[2023] Happy New Year! A 2023 Retrospective

2023 has been an amazing year for Path of Exile, with ExileCon 2023 being held in New Zealand, as well as reveals of Path of Exile 2 along with three full expansions for Path of Exile 1! Check out some of the statistics below, as we take a moment to look back at this eventful year.



In 2023:

• We launched three expansions: Crucible, The Trial of the Ancestors and Affliction


• We broke last year's concurrent player record of 270,260 with 321,180 players!


• We teased the Sorceress in Path of Exile 2 at Summer Game Fest, then the Monk at the PC Gaming Show shortly after that.


• We held ExileCon 2023, where players from around the world came to New Zealand to celebrate all things Path of Exile.


• We announced that Path of Exile 2 will be a separate game from Path of Exile 1, each with their own cycles.


• We flew to Germany to attend Gamescom, then to Seattle for PAX West to show off the Druid in Path of Exile 2.


• We revealed the Mercenary and announced WASD movement for Path of Exile 2.


• We revamped Breach and Abyss, overhauling how they work and changing almost every Breach and Abyss Unique Item.


• We introduced an auto-battler style game mechanic in Trial of the Ancestors.


• We introduced Tattoos and Omens into the game.


• We added the Forbidden Sanctum into the core game!


• We changed the Chaos Orb stack size from 10 to 20.


• We introduced some QoL to trades, such as holding Alt to see the total currency added to the trade window, and being able to split currency stacks while in a trade.


• We temporarily brought back the Lake of Kalandra and Recombinators in our Blast from the Past event.


• 
  Ebin Ebon Evan Eben learned how to pronounce "attributes".


• Tane vanished from the Atlas. I wonder, is Tane still sane?
  
  
  


• We finally brought back Ultimatum!


• We've continued to finetune the balance of the Ruthless game mode.


• We held our very first Ruthless Solo Self-Found Boss Kill Event, with playlifee claiming first place and designing the Replica Dragonfang's Flight Unique Amulet as a result.


• We held another Boss Kill Event after that, with none other than Ben claiming first prize.


• We overhauled the Saboteur, Pathfinder, Chieftain and Guardian Ascendancies, giving them new tools to build around.


• We added both the Voidborne Reliquary Key and Valdo's Puzzle Box to the game, letting supporters leave their mark in Path of Exile.


• We updated Path of Exile's distance units to work with the Metric system.


• We introduced three new alternate Ascendancies in Affliction.


• We overhauled Skill Gems, giving a heaping ton of them one or more Transfigured versions, enabling more builds and ways to play.


• With the removal of Alternate Gems, we overhauled Heist and buffed all the Heist Base items, like the Simplex Amulet.


• We (kinda) buffed Cleave's radius to +0.1 metres to per 3 Rage.


• We posted news 371 times, with a first time temporary news break before ExileCon 2023.


• We posted approximately 3401 lines of Patch Notes, across 85 patches and hotfixes. We also posted approximately 1898 lines of Patch Notes on Console.


• And finally, we sold 185,132 Weta Pets!

A big thank you to everyone for playing Path of Exile and for your support. Here's to another year!