Wed, Jul 18, 2012 | 07:17 BST

Torchlight II delayed for extensive balancing

Writing on the Runic Games forum, founder Travis Baldree offers an explanation of why Torchlight II – once expected well before Diablo III – is taking forever and a week to actually surface. It’s a detailed breakdown which essentially boils down to “it’s hard work to balance the acts of a dungeon crawler”. Well, we saw how long it took Blizzard, and the developer is still tweaking post-launch, so we’ll cut Runic some slack. Torchlight II is still expected sometime this year.

Thanks, Blue.

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#1

JimFear-666
18/07/12, 7:09 am

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

#2

HauntaVirus
18/07/12, 7:13 am

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..DAMMIT!

#3

rrw
18/07/12, 7:17 am

dont destroy the comment section pleased

#4

Karooo
18/07/12, 7:24 am

@3 How did that even happen.

howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

#5

Brenna Hillier
18/07/12, 7:46 am

Don’t make me get in there and edit. Line breaks are your friend.

#6

Klaxusprime
18/07/12, 9:13 am

Hey Brenna, the game is still scheduled for an August 28 release on German Amazon… mmm

http://www.amazon.de/Runic-Games-Inc-Torchlight-2/dp/B0054IAHMY/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1342599074&sr=1-1

#7

freedoms_stain
18/07/12, 10:17 am

A delay announcement for a game that never had an official release date?

Anyhoo, I wanted this sooner rather than later, but oh well :*

#8

OlderGamer
18/07/12, 2:05 pm

Well, bought and paid for, just something to look forward to at this point. Not that big of a deal.

#9

ultramega
18/07/12, 6:59 pm

=’(

#10

Giskard
18/07/12, 7:28 pm

@6 Runic said themselves that unless they (Runic Games) give a release date on their website and / or forums, then it’s not correct.

He even specifically pointed to that listing and said “Pure speculation”.

#11

Ireland Michael
18/07/12, 7:44 pm

The article heading is completely misleading.

The game hasn’t been delayed. They’re simply explaining why they’ve taken this long so far.

#12

OrbitMonkey
18/07/12, 7:57 pm

Having trouble figuring out how to work the Real Money Auction house no doubt ;-)

#13

viralshag
18/07/12, 9:24 pm

@12, I lol’d.

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