The Path of Exile Steam page has a brief note from the team at Grinding Gear Games that lets the community know when it can expect the next expansion. According to the timeline update, players will be able to get their hands on the 3.17 expansion in “early February”. As a result, the current Scourge League is being extended by two weeks with the expansion reveal set to take place about a week ahead of the release.
As we close out 2021, we wanted to give you an idea of what to expect at the beginning of 2022 with Path of Exile’s next big expansion. We’re currently expecting to launch the 3.17 expansion in early February. This means that the Scourge League will be extended by at least two weeks. As per usual, our livestream announcement will take place about one week prior to the expansion’s launch. We’ll make sure there are some juicy Twitch Drops for viewers, of course.
We will confirm the exact dates as soon as we can but we do know that there’s at least a two-week delay from our usual schedule so far. We want to give our staff the freedom and flexibility to take time off over the New Zealand summer holidays and recharge for the year ahead. Once our team resumes, we’ll start to nail down the exact dates and will let you know.
In addition to the timeline update, GGG devs also revealed some cool PoE stats for 2021:
- We launched four expansions: Echoes of the Atlas, Ultimatum, Expedition and Scourge!
- Despite New Zealand borders still being closed due to COVID, we expanded from 149 to 165 in-house staff members. In fact, we have so many people now that we are renovating the third floor of our office building! Photos coming in a few months when the space is ready.
- We’ve been continuing to work on Path of Exile 2 and have released another trailer and gameplay preview.
- We deployed more than 100 updates/patches to our realm.
- We posted 442 news articles – an average of 8.5 posts per week.
- We set a record number of players online (265,250 on our server alone – up by 11% from our previous record of 237,160).
- Around 5.3 million different players played Path of Exile on our international realm.
- 2021 had the second-highest overall playtime per year, with over 483 million hours played on our international realm
- We reintroduced Path of Exile: Royale.
- We ran two Twitch Rivals Tournaments.
- We hosted another Halloween meeting.
- We improved clicking.
- We celebrated the 15th anniversary of Grinding Gear Games.
- We introduced the best bug of all time.
Check out the Path of Exile official site to learn more about the game.
