Path of Exile 2 Early Access Delay

A new video from Grinding Gear Games announces the grind towards the release of Path of Exile 2 will take three weeks longer than previously expected. Jonathan Rogers, game director on the action/RPG sequel, apologetically reveals the "really bad news" that the launch is now coming on December 6th, explaining the extra time is not actually required for game development, but rather to ensure that none of the existing PoE playerbase gets cheated out of items they have paid for:
Unfortunately, I have some really bad news. We have to delay early access for three weeks. The new date is the December 6. I’m really sorry about this one. People plan time off and things like that around our launches, but we just have to do it. So what happened? Well, it turns out it isn't really the game itself that we're behind on. It's a bunch of server side infrastructure work that has taken us a lot longer than we expected.

Now, one of the key promises we made is that all your microtransactions will work across both PoE 1 and 2. In order to do that, we have to integrate the account systems for not only PoE 2 and 2, but also for the console realms as well. This meant changing a lot of things. Not only do we have to create a bunch of new systems, we have to make sure that only old data is backwards compatible with them as well. And when you start migrating databases that are this old and with this much data, you find all sorts of strange demons in there. How do multiple accounts get the same name? How do multiple accounts get the same email address? How do multiple accounts have the same steam IDs? Why is this person’s account name just random gibberish that doesn't even decode?

We have to get everything perfect so that nobody loses anything they paid for, and nobody has their account broken. At the same time, because we're changing all this back-end code, we have to do a lot of load testing to make sure the whole thing doesn't fall over when they could get the huge number of players that we’re expecting at launch.

I actually believe that we could possibly have made the original launch date, but I'm no longer confident we could do it without making mistakes. And these are the kind of mistakes we just can't let happen. So with that in mind, we've decided to delay.

Now this one's totally on me. I just didn't leave enough time to make sure we could get it done. And I'm really sorry. This one really hurts.

Now we're going to be having a livestream talking about all the content you can expect in PoE 2's early access in about four weeks. You can think of it like the biggest league announcement we've ever done. I'm really looking forward to telling you guys about the endgame content that the team have been working hard on.
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How "complete" is PoE2 Early Access? Is it just going to be one act, more acts, endgame etc.?
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