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Let's let Bex know that we really want race seasons back
External link →Let's let Bex know that we really want race seasons back
External link →I know. I have been a big advocate for this internally on many occasions. As you saw after the ExileCon event, Chris mentioned that he was really keen to see racing make a comeback this year. We started making plans in that direction and then 2020 unfolded and well here we are. The WFH stuff means that we are being extra careful about "extracurricular" development to make sure we can hit our deadlines and keep Path of Exile 2 moving forward in the background. As soon as it's feasible to dedicate development time to it, you can trust that I'll be pushing for racing's return.
I just want Bex to let me know if any skills are getting nerfed next league...
Have you all looked into allowing larger private leagues? GGG official races would be amazing, but larger private leagues for community races would be a great compromise.
I hope to have an update about that this week.
Waste of development time imo, how many people actually race? You have no chance of winning unless you put in hundreds of hours of practice.
I don't want racing seasons personally at all. They are fun to watch on twitch when people self organize them but I would never participate in a race.
The thing I particularly like about races, outside of it being a great way for groups of people to engage with Path of Exile content in the form of spectating and set up etc, is that they're a great way to hone your skills and improve your Path of Exile knowledge. It's also a cool small thing to engage with if you're kind of in the mood to play Path of Exile but not for a long session.
If racing seasons do make a comeback, it would be amazing if instead of a strict time slot, you could start an event whenever you want within a day but you would have the same limited time to complete it. In the past, I missed a lot of events (sometimes all occurrences of a certain type of event) because of work/uni or the event being in the middle of the night.
I know several developers have a lot of interest in something like that.
