Path of Exile: Betrayal sets new expansion record for concurrent players

Path of Exile may be in for a Betrayal, but it’s not coming from its players. A studio spokesperson from Grinding Gear Games said today that the free-to-play online action-role-playing game set a new mark for concurrent players.

The Betrayal expansion launched December 6 on PC, and Path of Exile reached about 189,000 players. Two-thirds of them are coming from Steam, a spokesperson said. This is a 28 percent increase over the previous expansion high. This shows studios that put out regular content updates with new storylines, character options, items, and loot have a good chance of seeing a flood of returning players — and maybe some new ones, too. The previous high for concurrent players came with the launch of the Fall of Oriath expansion in August 2017.