Path of Exile devs acknowledge “there are too many types of splinters”
Path of Exile‘s Expedition update just landed, and the response has been mixed so far. The devs have put out a post outlining some of the changes coming to the game, and provided responses to some of the most common points of criticism. There are a lot of currency items in Expedition, and Grinding Gear Games is confident that this works for the design of the current content, but more broadly they know “there are too many types of splinters in Path of Exile”.
Expedition has a total of twenty different currency items spread across four different vendors. Path of Exile has avoided gold systems for a variety of reasons, and spreading this many currency types around is intended to encourage players to spend time at different vendors and make more strategic decisions around their purchases.