Path of Exile announces Delirium as player hours spiked again in 2019

2019 is turning out to have been one heckuva year for Path of Exile. Grinding Gear Games announced Path of Exile 2 and Path of Exile Mobile in December, and it turns out players were already excited about the online action-role-playing game before any of these details.

Path of Exile saw one of the greatest increases of play time on its Western servers in its five-year history. Grinding Gear Games general manager Chris Wilson (no relation to the writer — Ed.) shared the details while giving a presentation about the Delirium expansion in the 3.10 update coming March 13 (and one week later for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One). This spike in growth from 2018 to 2019 is roughly the same, numbers-wise, as what Grinding Gear saw between 2016 and 2017, though that one had a larger percentage of growth because the player base was smaller then.