02-01-2025, 12:06 AM
News - Path Of Exile 2 Is Throwing A Wrench Into Updates For PoE 1--"We Were Fooling
<p>Work on <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/path-of-exile/">Path of Exile's</a> next seasonal update is largely on hold until after a major update for <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/path-of-exile-2/">Path of Exile 2</a> has been delivered, developer Grinding Gear Games has announced.</p><p dir="ltr">In a video message, Path of Exile 2 game director and Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers explained the situation. Last summer, much of the PoE 1 development team was shifted to PoE 2 in order to help the developer hit its planned early access release date. Grinding Gear Games had promised to <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/path-of-exile-2-wont-replace-the-first-game-after-all/1100-6516398/">keep updating the original PoE after the release of PoE 2</a>, and internally slated a new "league" (PoE's version of seasons) for February. Rogers said he believed the team had time to both get PoE 2's endgame ready for early access while preparing the new PoE league for February.</p><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF4rqnPoo80" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wF4rqnPoo80" height="100%" width="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr">Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Rogers said they "were fooling themselves" thinking that plan would work. After PoE 2's early access release was delayed several weeks, the PoE 1 team continued to work on the sequel. Even after PoE 2 launched, it continued to run into problems, and Rogers said he couldn't justify taking the PoE team off the project until the fires were put out.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/path-of-exile-2-is-throwing-a-wrench-into-updates-for-poe-1-we-were-fooling-ourselves/1100-6529154/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
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<p>Work on <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/path-of-exile/">Path of Exile's</a> next seasonal update is largely on hold until after a major update for <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/path-of-exile-2/">Path of Exile 2</a> has been delivered, developer Grinding Gear Games has announced.</p><p dir="ltr">In a video message, Path of Exile 2 game director and Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers explained the situation. Last summer, much of the PoE 1 development team was shifted to PoE 2 in order to help the developer hit its planned early access release date. Grinding Gear Games had promised to <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/path-of-exile-2-wont-replace-the-first-game-after-all/1100-6516398/">keep updating the original PoE after the release of PoE 2</a>, and internally slated a new "league" (PoE's version of seasons) for February. Rogers said he believed the team had time to both get PoE 2's endgame ready for early access while preparing the new PoE league for February.</p><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF4rqnPoo80" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wF4rqnPoo80" height="100%" width="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr">Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Rogers said they "were fooling themselves" thinking that plan would work. After PoE 2's early access release was delayed several weeks, the PoE 1 team continued to work on the sequel. Even after PoE 2 launched, it continued to run into problems, and Rogers said he couldn't justify taking the PoE team off the project until the fires were put out.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/path-of-exile-2-is-throwing-a-wrench-into-updates-for-poe-1-we-were-fooling-ourselves/1100-6529154/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/path-o...01-10abi2f