"I actually don't believe any more that it's crucial that all of them are necessarily in." Image credit: Grinding Gear Games Grinding Gear Games plans to release Path of Exile 2 in full - in version 1.0 - this year. Game director and studio co-founder Jonathan Rogers revealed this intention during a press briefing detailing the game's final early access patch, 0.5.0, Return of the Ancients, due end of May, that I was a part of. Rogers told press that the studio's intention was to release Path of Exile in 1.0 sometime after ExileCon, the Path of Exile convention , which takes place in New Zealand in early November. (Grinding Gear Games is based in New Zealand.) For reference, Path of Exile 2 entered early access in early December 2024. "This is actually intended to be the final update in early access before 1.0," Rogers said in the briefing.…