2024 is nearly over, however we’re nonetheless getting main releases, and it appears they’re all doing spectacular properly. Yesterday, Marvel Rivals attracted gamers in droves on the primary day of its launch, and as we speak, we’re seeing an identical sample for the long-awaited Path of Exile 2, Grinding Gear Video games’ motion RPG, which launched in early entry as we speak.
As per SteamDB, on the time of writing, Path of Exile 2 has seen a peak of 459,263 gamers on Steam on day one among its launch. That’s immediately greater than twice as excessive because the all-time peak of the unique Path of Exile, which stands at 229,337 concurrent gamers.
As Grinding Gear Video games warned forward of the sport’s launch, Path of Exile 2 can also be at the moment going through extreme server overcrowding, with massive lots of gamers having to attend in lengthy queues to have the ability to get within the recreation. The studio will clearly be working to ease these points, although it must be fascinating to see how the sport’s participant engagement numbers fare over the approaching days. With the weekend arising, it wouldn’t be shocking to see it proceed to climb larger.
Path of Exile 2 is at the moment accessible in early entry for PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. Learn our evaluation of its early entry launch by way of right here.
