widescreen resolution removed from the game.

1 year, 307 days

Black bars are not acceptable or defensible

Fix it

1 year, 307 days
There's nothing in need of a fix aside of your own hardware.

If someone from GGG scrolls back through the thread they'll see maybe 4 or 5 people in favor of ultrawide and a majority of posts against it. Seems like an exercise in futility, but you do you

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tackle70 wrote:

1 year, 307 days

Black bars are not acceptable or defensible

Fix it

I know we're well over a year past the point where logic played a role in this discussion, but...

Are there seriously people not playing this game windowed? Because as a multiple-monitor-enjoyer myself, the solution to this black bar issue was never even slightly not-obvious to me.

Of course, and it is one of basic points on why black bars currently achieve nothing constructive. Last time I mention this here it got deleted in 20 seconds. Windowed is not even the best solution available.

1 year, 308 days

Fix it

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ArtCrusade wrote:

If someone from GGG scrolls back through the thread they'll see maybe 4 or 5 people in favor of ultrawide and a majority of posts against it. Seems like an exercise in futility, but you do you

Anyone reading this thread will find that there are no logical reasons given in over a year for why black bars should be in the game besides "it's not worth dev time to address 0.5% of users".

Ignoring the obvious fallacies/non arguments in the thread, every other argument for the inclusion of black bars is either:

1) based upon one or more factually false premises

Or

2) based upon the assumption that if problems can be demonstrated with ultrawide resolutions, black bars necessarily follow as an appropriate solution

That is literally 100% of everyone's collective arguments for black bars in nearly 2 years.

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Alysma wrote:

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Community_Team wrote:

Previously it was possible to manually set the aspect ratio of the Path of Exile client to be very short and wide, allowing you to see an unintended amount of the level at once. A limit needed to be set. Because of server serialisation distances, this maximum aspect ratio is currently set to 21:9. This is the widest that we can currently go before we start hitting the cutoff where entities and effects vanish. We are looking at being able to increase this in the future.

This note was accidentally missed from the patch notes. We're very sorry for that oversight.

You missed it. First reply too. It seems people defending ultra wide are just extra fond of overusing fallacies to try and discredit others.

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tackle70 wrote:

1 year, 308 days

Fix it

1 year, 308 days

of your own hardware being the problem.
Fix it

1 year, 309 days

Black bars are not acceptable or defensible

Fix it

Might I suggest a pair of floral curtains custom made to fit over the black bars on your monitor to hide them. You can then pretend that you are in the cinema.

First world problems. Sheesh.