I cannot stress this further.
The concern of “players will spend more time looking at the map than the action” is completely irrellevant. POE has opacity sliders so you can determine optimum visibility. I don’t enjoy having to stare at the top corner of my screen to be efficient because I’ve put over 2000 hours into a game and I’ve already seen the action
PLEASE. Allow us to overlay the map over the center of our screens WHILE WE MOVE. D2 had it, every major good ARPG has had it. POE even has opacity settings for various elements of the map. Please. Don’t follow with the horrid decision made in D3 to constrain the map to the top right corner, and when we press tab it stops us from being able to move. Please, don’t let another diablo product launch like this. Please don’t let rigid, close minded design principles force us into a certain way of play. I don’t care how much effort went into the environment, if I cannot move efficiently through it, I don’t want to at all.
i have a better idea. remove it completely :v
remove what completely? The map?
Absolutely not.
Access to the map should require acquiring some in-game special item, like, umm, a map.