Path of Exile 3.26 Expansion Timeline

Absolutely disgusting, disrespectful event to everyone waiting. Disappointing.

Month Avg. Players Gain % Gain Peak Players
Last 30 Days 10,177.3 -1,777.0 -14.86% 20,065
October 2024 11,954.3 -16,965.4 -58.66% 24,283
September 2024 28,919.7 -47,581.8 -62.20% 65,601
August 2024 76,501.5 +48,491.3 +173.12% 163,118
July 2024 28,010.2 +20,096.8 +253.96% 228,398

Steam charts....

2 more month of this


Settlers might have had the most initial players of many a league... it also had the fastest drop rate of any league.

This is steam only ofc. GGG won't ever put up live data to show how many players are online

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ProXis wrote:

nice but PLS DO NOT MAKE THE MODS GLOBAL 1h rotating that will 100% f'ck the game...that will be TOTAL f'cked if you are not online the onetime there is a good combo out there...100% abusepower....i would even say DONT show us upfront the mods at all...do it as if the necro keystone for random stuff was active ....THAT would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better....

Totally agree with this, it makes 0 sense to have to check where the divines are and then farm that zone specifically, it seems like a lot of people are not even aware of how bad this is.

buff affliction GGG plz

If we want to be realistic here, GGG has known this for at least a couple of months. It wasn't a decision made 3 days ago. You need at least a couple of months to develop a league and since they have not started they already knew they couldn't launch in December.

I don't really have a problem with getting a new league in February, there are many great games out there but they should have communicated with the community a lot earlier and been honest instead of acting like everything was going as planned.

I'm not at all optimistic about what this shows for the future of PoE. It's obvious that PoE 2 is, and will be, their number one (and sometimes only) priority. They obviously feel it can attract a lot more people than PoE otherwise they wouldn't bother making it. However PoE is currently the best ARPG and semi-abandoning it for another (very different) game will certainly anger a lot of people who have supported GGG over the years.

TLDR GGG said PoE 2 will not affect PoE and from day one they went back on their word.

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Aias_o_Telamonios wrote:

If we want to be realistic here, GGG has known this for at least a couple of months. It wasn't a decision made 3 days ago. You need at least a couple of months to develop a league and since they have not started they already knew they couldn't launch in December.

I don't really have a problem with getting a new league in February, there are many great games out there but they should have communicated with the community a lot earlier and been honest instead of acting like everything was going as planned.

I'm not at all optimistic about what this shows for the future of PoE. It's obvious that PoE 2 is, and will be, their number one (and sometimes only) priority. They obviously feel it can attract a lot more people than PoE otherwise they wouldn't bother making it. However PoE is currently the best ARPG and semi-abandoning it for another (very different) game will certainly anger a lot of people who have supported GGG over the years.

TLDR GGG said PoE 2 will not affect PoE and from day one they went back on their word.

If anything it will attract less. Their hit PoE2 is going to flop, and won't be bigger than PoE. PoE2 is obviously less "casual" with its frigging 30 minute boss battles and literally getting nowhere, yet their whole game itself (interface, gameplay) is catered toward casuals, with the dumbing down skill system. They are willing to kill PoE1 to experiment with their PoE2, which tbh, doesn't appeal to as many players as they think it does. Dark Souls meets PoE1 is a bad mix because Dark Souls type games in general attract a niche playerbase, and they want to make it as hard as that. Yeah ok. As a PoE1 player who enjoys PoE1 fast paced gameplay, PoE2 looks like garbage to me. I really don't enjoy seeing their "feature" video discussing frigging 20-30 minute boss fights. No thank you.

As for your other point, you are 100% correct. They knew about this MONTHS ago and chose to keep everyone in the dark, and surprise us RIGHT at the time a league would be getting ready to launch in a few weeks. That surprise is so damn tone deaf... They KNEW they didn't have a league, and decided to put all their eggs into PoE2, which btw reminds me of the Last Epoch hype. Now look at Last Epoch.... 1-2k players on at a time, vs 500k-1 million in the first few days of launch.

I am prety sure PoE will draw in maybe 30-50% of PoE1 numbers, but PoE will decrease to around 10% of its numbers due to falloff, meaning GGG are willing to sacrifice up to 50% playerbase for their pet project, PoE2.

For another 3-4 months. Meaning the same league, no updates or features added to the existing league, just same old league which has still, so many issues... over the course of a 6-8 month period. That's what we get? Almost half a year, to 3/4 of a year of the SAME thing total.