Designing Path of Exile to Be Played Forever. Chris Wilson at GDC 2019

Chris Wilson of Grinding Gear Games gives a GDC 2019 talk about designing the action RPG Path of Exile to keep players engaged for years. It covers the thinking behind running the game as a long-lived free-to-play service.

HN people share it as an inside account of what it takes to build and sustain a successful free-to-play game.