Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas is Grinding Gear’s most successful expansion
We’re just a week on – to the day – from the Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas DLC’s launch, and it’s already been declared the most successful expansion in developer Grinding Gear Games’ history. The action-RPG game’s devs have announced the latest pack has been a hit in terms of its player counts, hitting more than a whopping 265k concurrent players during its launch.
“Echoes of the Atlas has been Path of Exile’s most successful expansion so far,” studio co-founder Chris Wilson announces in a press release. “We are so pleased to still be setting new player number records after over 30 quarterly league releases since 2013. It shows us that our development methodologies are evolving in the right direction as we work towards completing Path of Exile 2.”
Eric Abent - Jan 18, 2021, 4:30pm CST
On Friday, January 15th, Grinding Gear Games released a new seasonal league for
Path of Exile. This latest league, called Ritual League, is unlike most of the seasonal leagues we see Grinding Gear Games release for a couple of reasons. For starters, this league is arriving later than expected. Originally scheduled to launch on December 11th, Grinding Gear Games decided to delay the roll out of this league after
Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed to December 10th, as it didn’t want to force players to choose between playing the new
Path of Exile league and
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Path of Exile can be run through, and those players do not count to the
SteamDB figures.
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Grind Gear Games have also had some server problems since the launch of the expansion, writing a news post that states that they have seen an “11% higher peak player numbers than any previous
Path of Exile release ” which they say “would normally be something to celebrate, right now it’s causing some big server problems.”
As a result of this, the developers are acquiring some hardware upgrades for their servers, and as a result they are anticipating some downtime in the near future, as well as a potential to postpones
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