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The original was posted on /r/pathofexile by /u/Mormuth on 2025-01-31 13:24:55+00:00.
Hello everyone,
Out of all these posts regarding the weird statement that GGG is prioritizing an early access vs an ongoing live service game, there is something that needs to be said.
Starting 2.1 (end of 2015) PoE had 3/4 months league and starting 3.1 (end of 2017) it had major game/systems revamp every single year. The trend following big revamp already broke late 2022 with Sanctum not having big revamp but it was not much of an issue because Sanctum fixed Kalandra’s disaster so it massively improved the base game by restoring it to how it was before the normalization of Archnemesis modifiers broke it (that and the loot entshittification).
Affliction (one year after Sanctum) still did not involve a giant revamp be it systems or atlas but it introduced a shit-ton of league content that could replace it and it was a bit samey for Settlers of Kalguur (with the currency trade changing deeply how trade league was played), Necropolis being weird with the big FOMO strats and T17 introduction.
But still, despite not having true “Atlas revamp expansion” since Archnemesis, PoE1 still followed a timeline of 3/4 months league with big new base contents every year. That’s the committment GGG already had, the “contract” so to say that was signed with their growing playerbase.
Out of that, regarding PoE2 the contract is for the future. They told us that it will be a great game, an insane game, cool. There is no set date, no quaterly expectation, it’s an early access. I bought Hades 2 in early access last year, promising game, I played it a bit, it’s already good but I’ll wait for it to be finished, I sent my review and I’m not waiting for the final product. There is no reason for POE2 to be different : does the game have problem ? Yes of course, it’s an early access. It’s not even an early access, it’s a paid beta, I don’t expect a paid beta to be fully balanced or have a shitload of content, that’s what I expect for a finalized league.
The fact that in his speech, Jonathan considers that they are late regarding a game with no set timeline while POE1 was (by the time of october) close to two years late regarding expansion release and already missing the expected league for this timeperiod is crazy to me : at that time, POE2 did not have these huge numbers at the time so they had no real basis to put everything on hold for its release. And it still already shifted out of their priorities, insane.