"That's one of the good reasons to have the microtransactions across both as well because it means you don't have to feel like you support one game or the other," he adds. "It's our intention to continue to support both games and actually make sure that we're still giving a good amount of attention to them," says Rogers, as the dev team are fully expecting fans to continue playing both. They're also planning to continue supporting the original Path Of Exile after the launch of its sequel, too. "That was obviously really important, and that also means that all the purchases players will make going forward as well as all the ones they made previously will still be retained and they'll still be able to use that stuff." "We're still keeping the policy where all of the microtransactions are shared between the two games," Rogers clarifies.
Thankfully, Grinding Gear Games' approach to how in-game purchases work across both games remains the same as before: Previously, the campaign was going to be shared across both games, but Rogers told us the growing differences between POE1 and 2 meant "there was no real possible world where they could be merged". The differences between the two games just became so major that effectively POE2 is now a completely separate game."Īs a result, Path Of Exile 2 will have its own new campaign and respective end-game. "We realised at some point that our original plan we announced in 2019 of basically having POE2 being sort of a built-on expansion to POE 1 was just actually not something we could really do.
"The scope of POE2 effectively just ended up being much, much larger than we kind of expected," Grinding Gear Games' co-founder and Path Of Exile 2 creative director Jonathan Rogers told RPS in a press briefing ahead of tonight's ExileCon keynote. The news comes from tonight's ExileCon, which also marks the first time we've seen Path Of Exile 2 in action since that original announcement. Since then, however, the scope of Grinding Gear Games action RPG has grown so much in the intervening years that they've now decided to make it a "completely separate game".
PATH OF EXILE 2 DELAYED PATCH
If the public beta doesn't start until 2023, but the developers are aiming to release Path of Exile 2 before 2024, the game's release window can't be sooner than late 2023.When Path Of Exile 2 was first announced in 2019, it was billed as an extra large expansion patch to the original game - an update, so to speak, rather than a standalone sequel. Nearly a year has passed since the podcast with no further updates, so it seems like Path of Exile fans may be waiting closer to the two-year mark for the beta alone. In a podcast last year, Grinding Gear Games' Chris Wilson advised Path of Exile 2 is expected to be released before 2024, with a public beta taking place within the next year or two. Related: Every Game Xbox & Its Acquired Studios Is Working On Path of Exile 2's beta was originally expected to arrive in late 2020, however, this was delayed due to the COVID pandemic. Path of Exile 2 is less of a sequel to the ever-evolving Path of Exile but rather a new campaign available alongside the original storyline, sharing the same game client and endgame system. A few months after the announcement of Diablo 4 at BlizzCon, Grinding Gear Games announced Path of Exile 2 during Exilecon, Path of Exile's dedicated convention. Although a release date has yet to be announced, the developers have confirmed that Diablo 4 won't arrive in 2022 despite marking the tenth anniversary of the release of Diablo 3. Diablo 4 was first announced at BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard Entertainment's annual convention to promote its titles.
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