{"id":134315,"date":"2024-12-07T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T03:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134315"},"modified":"2024-12-07T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T03:55:56","slug":"path-of-exile-2-devs-say-to-expect-wait-times-sales-have-hit-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134315","title":{"rendered":"Path of Exile 2 devs say to expect wait times; sales have hit 1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\"><em>Path of Exile 2<\/em> developer Grinding Gear Games has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/path-of-exile-2\/sales-queues\">warned<\/a> of potential log-in queues when the free-to-play game enters early access this weekend due to the overwhelming amount of players expected to flood its servers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve just passed 1 million redemptions for <em>Path of Exile 2<\/em> keys, and sales are still increasing,\u201d director Jonathan Rogers said in a recent video, embedded below. \u201cObviously this great news, but it also comes with some downsides too. There are probably going to be some queues during the launch weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\">The studio never thought demand for <em>Path of Exile 2<\/em> would get so big, he added. While more cloud capacity is being added to the existing servers, Grinding Gear still has some concerns about the challenging road ahead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\">\u201cWe quite frankly don\u2019t know what our backend services are going to be able to handle as we go above a million users,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cWe\u2019ve added more database shards, scaling everything we have up as far as it\u2019ll go, but we\u2019re really not sure what kind of limits we might hit. We never expected things to go this big during early access.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\"><em>Path of Exile 2<\/em> is the long-awaited sequel to a 2013 hack-and-slash, action role-playing game considered a spiritual successor to the Diablo series. After previewing <em>Path of Exile 2<\/em> at ExileCon 2023, Polygon guides producer Ryan Gilliam described it as a \u201cmuch prettier\u201d game than its predecessor that rewards \u201cprecision and expertise\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23820436\/path-of-exile-2-preview-demo-exilecon-dodge-roll\">a new dodge roll mechanic<\/a>. Jordan Oloman, reporting for Polygon from Gamescom 2024, praised <em>Path of Exile 2<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/gamescom\/445251\/path-of-exile-2-hands-on-preview\">use of WASD-style movement<\/a> over the point-and-click controls common to the genre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\">\u201cThank you guys for believing so much in this project,\u201d Rogers said, wrapping up his video message. \u201cIf we do run into server issues at launch, just know that we\u2019re going to be working as hard as we can to solve them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0\"><strong>Update (4:45 p.m. ET):<\/strong> Following the game\u2019s launch at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, <em>Path of Exile 2<\/em> players have described both significant wait times and crashes on social media. The development team has a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pathofexile\/status\/1865145572875018750\">running thread on X<\/a> about the game\u2019s status; troubleshooting has required the team to \u201crestart the realm\u201d multiple times since its launch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/news\/492278\/path-of-exile-2-early-access-wait-times-servers\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Path of Exile 2 developer Grinding Gear Games has warned of potential log-in queues when the free-to-play game enters early access this weekend due to the overwhelming amount of players &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134315\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}