Path of Exile 1: Curse of the Allflame Developer Interview

Posted by Community_Team
on Aug 2, 2026, 8:59:26 PM

Grinding Gear Games

don't hold back Mr. Z Z Ran

EDIT: I forgot Ziz's proposed solution was "Just play ssf" lmao there is no hope.

Nice. We just waited the weekend so we could then be told to wait 2 more days for an interview and then however many more days for any changes.

This league is stagnating.

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QuietMyth#4144 wrote:

don't hold back Mr. Z Z Ran

EDIT: I forgot Ziz's proposed solution was "Just play ssf" lmao there is no hope.

He did say he was going to discuss ground loot vs tile loot because enough of the community cares about it. Just that this league mech has been great for SSF, so he personally has little to complain about.

Then again, GGG seems to never include their best build makers that fully understand the math behind the game due to their personas, when it's always a mistake to cut out people who have dev-level understanding of interactions and could be a great free resource.

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Moregaze#2933 wrote:

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QuietMyth#4144 wrote:

don't hold back Mr. Z Z Ran

EDIT: I forgot Ziz's proposed solution was "Just play ssf" lmao there is no hope.

He did say he was going to discuss ground loot vs tile loot because enough of the community cares about it. Just that this league mech has been great for SSF, so he personally has little to complain about.

Then again, GGG seems to never include their best build makers that fully understand the math behind the game due to their personas, when it's always a mistake to cut out people who have dev-level understanding of interactions and could be a great free resource.

They've listened before they just undo it every time. I don't remember who it was but one of them has admitted in an interview he wants everything gone every league and specifically wants peoples 'ole reliable' builds and farms deleted. but allegedly he 'doesn't get his way'. But he clearly does and that's unbelievably toxic to the game.

We should've been immediately wise to this when they nerfed STRONGBOXES. the most boring and foundational medium-at-best baseline.

ZZRan on his podcast reacted to all the posts explaining the problem by saying people are just crying..

We seriously needed someone who is actually involved with the core problem and understands what problem the players have - ZZ clearly does not understand it based on how he "explained" the issue when Quin69 asked about it.

Where is any "what we are working" on post explaining how they are going to fix it this week - did they already fully abbandon this league and just work on next one where the same issue will happen because they wont address it like last 3 leagues?

If this interview stays I seriously hope ZZ will reflect on this and actually put in effort to study study the problem what are other people saying and do testing himself potentially prepare some footage/data to conflict the devs with.