Developer Q&A - Part I

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Yes, we do stand by everything we wrote in the manifesto. We are not adding a Trade Market to the PC version of Path of Exile.

Game is dead bois.

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whrsmycoffee wrote:

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.

I like both of your ideas, specially the map fragments since you start getting low tier maps that you dont pick at some point at least I don't since I wont be buying any stashes.

well i am happy that you are so open with your discussion... but no trade improvements just suck so hard... All i ask would that remove only tabs are hidden ( and can't be changed ) and that alone would help so much for standard players ...

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We are not adding a Trade Market to the PC version of Path of Exile.

#1 reason I continue play, recommend, and support the game. Thank you GGG!

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Can we get Cross Play between console platforms?

That'd be awesome. Players should let Sony know that they're interested in Cross Play being enabled for Path of Exile.

lmao i felt that burn in my soul.

Torment would be sick if you game across double or triple ghosted rares or just 1 rare with like every 4 ghost in it when there's a torment mod. The ghost die too quickly or don't spawn around rares and it feels unrewarding to interact with. Especially unrewarding when there's a ghost down a long hallway blocked off by an the entrance to the boss lair. Instead of a ghost boss I 1 a mob on the way to the boss that does nothing.


Torment should be all rares ghosted +boss with 3 ghost. Change my mind.

"Our conclusion was: Yes, we do stand by everything we wrote in the manifesto. We are not adding a Trade Market to the PC version of Path of Exile."

You kidding right? This is clear contradiction.

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Augusten wrote:

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We are not adding a Trade Market to the PC version of Path of Exile.

#1 reason I continue play, recommend, and support the game. Thank you GGG!

Can you explain why you don't want it? For me it will be 1# reason why I quit in the future.

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What are your thoughts about the current state of dropped rare items, particularly normal ones (i.e. not Shaped/Elder/Fractured/etc)?

OFC when you find yellow item with 5 life on it in map you are just pissed...

That was really informative, thanks... though I have a few questions aswell now...

- What are your thoughts on the use macros of any kind?

I heard people talk about how macros are generally not allowed (for a logical reason) yet there are no real consequences for using any either? The trade-macro doesn't seem like much of a problem to me since all that saves the users are a few seconds of opening their browser and looking the items up, I'm specifically referring to logout-macros though, as every time I see people using those it annoys me heavily. (Although I find it hilarious if they can't log out in time and die regardless, well deserved.)
Obviously a lot of big streamers use them so I'm absolutely certain you are aware they are commonly used.

- Should an update ever happen be a bigger success than the release of betrayal and upon release fill the servers way above what they're capable of handling, how would you act? Would you leave everyone in a queue, would you take the servers down completely, would you leave the game down for a while and try to upgrade the servers or would you leave it as is to see what happens?

- How is the game doing financially? Do you feel like you need to increase the prices of MTX or generally more players to spend money on the game? Or is it fine as it is?

I'm not asking for any specific numbers, I'm simply curious if you feel like that the way the game's income is as of right now, you might run into a financial crisis at some point completely stopping you from developing the game or having to drastically reduce the number of people working on it?

- Are there any plans for player-model resprites in future updates? If so, are you going to change the way they look entirely (e.g. give the witch more clothes, change the scion's hair color, give the ol' neck boy some pants...) or are you simply going to update their sprites, make them look smoother by rounding out heavy edges, change their walking/attack animations to feel more fluent and change their idle animations/poses while in towns or out adventuring?