Due to the different seasons, many ARPG fans frequently switch between Path of Exile 2, Diablo 4, and Last Epoch. The head of PoE2 spoke to MeinMMO about the future of the genre and said exactly what everyone wants to hear.
What are the plans of the head? In an interview with MeinMMO, the game director of Path of Exile 2, Jonathan Rogers, talked about the future of Path of Exile 2 and its predecessor. Particularly interesting is what will happen after the early access development of PoE2.
The head of PoE2 revealed to us that after PoE2 leaves early access, the seasons of part 1 and part 2 will always appear alternately. In an interview with PC Gamer, Rogers also said:
As long as people are willing to play our game for a month four times a year, that’s fine by me.
Accordingly, it can be assumed that a new season in one part of Path of Exile will appear approximately once a quarter, always alternating.
The conversation took place during the presentation of the new season Dawn of the Hunt, which starts on April 4th. Here you can see the trailer:
Good sign for ARPG fans
What should the future of the genre look like? The ARPG genre is currently largely divided into Path of Exile 1 and 2, Diablo 4, and Last Epoch. Recently, there was trouble between Last Epoch and PoE2, after both ARPGs had scheduled their new seasons for a similar date.
Why did players want to hear this? With the announcement from the head of Path of Exile 2, this should no longer happen in the future. By planning the release periods approximately every 3 months, the PoE2 creators can allow Last Epoch and Diablo 4 to schedule their season launches in the upcoming gaps.
This is a long-desired wish of ARPG fans who enjoy switching back and forth between the seasons and recently reacted bitterly when the seasons of Last Epoch and Path of Exile 2 collided.
The head of Path of Exile 2 seems to share the idea of game hopping as well. In the interview with PC Gamer, he says:
There’s room for many different players in this genre. It doesn’t have to be that you only have one game that dominates all the others.
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ARPGs are one of the genres where the gaming community has embraced the idea of the season, where you play the game for a while, then stop, play something else, and then come back and play the next season.
For fans, this is a good sign, as they have long hoped that the developers of the major ARPGs would coordinate their content launches so that new content is available almost continuously.
On the developers’ side of Path of Exile 2, there seems to be a green light for alternating seasons, now it remains to be seen whether other genre representatives will follow suit. If you want to play the new season of Path of Exile 2 on April 4th, then we have all the information for you here: Path of Exile 2: All information about Dawn of the Hunt, release of patch 0.2.0, and new class
