Natalia_GGG

A few months ago we began interviewing some of our streamers and notable community members. In continuation of this series, we've interviewed Quin69 from our very own New Zealand! Find out what Wanganui's #1 gamer has to say about life as a Path of Exile streamer.

Hi Quin, thank you for taking part in the interview! Please introduce yourself.

Hey! I’m Quintin, but most people call me Quin! I’m just some rat from New Zealand who really likes to play computer games and thought it would be a good idea to broadcast it to the internet.

When did you first start streaming? How did you get into it?

I started streaming in 2014! One of my dreams was to have a career in video games, but I never thought it would be a possible living in New Zealand (GGG sure proved me wrong) but then I discovered T... Read more

At the beginning of this week our Hideout Competition concluded. Over the past few days we've visited hundreds of unique and creative hideouts submitted by the participants and today we're finally ready to announce the winners!

Check out the video with the top five winners below!

Top Three Winners

Prize pool

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Looking at league statistics is interesting for our designers and a good opportunity for us to see how actual player behaviour might differ to what we expected.

Betrayal's endgame content was focused around Safehouses. These were not intended to be equally common, and we had a rough idea of what it would look like if a player was making naïve choices (that is, without trying to influence which safehouses they were running).

.posttable th { font-weight: bold; } .posttable td, .posttable th{ text-align: left; border: 1px solid #111 !important; padding: 2px !important; background: #000; } Intended naïve relative breakdown Fortification Safehouse30.84%Transportation Safehouse30.84%Research Safehouse10.28%Intervention Safehouse20.56%Mastermind's Lair7.48%

We did expect players to t... Read more

In the 3.6.0 expansion we're adding more new hideouts which can be discovered in certain areas or maps. For this news post we've created a preview of the new Haunted Hideout. Check it out below!








By the way, earlier this week we concluded our ... Read more

While we're rebalancing many skills in our 3.6.0 expansion, we're also doing a full rework to two existing skills. One of these skills is Flame Totem, which is being repurposed into a divine-themed skill which has new mechanics that interact with Consecrated Ground and new visual effects to match its divine abilities.



In addition to its projectile speed and damage being rebalanced, Flame Totem's fiery projectiles will deal physical damage with half the damage converted to Fire. In addition to some new passives in the Templar's area of the skill tree, this should open up some new synergies with physical conversion.

While Flame Totem is active it creates Consecrated Ground around its base. Flame Totem's special Consec... Read more

At the end of the next week we'll announce the 3.6.0 expansion and its challenge league. When the announcement goes live, we'll introduce a new set of league supporter packs. This means that in two weeks we're saying goodbye to Betrayal Supporter Packs.

There are two pairs of the Betrayal Supporter Packs available in the store, the Undertaker and the Soulstealer. Each of the two pairs is designed in a unique style and has different contents, so you can choose whichever one (or both) you prefer. You can upgrade from the smaller one in a pair to the larger one. All the microtransactions from the Supporter Packs are exclusive and will never appear in the store again.



If you're interested in getting one of the Bet... Read more

We're holding a sale for all the cosmetic effects introduced in the Oriath Mystery Box, with over 50 microtransactions available at discounted prices! Now is a perfect time to get the Blood Guard, Faith Guard or Oriath effects! Please note that this sale excludes the recently released Oriath-themed shields and pets. They'll be on sale soon, but not quite yet.

This sale will run from the time of this post until Feb 04, 2019 10:00 PM in your local time or Tuesday, February 5th at 4pm NZDT if the local time is not displaying correctly for you.

Check out the Oriath Mystery Box trailer below to see everything that's available or click ... Read more

We recently hired a new Narrative Designer, Matt, who helped work on our recent lore-heavy expansion, Betrayal! We took a moment to get some insights about Matt's role and his working life.

Hi Matt! Thanks so much for participating in the interview. Could you please introduce yourself and let us know a little bit about your history with writing?

I’m Matt Dymerski, also known as M59Gar. I’m from pretty much the opposite side of the planet - Ohio - but I’m absolutely loving it here in Auckland. I’m considering send... Read more

At this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this March, Chris will present a talk entitled "Designing Path of Exile to be Played Forever". While the scheduled date and time for the talk has yet to be locked down, this post describes what the talk covers in case you're attending GDC and want to attend!

Talk Description:
Since its release in 2013, the player base of 'Path of Exile' has grown from hundreds of thousands to millions of active players by having a plan for sustainable long-term development.

In this session, Chris Wilson will describe how 'Path of Exile' has been designed to retain and grow its community for the very long term. He will cover how to structure releases into seasons with predictable release dates and scope, how to re-use content for rapid development, ho... Read more

" The_Rusty_Spork wrote: You're the highlight, Natalia <3

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We are in the fourth and final week of our Hideout Competition where you can win awesome prizes and showcase your excellent hideout creation skills. The competition ends on February 3rd (PST) so there's only a few days left to get your submissions in. Timezones are complicated so just in case, ... Read more