Developer Q&A - Part I

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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.

Thought of one more as a followup/related to the AFK timer question. Is there any chance you can remove items from the API if the player hasn't logged on in X days? I'd say 5-7 would be ideal just so the offline search is somewhat relevant.

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Fasteddie1 wrote:

Right now in std no matter how you up grade an atlas a map the drops are at their worst I have experienced and then trying buy them so overpriced an many of traders that are supposed to be on line are not t15 maps are the rarest to drop which if your running T16"s then I have to buy many just to do the master missions then very few drop in the atlas where i already have sextants out seems to me your making to hard as you can to keep players from reaching level 100 then add the surprise 1 shot monsters after all that grinding buying an crafting just makes endgame suck

I assume you'll be skipping the Punctuation League? It's sooo 20th century.

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Basiq wrote:

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

That is an awful joke. I really just don't understand your point of view on the trade system. an annoying inconsistent trading "system" instead of an auction house to make everything smoother, faster, better.

I feel like a few of them had bad experiences in D3 perhaps and are just beyond stubborn. You say the word trade and they get PTSD flashbacks.

You could do trade 100 ways, 90 of them better than this system, 10 worse, and yet the second they hear trade they break out in a cold sweat.

Look, if there was a good reason not to trade, they wouldnt need hours of discussions.

What 'hours of discussion' mean is a few logical people trying to talk sense into the diehards but eventually the diehards were higher ranked at GGG.

I appreciate the game you've built GGG, but when you fail, I will also be happy, because nothing is more satisfying than seeing an arrogant, stubborn person think they are too good to take advice and then fall on their face.

Thx for answer. But PS4 players in asia region (HK,TH) need store to upgrade stash. I download POE from US region ,but play in HK account. Coz I can use credit card to pay ur cosmetic or upgrade stash easier than pay US PS card. Pls I need asia store. THX.

Once again ggg proving they don't play PoE. Those 10000 hour expert testers all went to the market and never came back.

Thank you.

And thank you for not changing trade to cater to some people. The game needs trade to be inconvenient, and even though I'd appreciate being able to flip with ease without having to deal with obnoxious people, I understand that would be absolutely terrible for the game.

My experience with the early days of D3 cemented that fact in my mind.

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Quantifier wrote:

Thank you.

And thank you for not changing trade to cater to some people. The game needs trade to be inconvenient, and even though I'd appreciate being able to flip with ease without having to deal with obnoxious people, I understand that would be absolutely terrible for the game.

My experience with the early days of D3 cemented that fact in my mind.

Hahah, such a perfect example of someone burned by trade in D3 that they cant think rationally. Never mind that the D3 market let you trade REAL money and had nothing to do with stopping people from spending 20 minutes getting one map.

But the old diehards can't let go.

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Ashriel wrote:

Years from now, when you look up "stubborn" in the dictionary, you will find Grinding Gear Games' logo, a short description of the Tencent acquisition, and nothing else.

+1

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

this makes me feel much less hopeful about poe's future, honestly.

Player asks the question: can we have wiki-like resource in the game

ggg answer: we will bake browser into the client so u can see the wiki and maybe all the shit ads that go with that laggy as hell website

what did I just read

thanks for a good laugh on the couch