Path of Exile 2 will not be released this year
Path of Exile 2 will not be released this year in any form. The plan, as it stands, is for a closed beta test to begin 7th June 2024.
Developer Grinding Gear Games revealed this to me and a group of press during a briefing ahead of ExileCon in New Zealand this weekend.
The silence around Path of Exile 2 has been almost total since it was announced in 2019. We've seen two chunks of gameplay and that's it. The reason for this silence is because the game has changed significantly since then. Originally, it was going to be an extension of Path of Exile 1 and share content with it, but now, Path of Exile 2 is a completely separate game.
Path of Exile 1 will continue to exist and the two games will share an in-game shop and cosmetics, meaning all of your cosmetics will be usable in both games. Otherwise, though, content and characters will not carry across.
I'll explain more in an adjoining preview and interview, but for now, I want to focus on what the hold up has been. There was, after all, a large chunk of the community hoping for a release this year and, with it, a showdown with Diablo 4. What has taken so long?
«It's a lot of things,» game director Jonathan Rogers told me in a one-on-one interview. «I more than anyone was hoping for a 2023 beta date as well. We honestly were extremely naive to think that we were going to hit the dates that we previously had.
»The level of quality that we tried to deliver here is just significantly higher than we've ever done before. I guess you always get this thing with what you might call the second system syndrome, where, when you are making a second thing, you want to learn from every single mistake you've ever made from the past, or make it perfect. And so I suspect that we've just
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