Path of Exile 2 has "never experienced this type of failure before"

In the wake of a major outage caused by a Path of Exile 2 update, developer Grinding Gear Games apologizes for the disruption, explains what went wrong, and says it's taking measures to prevent a repeat of the issue. What began as a relatively simple crash bug quickly escalated into 70 minutes of downtime and server lag for a lot of players, putting a dampener on the first week of the action RPG's new season. Fortunately, GGG was able to recover things in relatively good time, and says it has now pinpointed the cause.