The "Path of Exile" of Grinding Gear Games, which recently entered PlayStation 4, is preparing to work with Activision Blizzard. In an interview with PC GamesN, Chrin Wilson, co-founder of Grinding Gear Games, had some strong comments on the next "mass expansion" of his company's most popular free dungeon crawler. No matter what the Diablo 4 eventually becomes, frankly, whenever it finally exists, the road to exile will be ready to abandon.
Wilson said, "For us, the 4.0.0 extension is our version, it will use Diablo 4. It is the next generation of action role-playing games, representing a very large upgrade to the Path of Exile." It's a pretty good statement, but if Path of Exile has any signs of success so far, there are definitely precedents to expect great things from the team at Grinding Gear Games. The biggest change about this expansion is internal optimization, not the items and Path of Exile Currency required by the player character. As for what this 4.0-megabyte expansion is actually, well, there is still a long way to go in this news. Plans are currently being developed to uncover the expansion of the upcoming Exilecon, but the actual release is a firm "when it's done" deal.
In the interview, Wilson also talked about the work/life balance of Grinding Gear Games, and claimed that there was no one-hour overtime during the upcoming development of the Legion, mentioning a one-and-a-half-year plan. But this is not a tough goal, and the massive expansion is currently lagging behind the regular timetable for priority league updates. As part of Grinding Gear Games' focus on work/life balance above, the release date for large content delivery seems to be changing.
This is not the first time to publicly express Grinding Gear Games' position on austerity, and it is doubtful that it will be the last. I hope this will help us face enemies not specifically relying on POE Currency and POE Items. While waiting for 4.0 may be long, fans can now be confident that the dungeon crawler they chose is not at the expense of their creator, and that the team is willing to throw with Blizzard no matter what happens next.