Great Job on the PS4 Version!

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Edit: I have a dozen characters, 3 over 80, and refuse to ever touch any form of guide.

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Clearly none of you guys understand how games function at all. It's incredible they got this running almost completely properly in the first place

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You don't build computers, you just put the pre-made parts together. I don't claim I build sandwiches. I also don't work for the cable company, and never have. My entire life has consisted of studying how computers work, and absolutely demolishing anything with frets on it. And the fact you guys keep just throwing insults at me isn't helping your case. All anybody has said is, "This game doesn't run well enough for me, and I don't want to wait for GGG to fix it. Anybody who thinks this can't be fixed instantly is stupid, and I'm a technological prodigy because I know how to plug things in."

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Edit: I have a dozen characters, 3 over 80, and refuse to ever touch any form of guide.

I'm sorry but that right there is why you probably have no idea what people are complaining about when it comes to performance issues at end game. Going through the acts and doing some basic mapping is fine most of the time.

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I'm not good a bending words, I just enjoy pointing out flaws in them. (Like you aren't trying to do the same.)

Developer Q&A
"What are you doing about performance on console platforms?

Improving performance on all platforms is an ongoing goal of our growing engine team. Within the next few workdays, we'll be deploying a patch that makes a number of memory-related performance improvements to the console platforms. Memory usage and memory-related crash rates are improved on both Xbox One and PS4.

On the Xbox One, we have split out the 4k textures so that they're only downloaded by the Xbox One X version. While this does require a redownload of the entire game, it's smaller now, has faster load times, reduced memory usage and significantly fewer memory-related crashes."

An update from Chris
"Then there's various issues with Path of Exile on the console platforms which feel bad about because we have made promises that we haven't yet fulfilled. After the Xbox launch, all of our console resources went into preparing the PS4 release which meant we didn't spend enough time supporting the feature requests from the Xbox community. Now that the PS4 version has launched, we need to make headway on console features."

Xbox recently got a good improvement, and Chris has said he wants make headway on console features. It's weird he worded it like that, because I'm sure he meant just improve console in general. You should read the stuff from the developers, and pay attention to changes being made to the game.

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We have waited for certain features for well over a year that just don’t seem like they are coming. We have some serious problems with the current game including performance, trading and mechanics suffering from a far lower population than they were balanced for. As a result, our community has diminished almost to the point of no return and we ( The Path of Exile Console Discord) are posting this as a last effort to regain what we have lost.

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I do know what they're complaining about though. Performance problems peak once you get to doing T5 30%+. I crash frequently, and the game drops to 10 fps or lower all the time. I'm pretty sure they're working on it though, so I don't find it to be a huge deal. I'm also really used to this though, I play LoL and MTGA on a HP2000 notebook, and half the games I try to run on my PS4 are in an equally bad place.