Early Access Discussion - Now they're thinking pushing the game to "Full Release" without all classes?!?! - Forum

https://www.eurogamer.net/path-of-exile-2s-full-release-has-a-65-chance-of-arriving-this-year-says-grinding-gear-games-so-what-could-go-wrong " Some things, however, will be held back for the game's full release. Some classes, for instance. The early access build has six of 12 planned classes in it, and 0.20 will introduce the seventh, the Huntress, but again, this doesn't leave a lot of time to finish and release five classes more. "I suspect we're probably likely to not have all of them for full release," Rogers told me, "but we'll see. It depends on how things go and where things end up. Obviously I'd like to get them all in, but they do take a long time to make, and the most important thing for full release is that we have the full campaign and there's all the content that we need and all that sort of stuff. "It's not like we've got a shortage of classes, right? If we didn't have one or two of them during early access, that wouldn't be the end of the world. We're doing all right. We'll try to get them all in but if we don't then whatever: it is what it is." So now "Full Release" isn't going to be with all weapons and all classes? WE'VE BEEN SCAMMED! What happened to this statement, which they still have on Steam? " How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? “We are planning to add three more Acts, six more Classes and all corresponding Ascendancy classes, lots of skill gems and items, as well as more endgame content, areas, bosses and monsters. Last bumped on Apr 1, 2025, 5:52:35 AM	Posted by KingRajesh#0213 on Mar 27, 2025, 8:27:08 PM Quote this Post
This thing smells like they are FORCED to release it. If that weren't the case they could just have EA extended. They could also keep a few classes as "release exclusive"; as in you get them when the game goes 1.0. If the game goes full release and not all classes are in then it's a clear "release it now, or else..." scenario. Which would mean that GGG sold their souls to the devil (Tencent kind of already has that reputation so yeah...)	Posted by lupasvasile#5385 on Mar 27, 2025, 8:50:25 PM Quote this Post
Path of WTF	Posted by Glorfndel01#6465 on Mar 28, 2025, 4:37:22 AM Quote this Post
Where were we scammed? If they decide to go full release without all classes, I'm cool with it as long as it's still going to come out eventually within a reasonable time period. I don't understand why this is an issue... I got the sauce. POE2 enjoyer. Last edited by Holigawd#2935 on Mar 28, 2025, 4:53:00 AM	Posted by Holigawd#2935 on Mar 28, 2025, 4:52:36 AM Quote this Post
I agree with Holigawd. I would rather a full release with all Acts now. Later they could trickle out the remaining classes.	Posted by Emmet#2477 on Mar 28, 2025, 5:10:11 AM Quote this Post
" KingRajesh#0213 wrote: So now "Full Release" isn't going to be with all weapons and all classes? WE'VE BEEN SCAMMED! This is such a typical sensationalist take. What does it matter whether it's called full release, or early access, when it's quite obvious that content is going to trickle in every 3-4 months from now on until eternity, or poe3? This type of game is never 'finished', they market the game as full release towards the casual play the campaign crowd.	Posted by arandan#3174 on Mar 28, 2025, 5:20:23 AM Quote this Post
"How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? “We are planning to add three more Acts, six more Classes and all corresponding Ascendancy classes, lots of skill gems and items, as well as more endgame content, areas, bosses and monsters." which part of: WE ARE PLANNING are you dont undestanding? let ChatGTP explain to you the difference between: "we WILL release..." and "we are PLANNING to release..." [Removed by Support] Last edited by Markus_GGG#0000 on Mar 28, 2025, 1:48:22 PM	Posted by GedankeKlee13#8319 on Mar 28, 2025, 5:23:02 AM Quote this Post
" lupasvasile#5385 wrote: This thing smells like they are FORCED to release it. If that weren't the case they could just have EA extended. They could also keep a few classes as "release exclusive"; as in you get them when the game goes 1.0. If the game goes full release and not all classes are in then it's a clear "release it now, or else..." scenario. Which would mean that GGG sold their souls to the devil (Tencent kind of already has that reputation so yeah...) it probably means they need the money to pay their staff and bills. theres only so long they can take a holiday from their business model before they need to get back to poe1 and poe2 being fully released games on a 3 month league clock. why does tencent have that reputation? theyre invested in riot who do league, fromsoft who did elden ring, larian who did baulders gate 3, theyve controlled poe for the last 7 years. where have they rushed any of these games out the door to make a quick profit? if it happened i didnt hear about it, afaik all these games were really well received? the profit ggg generates is almost completely irrelevant to tencent, its less than 1% of their total revenue. I love all you people on the forums, we can disagree but still be friends and respect each other :)	Posted by Snorkle_uk#0761 on Mar 28, 2025, 8:37:56 AM Quote this Post
Imagine defending getting less content at full release. GGG ain't going to give you a mirror for your forum defense work, bootlicker.	Posted by KingRajesh#0213 on Mar 28, 2025, 9:57:48 AM Quote this Post
" Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote: " lupasvasile#5385 wrote: This thing smells like they are FORCED to release it. If that weren't the case they could just have EA extended. They could also keep a few classes as "release exclusive"; as in you get them when the game goes 1.0. If the game goes full release and not all classes are in then it's a clear "release it now, or else..." scenario. Which would mean that GGG sold their souls to the devil (Tencent kind of already has that reputation so yeah...) it probably means they need the money to pay their staff and bills. theres only so long they can take a holiday from their business model before they need to get back to poe1 and poe2 being fully released games on a 3 month league clock. why does tencent have that reputation? theyre invested in riot who do league, fromsoft who did elden ring, larian who did baulders gate 3, theyve controlled poe for the last 7 years. where have they rushed any of these games out the door to make a quick profit? if it happened i didnt hear about it, afaik all these games were really well received? the profit ggg generates is almost completely irrelevant to tencent, its less than 1% of their total revenue. I'm just guessing here. But wouldn't they make more money by selling EA for longer than going 100% free to play? Also, why not just extend the early access period until you have all the content you want for launch? The only reason you'd not add certain things to EA is if you want to keep those for release, meaning you'd have a bigger incentive to try it out. POE 1 and 2 are the type of games on which you can always expand later, but launching without all 12 classes as promised feels like they must do it faster, for whatever reason. I do not know how to explain it properly, but this just feels off. They could have easily said: "We'll launch in a year with whatever content we have ready, then we will add new stuff as we go; same as we did with POE 1". No one would have raised an eyebrow then. As for Tencent, I admit I know almost nothing about them. All I know is what I've heard around, and that's almost always 80% bad and 20% good.	Posted by lupasvasile#5385 on Mar 28, 2025, 12:14:12 PM Quote this Post