Developer Q&A - Part I

the 64bit version is gonna rock when it releases (assuming its stable), no more need to juggle assets in RAM to avoid micro-stuttering if you have more than 8GB's. Much simpler resource management implementation for the devs to maintain too thanks to a reduced need to juggle resources between RAM and the HDD/SSD.

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Things disliked:

OMG Toxic cancerous TRADE. Even for maps there is a separate site poelivemaps. Let's have more windows open, shall we?

Too many GFX. Sometimes can't see what is going on.

All the extra scripts - poe.trade, poe.items, poe.this, poe.that... Even for filters there is Neversink but noone from GGG. I guess with being streched out as is, community take part of the load.

Here it is: Being used as a beta-tester, over and over. Raw-ass leagues, multiple patches that fix the league at the end of second month. And this one is not even going core.

No wonder people leaving.

Still hoping for some Cutscences/Cinematic one day to let you "feel" the story

thanks guys!

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Map bosses generally don't drop a lot of items relative to the rest of the map, but they also usually don't take a lot of time to fight.

my ass.
Even map bosses having annoying phases. What to say about end-game? It is all phased making player syntetically slowed. You made flasks mechanic almost major in the game but on Bosses you made everything to make it useless. It is annoying as fk

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Trying to trade in bulk maps, currency, and fragments is incredibly inconvenient and time consuming leading to more time spent attempting to acquire items to play the game rather than actually playing the game. Could improvements to the trade system for these types of items be made to help better facilitate bulk trading?

This question also prompted a long discussion, which turned into a conversation about how people acquire specific maps for Atlas completion. Our current thoughts are that we could make this easier, and so we are considering adding an occasional chance for map bosses to drop a map from an adjacent location. If we go ahead with this in 3.7.0, you'll see it in the Patch Notes.

For now there will be no changes to trade itself related to this.

Guys why don't u make AUTOTRADE option on premium tabs>? Like fixed price Negotiate price etc? Make it for bulk items pls? Man who will set autotrade for some item will get currency w/o inv sell say "ty" process. Man who buying just choosing trader on the list from bulk page pressing "deal" and getting trade window in game.
Just imagine how would it fix stupid pricefixers and afk players issue and speed up trading process?

Finding the 6 link recipe in the non existent Primivail ruins is BS. After 2 leagues I still have not seen it. Been to depth 250+ and nothing.....

Right now there are some things in the game like breachstones and incursion which require a flast clearing build to be properly played and completed. If you don't have the required damage or speed you will never be able to play them.
For example if you are a little bit slower build with not that much damage, but you have the survivability you will get it eventually, but not in time and you will fail it everytime.
All of the game leagues, encounters and mechanics should be frendly for every playstyle.

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Schizofrenia wrote:

Great post. I have also quit playing PoE becouse I can not do what I want to do (mostly just delve).
Too much access to something I like will get boring? Yeahh maybe, I'd just take a break from it and do something else for a time, not a big deal.
Too little access to something I like? I've just stopped playing altogether.

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Narnis wrote:

Ah what a joke.
Yeah doing delves as much as you want is oh so bad, yet tieing everything to maps that you do over and over and over again for years? Nah it is only boring if you allowed to do something freely.

What a great transparency..

right.

and its the only scaling content. People get to the point where they faceroll t15 maps, they just absolutely destroy them and would need something like a tier 30 map to really give them any kind of challenge or gameplay.

So they add delve and say hey, this content scales and you can actually push your build until it cant handle the content, and then you can change ur build up and tweek things and keep trying to minmax what ur doing to go deeper....


...but you cant play it. Wanna sit down and play 10 hours of delve? Ok sure, but you got to play 50 hours of maps in among it, 50 hours of maps that you completely faceroll, find boring as fuck, have already played for 8000 fking hours, provide absolutely 0 gameplay or challenge to any build you play. why? because we are worried you might get bored if we let you play the only grinding content in the game that actually scales to be appropriate for endgame characters.


its why ive stopped playing, its not just that they have 0 respect for my time and want me to waste literally 10s upon 10s upon 100s of hours of my life doing things i find boring to the point of hating like maps and trade, its that if they cant even see how fucking stupid what they are saying and doing is then theres no hope. Before delve there was always a hope they would eventually get around to adding good endgame content that wasnt maps, when delve came they added it and then said we couldnt play it. That just removed all hope that this game would ever get better on its current path, were not dealing with people who havent had enough time to add good endgame content, we are dealing with people who can design good content, add it to the game and then still not let people play it because theyve got their head so far up their arse that they cant even hear what the people who actually play their game are trying to tell them.

Forget what we say, we are just the people who play the game, the devs who dont even play this game, who dont even like this game enough to play it, they are so superior as human beings who know whats good for others that we cant be trusted to take responsibility for ourselves, they need to step in and micromanage exactly what content we are allowed to play and when, for our own good. Could they possibly be any more patronising and have any more contempt for their own players?



youre doing a great job chris, people are not getting bored of ur game at all, ur micromanaging us all so well that ur leagues start emptying out after about a week every time and ur player retention within the leagues just gets worse and worse and worse despite you adding more and more content to keep them happy. Heres an idea, how about letting them play the content? Do you think maybe if people could play ur game they might, i dunno, stick around and play it?





this is maps all over again. Remember open beta? Hey heres a great idea, people with level 90 characters should struggle to sustain lvl72 content because we made the xp rewards too high. Lets make a game that has endgame content and then stop people from being able to access it! yay!!! awesome idea... and then we sat on the forums and told you guys you were fucking idiots for how long until you changed it? Mate, I dont have a years worth of patience to sit here and explain to you why you need to let people who want to play your game actually play it again, we did that back in 2013, wtf didnt get through your heads back then? Being able to log in and play the game without being required to do 5 hours 'work' grinding shitfk boring faceroll map content that I hate is actually essential to me feeling like logging into your game is worth my time. Im gonna die some day, I dont have 10s upon 10s of hours of my life to endless waste playing boring content and trading to satisfy you that im not getting bored of delve.

just let me play the thing already and when I get bored ill say hey, bored of delve now, Ill go grind lab or breach stones or atziri or incursion or, maybe, even maps until im bored of those, and then ill go back to delve. Guess what? I have the mental capability to make those kind of decisions, you know why? Because Im a mammal, not a vegetable, my fucking cat has enough self awareness to tell when shes bored and go do some other activity instead for a while. She was chasing a bit of string earlier, got bored and wandered off, tomorrow she will play with the string again for a while. Amazing, what an amazing creature that is able to manage its own recreational time according to its current feelings, its almost as if she owns a brain, shes so fking stupid that her idea of a good time is chasing a bit of string, and yet shes able to manage what you think your players cant, which is understanding when shes bored. Just how low an opinion do you have of us chris that you think we have less mental ability than an animal whos main hobby is chasing string?