Multiplayer Spell Effect Cull/Removal

First/last time posting here.

I realise no one will read this from GGG and it will have no impact. Anyway...

I was in love with Path of Exile 2, I am now heart broken. I played since 0.1 and recently got my friends into the game (0.3).

I join a game of HARDCORE with my wife and friend. My wife is literally standing at the edge of the act 1 boss not knowing what to do because she cant see anything.

Minions + Flame wall + Raging Spirits
Totem + Earthquake
Totem + Fissure

I want to share this game with my friends not just play solo.

I understand GGG will fold to the POE1 community and make this game become unwatchable/playable with screen teleporting bit crushing effects. So it is only going to get worse. We were still doing the campaign not even in end game...

I'm think of spending some money trying to get the attention of a reputable streamer in the scene to try and get this message finally dealt with since I have seen post about this dating to 2013.

or

Since I have 15 years amateur game dev experience I could attempt to program an addon to hack the game visuals.

The list of games that have implemented features like this (to reduce party spell effects):

World of Warcraft
FF14
Guild Wars 2
D4 (BAD?)
Final Fantasy 11 (in 2002?????????????)
throne n liberty
Albion Online
Aion
black desert online
Lost Ark
Blade & Soul
and many more

This is standard in the industry!!!!

In the end I am really depressed. I thought I had finally found my GAME for the foreseeable future. A game I could play for years. Nope. GGG does not want to accommodate me.

I bought £40 of skins, £80 in tabs and WAS seeing myself spending 100's into the future. Not anymore. No more games or leagues I'm just done. There is no point playing softcore because that is boring and unengaging. Playing with friends is just pointless now. You can't see floor effects. You can't see what is your spells - over your friends spells - or the enemies spells. Just so dumb. Wish I could refund what I spent.

I DO NOT CARE IF THIS IS DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT. If you need to rework the entire spell effect stack and decouple this from renderer so you can achieve this then do it. You have made POE2 so much more welcoming and this is a goodbye moment.
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