Warning for Ultra widescreen Mod after I disabled it

I have played PoE 1 regularly since 2014(11k hours on Steam). I have had a 1080p 27" monitor for 20 years, and just bought a Samsung G9 49", only to learn that I have to play with bars on either side. PoE is pretty much the only game I play, outside occasionally LE. A game that supports it.

I found the fix, and thought everything was fine, until I wanted to test my new controller(always been Mouse+keyboard player) in PoE 2 and got a cheating warning, then realising it is not an oversight by GGG. I have never cheated in games, and consider it a weak mentality, but never thought that using a monitor would be considered that(yeah I know technically it is the files added to force the 5120x1440 support).

I am deeply distraught by this news(to me). Is it because of ongoing races, or would I be considered a ban for this? I have disabled it for PoE 2, but still have the support in PoE 1, as I have received no warning there.

Can't we get an official word from GGG?

This is extremely disheartening and disappointing. I played PoE1 to lvl17.... BUT THEN Ive put 400+hrs into PoE 2 and bought the $480 dollar support pack.

There's NEWS ARTICLES with links to the "fix" from Rose. Why not go have those taken down? Its easier to find the "fix" than it is to find that the "fix" is cheating.

Can you not just allow SSF players to use it or something? A compromise? What "advantage" is there in that?

Is 240hz OLED "cheating"? ITs an interesting discussion on where the line is drawn. I get their line is "no file manipulation".....but i am allowed to have the advantage of keyboard/mouse to go thru items faster than console? Can there not be an exception like for "loot filters"? What about Exiled Exchange 2?

Can we please just have support for this? Truly, this is an expensive game and people have the hardware to juice this game to the MAXXX and it is so beautiful and fun and repsonsive...

Please just let us have it......I despise cheaters and almost felt offended lol i was like I AM NOT A CHEATER NO!!!!! I dont even care about races or literally anyone doing anything besides trade..... and we have given the resources for this to be developed......cmon yall!!!!!!!!!

Lol, I just played the 2nd race event, midway through I noticed that the black boxes on the side of my screen were bigger than usual, so I spent a couple minutes trying to fix my settings as I thought the issue had to be on my end.

But no.

Apparently everyone participating in the event were capped at a 16:9 aspect ratio.

I'm bringing it up here because I suppose its related to the ultra widescreen not being supported discussion.

Seriously, the advantage you get from a bigger aspect ratio is almost zero. I finished almost an hour faster than last week and felt the smaller aspect ratio compared to last week made ZERO difference on my time.

However, the game looked like garbage compared to what I'm used to and it made me feel like I was wasting my time playing an ugly version of an otherwise amazing game.

I just lost even more respect for GGG than I already had from the widescreen discrimination.

I had already decided to not support GGG financially until ultra widescreen is supported. I'm now even more confirmed in that decision. And I'll also be changing my Steam review to negative until this ridiculousness stops.

Found this 32:9 thing myself today. Decided after playing some of Monster Hunter Wilds, to play POE2 for a bit, to only log on and get a cheating message. What the heck? (I said in my mind) I havn't played in a while since MHW came out. Only to log into POE2 to get this? I immediately logged out of the game, wondering what the heck is going on and have to search for what the problem actually was that supposedly I've done. And come to find this silly simple thing of wanting my game to look superb on my monitor, to be called cheating.

I mostly play solo. I don't compete in anything, I don't care too. What cheating is there? I've read about getting an advantage of something farther on screen? That's pathetically ridiculous even if it's so (it's not by much). I don't care to look at POE2 within a box on my monitor. It was highly disappointing from the start it wasn't supported. And unlike I've read here on others. And I would suggest others do the same. Is, I'm not going to beg. Why beg for it to be added? I simply will not support your product any further. I was a new player. But that's all I will now be, nothing further. There's plenty of other games to play.

Sure if there's competition there's cheating rules and it's good to have them. But I would think most players are not here competing. Stick your heavy rules even with 32:9 to competition. But leave your bread and butter players with this 32:9 thing be! You may have money now, but it always gets spent, what will the future be? Right now, it won't be from me. Back to MHW I go until I decide to either deal with the silly thing or uninstall.