In an odd move, Path of Exile has delayed their 3.13 patch until January because of… Cyberpunk 2077? Yes, you read that right, Chris Wilson, the Lead Developer at Grinding Gear Games, took to Reddit to announce the move. It’s certainly an odd reason to delay a major patch for your game, but the reasoning is so that players don’t have to choose between the two. While this seems like a generous move, there’s clearly some skepticism as to whether or not this is true.

While the further delay of Cyberpunk 2077 certainly sent shockwaves through the gaming community, we didn’t expect the fallout to be this far-reaching. While we can somewhat accept this as a reason, it leaves players who don’t care about Cyberpunk 2077 in the lurch come the holidays. We just hope for GGG’s sake that Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t get delayed until January, because we’re not sure what they’ll do then!

Here's a look at Chris Wilson's official words on Reddit:

We previously targeted a December 11th launch date for our 3.13 end-game expansion. As we discussed last week, our new development methodology gives us confidence that we can hit this date with a high-quality expansion. Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now release on December 10th. We don’t want to put our players in the position of having to choose between these two games, so we’ve decided to get out of the way and delay the release of Path of Exile 3.13 until January.