An Update from Chris

Well spoken, Chris! :-)

And nice to read, that there is a balance between "life" and "work" (sometimes it´s the same, I know...) at GGG, keep it that way, the people at GGG will surely pay it back with good results every day!

It´s clear that you cannot fight all the fires, but you doing it really fine since years, that´s not naturally in the gaming industry.

So you and your team can be proud of all things you created for this game until now, keep up this fantastic work, and stay as you are, then everything will be fine for GGG and us as community!

I'm enjoying the league as a whole, just not the league mechanics (as is) as much.

I do member the beast league, and got the same feeling with this league.
but, as amazing as GGG staff are, they made it awesome in the end^^ now I can't think about loosing Einar from the game :)

GGG works hard, and I can feel it in every build I make :D can't wait to see what they've done for 3.7.

Now, back to theory crafting for the 11th of may^^

thanks for posting this Chris!

I wonder what kind of black magic you would have to learn to get Bioware to be anywhere near this responsive. Oh how the mighty fall so very, very far

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When we reveal 3.7.0 in three weeks, you'll see that its league has a focus on repeatable fun, and the combat revamp has a lot of focus on improving the fundamentals of Path of Exile's gameplay. In order to do this, we have had our heads down, focusing on getting 3.7.0 to be ready as early as we can within its development cycle.

But that's not all we need to work on. There are a large number of critical projects going on at the same time. For a start, our 4.0.0 mega-expansion is taking a huge amount of the company's time. We see this upgrade as critical because the next generation of Action RPGs is coming and we have to be ready. Not proactively keeping up with competitors is how companies die. We don't see the huge time investment in 4.0.0 as optional at all.

If i put my self into developer shoes and imagine my self writing this quotation above, in a moment i get anxiety. I feel what you are up against. IF you guys manage to stay relevant by not going path of exile 2... Man than you're probably the best dev team in the world.

It's not just about replayability, its also about smoothness, top notch animation and immersion. To stay competitive with next generation of action RPGs you need all that. And current path of exile has only character customization. Game is ugly. I know that is harsh thing to say and its subject to individual taste... but ALLOT of people don't play path of exile due to lack of immersion,smoothness,animations,cheep feel to it... I don't know what 4.0.0 will bring, but it needs to deliver at least on one of those above stated values. GL guys ( you'll always have your dedicated player base but to grow you need much much more).

P.S
Diablo 2 had cinematic for each chapter!

Im working as progremmer but not in game dev and Im avoiding companies that wants their employes to work overtime almost always. So Im happy to hear company behind my fav game is a healthy work environement :) Keep it that way.

Synthesis wasn't funniest for me. There was too much commitment requied to try to make decent implicit on decent base. I was even thinking if totally random "spin the rng wheel" wouldn't be better.

Thanks you the words and assessments.


Btw, no one demands your staff to work 14 hours a day and neglect your family, but it was your own decision to juggle too many balls at once insted of releasing well tested and polished mechanic. You will not get rid of the impression that your "League" is an other word for beta-testing.

When players trusted you and pay 53 € for a expansion in advance, they not expect to get a non-tested mechanic and for some players f.e. game freezing bugs, so that they cannot play to content for weeks.

Hated this league but still love Path of Exile
Hope 3.7 will eat my time

Thank you.