Grinding Gear Games says it's sorry for the slow response times to customer support requests, but it's dealing with an absolute avalanche of them—roughly 545,000 email requests since the game launched in November, far more than it was prepared to deal with.
"In the lead up to the launch of Path of Exile 2’s early access we began to ramp up our customer support team," Grinding Gear wrote in a . "It quickly became evident that our efforts were not nearly enough and we have since doubled the size of the team, and we are still hiring more.
It's not the worst problem in the world for Grinding Gear to have: Path of Exile 2 could have zero customer support requests pending because nobody's playing [[link]] it, for instance, which would be a far more dire outcome for all involved. As it is, PoE2 is still putting up major concurrent player [[link]] numbers—a peak of more than 290,000 over the past 24 hours, enviable by just about any measure—and with numbers like that, there are bound to be a lot of people asking for help.
"We really appreciate everyone's patience while the Support Team has been working hard to get through the requests we receive and can assure you that we are bolstering the Support Staff member numbers to ensure more timely responses in the future," Grinding Gear wrote. "You deserve better customer service than we’ve been able to provide despite the best efforts from our team and for this we are sorry."
And yes, Grinding Gear is in fact hiring for its support department—if you'd like to apply (noting that it's an in-office position in Henderson, New Zealand, so quite a commute for most of us) you can drop 'em a line at .