Torchlight 2: The Missed Opportunity?

[his1nightmare]

This I said years ago and finally it will be the only truth ever told:
Diablo 3 might fail, Torchlight 2 can't.


They might push it back further and further, but at least reasonable. Letting us know why. Letting us know what they do, how and why. And every word sounds more promising than -any- news which was ever released about D3 in the 5 years of waiting.

 

[Soopy]

Old Blizzard devs with the old Blizzard mentality of "It'll be done, when its done."

Torchlight 2's tardiness has come as no surprise to me. Though I am surprised it has to others.

 

[Slycne]

If Torchlight 2 was full price I think it would be more of an issue, but the $20 dollar price point should largely insulate as being within impulse buy range for most gamers. Even in spite of that, think of how many games all hit during the holiday season and this is still apparently profitable enough for companies to continue doing it. While larger games may dominate the press and hype, that doesn't necessarily mean purchases as well.

 

[Fappy]

TL2 won't suffer greatly from the setbacks as it has already made tons of money off of pre-orders, but it will lose out on the D3 hype since that has all but died out at this point. I have never seen a small developer push back their game so many times.

 

[go-10]

regardless of everything discussed I'll agree with TC, I would've bought T2 but with Borderlands 2 coming out I have no reason to buy it anymore. I'll pick it up later in the year but right now I won't waste money on something I won't play

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I think these repeated delays is a great indicator that Runic have already secured more then enough pre-orders for them to turn profit. Since they aren't a big studio churning out a triple-A title either they probably aren't looking for Day 1 profit but for a longer, more sustained revenue stream. If that's the case it makes sense that they'd rather release a highly polished product that will get great word-of-mouth reviews that garners more players as opposed to releasing a product that word of mouth will dismiss as buggy and unfinished.

 

[Fappy]

Speaking of TL2... When the hell are they finally going to release it?

Before D3 came out, they said "About a month after Diablo"... It's been what, 3 and a half months now?

For awhile their release date was marked for July of 2011. Lol.

 

[GAunderrated]

If TL2 keeps pushing back the date to mid september/early october then they are going to see a drastic drop in sales until x-mas time and steam sales. Of course that's my opinion because that's what i'm planning to do now that the have taken their sweet time.

 

[Fappy]

Speaking of TL2... When the hell are they finally going to release it?

Before D3 came out, they said "About a month after Diablo"... It's been what, 3 and a half months now?

For awhile their release date was marked for July of 2011. Lol.

Oh lord...

At this point I don't mind a prolonged wait. There is a ton of stuff coming out soon, so it'd be best for me personally if it got held back until late-September or maybe even October.

 

[Fappy]

At this point I don't mind a prolonged wait. There is a ton of stuff coming out soon, so it'd be best for me personally if it got held back until late-September or maybe even October.

Honestly, the more games, the better. I'm the kind of person that'll blaze through a 60 hour RPG in a week or so

I'll do that with games I am really, really excited to play. My problem is that I have a lot of single player and multiplayer games to balance at the moment. If TL2 comes out around the same time as GW2 there is going to be a bit of a dilemma as to what to make a priority.

 

[RN7]

I can wait. I already bought the game anyway. And assuming GW2 falls flat on its face in terms of PvE content (that is to say, there being virtually no character progression in terms of skills after level 40, and the lack of high-level/endgame content) I'll have no good games to play besides Path of Exile and DOTA 2, neither of which I can play extensively at one given point, because I like to spread out my gaming time, rather than focus on one game at a time.

 

[Fappy]

I'll do that with games I am really, really excited to play. My problem is that I have a lot of single player and multiplayer games to balance at the moment. If TL2 comes out around the same time as GW2 there is going to be a bit of a dilemma as to what to make a priority.

If I'm not mistaken, you can still pre-order 3 copies of Torchlight for $20, so you could always convince 2 friends to chip in a few bucks...
Oh, and did I mention you get 3 copies of TL1 for free with it?

Trust me, we all have it pre-ordered now haha. I have over 10 friends IRL who are going to play it upon release.