The highly anticipated Early Access launch of Path of Exile 2 has been postponed.
Instead of this November 15th, developers from Grinding Gear Games decided to push back its Early Access release to three weeks. As a result, fans and players of the hit action RPG will have to wait until December 6.
"Unfortunately we have some bad news. We have to delay Early Access for 3 weeks. The new date is the 6th of December," said game director Jonathan Rogers.
In a video uploaded on Youtube, Rogers said they needed more time to refine the servers of the game. In particular, ensuring that the integration of microtransactions between Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2 will work smoothly.
"We have to get everything perfect so that nobody loses anything they paid for, and nobody has their account broken," he said.
The dev team must also work on the same for the two games' console versions, he added.
"This meant changing a lot of things: not only do we have to create a bunch of new systems, we have to make sure that all the old data is backwards compatible with them as well. And when you start migrating databases that are this old and with this much data, you find all sorts of strange demons," explained Rogers.
While saddened that Path of Exile 2 will be delayed, the gaming community welcomed the devs' decision to have more time to polish the game. "Think we all agree that a better product on launch is worth the wait," wrote X (formerly Twitter) user @Ghazzy Bodensjö.
X user @quinrex also shared the sentiment.
"100% worth the wait, I'm excited for the perfect launch with no mistakes," he said.
Path of Exile 2 is the sequel to the 2013 action RPG title. Both are set in a dark fantasy world.
The first game came out after a small team of developers became ‘frustrated by the lack of new releases in the genre’ at that time.
Path of Exile was inspired by legendary titles in the RPG genre including Diablo, Titan Quest, and Dungeon Siege.