Grinding Gear Games has issued a promise that it won’t forget Path of Exile as Path of Exile 2 nears officially exiting Early Access and becoming part of the 1.0 Club. While many devs tend to strong arm previous entries following the success of a sequel, it’s a breath of fresh air that they want to buck that trend.
Speaking to Eurogamer, co-founder Jonathan Rogers revealed the team “have no motivation to stop supporting POE 1 (Path of Exile 1).” The game remains popular, with “hundreds of thousands” of concurrent players. The only way the game would halt development is if the players totally vanish, otherwise, they’ll “support it forever.”
“We have no motivation to stop supporting POE 1. The launches for POE 1 are also in the hundreds of thousands of concurrent users every time. There’s absolutely no reason why we would stop developing a game that has launches that most game companies would be incredibly satisfied with, if their game were doing numbers like that.
So yeah, we’ll just continue to support it forever, unless the players go away. As long as there are players, there’s no reason to not do that.”
Grinding Gear has always had this plan to keep both up and running rather than shelving the older entry in favor of the shiny new project that will inevitably find itself in the same boat as the previous entry eventually. Additionally, there’s different people maintaining the games — it’s not wearing their team thin to keep both games chugging along.
Path of Exile 2 is available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
