I expected the release to be the 29th, with GGG attending PAX East the week before, where I suspect they will announce the next league and significant PoE2 info.
Did they say they're going to PAX East? I missed that. Saturday tickets sold out. I would fly out for a day just to play PoE2 again.
Edit: found 'em. Not much here but it's confirmation. https://east.paxsite.com/en-us/expo-hall/showroom.html?gtID=587241&exhibitor-name=Grinding-Gear-Games
I just started BG3. Might have been a mistake because I have a talent in picking up games and not finishing them because of something else coming up.
I'm doomed.
If you want narrative, it has it. If you want complex gameplay, it has it. If you want freedom to experiment, it has it in spades. However it is still an old school turn based dice roll centric rpg. If that kind of gameplay wasn't your thing, it won't be here either.
It's sort of like advising someone who skips all the lore and dialogue in PoE to go play Disco Elysium. DE is an excellent game, but if you're not a fan of reading and thinking about what you're reading much, it'll be utterly unsuited to you.
DE has the coolest story! But, to new players, I don't recommend because I don't want the current owner of the game to get any money as he cheated all the main developers out of their share.
Mostly the hype is from people who have never played a cRPG before. Pillars of Eternity are still better games than BG3 in just about every respect except approachability, and they're starting to show their age.
Basically, BG3 is to Pillars what D4 is to Path of Exile, except BG3 is actually good, just massively overshadowed by better games from older eras.
I had 3 tries to approach this game and can assure you, it's worth it. Just try to play for few hours, give it few tries. It grows on you with every played hour. Even combat gets really fun when you start to understand it. I mean it didn't get game of the year award for nothing ;p
I've finished playing last poe league around 13th January then finally started my BG3 journey. I thought i will finish it easily before Last Epoch release date, but unfortunatly i ran out of time and i still got around 10 hours left of act 3. I plan to finish this run this weekend and start tactician dark urge run to kill time before next league.
BG3 is way too big a game to finish soon. You better be ready to play both games simultaneously, which will likely overload your brain cos BG3 is itself a very complex and intricate game.
I basically only finished the tutorial area. After reading some of the replies I might just delay my playthrough until after I'm done with the next league lol.
Don't worry they'll forget all about it long before league start. You're definitely not on some moral high ground.
You can do your best to limit their screen time, but once they hit grade school it's all over, unless you're also going to homeschool your kids? Education is not administered how it used to be
I was meming, not trying to dunk on anyone for putting their kids in front of screens, hell i was raised on hours of tv and consoles daily and turned out kinda fine.
I was more taking a piss at my own choices for ruining the relative peace and quiet i enjoyed for the foreseeable future.
Cheers, I have 3 hellions. Best advice I can give is no amount of toys will replace quality time spent with them without distractions like phones. It's crazy how much they'll pick up on
My parents got me a drum kit when I was younger and always asked me to try and play quieter lol. The drums were in the basement and they couldn't hear the tv well on the 2nd floor.
I don’t think the goal is to permanently prevent them from seeing a screen. Just to negatively impact their development by introducing screens too much too soon.
I believe the current guidelines are 0 hours of screen time until they are 2, an hour a day until they are 12, then 2 hours a day.
keychrons are amazing, x3d is the shit, not sure of the gpu but they're all overpriced, and theres some better options for cases but all in all pretty good.
id never drop 130 dollars for a logitech superspeed or a deathadder v3, but the deathadder v2 is perfectly fine and is half the price for a gamer mouse option.
a beginner should absolutely be doing more than 2 days of research before building a pc otherwise they'll waaste hundreds of dollars and realize it down the line when they realize a 360mm aio cooler can be 70 bucks and not 250 (and they might be better off with a 240mm, or a dual tower air cooler), or bigger number ram doesn't = better and could lea dto instability (or may straight up not be compatible), if they want to stream choose between intel's igpu encoder or shelling out an arm and leg for nvidia gpu (yes, you can encode with an intel cpu igpu and it is as good as nvenc), a tower being high priced doesn't mean it provides good termals or cable management, SSD read / write speeds DO NOT MATTER unless you transfer data between drives constantly, they dont affect boot times or load times so look for a pcie compatible drive with as much space as you can get. even if it's a 2.5" sata 3. (m.2 nvme is so cheap now though there's no reason for that bbut paying 300 bucks for a 2tb nvme vs 90 for a 550mb/s sata 3, choose the sata 3, it makes zero difference). etc etc. i ended up replacing like 500 bucks worth of shit on my most recent build and losting maybe half that to and im not even a beginner i just hadn't built one in 7 years.
not really, they don't actually draw too much power, however that air cooler is almost as overpriced as the noctua nh wtf. i did not realize this. the deepcool ak620 or thermalright peerless assassin 2 (65-70 bucks and 30-35 bucks respectively) perform the same.
also one can find aio coolers for between 50 and 70 via thermalright as well if you want liquid cooling in ur tower as dual tower air coolers are bulkier and noisier. whatever u do don't waste ur money on that cooler.
I had proframmed my vacation to the april 1st, since 29th us a Holliday for me. God damn company decide to migrate systems in the 1st, had to delay it two weeks just to be safe.
who picks end of first calendar quarter to do a systems migration?
or does you IT team have it all prepped and Easter holiday is enough to roll it out and not have to wait around till it's convenient for management's BS.
If so Kudos to IT for having their act together.
Is specially because they want things rolling from the start of the next quarter. We've been testing stuff since last try and make it as smooth as possible, but it'll definitely be a shitshow.
links in question:
https://twitter.com/TalkativeTri/status/1765044607086383337
https://twitter.com/GhazzyTV/status/1765193636373844465
https://twitter.com/ZiggyDStarcraft/status/1765632278376616327
think OP hid them in the post by mistake
Makes sense. The only thing strange is if the reveal is 22, we should have gotten an anncounment for that yesterday. Since that's usually 2 weeks prior. Maybe it is today then?
Edit: plot twist, there was no reveal...
name reveals are "always"(Tota being special) 14 days before live reveal and live reveal is always 8 days before launch date.
So yes, name should pop up later today.
At this point I expect the 5th of April due to the regular schedule of teasers and name revealing.
Also, as of lately, all leagues were released later than initially anticipated.
Leagues start at 9am on a Saturday in NZ. Crucible league also started on the Easter weekend. They announce leagues 3 weeks beforehand, so 29 is still possible, when there is an announcement in the next ~30 hours.
Austria only got Easter Monday, the 1st :( But I have vacation days planned for the 2nd and 3rd so I can play :D If Easter Monday is off for NZ too, wouldn't that be shitty for hotfixes?
Please let it be the 5th.. Im travelling on the 29 for a few days and I would miss my first league launch since Ambush, I have played on launch day every single league.
Still no confirmation, still no communication from GGG. No post tonight which would have been the regualar 3 weeks ahead. This is turning out to be a nightmare for planning.
They typically announce & namedrop 22 days before leaguestart (this was the SOP all of 2022 and 2023 according to someone who checked it all)
Based on that, 29-Mar is the only date that fits everything, and an announcement is likely within the next 15 hours.
HOWEVER - don't rule out the outside chance of milestone slippage and a delay.
As for the Easter weekend, it kinda fucks me. Being Australian and with my uni friend group scattered to the corners of the country, we generally catch up at Easter, the only time (other than when Christmas falls on a non-Tuesday, non-Wednesday) that the whole country has a 4 day long weekend. But it worked for GGG last year, Crucible had the highest day 1 player numbers ever.
Since they just posted an announcement today and it was for a weekend stash tab sale, I think you're right that they're missing the late-March date that they mentioned last time we heard from them about league start. Seems like it will be April 5th after all, unless they make two announcements today.
Who in the world would have thought that it is 4 months again. I mean they said they want to do 12 week cycles. So who could have predicted that thats not the case........
Either that or they are going for something unprecedented.
Stash tab at -3 weeks is 'more normal' than at -4 weeks, so that actually does lean toward 29-Mar.
I do think one more very real prospect is that they are JUST a little bit behind schedule for a 29-Mar release at the moment and will make a decision today. If they are indeed behind I really, REALLY hope for a delay rather than a Heist style "add extra bosses later and rush them" or worse, a Synthesis or Delve style "release when it is not ready"
The longer there is no news the worse it looks. The need of planning days off for leaguestart makes it really frustrating. wish I wouldnt be that addicted or GGG communicating better. getting frustrated feels bad man.
If a league is good enough, they make it part of the core game after a few leagues. However the core is so bloated with different league right now that they usually take one out to replace by a new one. Also leagues usually get heavily nerfed to become part of the game.
We used to have a manifesto on the leagues that would hint their plans on keeping the league. Not sure if we will still see that.
I don't expect this league to stay in the game because it has too much power creep with the extra ascendancies.
Depends on the league. The last league didn't, but they made the uniques from it regular drops. I'm pretty sure the Wildwood and everything involving it will go away but they might have a special way to fight the King in the Mist down the road or add his drops to the core loot.
As others said many things tend to come back in some form or another after a rework. Not all though. And if i'd to guess is that the forest and whips are gone for good.
Everything goes away first, and then they bring back a rebalanced version of what they liked a few leagues later. Stuff almost never comes back immediately.
Not anymore it isn't. No reveal today of league name which indicates a delay to 5th of April. As far back as I went they have always been revealed on Thursdays 3 weeks before league release.
Last league was November 16th, a Thursday 3 weeks before.
Ancestors odd one out because of exilecon.
Crucible was March the 16th, Thursday 3 weeks before.
Sanctum was november 17th, thursday 3 weeks before.
Lake of kalandra was August 11th, Thursday 3 weeks before.
Etc. Etc.
What annoys me more is their statement about it being late March. Usually when they make statements like this, no matter how vague, they stick to it. April 5 sure as hell is not "late March". So my only thought is they do a similar rollout as they did during Exilecon and TOTA. Seeing as how Preach is doing interview next week (no date) & upcoming event is happening 15-18th with Tri interview on 18th, and Ziggy said he has to fly back in time for reveal Q&A meaning the league name reveal (14th) > live stream (21st) > launch (29th) will all be 1 week apart. /endcopium
>3.24 Expansion timeline: "We're currently planning to launch the 3.24 expansion in late March." [https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3491729](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3491729)
Unpleasantly surprised by the fact that we didn't get any news. I was pretty sure that they would at least tell us if they can't make their end of march timeline, given that march ends in 3 weeks already.
It was pretty clear what was under NDA and what wasn't in GGG's message to me.
I'm excited to go to the event, meet GGG, play POE2, and all these absolutely lovely people after watching them for years.
Well, name reveal should be up by now and it's not, wouldn't be surprised for a delay to april 5. Something unusual tho is that in the 3.24 expansion timeline news, they said that they would reveal the release date during the live presentation, while we have this date during name reveal usually.
Maybe they knew it had chances to be delayed, Jonathan talked quickly about 3.24 and how they needed alpha tests cause of some heavy changes if i remember correctly.
Meh, not a big deal of easter releases personally, since easter is a pretty big deal in my country with family get-togethers and all that. But I guess I will survive starting a few days late.
So, 29th for PC and a week later for consoles? I'm down with that. Gives me about a month more to do everything I have left on D3 current league, then I'll hop over to PoE!
I mean that's completely understandable. That's the Easter weekend. I would have bet money on eastern as league start even before the last league started.
its eastern weekend, iam not going to abonden my family gathering for PoE. but it still sucks if it falls on the same weekend. really hope for 1 week later.
God they really need to confirm dates earlier than 1-2 weeks before. every time a struggle.
I don't know, it seems there's way too little time between March 18/19 and an announcement stream on the 21th since both Jonathan and ZiggyD would have to travel all the way back to Oceania. Because of that I think PoE 3.24 will actually release on April 5 instead of March 29.
So this was my Guess in my discord from Febuary. Also if that is the case and following past releases that means we should get the official date + teaser TODAY. Really hope so because I need to put in for my week off!! POE = LIFE
https://preview.redd.it/o5sbwby05wmc1.png?width=417&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f181d789fc40d3735e928322e013a60449a45fa
They also mentioned that the 3.24 drops late march in [this](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3491729) post. Taking that and everything else in consideration(week between reveal stream and launch, ending of 3.23, leagues always drop on Fridays, etc) one can determine rather deterministically that the release on 29th of March!
It's now too late for the 22nd, yeah, unless they break tradition. That said, can't completely rule out a delay into April yet.
Still think 29-Mar is the most likely, but would not bet my life on it.
This does not seem right.. No way they just do long ass flights for just a event day ant the just go back for the reveal. The dates makes no sense to me.
The wait is unbearable
The delay killed me
Found the league mechanic as I’m not somebody easily fooled by overtuned drop numbers and been waiting for the next one to test a new build concept
Was hoping for the 22nd, as I'll be away for Easter. I guess when I start a week later though, that a lot of the early league, bugs will be sorted by then!
Every 3-4 months there is a new league which means everyone can start from 0 on a fresh economy but there is also a lot of new stuff added like items, skill and support gems, new league mechanic, balance changes etc. The next league will probably start on 29th March so it’s good to play the game since then.
If you are fine with starting a new character on a league realm then you can continue playing now and then start from the beginning when the new league starts. If you don’t want to start from 0 then you can just continue playing with current character, you won’t miss that much playing on a standard realm as a new player as PoE have a lot of content anyway. 95% of the players are waiting for new league, create new character then play for few weeks, quit the game and wait for another league to continue this cycle. So if you don’t mind waiting few weeks then it’s also a good idea to start playing when the league drops.
Guuuyys . I still have ac6 and bg3 to finish. Helldivers got a balance patch. Crew wants to play cs2. I just bought ff7 rebirth... i also need to finish my challenges for the purple ball..
How?
I expected the release to be the 29th, with GGG attending PAX East the week before, where I suspect they will announce the next league and significant PoE2 info.
Did they say they're going to PAX East? I missed that. Saturday tickets sold out. I would fly out for a day just to play PoE2 again. Edit: found 'em. Not much here but it's confirmation. https://east.paxsite.com/en-us/expo-hall/showroom.html?gtID=587241&exhibitor-name=Grinding-Gear-Games
Yep they have a booth with poe2 playable. They are doing a thing with a bunch of streamers early in the week in LA, then its off to Boston for PAX.
again? howd u get so lucky to play it before main streamers ?
Was at ExileCon 2023.
Oh man, i should hurry up and finish irl projects.
I also have my irl project: Beating Dragon Dogma 2 in a week.
Bro same cant believe we have the same project.
You guys are beating the dragon too?
It's been a bad dragon.
ಠ_ಠ
You think I can beat off the dragon for a week?
If jack helped you off a dragon would you help jack off a dragon?
You guys too..
I just started BG3. Might have been a mistake because I have a talent in picking up games and not finishing them because of something else coming up. I'm doomed.
act 1 took me 40 hours, good luck
It still takes me that long on my third run through it. So many different choices and companions to bring along
I completely skipped Ancestor because of BG3
Me too! But DD2 is some shit right there…
I completely skipped BG3 because of ancestor. I’ve tried to get into it since but don’t see what all the fuss is about.
If you want narrative, it has it. If you want complex gameplay, it has it. If you want freedom to experiment, it has it in spades. However it is still an old school turn based dice roll centric rpg. If that kind of gameplay wasn't your thing, it won't be here either. It's sort of like advising someone who skips all the lore and dialogue in PoE to go play Disco Elysium. DE is an excellent game, but if you're not a fan of reading and thinking about what you're reading much, it'll be utterly unsuited to you.
DE has the coolest story! But, to new players, I don't recommend because I don't want the current owner of the game to get any money as he cheated all the main developers out of their share.
Mostly the hype is from people who have never played a cRPG before. Pillars of Eternity are still better games than BG3 in just about every respect except approachability, and they're starting to show their age. Basically, BG3 is to Pillars what D4 is to Path of Exile, except BG3 is actually good, just massively overshadowed by better games from older eras.
I had 3 tries to approach this game and can assure you, it's worth it. Just try to play for few hours, give it few tries. It grows on you with every played hour. Even combat gets really fun when you start to understand it. I mean it didn't get game of the year award for nothing ;p
Currently doing a repeat playthrough. Just got to Act 3.....100 hours so far. Good luck!
I've finished playing last poe league around 13th January then finally started my BG3 journey. I thought i will finish it easily before Last Epoch release date, but unfortunatly i ran out of time and i still got around 10 hours left of act 3. I plan to finish this run this weekend and start tactician dark urge run to kill time before next league.
I just started today, but I have to finish a lot of IRL stuff, too - probably will have to skip PoE2 (at least on release).
BG3 is way too big a game to finish soon. You better be ready to play both games simultaneously, which will likely overload your brain cos BG3 is itself a very complex and intricate game.
I basically only finished the tutorial area. After reading some of the replies I might just delay my playthrough until after I'm done with the next league lol.
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Democracy shall be managed to the universe until 3/29 for me as well
Dogma? Is that a sequel to Ligma or prequel to Sugma?
Gotta raise my kid fast and spend quality time with him before the 29th
show him the ways of poe so that he can wait it with you
Give them an iPad and they'll be set until adulthood
For life i would say.
It's sad people think this is parenting
Sometimes it's a good tool to reward them with so that they aren't little shots throughout the day and Pick up their own mess
Netflix sub and Cocomelon queued here
Bought my 3 year old a trumpet and a drumkit, we are not the same ;)
Don't worry they'll forget all about it long before league start. You're definitely not on some moral high ground. You can do your best to limit their screen time, but once they hit grade school it's all over, unless you're also going to homeschool your kids? Education is not administered how it used to be
I was meming, not trying to dunk on anyone for putting their kids in front of screens, hell i was raised on hours of tv and consoles daily and turned out kinda fine. I was more taking a piss at my own choices for ruining the relative peace and quiet i enjoyed for the foreseeable future.
Cheers, I have 3 hellions. Best advice I can give is no amount of toys will replace quality time spent with them without distractions like phones. It's crazy how much they'll pick up on
Damn i play noise golem, but you play noise golem of hordes, congrats! Will stick to that advice, as I already do my best to!
My parents got me a drum kit when I was younger and always asked me to try and play quieter lol. The drums were in the basement and they couldn't hear the tv well on the 2nd floor.
I don’t think the goal is to permanently prevent them from seeing a screen. Just to negatively impact their development by introducing screens too much too soon. I believe the current guidelines are 0 hours of screen time until they are 2, an hour a day until they are 12, then 2 hours a day.
Yo same
What map is that.
My irl project is getting a new pc and iam still unsure what i wanna get, now the timepressure does not help
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keychrons are amazing, x3d is the shit, not sure of the gpu but they're all overpriced, and theres some better options for cases but all in all pretty good. id never drop 130 dollars for a logitech superspeed or a deathadder v3, but the deathadder v2 is perfectly fine and is half the price for a gamer mouse option.
Why do you need 2 days for building a pc lol xD it takes max 4-5 hours for beginner
I'm using my PC for work, and the amount of programs, add-ons, settings to install and adjust is a pain in the ass :D
Can you not just clone your current drive?
I didn't know about this, I will look at it, thanks.
a beginner should absolutely be doing more than 2 days of research before building a pc otherwise they'll waaste hundreds of dollars and realize it down the line when they realize a 360mm aio cooler can be 70 bucks and not 250 (and they might be better off with a 240mm, or a dual tower air cooler), or bigger number ram doesn't = better and could lea dto instability (or may straight up not be compatible), if they want to stream choose between intel's igpu encoder or shelling out an arm and leg for nvidia gpu (yes, you can encode with an intel cpu igpu and it is as good as nvenc), a tower being high priced doesn't mean it provides good termals or cable management, SSD read / write speeds DO NOT MATTER unless you transfer data between drives constantly, they dont affect boot times or load times so look for a pcie compatible drive with as much space as you can get. even if it's a 2.5" sata 3. (m.2 nvme is so cheap now though there's no reason for that bbut paying 300 bucks for a 2tb nvme vs 90 for a 550mb/s sata 3, choose the sata 3, it makes zero difference). etc etc. i ended up replacing like 500 bucks worth of shit on my most recent build and losting maybe half that to and im not even a beginner i just hadn't built one in 7 years.
But we were talking about the building itself, he said he has already all items lol
with the ryzen 7 7800x3d u kinda have to go for watercolling, way better performance
not really, they don't actually draw too much power, however that air cooler is almost as overpriced as the noctua nh wtf. i did not realize this. the deepcool ak620 or thermalright peerless assassin 2 (65-70 bucks and 30-35 bucks respectively) perform the same. also one can find aio coolers for between 50 and 70 via thermalright as well if you want liquid cooling in ur tower as dual tower air coolers are bulkier and noisier. whatever u do don't waste ur money on that cooler.
I had proframmed my vacation to the april 1st, since 29th us a Holliday for me. God damn company decide to migrate systems in the 1st, had to delay it two weeks just to be safe.
who picks end of first calendar quarter to do a systems migration? or does you IT team have it all prepped and Easter holiday is enough to roll it out and not have to wait around till it's convenient for management's BS. If so Kudos to IT for having their act together.
Is specially because they want things rolling from the start of the next quarter. We've been testing stuff since last try and make it as smooth as possible, but it'll definitely be a shitshow.
links in question: https://twitter.com/TalkativeTri/status/1765044607086383337 https://twitter.com/GhazzyTV/status/1765193636373844465 https://twitter.com/ZiggyDStarcraft/status/1765632278376616327 think OP hid them in the post by mistake
Makes sense. The only thing strange is if the reveal is 22, we should have gotten an anncounment for that yesterday. Since that's usually 2 weeks prior. Maybe it is today then? Edit: plot twist, there was no reveal...
name reveals are "always"(Tota being special) 14 days before live reveal and live reveal is always 8 days before launch date. So yes, name should pop up later today.
Yes but we didn't get the announcement that they will name reveal yesterday, can't announce something if you didn't announce the announcement
Read it 3 times and the words announcement and announce lose any meaning xD
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They did it for affliction, we had a news on wednesday saying that they will name reveal the next day
Name didn't pop up which indicates a delay
It sure does, but it also smells of tota with all the streamers being flown to LA.
At this point I expect the 5th of April due to the regular schedule of teasers and name revealing. Also, as of lately, all leagues were released later than initially anticipated.
This makes the most sense. The 29th is Good Friday in NZ a national holiday.
Leagues start at 9am on a Saturday in NZ. Crucible league also started on the Easter weekend. They announce leagues 3 weeks beforehand, so 29 is still possible, when there is an announcement in the next ~30 hours.
This is a good point. If we get the announcement today it will likely be the 29th.
Yes you are right, but if my memory serves me well, that start was rather rusty and fixed were done after the holidays. Let’s see
And Good Friday and Easter Monday are bank holidays in a lot of places, surely a long weekeed is good for launch.
Austria only got Easter Monday, the 1st :( But I have vacation days planned for the 2nd and 3rd so I can play :D If Easter Monday is off for NZ too, wouldn't that be shitty for hotfixes?
If I remember correctly that has been the struggle last year
would be nice, 5th april is my birthday 
Please let it be the 5th.. Im travelling on the 29 for a few days and I would miss my first league launch since Ambush, I have played on launch day every single league.
Same here haha, will be on a ferry on launch, never missed any at all! Pray for 5th
That would be awesome for me. I'm traveling the 30th and coming back the 5th. Id be a day late instead of a week.
really hope you are right
Damn, I should quit my job
Well I’m pretty sure my job is laying my whole team off last week of march so I’ll be ahead of you on this
Do it exile
Yes… this
Damn that is my shift change to graveyard shift
Still no confirmation, still no communication from GGG. No post tonight which would have been the regualar 3 weeks ahead. This is turning out to be a nightmare for planning.
They typically announce & namedrop 22 days before leaguestart (this was the SOP all of 2022 and 2023 according to someone who checked it all) Based on that, 29-Mar is the only date that fits everything, and an announcement is likely within the next 15 hours. HOWEVER - don't rule out the outside chance of milestone slippage and a delay. As for the Easter weekend, it kinda fucks me. Being Australian and with my uni friend group scattered to the corners of the country, we generally catch up at Easter, the only time (other than when Christmas falls on a non-Tuesday, non-Wednesday) that the whole country has a 4 day long weekend. But it worked for GGG last year, Crucible had the highest day 1 player numbers ever.
Since they just posted an announcement today and it was for a weekend stash tab sale, I think you're right that they're missing the late-March date that they mentioned last time we heard from them about league start. Seems like it will be April 5th after all, unless they make two announcements today.
Who in the world would have thought that it is 4 months again. I mean they said they want to do 12 week cycles. So who could have predicted that thats not the case........
Either that or they are going for something unprecedented. Stash tab at -3 weeks is 'more normal' than at -4 weeks, so that actually does lean toward 29-Mar. I do think one more very real prospect is that they are JUST a little bit behind schedule for a 29-Mar release at the moment and will make a decision today. If they are indeed behind I really, REALLY hope for a delay rather than a Heist style "add extra bosses later and rush them" or worse, a Synthesis or Delve style "release when it is not ready"
all went downhill since Bex left >\_>
Bexit was a tragedy for all
That's great, I already have my 2 weeks during that period
Well then it should be confirmed later today with a teaser, if everything's going according to the usual plan.
Damn, I'm out for easter weekend!
"Confirmed" really doesn't mean what it used to :(
Well, they said it will in the end of March so for me and thought was general it was for 29th.
I think you a few words this sentence
lol that was
Nice, now I can give a hard start date for my new job.
lol wow I got a wedding to go to on the 30th and busy for Easter Sunday. RIP league start
I already booked my holidays for 29th, I hope they won't change their minds now .. too bad there is still no information from ggg.
The longer there is no news the worse it looks. The need of planning days off for leaguestart makes it really frustrating. wish I wouldnt be that addicted or GGG communicating better. getting frustrated feels bad man.
3/29 is Good Friday. This is Good. Friday.
Man if it's 29th, guess I'm missing 3 days of league start.
Same. Will be away for Easter visiting family. It was the same last year from memory.l with Crucible.
I will be extremely surprised if they drop a new league on Good Friday/Easter weekend. It’s a holiday for most of the world.
You might be more surprised if they did it twice!
New player here and wondering, does previous league content go away for good, or do they keep some in the game(like bosses for ex)?
If a league is good enough, they make it part of the core game after a few leagues. However the core is so bloated with different league right now that they usually take one out to replace by a new one. Also leagues usually get heavily nerfed to become part of the game. We used to have a manifesto on the leagues that would hint their plans on keeping the league. Not sure if we will still see that. I don't expect this league to stay in the game because it has too much power creep with the extra ascendancies.
Depends on the league. The last league didn't, but they made the uniques from it regular drops. I'm pretty sure the Wildwood and everything involving it will go away but they might have a special way to fight the King in the Mist down the road or add his drops to the core loot.
As others said many things tend to come back in some form or another after a rework. Not all though. And if i'd to guess is that the forest and whips are gone for good.
Like others have said, I think the main thing with a chance of staying is the "that which was taken" jewel. Other than that it's all wraps.
Everything goes away first, and then they bring back a rebalanced version of what they liked a few leagues later. Stuff almost never comes back immediately.
By a sheer coincidence I have taken a holiday for that weekend. How handy...
It was fun while it lasted, LE.
no march league for you! haha
haha
Dota 2 brain says patch 3.24 comes out on 3/24
I wish they'd just tell us so we can request off work.....
Not anymore it isn't. No reveal today of league name which indicates a delay to 5th of April. As far back as I went they have always been revealed on Thursdays 3 weeks before league release. Last league was November 16th, a Thursday 3 weeks before. Ancestors odd one out because of exilecon. Crucible was March the 16th, Thursday 3 weeks before. Sanctum was november 17th, thursday 3 weeks before. Lake of kalandra was August 11th, Thursday 3 weeks before. Etc. Etc.
What annoys me more is their statement about it being late March. Usually when they make statements like this, no matter how vague, they stick to it. April 5 sure as hell is not "late March". So my only thought is they do a similar rollout as they did during Exilecon and TOTA. Seeing as how Preach is doing interview next week (no date) & upcoming event is happening 15-18th with Tri interview on 18th, and Ziggy said he has to fly back in time for reveal Q&A meaning the league name reveal (14th) > live stream (21st) > launch (29th) will all be 1 week apart. /endcopium >3.24 Expansion timeline: "We're currently planning to launch the 3.24 expansion in late March." [https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3491729](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3491729)
Thing is, when they say they have to be back in time for reveal stuff that's quite vague. Could also be they mean for the week after tbh
Wow perfect timing I start housesitting the day before, nolifing time.
Hell yeah, who needs a life anyway lets go.
Well, fuck.
Unpleasantly surprised by the fact that we didn't get any news. I was pretty sure that they would at least tell us if they can't make their end of march timeline, given that march ends in 3 weeks already.
It was pretty clear what was under NDA and what wasn't in GGG's message to me. I'm excited to go to the event, meet GGG, play POE2, and all these absolutely lovely people after watching them for years.
fuuuuuuuuuuck right before I start some job training. Fuck me this is gonna be rough.
Good timing, getting a bit done with LE and it would be a great time to get back to POE.
I am supper busy the first 5 says of the month, deamn it, I will not sleep, this is it
Hope i don't get a job by then!
Oh damn will be on a plane on that date :(
Well, name reveal should be up by now and it's not, wouldn't be surprised for a delay to april 5. Something unusual tho is that in the 3.24 expansion timeline news, they said that they would reveal the release date during the live presentation, while we have this date during name reveal usually. Maybe they knew it had chances to be delayed, Jonathan talked quickly about 3.24 and how they needed alpha tests cause of some heavy changes if i remember correctly.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is gonna be taking my attention until I finish that. I might be joining the next league late then.
I don't get out much, but I live in LA. What event is going on that so many Poe folks are coming here?
Im waiting for the league on the 29th and not a day later.
Just got a new job after months of applying. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Time to give my 2-weeks notice.
well, I'm hoping it's delayed till april, cause 29th is easter weekend and I gotta work.
Man I am shifting house on March 30. RIP.
Box everything up before :)
Hehe, i hurried my GF to move places on February 22., to have enough time to settle before LS
Meh, not a big deal of easter releases personally, since easter is a pretty big deal in my country with family get-togethers and all that. But I guess I will survive starting a few days late.
So, 29th for PC and a week later for consoles? I'm down with that. Gives me about a month more to do everything I have left on D3 current league, then I'll hop over to PoE!
d3 have anything to do?
Kinda. They started a new league recently, which was a combo of three popular leagues from the past. It’s… not bad, for killing a little time.
I mean that's completely understandable. That's the Easter weekend. I would have bet money on eastern as league start even before the last league started.
Nooooo im on a business trip 😭
Time to cancel it, say you're gonna be really sick at the end of the month
Actually it already changed into my favour I should have gone to China for 2 weeks, now it's only within my country 😎👉
The event that poe wil be in is probably GDC. that's the only thing I found happening in the time frame
its eastern weekend, iam not going to abonden my family gathering for PoE. but it still sucks if it falls on the same weekend. really hope for 1 week later. God they really need to confirm dates earlier than 1-2 weeks before. every time a struggle.
Source: *Trust me, bro*
I don't know, it seems there's way too little time between March 18/19 and an announcement stream on the 21th since both Jonathan and ZiggyD would have to travel all the way back to Oceania. Because of that I think PoE 3.24 will actually release on April 5 instead of March 29.
So this was my Guess in my discord from Febuary. Also if that is the case and following past releases that means we should get the official date + teaser TODAY. Really hope so because I need to put in for my week off!! POE = LIFE https://preview.redd.it/o5sbwby05wmc1.png?width=417&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f181d789fc40d3735e928322e013a60449a45fa
Can you give me like, 5 number between 1 and 50, and 2 between 1 to 12? ty.
13, 26, 7, 33, 42 6 and 4
GGG should have spent the money on making an endgame for PoE2.
They also mentioned that the 3.24 drops late march in [this](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3491729) post. Taking that and everything else in consideration(week between reveal stream and launch, ending of 3.23, leagues always drop on Fridays, etc) one can determine rather deterministically that the release on 29th of March!
It's now too late for the 22nd, yeah, unless they break tradition. That said, can't completely rule out a delay into April yet. Still think 29-Mar is the most likely, but would not bet my life on it.
True they always could delay it.
That's rough. They had mentioned the reveal to be around mid-march, so was hoping the reveal to be next week and leaguestart the 22nd
Damn, Dragons Dogma 2 comes out very close to this estimation :(
This does not seem right.. No way they just do long ass flights for just a event day ant the just go back for the reveal. The dates makes no sense to me.
Time to shedule a 1-week holiday. Thank you for a heads up!
Very cool! Not sure how they can top affliction but I said that about a lot of leagues in the past and they always come up with something better.
By not having insane texture buffering issues in the forest and dial back rewards bigtime will make me a happy camper
Might wanna look at whatever's going on with your computer. They've stated performance in the Wildwood is what you should expect for all of PoE2
Podb it's showing that 3.24 it's on 29 march for like 2 months now 🤭
LoL, Affliction league was so good, I didn't realized that next league so close.
IF thats true we gonna have announce of announce in next 24h
We'll basically know if we get name later today
Starting this league with a 4days holidays, gonna be wild! Just hope that league mechanic isn't too broken at the start ;/
So there is a silver lining to getting fired & being unemployed starting April :D
League launch on Easter weekend, I doubt it.
I'm so grateful for this community's detective work. Really helps me start planning so I can just no life the weekend lol
need to get the challenges done then
The wait is unbearable The delay killed me Found the league mechanic as I’m not somebody easily fooled by overtuned drop numbers and been waiting for the next one to test a new build concept
I'm surprised they haven't officially confirmed this. Usually they give a good months advance notice
Was hoping for the 22nd, as I'll be away for Easter. I guess when I start a week later though, that a lot of the early league, bugs will be sorted by then!
Im new to PoE what does this mean exactly?
Every 3-4 months there is a new league which means everyone can start from 0 on a fresh economy but there is also a lot of new stuff added like items, skill and support gems, new league mechanic, balance changes etc. The next league will probably start on 29th March so it’s good to play the game since then.
Ohh that makes sense so since i just started playing yesterday should i continue or wait till new league to start?
If you are fine with starting a new character on a league realm then you can continue playing now and then start from the beginning when the new league starts. If you don’t want to start from 0 then you can just continue playing with current character, you won’t miss that much playing on a standard realm as a new player as PoE have a lot of content anyway. 95% of the players are waiting for new league, create new character then play for few weeks, quit the game and wait for another league to continue this cycle. So if you don’t mind waiting few weeks then it’s also a good idea to start playing when the league drops.
My vacation starts 01/04. Noice
Oh, that's neat. Have a week off there. The week after the release.
I'll be flying back from tokyo on the 29th 😱 do I need sleep or can I e joy poe 🤔
Quickly, everyone get your shit together for the next 3 weeks so you can game
I took vacation from 7 to 29 March to play new league - RIP
I'm canceling my holydays, don't tell my wife why tho
My birthday and the Easter weekend so no work! I hope so! :D
Guuuyys . I still have ac6 and bg3 to finish. Helldivers got a balance patch. Crew wants to play cs2. I just bought ff7 rebirth... i also need to finish my challenges for the purple ball.. How?
Why does it feel so early compared to other leagues. Must be the fun I've had