Performance and Stability

Allow us to disable shadows then, to many minions= to many shadows, there is no way this has no performance impact

I do love how there isn't a single mention of the unexpected completely expected disconnection error that's been plaguing the Path of Exile community for years and has only gotten worse as time has gone on.

While I applaud you guys at GGG for actually admitting there is problem your entire response reeks of damage control and cop-out without promise actually take steps to fixing any of it. It's basically a corporate shoulder shrug and "oh well".

Time will tell if you guys do care and want to fix these problems or not.

So I take it this league was designed to push the servers to the brink in order to determine what and how things need to be improved to maintain performance stability in the future.

If it wasn't just a happy accident. Props, I guess, for not making the servers completely shit the bed.

C'mon, man. Don't blame you guys decisions on the problems, it's unprofessional. It's everybodys potatoes, and the people hosting the game servers not having their shit together, and consoles are junk.

Blight was an astonishing masterpiece of optimization, you should be acknowledging it.

Game collapsing under its own weight. What amazes me is how every new league introduces problems that were working fine the league before. 1 step forward 2 steps back. I can't even idle in my hideout anymore the game locks up over extended period of time which is new to me for 3.8. So I can't even do nothing in the game without the performance going to shit which is incredible.

Vorici research and legion crash fix is all I want :(

Hi GGG
As always thank you for transparency which is quite unique in gaming industry.
Just wanted to let you know that I was also expieriencing issue with screen going on and off in PoE but also in other applications (VLC, Tropico 6, basically anything that was putting load on GPU). This issue only occurred on my system after I have updated my graphic card driver (RX Vega 64) before blight league start. After about 4-5 days AMD released newer driver which resolved it for me.
So perhaps, people who experience the screen going on and off issue might want to try using latest graphic drivers releases or previous ones to see if that improves their game stability.
It is an often occurrence for bot Nvidia and ATI to stuff up their drivers release when new line of their products comes onto the market (in my experiencing at least).

Cheers for awesome engaging game and your continuous support that makes it better every league. Hoping that you might have chance to review trading manifesto too

Graphics Driver crashes,
this happened to me multiple times, I've narrowed down the issue. I have a 1080 Founders edition graphics card on the latest driver (Windows 7 64bit). it always crashes during monolith encounters when there is a soul eater mob when there is burning ground map modifier 100% of the time.

hope this helps

Well heres something to note

You guys have an insanely smaller player-base right now than you did last league

So trying to excuse alot of the performance issues on players seems.... like.. its untrue


https://steamcharts.com/app/238960#1m

https://steamcharts.com/app/238960#6m

Already 50% of the player base playing Blight seems to have quit

Maybe some will come back to try out the patch for the weekend but the league is already pretty much dying after just 2 weeks

You guys had a peak of 110k steam and are struggling to handle 30k steam players?

(The steam chart should be used as reference to standalone client players)

Idk about the "oh its all you gosh darn minion players ruining our servers"

Game performance really plummeted starting with Synthesis, and getting worse in Legion.

Even now in Blight you guys havent solved some basic bugs like the unkillable rhoa, portals spawning next to pumps, dropping white blighted maps in high tier red maps, etc etc

It took 2 weeks just to buff the blighted loot... yikes

Hello!
As a console player I'd say I'm not getting much server issues. At least not In SA.
The main problem is that the quantity of mobs of blight are too much for our console hardware getting us a great fall in framerate.
We get a lot of ce-34878-0 error in ps4 which I mitigated by changing my dns so it happens much less apparently.

Edit: ce-34878-0 is still happening a lot

Blight is a very nice idea and should go to core when the main issue is resolved.