Grinding Gear Games is an independent game development studio working on an online action RPG, Path of Exile. Every two weeks we post an entry in our development diary to give people some insight into our development process.

A few weeks ago, we deployed a major update to the Path of Exile Alpha realm and invited a dozen or so lucky forum members (and many of their friends) to help test it. This development diary entry describes how we’ve handled the transition from development to maintaining a live game service that supports players playing from around the world.

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