Path of Exile 2 isn't out until sometime next year
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Offer better value
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This is going to be a tricky one. Path of Exile is one of the best value games I’ve ever played. I’ve spent a bit more than £100 on it, almost exclusively on cosmetics, and it was mostly out of guilt from enjoying this big ass free game for so many years. But you can drop no cash at all and still get a game that is significantly meatier than Diablo 3. If you’re being frugal, there’s really only one choice here.
What can Diablo 4 offer that Path of Exile and its sequel can’t? Not much, frankly. It’s got that Activision money, of course, which means there’s cash to burn on extra bells and whistles and superior production values, but it’s not like Grinding Gear is strapped. It was acquired by Tencent a few years ago, taking away Diablo’s advantage.
To be clear, I think the cash I dropped on Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls gave me plenty of value, but in the 2020s asking people to drop £40 on a game that’s doing exactly the same thing as one that’s entirely free seems like a hard sell.
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Despite the knocks it’s taken to its reputation, I expect any new Blizzard game to have a successful launch. It’ll probably do the numbers regardless of reviews or the competition. The challenge is making it last.
Plenty of live service games have enjoyed big launches and then experienced nothing but trouble. While some, like Fallout 76, have managed to turn things around and hold onto players, there are ones like Anthem that seem destined to become a snarky footnote in the history of games. And Blizzard’s proved that it’s not too big to fail—Heroes of the Storm’s esports scene was killed off in 2018 and development was scaled back, while the remaster of one of its most beloved games, Warcraft 3: Reforged, ended up being a massive disappointment. This time, it can’t rest on its laurels.
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Path of Exile 2 isn’t out until sometime next year, but Grinding Gear Games have a salve for our wounds: A new quarterly league expansion for Path of Exile is launching for free next Friday, April 16th. Called Ultimatum, this new Challenge League revisits one of PoE’s most iconic factions, the Vaal, while letting players play a loot and monster-filled version of Double or Nothing. If you want to buy MMoexp POE currency trade please visit https://www.mmoexp.com/Path-of-exile/Currency.html
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