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Since its release, Path of Exile 2 has been dubbed as a Diablo 4 killer. While the game’s early access success has derailed experimentation, the new ARPG is still trundling along with a new class releasing alongside the Dawn of the Hunt update.
With the two games being so similar, PC Gamer asked game director Jonathan Rogers whether or not they’re worried about genre competition such as Diablo 4. The simple answer: no, not at all.
Path of Exile 2 lead on Diablo 4
Speaking to the outlet, Rogers explained that there’s more than enough room for both games to exist simultaneously. With a lot of players engaging with both ARPGs, as well as other titles like Lost Ark and Grim Dawn, Rogers doesn’t see Blizzard’s option as competition.
“There is room for quite a lot of different players in the genre,” the Path of Exile 2 director said. “It doesn’t have to be that you’ve just got one game that dominates all the others.”
For the most part, Rogers’ belief that there is room for everyone comes down to the existence of seasonal content. Just like Diablo 4, Path of Exile 2 has seasons that entice players to come back with a new character to explore a new build or play with new content.
“The player community have embraced the idea of the season where you play the game for a while, you quit, you play something else, you come back and play the next season,” he said. “That’s kind of the expectation in the genre, partly due to the fact that our approach to that has kind of inspired a lot of that stuff going on.”
With this in mind, the game director is “perfectly fine” with competitors like Diablo. “So long as people are willing to come back and play our game for a month four times a year, then I’m good,” he said.
The ARPG genre has existed with Diablo at its core for decades, and that still hasn’t changed. Even with the first PoE, Diablo stayed strong. Even with Diablo 4, PoE 2 is going strong. The evidence proves that both games can not only survive together, but break records together.
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