In 2013:
- Path of Exile evolved from Closed Beta to Open Beta (late January) and then to full Release (late October).
- We deployed 87 patches, ran over 1000 race events, posted 286 daily deals and 222 news posts.
- Grinding Gear Games expanded from 20 people to 55! While our core development team doubled in size (to 35) we also scaled up our customer support department by a factor of ten.
- We had three sets of supporter packs for sale at different times during 2013 (the tail end of the Closed Beta packs, the Open Beta packs and the current Release packs.
- Over 3.7 million new players signed up to play Path of Exile.
- We hit a peak of almost 70,000 people playing Path of Exile at the same time. We expect to beat this record as we localise the game to more countries next year!
- We had the pleasure of meeting several hundred fans at meetups in various countries.
- Zero Unique Fish were caught.
- 1 in every 500 people alive visited www.pathofexile.com.
- Path of Exile won numerous awards including GameSpot's 2013 PC Game of the Year.
Have a great New Year, guys. Thanks again for everything.