You pay, you buy a copy of the game, and you can use your account to log in to the peer-to-peer online service that Runic will provide. There will be no additional subscription fees, paid DLCs, microtransactions, etc for this game. It should be available at a similar price in other currencies. How much will Torchlight 2 cost at release? *Boxed copies have been confirmed for Europe (German and Russian) but not North America. There has been no word about similar offers for other distributors for Mac users. Customers who buy the Steam version will also gain access to the Mac version after it is ported at no additional cost. Pre-Purchase for Digital Download copies have begun for Steam and Perfect World, and you will be able to buy it directly from Runic Games at the time of release. For official announcements follow this thread on the official forums. It has been said that the beta will consist of the entirety of Act 1, or roughly 1/4-1/3 of the game. Next there will be a small, Closed Beta, which likely will include press and a few hundred randomly selected people. Yes! The current likely chain of events are (in order):Ī small, closed, No Press, Friends and Family beta test. Once they finish polishing and testing their network code in as many firewall, security software, etc systems as they can, they'll hold a small closed beta, and once the multiplayer is deemed to be satisfactory and as little hassle as possible for the average user to set up, they'll make the final release preparations - like contacting any digital distributors they want to work with and making release date press releases. Why can't they give us a hint as to the release date?īecause they don't know! It's literally an "it will be done when it's done" situation. In comparison, Torchlight 1 was released when it was because they were literally out of funds, and as such they were unable to polish it to the level they wanted to. Multiple reasons: The XBLA Port of TL1 put in a few months delay, but mostly it's just been that they have the income and time and resources to make the game as great as they want it to be, and they are under no pressure to push it out within a specific time frame. Why has it taken so long? The original announcement said Spring 2011! The current estimate is June-July 2012, but this date is not set in stone and is not official! Mac Schaefer said at PAX East 2012 that an ideal time would be roughly a month after Diablo 3, but that was not a release estimate. When it's finished! There isn't (and never has been) a specific release date, but the release estimate has been pushed back several times.
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