Grinding Gears announces they are not just grinding gears in supporting
Path of Exile, explaining that
the
recently released
Echoes of the Atlas expansion is the most successful to date for their
free-to-play action/RPG. This is how they quantify this claim:
"Echoes of
the Atlas has been Path of Exile's most successful expansion so far," Chris
Wilson, co-founder of Grinding Gear Games said. "We are so pleased to still be
setting new player number records after over 30 quarterly league releases since
2013. It shows us that our development methodologies are evolving in the right
direction as we work towards completing Path of Exile 2."
Interest in Path of Exile has not dwindled in the least as nearly 300,000 fans
were viewing the Echoes of the Atlas expansion debut livestream simultaneously
while a total of 782,000 unique viewers tuned in. When the highly-anticipated
expansion launched, it reached 265,250 simultaneous players, becoming the #4
most popular game on Steam at the time. Since launch, player numbers have been
11% higher than Path of Exile’s previous highest launch, which was Delirium in
March 2020 during the peak of the first global lockdown.