To avoid confusion—and despite all the words poured into explanation, it is somewhat confusing without being able to get out hands on it—he also ran down exactly what content will be available to all players, including those starting out with the soon-to-be-free New Light edition POE currency trade , in Season of the Undying:

Patrolling the Moon destinationThe opening mission of ShadowkeepTwo new strikesCrucible Updates (which I discussed in [link to previous Director’s Cut])Two returning PvP maps from the D1 era—Widow’s Court and Twilight GapElimination in Crucible LabsArmor 2.0 build customizationEye of the Gate Lord Seasonal ArtifactNew finishersTwo new pinnacle weapons: one for Gambit and one for CrucibleFree Seasonal Rank rewards, which include: New Exotic weapon—Eriana’s Vow, Three Legendary armor sets (1 per class), Two Legendary weapons, Best of Year 2 Bright Engrams, and Glimmer and upgrade modules
"Season Passes in Year 3 will in some ways feel very new and in other ways feel pretty similar to the Forsaken Annual Pass experience. Our intent is that the Season Pass mechanics—as we’re aligning everything with a single, evolving world and how we’re moving the Destiny story meaningfully forward—are additive to the core Destiny experience (we’re still going to have things like Holiday events, dungeons and secret missions, and all kinds of stuff that we hope surprises you!)," Smith wrote.

"It’s an evolution and an experiment, and hopefully what you’ve seen lately is that we’re going to keep being agile and continuing to make the best decisions for the game along with you."

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, which includes Season of the Undying, and the free New Light edition, go live on October 1. Existing Destiny 2 players have until then to prep their accounts for transfer from Battle.net to Steam.

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If you haven't been keeping track of it, Path of Exile is an indie, top-down, loot-based RPG looking to fill the niche a vocal portion of the community feels is unserved by the cartoonishness of Torchlight and the host of oft-maligned changes to the Diablo franchise between its second and third installments. Developer Grinding Gear Games announced on its forums that the open beta should be going live right around the time this article is posted. Check out the trailer above to POE trade currency  get a sense of the brooding moodiness.