Path of Exile 2 players are stuck at the login screen as the dev completes last-minute server upgrades

Grinding Gear Video games warned us that Path of Exile 2’s early entry launch is perhaps rocky. The developer hadn’t anticipated greater than 1,000,000 gamers, however pre-sales of the motion RPG surpassed that.

“There are most likely going to be some queues throughout the launch weekend,” mentioned sport director Jonathan Rogers. “Earlier than the launch, once we had been ordering [server] capability, we actually didn’t anticipate to have greater than 1,000,000 folks on-line on the similar time.”

Certain sufficient, inside half-hour of Path of Exile 2 going dwell, the concurrent participant rely on Steam exploded to greater than 286,000. However everybody’s caught staring on the login display screen whereas Grinding Gear Video games works on updates to the backend.

Path of Exiles 2 concurrent user graph on SteamDB — (Picture credit score: SteamDB)

Grinding Gear Video games mentioned on X simply forward of the launch that it was “performing some final minute database upgrades to strive assist deal with the overwhelming quantity of Exiles on the point of LOGIN to Path of Exile 2.” It additionally warned that there could also be a “brief delay” in servers going dwell. And so it appears to be.

The unique Path of Exile is a well-liked sport, however these of us who’ve been capable of play its sequel early have been so impressed that we’re anticipating extra than simply present PoE gamers to flock to it, the group of latest and previous ARPG gamers who’ve been invested in Diablo 4 for the previous couple years being the sport’s prime goal. It is also drawing comparisons to FromSoftware video games, which could lengthen its attain even additional: “I hate the cliche, however Path of Exile 2 actually is the Darkish Souls of isometric dungeon crawlers,” Fraser wrote.

Lest there be any doubt concerning the stage of curiosity, there are additionally at present a couple of million folks watching Path of Exile 2 streams on Twitch.

Grinding Gear Video games mentioned in its most up-to-date replace on X that it has now deployed the brand new database configuration, and estimates that entry can be accessible throughout the subsequent half-hour. We’ll regulate issues and allow you to know when issues begin to get higher.