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Path of Exile devs want it to be easier for new players, but still won't let you skip its 20-hour campaign every league—at least not yet: 'It feels very wrong to me'

Path of Exile devs want it to be easier for new players, but still won't let you skip its 20-hour campaign every league—at least not yet: 'It feels very wrong to me'

Game director Mark Roberts said skipping it would be a "very, very bad way to go."

PC Gamer / Tyler Colp

After 13 years, Path of Exile's devs are finally ready to ditch one of its most iconic and frustrating mechanics

After 13 years, Path of Exile's devs are finally ready to ditch one of its most iconic and frustrating mechanics

Grinding Gear Games wants to find ways to get new players into the old action RPG.

PC Gamer / Tyler Colp

Path of Exile co-creator used to think 'live service was entirely upside, in all cases', but 10 years of experience and games like Baldur's Gate 3 have shown him another way

Path of Exile co-creator used to think 'live service was entirely upside, in all cases', but 10 years of experience and games like Baldur's Gate 3 have shown him another way

"This is a far more nuanced field than I thought it was 10 years ago."

PC Gamer / Harvey Randall

Path of Exile's overwhelming complexity isn't the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: 'I think that PoE 1's being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem'

Path of Exile's overwhelming complexity isn't the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: 'I think that PoE 1's being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem'

PoE 2 is certainly complicated, but it's much kinder to new players.

PC Gamer / Tyler Colp

Path of Exile's richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore 'more than 1,500 items, some of which can't ever be recreated': 'This is the worst day of my life'

Path of Exile's richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore 'more than 1,500 items, some of which can't ever be recreated': 'This is the worst day of my life'

The Forbidden Trove's days as a hub for Path of Exile trading may be coming to an end.

PC Gamer / Tyler Colp