Movement Options

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orioxthetree wrote:

I didn't count all 151 replies and tally up for/neutral/against, and I'm sure you didn't either...

Actually, I did. 83/152 posts were against the idea.

Adding gold to the game is also a popular idea by that standard, so let's have a poll on that, as well.

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gcaliber wrote:

The problem with WASD movement is that it doesn't really work with a fixed perspective.

Bloodline Champions? =P
It works well enough there

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WhiteBoy88 wrote:

Actually, I did. 83/152 posts were against the idea.

This is also not correct, unless you were counting multiple posts by the same person as being multiple posts against, or you were counting neutral posts and/or people who prefer mouse-movement but wouldn't mind the customization option as being "against" as well.

Giving it a quick count myself, there are less than 30 unique posts "against" and roughly the same or a bit more posts "for". Again the only way to get an accurate measure is via a dev. poll at this point.

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Whiteboy88 wrote:

Adding gold to the game is also a popular idea by that standard, so let's have a poll on that, as well.

I agree here 100%. Polls are an excellent way to get real feedback from the community and have many advantages over reading pages of discussion. And the best part is that they take all of a couple minutes of dev. time to setup and check the results for, so its a far, far more efficient use of their community-feedback time.

Any relatively popular suggestion/change that the devs think is implementable from a technical standpoint should be polled IMO. Not to force them to make changes based on simple majority rule, but to give them some good actual community feedback data they can use when making decisions.

WASD movement is inferior to mouse movement in the way you can move (I can run a perfect circle with a mouse while if I tried with my keyboard it would probably not be so) however it would allow people to easily attack and move away (such as a ranged character) and as such for certain characters if added would be come a must use feature even if you don't like wasd movement (I don't)

Such a game changing feature with so many people clearly against it isn't a good idea

I think the problem isnt implementing it in technical side.
But that it shouldnt be in the game ,since you cant move and attack at one time.
While wsad movemend is used in games where you can do that ,more mobile games.

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orioxthetree wrote:

I'd like to request an option to use WASD to move instead of click-to-move, and allow us to rebind skills, etc. to other keys and/or mouse buttons as we prefer.

Some players really dislike click-to-move (its why my friends and I don't play League of Legends), and adding the option to use custom WASD movement will attract more players/customers.

Note that this would be 100% optional and players who like click-to-move would not need to change anything; this is simply for all the *other* players who much prefer WASD and find click-to-move uncomfortable, awkward, etc.

There are a number of top down Isometric games very similar to PoE that do this well (Bloodline Champions for example), and WASD movement is a popular request in both LoL and D3 forums.

while sure that would attract more players (maybe).
you cant simply add that function and change nothing about the game. decisions like these are made at the very beginning.

also imagine some strategy fan whining that battlefield 3 sucks, because you cant click to move.
what?
same here, just the reverse.

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fartloud wrote:

also imagine some strategy fan whining that battlefield 3 sucks, because you cant click to move.
what?

I would also like to see keyboard movement added. Also as a BF3 player this made me lol because some people seem to be playing like they are clicking to move already haha!

But in all seriousness, if a bunch of BF3 players were asking for click to move, and it wasn't much trouble to implement it, I'd say sure why not? People who don't want to use it don't have to so no need for them to whine about it.

Also @ ppl saying they'd have to use keyboard to move if it was added because its better.....well...lol if its better then that's another really good reason to add it.

So yeah, +1 for keyboard movement option, even tho I can use the mouse ok I'd like to try both and I think keyboard would be better.