widescreen resolution removed from the game.

I am not by any means the most prolific spender or player of this game, but I have been spending for the four accounts of my family and myself over the last several years. My wife and I both have 32:9 monitors and have been playing the game successfully in full screen since we have had these monitors. This choice to remove the ability to play in these wider resolutions was not the right 'resolution' to the problem.

Yes, I make jokes, but only to show you that my frame of mind when saying this is not one of raging threat.

This might have been a different situation had I spent all the money I have at this point under the knowledge that I would just not ever be able to play at those resolutions. This was not the case though. I spent that money on the ability to use certain digital goods while playing the game at my monitor's resolution, in the way I prefer.

I go to login excited for the new league and am presented with this significantly downgraded experience.

I will be voting with my wallet. I will not spend any further money on this game as long as ultra-wide screen resolutions are not supported. My wife will not be spending any money on this game as long as ultra-wide screen resolutions are not supported. I don't know if we will ever play again, but I doubt we will have any inclination to do so any time soon with the ultra-'wide' variety of other games out there that haven't betrayed my trust by getting me to invest in an experience that is getting worse, not better over time.

- Nox and Lil

Removing 10+ year old working features for made up fake news reasons is not OK, GGG.

Fix this.

TL;DR :
Just do something like Overwatch for Pete’s sake : 32:9++++ in standard, 21:9 maximum in the first idk 2-3 weeks of a league then after 32:9++++ and just have fun.



THE LONG VERSION :

Hey, I read about 10 pages of post. I totally agree that removing this feature after 10 years of supporting it willfully is, jacka** bad PR. Especially because it pisses off wealthy players that are the core financial support of GGG.

I played the game for years and years and years ( my steam oldest achievement goes back to 2016 ), and I started giving them money AFTER I was financially able to buy my CRG90 and had a good disposable income.

I ( and I think like a vast, vast majority ) never played the game competitively, so the argument of unfair advantage is absolutely out of the question. I literally played 3 league in close to 7 years of POE. 99% of my time is in standard.

I'm approaching POE for the esthetics of the game, the fun of the hack and slash, the casual play style.

Now the only reason why GGG would remove 32:9 is NOT some weird issue on their server. They would fix it or would have fixed it a long, long, long time ago. There are no entities popping in existence at the edge of the screen and would absolutely not be as much of an issue than 2 gigantic black bars.

This leads me to believe the only reason why they removed it is a race to the bottom of equality so if everyone can't afford something you can't use yours.

This argument for fairness would be valid IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT !!!!! Which POE is not. The absolute only remote way I could see it competitive is the race in the beginning of a league.

The absolute lack of feedback and the locking of the thread in bug is personally appalling as a behaviour and this single total mishandling and break of trust makes me feel SO bad for having given them more money than I paid ANY game in all my history of gaming will surely result in years before I give any money again if ever. Which is ironic AF now that I could give them money having a disposable income.

Now to try to satisfy both sides I'd like to propose an idea. Not perfect as perfection would just be a simple roll back, but might be fine enough to remove the argument of fairness of the equation.

Just do something like Overwatch then for Pete’s sake : 32:9 in standard, 21:9 maximum in the first idk 2-3 weeks of a league then after 32:9 and just have fun.

100 percent agree. ^

I suspect they did it for technical reasons more than equality, but they should fix it before my friends quit!

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Loonspite wrote:

I suspect they did it for technical reasons more than equality, but they should fix it before my friends quit!

The thing is, it's been working for 10 years.

If there were legitimate technical reasons for removing the feature, that makes them sound completely incompetent - they couldn't just solve the bugs, so they had to remove a feature that players have been using without complaint for years?

It just makes no sense. Nothing about this decision makes any kind of sense. It sounds like someone put the unpaid intern who has only ever played console games in charge.

Fix it, GGG.

Bump until fixed.

Totally agree... Bump, till fixed!

Bippity Boppity bump

Fix this stupidity

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Loonspite wrote:

I suspect they did it for technical reasons more than equality, but they should fix it before my friends quit!

The servers and your client are literally still rendering everything. The black bars are like blinders on a horse, everything is still happening outside of them, you just can't see it.