Developer Q&A - Part I

Big takeaways here:

Mastermind progress taking 60 hours on a character is totally fine, according to GGG.

Sulphite rarity (let alone existence in the first place), Delve intermittence, and possibly never seeing an abyssal city for the 6-socket recipe are also totally fine.

4 annoying map bosses are being addressed by adding mobs in between phases, when the question was about rewards... okay, so how about the other 150+ maps?

3.10.0 was mentioned. Big yikes.

4.0 confirmed as Diablo 3's loot 2.0 update equivalent (when it should be here already). Keep ignoring those rares.

Trade is totally fine. Yep, 100%, totally fine. Has been, will be, forever. It's fine!

Scarabs got mentioned once, and it was in reference to "you totally can afford these to Delve more. Use the great trade system to go buy these." What should have been said: We made Scarabs far, far more common across the board, and now they drop everywhere.

For all the "We're sorry" and "I'm very sorry" posts I keep reading from Chris, I'd swear he's Canadian, not New Zealandian. Doesn't matter though, because despite all of these apologies, all we get is wanton stubborness and unwillingness to change.

The current "Trading" in PoE is a such ugly abomination, tbh I don't even know, how you guys on serious note can still protect this thing from ANY change through all these years.

Even shitt*est mmorpgs more often give players better and more convenient ways to interact with each other.

But you guys just don't wanna even think about that.

Disappointing.

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Ashriel wrote:

4 annoying map bosses are being addressed by adding mobs in between phases, when the question was about rewards... okay, so how about the other 150+ maps?

i think they only addressed multi-phase bosses because all the other bosses die within seconds or even less anyway so that chance of a higher tier map may be enough reward (just guessing their intention).

This is why I love PoE. Also, Chris Wilson at GDC killed it giving away so much informations. He basically gave an entire tutorial on how to create a good game.

Kudos for this Q&A!

Lol. The trading system in the game is good enough already! Look:
GGG have MTXes, trading them to players. Isnt it great?

We got PS4 version of a game, because PS4 players need to spend $ too.
We will got South-african servers soon. For the same reason.

Ofc, MTX listing in the game looks way better than trading between two players. It is more important, thats why!

Seriously, people, cant you see, the only optimisation GGG care about is the optimisation of their wallet?

"Awww. GGG so nice, they made South african servers, so people in Africa will be able to play this sweet game too!" Lol. Yes... a kind of :D



Now to be serious:
1) I dont need AH. I need a good system to search for items i need. Search in the game (not in the browser!). It will not help bots to ruin the game.

I mean: make interface just like MTX offering list. Make it update information more frequently (i dont wanna see items, that were sold 10 minutes ago). And it will be pretty enough for me.

2) Make special window for trade-crafting. Even in World of Warcraft 15 years ago was such option: several slots for basic trading and 1 to put there an item, then crafter can interact with that item.

Here you can make similar thing:
One player puts an item in one window. Payment in smaller window near it.
Second player Chooses mode, which will be crafted. The first player can watch what mode is chosen.
Both hit "accept" just like in regular trade. Then both can hit "trade", and crafting will be made. The first player will got his item back with crafted mod. The second one will got payment.

Simple as hell!

3) Optimisation.

Trade is fucking broken.

I want to support this game but I won't spend a dime as long as you guys can't see making people stand around the majority of the time NOT playing the game is stupid.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Hey everyone, we've done our best to gather all the most pressing questions into the first part of this Q&A. Let me know if there are any missing and I'll make sure we get them into part two's answers next week.

Question: Do you guys have any plan to make Brazil server decent on league-starts and Races? I already lost 1st ranks on my class in races because DC's and than since I play Hardcore, always, I usually lose my character... I ran the WinMTR test for several servers, such as, Twitch, Streamlabs, other games.. didnt get any data loss on those.. AND path of exile Brazil server.. which i got a lot of data loss in the process...

I wonder if this occur because you guys only have 1 server for the entire south america, and Brazil itself has over 200 Million people, and besides Brazil, all the latin american countries also have to log into Brazil server? Wouldn't be smart to Fragment the server like you guys do with EU and US????

I am really glad to see you guys read a lot of the feedbacks of the community, specially about the Interventions on Betrayal, which sometimes can be deadly, specially in a laggy server... it's a content that you cannot choose to skip... the Syndicate keeps teleporting in your head and almost 1 shooting you. It's really annoying.

I was really hyppe to see you guys are finally realizing that SIMPLE most of the times is the BEST way to go.. better than filling up the game with contents that are complex and not fun & enjoyable.

Chris Wilson statement restored my HOPE & LOVE for Path of Exile. I sincerely wish you guys the best of sucess. And hope I don't end up ripin on Rank 1 again in this Race because the Brazil Server is bad.

Best Regards,
Bax_CD
twitch.tv/Bax_CD

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kainaj wrote:

The current "Trading" in PoE is a such ugly abomination, tbh I don't even know, how you guys on serious note can still protect this thing from ANY change through all these years.

Even shitt*est mmorpgs more often give players better and more convenient ways to interact with each other.

But you guys just don't wanna even think about that.

Disappointing.

Yep time for a trade boycott.

"Betrayal was per-character and had a longer cycle time than Incursion, but it was not really possible to make this per-account. We don't see a big problem here (you can still come back and finish that particular Mastermind cycle if you want to). "


Not happy about this but hey, at least they buffed the mastermind intel so.

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pr13st wrote:

"Betrayal was per-character and had a longer cycle time than Incursion, but it was not really possible to make this per-account. We don't see a big problem here (you can still come back and finish that particular Mastermind cycle if you want to). "


Not happy about this but hey, at least they buffed the mastermind intel so.

I dont even dare doing that kind of content... Brazil server is so bad that I would totally get a 2 second Screen freeze, and than when the game comes back super quick i would be like Insta-Dead... I only play hardcore... I really wish I could farm & try both Betrayal AND Synethesis bosses and endgame on those contents... but Brazil server is horrible feelsbadman