widescreen resolution removed from the game.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

This speaks volumes.....its literally on PAGE 1 on this exact thread. The second post.

Also......it was released by GGG less than a day after the patch.

Again, "numerous <anonymous> people" is completely meaningless when the COMPANY is the one producing this information. That kind of argument is as facetious as people complaining about RNG and how "their experience" doesn't match the datamined numbers and, in some cases, developer-provided numbers.

Who are you to speak on the "correct" way to fix this? Are you a GGG employee? Were you involved in the design or meetings in any way? Do you know the depth of the problem? Have you ever created a multi-million dollar global game? Come on man.....Claiming to be an arpg developer is essentially meaningless: I am also an "arpg developer" because I created a d2 mod back in the day. What's your point?

And even if you WERE an arpg developer with actual titles and releases and FULL projects under your belt.....you STILL haven't been involved at all in THIS game. So I would reiterate: how can you possibly claim the "correct" answer?

I can also do that: instead of black bars, the "correct" answer was for GGG to close the game entirely and devote all their attention to PoE 2. Because that would have fixed the problem. No black bars. No visual issues at all.

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One mistake or flaw doesn't excuse another mistake or flaw. MTX glitches, clusterfucks and what not are directly due power creep. Seeing more of the screen would be even more critical if the game was slower

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Echothesis wrote:

Exactly, and as long as poe remains fast in every sense (characters running speed, attack speed, dps, recovery, timed league mechanics, timed boss battles (degen ground)), aspect ratio remains irrelevant compared to other games where "UW = unfair advantage" doctrine came from. It is not humanly possible to keep watching the mess, every poe player switches to blindfight mode eventually.

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AdRonZh3Ro wrote:

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Echothesis wrote:

Exactly, and as long as poe remains fast in every sense (characters running speed, attack speed, dps, recovery, timed league mechanics, timed boss battles (degen ground)), aspect ratio remains irrelevant compared to other games where "UW = unfair advantage" doctrine came from. It is not humanly possible to keep watching the mess, every poe player switches to blindfight mode eventually.

Which boils the question down to "Should we see something that wasn't designed to be seen?" and the devs answered with No. It's that simple.

The only thing left is a dude that can't let go of seeing shit he's not supposed to see to begin with. Imagine wasting 2 grand for the sole purpose of seeing more in-game. UnDeFenSiBlE.

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Echothesis wrote:

As for "they decided bars, so you should suck it up and play", ok. If you wish to view this as isolated case never happening before, that is. UW was fine for 10+ years, then they woke up. LMB instant bind was fine for 10+ years, until Mr.Roberts didn't like it. Alt gems, div/ex swap. Decisions like this are against common sense, so you shouldn't be surprised by some people trolling GGG over it :)

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Echothesis wrote:

Black bars is poor man's decision compared to alternatives desribed above many times.

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Echothesis wrote:

With GGG's messiah ambitions they show off when rolling another patch of turning the balance upside down or deleting Standard players resources without as much as public acknowledgement, they could handle UW problems better.

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Echothesis wrote:

It is not about currency, it is a small thing called perspective :) If GGG was open to communication and cared about players QoL, your crown agrument of "black bars is just one decision, forget it already" would make sense. How many more "screw you" lazy moves will be enough for you to understand what is their net attitude towards players, including paying players?

I've never ever criticized other online projects, or even was so active on their forums as here. Other companies never given the reason for it, they clearly state their terms and target audience and stick to that, so you see immediately if you wish to join or not, and never regret your decision either way.

GGG keeps doing whatever they want whenever they want, and had shown they may take away from players without warning, more than once.

This is not directly an argument about black bars, technical things were said pages above already. But it is relevant to understanding why black bars are as they are now, among other things, and is relevant to what you guys started to say about "just your personal bias". Yep, it is, and pretty sure not just mine alone.

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Echothesis wrote:

That post from page 1 had been tossed around a lot, including a few pages ago here, ofc I've seen it lol. And it doesn't have any more details you or I can guess. "Serialisation distances, a limit had to be set". OK.

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Echothesis wrote:

"Who are you to speak about such rocket science" is demagogic, you might as well repost it to every second thread on this forum. In fact I remember you too daring to have your own opinion about how GGG does things more than once :) As in, who are you to speak about "correct" way of balancing or whatever topics interested you most?

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Echothesis wrote:

This is a forum, not a GGG directors board and we all know feedback here is irrelevant for GGG. If you are confused on why am I doing this, its for sports, to hone my debating skills in extremely hostile environment where those who disagree constantly fall back to cheap tactics of latching to one phrase and try to invalidate everything else you say based on it, while being fully backed by moderators.

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