{"id":1611367,"date":"2026-06-19T19:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6C9vSBkR7g78hN8ecfCAq8"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:19:50","slug":"path-of-exile-2-director-says-players-exploiting-system-to-become-in-game-millionaires-ruined-christmas-for-me-and-joked-that-hes-lost-all-sympathy-for-everyone-who-took-advantage-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/path-of-exile-2-director-says-players-exploiting-system-to-become-in-game-millionaires-ruined-christmas-for-me-and-joked-that-hes-lost-all-sympathy-for-everyone-who-took-advantage-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Path of Exile 2 director says players exploiting system to become in-game millionaires &#8216;ruined Christmas for me&#8217; and joked that he&#8217;s &#8216;lost all sympathy&#8217; for everyone who took advantage of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/path-of-exile-2-raises-the-bar-for-all-other-action-rpgs-and-its-not-even-finished-yet\/\">Path of Exile 2&#8217;s<\/a> player trading economy crumbled in its last season the moment word got out about a clever technique that would net you so much loot you could become an in-game millionaire in a few days. It was so catastrophic that developer Grinding Gear Games had to interrupt its holiday break to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>This was the season the &#8220;temple&#8221; was introduced to the game, giving players the ability to create their own dungeons by connecting various rooms together on a big grid. The system was mostly meant to be a way to fight a new boss and find temple-exclusive loot, but players quickly figured out how to make it the most lucrative system in the game for <em>all<\/em> loot.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the strategy involved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/action-rpg-players-will-exploit-anything-in-the-name-of-efficiency-which-is-why-path-of-exile-2-players-are-locking-themselves-in-the-campaign-for-profit\/\">locking a character in the campaign<\/a> and repeatedly resetting a level to gradually grow your temple into a money-making machine. By linking specific synergistic rooms together in an endless snake, you could avoid having them deleted after running the dungeon <em>and<\/em> guarantee heaps of valuable loot\u2014way more than you&#8217;re intended to get anywhere else in the game.<\/p>\n<p>PoE 2&#8217;s co-director Mark Roberts said having to deploy emergency patches to fix some of this &#8220;ruined Christmas for me&#8221; in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L-D3Bp2h0AI\">recent interview<\/a>. &#8220;We now\u2014because of this bloody temple\u2014have way more active stats for checking how many items are dropping in certain instances,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/L-D3Bp2h0AI?start=5326\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roberts said this moments before another developer showed him what players were doing with the temple that same day. &#8220;It says, &#8216;TEMPLE SHENANIGANS T1 ISSUE AFTER INTERVIEW&#8217; in capital letters,&#8221; he said looking just off-screen. A few hours after the interview, a patch went out to address a temple strategy that, while far less egregious than the first one, still threatened to destroy the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s a mid-league nerf, I&#8217;ve lost all sympathy for that bloody temple and everyone running it,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;No, I&#8217;m being extreme, I don&#8217;t want to actually just make it bad, but it&#8217;s left some trauma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the developers try not to touch anything major a few weeks into a league, but the temple exploits were too severe to ignore. PoE 2 is technically an early access game, but most people treat it like they would PoE 1 and expect GGG to be on top of balancing it so nothing sours the experience for them.<\/p>\n<p>Making as much in-game wealth as you can ends up being the primary goal of PoE 2 players who wish to upgrade their builds with the most powerful items. You can always opt out of having to play the economy game with the solo self-found mode (no multiplayer allowed), but then some of the rarest items won&#8217;t be feasible to get within a single league.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this debacle will convince GGG to avoid ever dropping a new league right before the holidays. Players are always searching for ways to break the game and they&#8217;re certainly not going to respect that you&#8217;re on vacation. It seems like someone has to be on-call to stop whatever absurdly powerful exploit they inevitably find.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"cc41e185-9e78-4c81-b604-734d392a4ee9\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/path-of-exile-2-director-says-players-exploiting-system-to-become-in-game-millionaires-ruined-christmas-for-me-and-joked-that-hes-lost-all-sympathy-for-everyone-who-took-advantage-of-it.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"cc41e185-9e78-4c81-b604-734d392a4ee9\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/path-of-exile-2-director-says-players-exploiting-system-to-become-in-game-millionaires-ruined-christmas-for-me-and-joked-that-hes-lost-all-sympathy-for-everyone-who-took-advantage-of-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Path of Exile 2&#8217;s player trading economy crumbled in its last season the moment word got out about a clever technique that would net you so much loot you could become an in-game millionaire in a few days. It was so catastrophic that developer Grinding Gear Games had to interrupt its holiday break to fix it. This was the season the &#8220;temple&#8221; was introduced to the game, giving players the ability to create their own dungeons by connecting various rooms together on a big grid. The system was mostly meant to be a way to fight a new boss and find temple-exclusive loot, but players quickly figured out how to make it the most lucrative system in the game for all loot. 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