Path of Exile II Early Entry delayed to December 6

Grinding Gear Video games has delayed the Early Entry launch of free-to-play motion RPG Path of Exile II from its beforehand deliberate November 15 launch date to December 6. It is going to be accessible for PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence, and PC through Steam and Epic Video games Retailer.

Right here is the complete message from Path of Exile II recreation director Jonathan Rogers on the delay:

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Hello, I’m Jonathan Rogers, Sport Director on Path of Exile II.

Sadly, I’ve some actually unhealthy information. We’ve got to delay early entry for 3 weeks. The brand new date is the December 6. I’m actually sorry about this one. Individuals plan time without work and issues like that round our launches, however we simply should do it.

So what occurred? Nicely, it seems it isn’t actually the sport itself that we’re behind on. It’s a bunch of server aspect infrastructure work that has taken us lots longer than we anticipated.

Now, one of many key guarantees we made is that each one your microtransactions will work throughout each Path of Exile I and II. With a view to try this, we have now to combine the account techniques for not solely Path of Exile I and II, but in addition for the console realms as properly. This meant altering a variety of issues. Not solely do we have now to create a bunch of latest techniques, we have now to be sure that solely outdated information is backwards appropriate with them as properly.

And while you begin migrating databases which can be this outdated and with this a lot information, you discover all types of unusual demons in there. How do a number of accounts get the identical title? How do a number of accounts get the identical e-mail tackle? How do a number of accounts have the identical steam IDs? Why is that this particular person’s account title simply random gibberish that doesn’t even decode?

We’ve got to get all the things excellent in order that no one loses something they paid for, and no one has their account damaged. On the similar time, as a result of we’re altering all this back-end code, we have now to do a variety of load testing to verify the entire thing doesn’t fall over after they may get the massive variety of gamers that we’re anticipating at launch.

I really imagine that we may probably have made the unique launch date, however I’m now not assured we may do it with out making errors. And these are the form of errors we simply can’t let occur. So with that in thoughts, we’ve determined to delay.

Now this one’s completely on me. I simply didn’t depart sufficient time to verify we may get it achieved. And I’m actually sorry. This one actually hurts.

Now we’re going to be having a livestream speaking about all of the content material you’ll be able to anticipate in Path of Exile II‘s early entry in about 4 weeks. You’ll be able to consider it like the largest league announcement we’ve ever achieved. I’m actually wanting ahead to telling you guys concerning the endgame content material that the group have been working arduous on.

Till then, thanks very a lot in your help.

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Three-Week Delay Announcement