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Tyler Colp

Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release won't need to accommodate other game releases, director says—except GTA 6: 'That's a Goliath I don't want to take on quite frankly'

A screencap of the Path of Exile 2 Fate of the Vaal trailer. A woman stands in the foreground with a man in the background.

Path of Exile director Jonathan Rogers says he's never worried that much about the timing of other game releases—particularly other seasonal action RPGs—when it comes to scheduling major updates for his own game. But this year, Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release will likely be within a few weeks of the one game that has him reconsidering this approach: Grand Theft Auto 6.

In an interview with PoE co-creator and former Grinding Gear Games director Chris Wilson, Rogers said the timing of other game releases isn't usually a concern, "and honestly the community would slay us if they thought that we were delaying things just because some other game had a thing coming out."

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