a iffy metric.

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MarboroMan wrote:

found 2 typos.
not usual for you.
get some sleep there ^^

Marlboro ^^ couldn't resist XD

Ty Mr Wilson & GGG. Count on my support for 3.7 and beyond.

<3

chris god

by Chris:
"Synthesis was more work than we expected. It was developed over the Christmas holiday, and its gameplay prototype came in very late. We didn't have a lot of time to iterate [...]


That's what we heard when Bestiary flopped terribly. You are basically telling me that GGG hasn't improved or learned anything....


by Chris:
"An example is the Map Stash Tabs in Standard situation where we waited a whole league before we solved it. If we had put the time into this solution a league earlier, Synthesis would have been even worse."


That's incorrect. The problem is already on the table for approximately 1.5 years.