HUGE News for Path of Exile 1's Future - 3.27 and Beyond

Jonathan has no credibility, and I do not care about PoE2 until it is complete.

Only two people being allowed to make balances changes is RIDICULOUS. Is this why we get those 0.1 radius cleave buffs?!
This is some insane micro management.- There is NO reason why a literal intern shouldn't be allowed to propose a list of changes for skills and have them rapid-fire approved.Terrible weightings killed Scourge league with the krangle machine.
There should be mid-league buffs to bad skills after one week done by some low-level employee immediately.

This is egregiously stupid to say the least, absolutely insane

The balance in both games sucks. I fell in love with frostbolt mine Sabo in legacy league 2.6. It was never A tier, much less S tier, but it was satisfying and I loved it. Since then, they made traps meta during incursion and completely changed how mines function. I've tried the build a few leagues ago, and it's laughable how bad it is. I'm sure that's 1 of hundreds of builds/archetypes people have enjoyed that are just gone forever. Their balance philosophy has just killed build diversity (especially in HC), and somewhat forces you into one of the 3 min-maxed meta builds for the patch. I have zero expectations going forward. But who knows with GGG.

they should make their own AI model, shoot up ideas, plan for future, give bot option to read forum so he can track every cry, feedback and all..this would shift their time to easier updates and date points. Ai is future else you need to tripple the team so you can have them working on both games this shifting 1-2 is kinda killing focus...I know I would be feeling sick to jump between two projects non stop..

We need multiple new classes each drop and trophy’s so I can get my plat honestly until they release the full game no one’s gonna be happy wasting our time and money and if u only drop a single class each time only that class will be played and when the game finally is released no one’s gonna play cause everyone did everything and burnt out

They will eventually drop POE1, I would be fine with just quality of life and balancing updates for POE1, not just skill balancing, but content balancing, they have a lot content irrelevant, make it relevant.

my hope is that they are trainning more people for balance. Remember that job offer that requiered full knowledge of the game? This is the kind of trainning that will requiere time, but I believe they can get to good team given how indeep the knowledge of the playerbase is.

Man people hella psycho in these comments lmao.

On the number of people making balance changes, I thought Jonathan was referring to those who could make changes without needing others to review it, that there were others - including himself - who could make changes but needed it reviewed. And I would assume that those two senior's will help develop the others so over time there will be more who can action changes.

JR seems a little bit... nervous. GGG made a huge mistake shifting "PoE 4.0" to PoE 2. The development wouldn't have been split. Greedy puppeteers behind GGG's mistakes: Tencent.

That's the same director who said, 'The players don't kill monsters if they aren't faster than the player,' or the same director who told us they couldn't work on PoE1 because PoE2 needed work, right?

I totally trust that guy!

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Keystone tattoos shouldn’t be 900 divine each, and flask effect tattoos are more than a mirror each.

Man I miss poe 1 so much! I haven't booted 2 since end of january so it is great news to hear they want to return to their scheduled release for poe 1.

Remember kids, when your boss start selling you grand hopes and dreams in the future, you should be aware, your company is in big trouble 100%, and you should not believe single word of that, don't quit just yet, but start looking for exit strat.

And in this case, it's Jonny boy himself in trouble, he let out in the interview that many changes put out recently, he doesn't even know, which means Tencent are pissed off about player count drop they gave Mark the greenlight to make decisions without Jonathan's approval (which I'm happy for, and I bet many think so too), that is a really bad sign for Jonathan, not far away from termination, this interview is more crisis management for himself, try to sell a mirage that he doesn't take charge as before is a good thing it's his grand plan all along, when in reality it is a power ship from him to Mark.

Those 2 developers are going to be overworked and things are going to get overlooked. Things could get wild.

I really hope chris still narrates the reveal video. Its just part of it..

I can balance poe1.
Nerf ephemeral edge.
Nerf lightning strike.
Nerf trickster.
Nerf power syphon mines.

Buff glacial hammer.

Thats it xD

I wish they would just have one team for poe1 and get a new team for poe2. I hate poe2 but love poe1.

I dont believe a word that pos conman is saying

Johnathan isn’t a reliable source. The latch of a timely POE1 release probably has more top do with the internal coup that occurred within GGG and Johnathan having a different vision to that of Chris. Johnathan’s statement to Tri should be viewed as a mea culpa.

Good news at last.

Remember when GGG said that the development of PoE2 won't affect PoE 1?

Crazy that is the exact release cycle I pitch in comments on reddit like 40 times great news! but they will need teams for both to pull it off.

oh its poe 1 shit....

fully agree with the lack of balance changes in years. it used to be that basically every single patch there were significant balance changes and meta shakeups.

I'm dumb and at first, I understood 4 month between each release, having a poe 1 league every 8 month !!! I gasped but it's all good lol

If clown69 made a meta melee,100% balance change in a 5 days

i wont get gaslighted again ill believe there whole cycle thing works when i see it work .

Why don't they simply expand a bit....

Well I don´t believe them anymore. Sorry but I´m not hype.

same people who told you poe1 wont be affected. cmon, everything you need to know about ggg was revealed between settlers release and current moment. not trustworthy until proven otherwise.

As usual, completely agreed. I did not like the fact that they wills tick with the model for POE2 with skills being used only with a specific weapon type.

Poe 2 is trash...

I am pretty sure he means that there will be patch to poe1 then 4 months patch to poe2 next 4 more months to patch to poe1 etc so 8 months for each game

I'm back onboard, excited again, confident that GGG have got the message and that 3.26 is going to knock it out the park. I'm with you in wanting big meta changes. I've got a couple of boring pocket picks that I might turn to but I'm hoping for something that would enable skills/builds that just have terrible downsides under the current meta. Basically I want my pathetic meme builds to suddenly be viable lol. Great video, mate.

I also found the balance talk a bit unsettling but it is not quite as bad as you've described it. He at least said later in the interview that he was not one of the two people that could make changes 'sight unseen.' He also specified that many more people could execute balance changes, but they (himself included) were much slower at it because they needed time to thoroughly analyze the impact of each individual change, as opposed to the couple of savants who understood the systems well enough to make changes quickly.

So, changes aren't entirely on the shoulders of those two individuals but yeah, still seems crazy to me to have only two people specialized in balance when it's such a core part of what makes the games fun.

I don't want to play LS Trickster for the 5th time...

2 dev? and they shifting games? Thats chaotic, and not healthy.

Thanks for the vid. However, I think you’ve overinterpreted what was said. The topic was specifically mid-league changes. I would hope that balance changes are a core part of patch development, and PoE1 will get meaningful changes with leagues, just not mid-league. But maybe I’m being overly optimistic.

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god...talkative tri is the worst

its always going to be the case? I don't even remember poe1.....it has been that long.....you guys have failed millions of people

Are we forgetting that the first week or two of each poe1 league feels awful because of how broken the lges are without those extra features and balance fixes? Is that really better?

hope they keep the settlers league, it's just so good

I pray that they will deliver on this 4 month cycle! The past year has been a disaster. And for the love of God hire more devs

inb4 "we've had to delay more poe1 content so we can ship updates in our alpha test for our upcoming game that wont be complete for another 6 years, but be sure to buy the supporter packs for it anyways"

This sounds terrible for a release schedule, poe 2 is basically taking all hands as is to release badly of what I hear at least, unless they are expanding the team massively all of it makes me think both will suffer or have the whole team bouncing back and forth.

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