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| 1 | - | # Version 3.26.0 | |
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| 3 | - | ## We are looking to launch the expansion in June | |
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| 5 | - | https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3731967 | |
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| 7 | - | ## Until PoE2 0.2.0 has shipped, will start to work on PoE1 3.26. | |
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| 11 | - | Hey, guys, let's talk about Path of Exile 1. Now, when we announced Path of Exile 2, we promised that we would continue to create Path of Exile 1 expansions, and we do intend to keep that promise! But it's certainly been a lot harder to deliver on it than what we expected. | |
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| 13 | - | Now, the trouble really started after Settlers of Kalguur in July last year. | |
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| 15 | - | The ideal time to have release 3.26 would have been late October. | |
| 16 | - | before they originally scheduled release of Path of Exile 2’s Early Access, but we just didn't think we could do it. | |
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| 18 | - | It was too close to the huge circus that was the organisation around Path of Exile 2’s launch. | |
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| 20 | - | But we also didn't want to immediately launch it right after Path of Exile 2 either. | |
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| 22 | - | So that kind of ruled out December. | |
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| 24 | - | So then we're thinking, okay, we can't really have a launch in January due to Christmas, so we're really going to have to do it in February. | |
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| 26 | - | And this wasn't great. | |
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| 28 | - | It would mean seven months with no leagues. But we really didn't think it was possible to do it any earlier than that. | |
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| 30 | - | And we didn't really announce this exactly, but it was certainly something that we had said to quite a few people at over time. | |
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| 32 | - | So the community became generally aware that that was our plan. | |
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| 34 | - | The issue was this, Path of Exile 2’s end game needed a lot of work. | |
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| 36 | - | Having the guys on the Path of Exile1 team help out for three months on Path of Exile 2, given the 3.26, was seven months away, seemed like a no brainer. | |
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| 38 | - | And man, did Path of Exile 2 need it. | |
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| 40 | - | The problem is, we got to the middle of October, and Path of Exile 2's launch was imminent. | |
| 41 | - | And I'll tell you what. | |
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| 43 | - | Taking people off Path of Exile 2 at that point was just impossible. | |
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| 45 | - | The endgame was not in a shippable state. | |
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| 47 | - | But you know what? | |
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| 49 | - | We could still do it if the Path of Exile 1 team just kept helping until Path of Exile 2 shipped in late November, we could still do it. | |
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| 51 | - | Maybe the scope would need to decrease a little bit, but mid-February was still possible. | |
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| 53 | - | We just needed to ship this damn game first. | |
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| 55 | - | Get it out of the way. | |
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| 57 | - | We literally couldn't think about anything else until it was done, but we still had time. | |
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| 59 | - | The problem is, we were fooling ourselves. | |
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| 61 | - | Path of Exile 2 was delayed three weeks, making the problem even worse. | |
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| 63 | - | And after the game was released, well, of course we had to immediately deal with all the problems. | |
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| 65 | - | How could we think about making a Path of Exile 1 expansion? | |
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| 67 | - | We still have hundreds of thousands of people who are having bad experiences in Path of Exile 2. | |
| 68 | - | There are crashes. There are severe endgame balance problems. | |
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| 70 | - | How could I justify taking some of the most experienced developers we have off Path of Exile 2 when it's on fire? | |
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| 72 | - | Now, after the Christmas break, we had to really admit something to ourselves. | |
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| 74 | - | The most urgent priority was getting Path of Exile 2 to a point where it didn't have major issues. | |
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| 76 | - | And it's hard to even think about what Path of Exile 1 needs when Path of Exile 2 has really obvious problems that need fixing. | |
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| 78 | - | We needed to get it to the point of stability and balance, and to fix the most severe deficiencies, | |
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| 80 | - | That Path of Exile 2 has before we can take our eyes off it. So what does that mean? | |
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| 82 | - | Well, it means that we can't really work on Path of Exile 1 3.26 until Path of Exile 2 0.2.0 has shipped. | |
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| 84 | - | And then, being honest, we probably need to support that for a couple of weeks after that as well. | |
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| 86 | - | Now, in the meantime, we are going to get a bunch of pre-production done on 3.26 with whatever people who are not needed to fix issues with Path of Exile 2, and once 0.2.0 is sorted, I promise we will devote as many resources as are needed from our company to get 3.26 done as soon as possible. | |
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| 88 | - | Unfortunately, I just can't promise a date right now. | |
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| 90 | - | I'm really sorry for how this went down. | |
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| 92 | - | Honestly, I should have predicted the fact that taking the Path of Exile 1 team off Path of Exile 1 would lead to this outcome, and I probably should have resisted doing it. | |
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| 94 | - | But at every stage I just kept thinking, we still have time, we still have time. | |
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| 96 | - | And then we didn't have time anymore. | |
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| 98 | - | Now we still have a lot to learn about how to run two games simultaneously. | |
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| 100 | - | We were overconfident. | |
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| 102 | - | We still need to work out how to structure our studio to make this possible, but we do have a solid plan for what we want to do with 3.26. | |
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| 104 | - | Obviously I can't talk about it yet, but I'm hoping you guys are going to love it. | |
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| 106 | - | I really want to thank you guys for all your support over the years. | |
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| 108 | - | You guys do deserve better than this and we will get 3.26 out as fast as we can. | |
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