Since launch, player numbers have been 11% higher than Path of Exile’s previous highest launch, which was Delirium in March 2020 during the peak of the first global lockdown. When the highly-anticipated expansion launched, it reached 265,250 simultaneous players, becoming the #4 most popular game on Steam at the time. Interest in Path of Exile has not dwindled in the least as nearly 300,000 fans were viewing the Echoes of the Atlas expansion debut livestream simultaneously while a total of 782,000 unique viewers tuned in.
It shows us that our development methodologies are evolving in the right direction as we work towards completing Path of Exile 2." "We are so pleased to still be setting new player number records after over 30 quarterly league releases since 2013. "Echoes of the Atlas has been Path of Exile's most successful expansion so far," Chris Wilson, co-founder of Grinding Gear Games said. Grinding Gear Games is announcing Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas (available on PC, Xbox One and PS4) has already become its most successful expansion to date. With an open-ended and flexible skill and item system, randomised items and random dungeons, the game promises three acts of visceral combat gameplay, with additional expansions already planned. To protect the integrity of the game for all players, Grinding Gear Games has decided not to sell abilities or experience points – ensuring a level-playing field for everyone in game. Players will be able to purchase in-game perks, such as extra victory animations, clothing and special effects. There, they will encounter hundreds of species of opponents laden with loot and mysterious artifacts as they explore the abandoned continent. That is launching January 15, after initially shooting for release in December last year, before it was delayed when Cyberpunk 2077 was pushed back into that month.Playing as one of six character classes, players find themselves banished for their past misdeeds to the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast. Path of Exile 2 was announced at Grinding Gear's ExileCon in November 2019 with the aim of having a beta for the game out by "very late 2020." The original free-to-play action RPG was released in 2013 for PC, before coming to Xbox One in 2017 and PlayStation 4 in 2019.įans of the original game have the upcoming Echoes of the Atlas endgame expansion to look forward to. Trying to get as much done as possible, and that'll give us a better idea of a good release date we can estimate, which should be towards the end of the year." "The progress of development hasn't been as fast as we wanted, and so our goal is to bash as hard as we can during 2021 on Path of Exile 2 stuff and see how much headway we make. "We have had difficulty hiring internationally because the borders to New Zealand are closed, so that has curtailed the exponential growth of our asset creation team a little bit. "I hate to blame COVID for stuff, but that is a big part of it at the moment," Wilson said. Wilson said that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic had hit development at the studio, making it harder to not only hire new staff but also slowed down work on Path of Exile 2.
PATH OF EXILE 2 RELEASE DATE PS4 PC
That's according to the head of developer Grinding Gear Chris Wilson, who – when pressed for some clarification about a release date – told PC Gamer that the studio was aiming to launch the title in 2022. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. It looks like Path of Exile 2 won't be launching until next year. But there's a new endgame expansion coming out later this month.
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