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'We Never Expected Things to Go This Big During Early Access' — Path of Exile 2 Dev Braces Itself for Over 1 Million Concurrent Players - IGN

The developer of Path of Exile 2 has warned players to brace themselves for server queues this weekend, with over one million concurrent players expected to hit the Early Access launch.

www.ign.com

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In a video message, Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers spoke about anticipation for the action role-playing sequel surpassing the studio's expectations, and expressed concern that its backend services could buckle under the weight of the Early Access release.


“We’ve just reached one million Early Access redemptions,” Rogers revealed in the video message. “The support you have all shown for Path of Exile 2 Early Access is far beyond anything we could have ever predicted. However we want to be upfront with you all and let you know there may very well be queues over the weekend.

“There are probably going to be some queues during the launch weekend. Before our announcement, when we were ordering capacity, we really didn’t expect to have more than a million people online at the same time.

“We’ve already ordered way more cloud capacity, and those servers will be coming online very soon, but I do have some concerns about issues with the backend. We quite frankly don’t know what our backend services are going to be able to handle as we go above a million users.

“We’ve added more database shards, scaling everything we have up as far as it will go. But we’re really not sure what kind of limits we might hit. We never expected things to go this big during EA [Early Access].

“So I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you guys so much for believing in this project. If we do run into server issues at launch, just know that we’re going to be working as hard as we can to solve them.”

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[FeralEcho]

Holy Crap! Those are quite the numbers.

 

[Luipadre]

Incredible game. Finished act 1 yesterday, but cant wait to play more. It also plays extremely well on controller

 

[Aces High]

It's pretty hard to stop playing this game

 

[Madflavor]

I don't know how Diablo IV survives this.

 

[hyperbertha]

This is a baldur's gate 3, elden ring moment. This game will put all so called aaas to shame and remind the world once again what true vision and drive can do in video games

 

[Tarnpanzer]

I don't know how Diablo IV survives this.

D4 and PoE1 are a completely different genre in my opinion. PoE2 plays more like an ARPG and not a Hack and Slay.

I really like PoE2(still in Act I), but I see a lot of people hating this game online for what it is -> too difficult.

 

[Freeman76]

D4 and PoE1 are a completely different genre in my opinion. PoE2 plays more like an ARPG and not a Hack and Slay.

I really like PoE2(still in Act I), but I see a lot of people hating this game online for what it is -> too difficult.

It does need a bit of a tune up on the difficulty, but thats what EA is for I guess. Seems the majority of people find it too hard, and those that dont are pretty quick to flex their e-peen.

 

[Party McHardy]

Has to be a record for a game made in NZ, no?

 

[Trilobit]

Is this game meant to be played with mouse and keyboard or is it just as good on console with controller?

 

[phant0m]

Is this game meant to be played with mouse and keyboard or is it just as good on console with controller?

It is equally good on both.

 

[Edgelord79]

It is equally good on both.

Ranger not the greatest on sticks compared to PC. But melee is great with controller. Really pleased.

 

[killatopak]

They can thank Blizzard for that.

 

[clarky]

They can thank Blizzard for that.

They can thank Blizzard for what?