Beta will begin in summer 2024.
Path of Exile 2will not be released this year in any form.
The plan, as it stands, is for a closed beta test to begin 7th June 2024.
The silence around Path of Exile 2 has been almost totalsince it was announcedin 2019.
We’ve seen twochunks of gameplayand that’s it.
The reason for this silence is because the game has changed significantly since then.
Otherwise, though, content and characters will not carry across.
What has taken so long?
“It’s a lot of things,” game director Jonathan Rogers told me in a one-on-one interview.
“I more than anyone was hoping for a 2023 beta date as well.
We honestly were extremely naive to think that we were going to hit the dates that we previously had.
And so I suspect that we’ve just been a victim of that.
And I guess maybe we’re a little bit keen to say yes to all that stuff.
And it just ended up getting insanely huge.
So I think we’re definitely going to hit this date in 2024.”
“It will last months, for sure,” said Rogers.
“And in terms of what it will be: it will be the game, the whole game.
The match-up between Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 has been talked up ever sincePOE2 was announced.
“No, it didn’t,” said Jonathan Rogers.
“It would have been nice if we could have gone head to head with them.
Like, that could have been fun, I would have enjoyed that.
But you know, whatever.
We shouldn’t be letting them dictate anything about our schedule or anything like that.
“Ultimately, their game ended up being quite different than ours.
I have a fuller preview and interview piece to share as soon as I can write it.
