Developer Q&A - Part I

I really appreciate the candid responses.

just lost 1 hour trying to buy a map because of the fake online and price fixed offers, thank you GGG very cool!

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Is there any plan to allow players to opt out of certain past league content?

If a player doesn't want to interact with specific past league content, then it's usually possible to just avoid starting the event. For example in the case of Abyss or Breach, you can just walk around the object that triggers it. However, this typically feels pretty bad for players, because the content usually comes with generous rewards, so players are missing out if they choose not to play it.

We see the current set of past league content enabled in Path of Exile as a thing that we curate and modify over time. As we get more and more, various leagues will cycle in and out. Please let us know feedback about which ones you enjoy and which you avoid, so that we can bear this in mind.

We have heard the feedback about Intervention encounters in Betrayal and are discussing it.

Hi Chris, hi Bex :)

Most of the people just want to avoid/skip betrayal encounters for reasons you already know. The solution is so simple - just make Jun giving mission in new area , opening portals like Zana. You can decide which is better - 3 encounters in this area or make it separate ( every encounter with it's own minimap or small area). You must rework intervention for sure, instead ambush from sydnicate, make it like mission for the player to kill certain member and just put him/her in the new area - no popping, no ambush which cause a lot of problems...

Thank you for the great work! Cheers

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SadiThatAscended wrote:

my wife betrayed me in uber elder what should i do ?

Sacrifice to Kitava...as if there were any doubt.

Please just add market for maps... It is hard to buy some maps by website when 9/10 people are not responding.

Even Tibia have a marketplace in game...

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SephWalker wrote:

Yeah, and anyone saying that the currency bots don't effectively control the market for currency is flat out wrong. Alterations, augmentations, transmutes, basically all the cheap currency is almost always sold in bulk by bots. Just go run a search on the trade sites and message one of them, names like xzzxxxjsdfjx with absurd quantities of orbs that most people don't even bother to pick up. It definitely has an impact on the economy of those orbs. If the bots weren't swooping up all these orbs and selling them, far less of them would be on the market and their price would be higher. It sucks, though, because if something was done about these bots, there'd be a huge shift in the economy.

Much of the way human society works is based on the fact that most people are sheep and can be herded into behaving a certain way. Scaling it down to game design theory, you are being manipulated into overpaying and playing a certain way.

Stop being sheep

I am really thinking about leaving the game until 4.0...

Calling League "Expansions" now is an indicator of how they abuse the Hypetrain.
The hypetrain of 3 days server crashes to the masses of players testing out the content and by 2 weeks the playerbase has halfed.

No word about that and how they gonna adress it.

Next one is Flashback leagues. Where are the numbers that show people prefer "un-voided" Events?

Only Standard players care about that and that is by FAR A MINORITY...

Gating mapdrops in old content of wich % of occurance is so small is plain stupid.

They lose so many players because they are fed up with this crap and they still dont listen.

Imagine having a new league and you "adjust" 3 times mapdroprates and call it:
OOPSIE sorry guys that was a bug, oopsie there was another bug we improved the droprates again, playerbase doing tests and calculations and found out mapdrops are still broken --> oopsie here you we go again mapdrops increased.
All while you already lost most of the playerbase in a league.

I am a multiple thousand $ backer but I have to say: Not with me anymore.
Get you stuff straight because right now this crap pisses me off big time.
Especially the "We care about markets" no trade improvements.
Gimme a fucking break! All you care about is some tina% of currency bots crying on reddit for their precious monopoly of 20000 chaos orbs per bot account...

Are there any plans to have an e-ticket option for Exilecon? It feels extremely unfair to lock the Exilecon exclusive mtx so that only people able to take a full week off work and travel thousands of miles to attend the event in person can get it. Most companies offer an e-ticket option to their fanCons which include the same digital goodies.

I understand why an all-round AH is a scary thought for poe developers, but an alternative path of trading could be implemented to the currency and map stash tabs in a more accessible way (there has to be hundreds of ways to do this).

In that way people still buy your maps and currency tabs but in return they also get a smoother trading interaction INSIDE the game.That's a win win.

As others have said trading for armour items is not as frequent as maps and currency so it is tolerable.

Lay down your swords and give it a chance...

Map progression is not good. I think trading maps easily might be a good improvement. A more elegant solution in my opinion however, would consist of:

a) Perandus mode Zana: make Zana sell more maps and have her have a very small chance of selling a unique or very good rare map for cheap. Make Zana sometimes appear like Perandus with extra good offers in maps.

b) Make new currency: map fragments. When you sell maps to Zana, you get fragments. With these you can buy maps from Zana. Including maps you don't have yet.

Re-doing the Atlas every league is incredibly painstaking. I don't mind the trading that much except for the map part. When we had like 40 maps it wasn't that bad but we got so god damn many now and I feel obligated to complete them to get the Atlas bonus.