In Path of Exile, players were excited about a new season, but the server issues over the weekend dampened the mood.
Why were so many players online in Path of Exile? In Path of Exile, the new season started on Friday, June 13, 2025. The developers attracted ARPG fans with new mercenaries that can be allies or foes, along with many other improvements and new features in the game.
The game enjoyed the usual influx of players. Over 175,000 gamers stormed the servers of Path of Exile according to SteamDB simultaneously. However, when the new season “Secrets of the Atlas” went live on Friday night, familiar issues caused problems that lasted throughout the weekend.
Here you can watch the trailer for the new season of Path of Exile:
Server issues mar the release
Why couldn’t the players play peacefully? The players of Path of Exile simply wanted to start the new season as usual over the weekend. However, server problems caused frustration. High pings, resets to the start of the map, or deaths of game characters were commonplace.
Although the server situation improved a bit through several patches, a good solution that fully resolves the problem is still lacking. Players continue to complain about lagging servers and a sluggish gaming experience. On Reddit, there were the following comments over the weekend:
- PreedGO: “Last night it was okay-ish after a while, but now I can’t even finish a single map … they really need to communicate about it, it’s no longer just a question of the initial load, it seems like something is actually wrong with the release.”
- Bendoverzana: “It’s so damn sad, it’s the 21st century in 2025, we buy $480 [about €414] packs and I watch someone play on Twitch because I can’t. Damn disconnects and queues every time …”
- Sen91: “I stopped until the fix, it’s unplayable at the moment, I lost level 6/7 maps with loot and atlas progress.”
What do the developers say about it? The developers of Path of Exile 2 managed to fix some of the server issues over the weekend, but difficulties still remain.
Community Manager Nick wrote about the current situation on Reddit: “It’s still early morning in New Zealand, so there is no update on the server problems yet, but the team has been working on it over the weekend. We are really working hard to provide updates as soon as we have them, but these things take time.”
A familiar problem
Are server issues uncommon in Path of Exile? No, both in Path of Exile and in the successor Path of Exile 2, there have been complaints about game server issues for months. However, the scale this time is much larger than the lags in the past and many more players are affected. Whether the server issues of the past are related to the problems of the new season is unclear.
The developers of Path of Exile are already working on a solution to ensure that players can enjoy the ARPG peacefully. If you want to know more about what exactly the mercenaries are and what feature the developers published just before the launch, you can find the relevant article here: Today, the new season of Path of Exile starts and the developers have another surprise for the launch
