Path of Exile’s Korean launch and Legion rollout topped 224K concurrency as GGG addresses the minimap

“We’ve seen a few players request that we increase the visibility of Legion icons over monsters, generals and chests as well as adding them to the minimap. One of our earlier iterations of the Legion league included symbols for monsters, chests and generals on the minimap. During playtesting, we found that it felt really bad, as people would spend most of their time looking at the minimap rather than focusing on the combat in front of them. Due to this, we entirely disabled minimap icons for anything that had a Legion reward. This lead to issues where players would release some monsters with rewards and then end up forgetting where they were which resulted in sometimes missing rewards. This also didn’t feel great. Our next iteration involved adding minimap icons but only after Legion enemies had been activated. This is where we’re currently at with minimap icons and is the best of the three scenarios we tried. We have seen the feedback that the in-game (non-minimap) icons could stand out more, and we can confirm that the art team are working on this.”