will the progress be saved?

[✠乇xŊi廾iŁo✠]

Is there any information about saving character or story progress from the early access when the game is officially released?

[Battlestar]

Progress is saved, but youre in the EA league, not standaard league i suppose

[The_Driver]

It'll go to a special early access league so you can still continue, but not ruin the economy with vastly broken items. You will not be able to create new character in that league come final release, so create a char of each class or something...

[Everyone]

They said that they don't see a reason to delete the characters and items. If you know about the POE, it will likely work the same way in POE2: the character will get full passive skill reset and will be sent to the standard league, then there will be a new league for the release in which the character will be unavailable.

[侍Kage]

They will create a new league on 1.0, in that new league everyone MUST create a new character and start from 0. Your EA char will go to normal world like eternal world in d4. Normal world won't be having the new season mechanic until that season is ended. So usually pointless, but if you have no time to play games then this choice is better for you since it will take you ♥♥♥♥ ton of time to reach and done with the maximum end game.

[Flolelan]

early access chars will be in an SEPERATE "standard" league (or rather ea league).

all future chars created after the actual 1.0 release in any league will move to the "normal" permanent league (together with all items) once their respective league is over (same as in poe 1). so seasonal standard into standard and seasonal hardcore into hardcore etc. those are permanent leagues.


so yes technically your early access progress is saved, but you will have less and less other players to interact with since most will ether play the normal standard league or the current seasonal league. not sure how they handle actual story progress since in early access we only have act 1-3 times two and on 1.0 we will have act 1-6. tbh play early access to get a feel for the game and if you want to play other games / dont have much time for poe then wait till the actual 1.0 release and play standard league at your own pace.