Path of Exile continues charting its path to China

The path for Grinding Gear Games’ future runs through China.

Earlier this year, the makers of Path of Exile announced a partnership with Tencent, the largest game company in the world, to bring the online action-role-playing game to China. Grinding Gear’s game is 19th worldwide on the free-to-play massively multiplayer online market, says research firm SuperData, and the studio says it has 14.2 million players. Diablo has long had a following in China, and since Path of Exile is the successor to the spirit of Diablo 2, Grinding Gear sees an opportunity in this growing market — especially since RPGs generated $5.5 billion there in 2015, or 44 percent of the $12.5 billion Chinese PC MMO market, research firm Newzoo told GamesBeat.