They already said that PoE 1 will stay playable.
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Vipsu@lemmy.world 7 months agoI second Grim Dawn as it’s clearly labor of love from the developers and still getting updates. I also like the fact that its not live service like Path of exile meaning that it does not require online connection and can be even be modded.
It remains to be seen with GGG will do with Path of Exile 1 when they release Path of Exile 2, it would be cool if they would release something like POE Unlimited a premium version of the game that would allow people to play the first game as single player experience, mod it and host their of servers.
But in this day and age it’s much more likely that they’ll just force people to move on to their next big thing.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Vipsu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sure but for how long and in what state?
There’s a lot of enshittification going around with games and services with more greedy business practices and it would be naive to think GGG is immune to it. When it comes to live service games certain level of skepticism is healthy to have. Now I do hope we’ll be able to play POE1 even 10 or 20 years from now with it being just as good.
Evotech@lemmy.world 7 months ago
An arpg that doesn’t require online is actually a negative for me. I’m not going to farm content offline
Vipsu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To Each Their Own I guess. Single player games tend to respect players time a lot more and thus usually require a lot less grinding or farming to complete. That being said Grim Dawn does have online multiplayer and community hosted seasons.