Path of Exile 2 is about to be released on launch day here, Friday, December 6th, but if, for example, you woke up after downloading the game on Steam expecting to play it, you would be presented with a message that simply said, “Scheduled Release date was: Coming soon. Not very helpful.

Well, the servers haven’t gone live yet here in America early this morning, but they’ll be online soon enough. The server activation/release times for Path of Exile 2 are:

• PST – 11 a.m., Friday, December 6th
• EST – 2:00 p.m., Friday, December 6th
• GMT – 7:00 p.m., Friday December 6th

Therefore you have to wait until early midday on the west coast and until afternoon on the east coast. Given that most people are working or studying, it’s not the end of the world, but if you say me, that’s kind of a shame since I was planning on playing the first part here.

Path of Exile recently announced a major release milestone here, but it also came with a warning:

“We just hit 1 million early access redemptions. The support you all have shown for Path of Exile 2 Early Access far exceeds anything we could have ever predicted. However, we want to be upfront with all of you and let you know that there may be queues over the weekend.”

It’s certainly not unexpected for Path of Exile 2 to launch with queues or possible server issues. However, if you believe in miracles, perhaps Marvel Rivals can pull it off, which launched last night with essentially no problems, with instant matches, no queues and no lag. It was kind of incredible, albeit a unicorn in the online publishing space.

As for Path of Exile 2, this game is set to hit the ARPG scene like a meteor, and even Diablo executives have gone from trying the game to talking about how excited they are to start playing. Hopefully this will push Blizzard to improve Diablo even further now that it’s facing exceptionally serious competition. We’ll see how this all plays out later today when the servers start up.

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