Like all industries, the development of Path of Exile is also affected by the new coronavirus, and the next expansion may also be delayed. In the past few years, Path of Exile has established a stable release time, and updates and expansions are very frequent. At present, although the new version will be released in June, it is very likely that the true release date cannot be determined.
Let's study Monday's statement from the MMOAH trail of Exile website:
As many of you're already aware, we've got completed eight of the 13 weeks of this development cycle from home which may be a significant amount of lost time in terms of face-to-face and group collaboration. Our team worked hard to quickly comply with the new work paradigm but there have definitely been some difficulties in working this manner that have made development a bit slower. Because of this, we've got already internally delayed the expansion's launch by one week from its originally expected launch date.
It is important to us that we release a high-quality expansion in June and that we will take the time to try and do this if we feel that we'd like an extra week or two. While we tried hard to realize this within our regular 13 week schedule, development certainly has not been business-as-usual over the previous couple of months.
We are currently getting to announce the three.11 expansions on June 2 at 2 pm (PDT) , roughly period from now. This suggests that we're working toward a launch date of June 19 for PC and St John's Day for the POE Orbs console. However, it's extremely important to notice that more so than any past expansion, it is very possible this launch are further delayed.
The pandemic has safely made predicting the discharge date of this league very difficult. There's currently an affordable possibility that the expansion is delayed by an extra week and a coffee chance that it'll be delayed farther beyond that.
Grinding Gear showed that although they did not mention anything about Path of Exile 2, it can still be considered that the development of dungeon crawler's sequel has been greatly affected. For now, it is tentatively scheduled for release on June 19.