Just Pre-Pruchase the game out of frustation from D3, hope it'll be a good buy for a casual gamer like me..looking forward to it.

We simply don't want to announce a release date that we won't hit. When we are absolutely sure we can hit it we will announce a date. Believe me, we want this game done more than anyone and are doing every thing we can to make that happen, but we don't want to be forced to release a game that we don't believe is solid because we set a date we simply couldn't hit. We aren't trying to lead you guys on, it's just that making games has many unforeseen challenges and every thing takes longer than you would hope. We are getting there though! Please have some patience with us. We know it's frustrating, but we are getting closer every day.

by Wonder » Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:15 pm

Hey guys,

Just posted this but since it's a mini-announcement, you may have missed it on our site. Basically, we'll be at PAX Prime, and you can play Torchlight 2 there. OH! And there's the first evar cosplay contest!
http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=29995

Okay, thanks for the heads up.

I guess i'll pick up Titan Quest to quench my ARPG needs.

It is alright, i rather have well developed mechanism and gameplay than a garbage game with lots of design flaws. I will wait till next year, if thats the way to make the game amazing.

by travisbaldree » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:13 pm

The reason there isn't a release date is because it's hard to give one with any precision.
If we DO give one, and we miss it, people will be understandably mad.
There's a LOT of game to polish - and it is time consuming, and not always predictable. The world is also an erratic place - people have family emergencies, pre-planned trips, their kids get sick, and so on and so forth.
With a small team, those life-events have a real schedule impact that is hard to predict.

Let's say I just pick a time. If we need another week when we hit that time, should we take it? Or just boot it out the door?

Why on earth would we keep the game for longer than we had to? The ONLY reason not to release it is because it isn't quite ready yet.

My hope is that after seeing the beta you can rest assured that the quality of the game will be high, and that it was such a large chunk of content that you can also be assured that we're not pulling the wool over anybody's eyes about the scope and polish of the final product.

The reason that it is harder to make posts with concrete game information in them is because the people who provide the content for those posts are working on the game. Making those posts takes time from completing the game. In addition, we beta'd a big, big, chunk of TL2. Most of the details of how it works aren't terribly secret - most unrevealed information is content that we don't necessarily want to spoil.

Anyway, it is understandable that folks are anxious to get a release date - my wife would really, really like one too. And we will announce one, but only when we're pretty sure that there's little chance we won't meet it.

Travis

travisbaldree
Runic Staff

by travisbaldree » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:34 pm

Our target release date is still the, admittedly vague, 'summer' - that's why we didn't post a release date when the preorders went live. We didn't have a precise time.

Travis

by travisbaldree » Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:17 pm

So, today I tuned several sets of spawnclasses, tracked down an issue with easing in non-environmental sounds based on an event, set up a few minor monster skills, and found an optimization issue with non-baked collideable roompieces in an act 3 level that led me to a fix which shaved a lot of loading times down. I also fixed 3 crashes that have crept in over the past week, and debugged some issues with collision normals on scaled non-bakeable invisible meshes. Charged bolts weren't properly damaging enemy units on procs, and I fixed that too. Whee! Exciting, yes?  I am now implementing several sexier tier bonuses on some Embermage skills.


Travis

raise the banners you mean?

Diablo 3 owns Torchlight OK? not much people know what is Torchlight actually.

48. The price you have to pay after using console:
1: You are not allowed to use the shared stash
2: A “cheater” title will be suffixed after your name.

<row 1> Weapon Name
<row 2> Weapon Type (1-handed, 2-handed, Staff, Guns, Cannon, etc)
<row 3> Attack speed (X second)
<row 4> Damage range (XXX ~ XXX)
<row 5> Socket (x quantity)
<row 6> Enchantment ( Choose 3, example "50 Health Stolen on Hit", "+10% Critical Hit Chance" , you guys got the idea, must be rational to the game)
<row 7> Comment. Put any corny thing you want to say.

Death Cheater
Sword (1-handed)
Average Attack Speed (0.5 seconds)
Physical Damage: 300-500
Socket x2

+50 Evade bonus
1% target armour reduction on hit
10% chance to randomly teleport your self when HP below 5%  
"What you tell to god of death - Not today..."

In Fate, players are allowed to raise their own pets, cats or dogs, and equip them with 3 items. These pets can help players’ in-game characters fight, pick up and transport items. What is more awesome is you won’t lose them even if they run out of HP when they just wander around for a while and come back to fight for you later. If you feed them with fish, they can transform into various powerful monsters.
In Torchlight, all the above elements are completely borrowed without any difference: cats and dogs, 3 available items, help in fight and pick up/transport items, feed them fish to transform them… Does everything sounds familiar?

About 2 pages of messages got deleted from the board.

Should expect nothing less from them I guess.

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Added on July 18, 2012, 2:46 am

Things are starting to get interesting.

Waiting to see if there will be an official response to this or will it get deleted again.

sue their company, beat their mother and burn their house!!!

btw, is the poster is the real totalbiscuit? totally agree with "things get pretty interesting"

"Creators Of Torchlight Ripoff Say It’s Not A Torchlight Ripoff"
- Kotaku
hahahahahhahahaaa, i just ter-saw the headlines 

Runic Games @RunicGames
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If you didn't see the news, Armed Heroes was pulled from the store. As @brianward said...."iJustice." : ) Thanks everyone for your support!

Official Statement from EGLS Creator of Armed Heroes Online

In recent several days, there are lots of controversial discussions about Armed Heroes Online. We believe it should be necessary to introduce Armed Heroes Online to who may have never played the game so to help understand what kind of game it is before going further discussion.

Armed Heroes Online is exclusively oriented to iOS/Android mobile devices. Due to the performance gap between PC and mobile devices, assets from PC games do not go for mobile devices. We did great efforts to do each modeling, mapping, bone construction and action by our own on our self-developed 3D engine. Otherwise, we are unable to display each scene of Armed Heroes Online so great on mobile devices.

Besides, Armed Heroes Online is fully a MULTIPLAYER ONLINE game. The core gameplay is items farming based on energy system. Also players are provided with various other gameplays as complement including PVP melee combat, clan battle, guild war, tower defense style dungeons, avatar competition, etc. We devoted great efforts to realize smooth operations on phones/pads' touch screen, and to increase connections between players through in-game online chat/share/competition system. There, basically, the game core mechanism is largely different from PC console games. There is similarity between generic games since world view of game developers, and graphic style or compositions are easily influenced by other successful generic games. But what decides whether a game is of fun or not ultimately depends on many things mainly like its basic framework, gameplay and game control. Here we do hope people can at least trial run our game for once before giving comments, good or bad ones all welcomed.

We do note that the recent controversial discussions about Armed Heroes Online had brought harm to our company's reputation and worse got our players confused and upset, which is not what we expect to see. As a professional game developer, EGLS has been always dedicating our every effort to bring out better game experience for our players. Players always come first. There, we prefer to modify some parts of Armed Heroes Online where have caused those disputes rather than go on arguing. As long as this carves out a way out of angry disputes, it will be definitely worth our efforts.

At last, we want to make clear, if necessary, that we would like to submit the documents, files and other materials related to the game developing to Apple to prove the originalities of the game and the efforts we devoted into the game developing.