I loved the first two Torchlight games, what happened?

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[Scrangos]

Company went under after the first two torchlight games.

[PsychoSinner]

Originally posted by Scrangos:

Company went under after the first two torchlight games.

So much for the "no-DRM" business model.

[Applekid]

I actually came here to make this topic. Its very confusing what has happened with this franchise.

[Scrangos]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Scrangos:

Company went under after the first two torchlight games.

So much for the "no-DRM" business model.

DRM doesn't really do much, the only mostly successful one is denuvo (if you dont mind having the games performance negatively impacted) and that didn't exist back then... and I doubt that company could afford to use it anyway since its pretty expensive.

[PewSquare]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Scrangos:

Company went under after the first two torchlight games.

So much for the "no-DRM" business model.

Not really the no DRM business model. It was the put a ton of work into the next game, sign away exclusivity while expanding, everything falls trough, (i think they released it anyway, game was a commercial failure), go on to next project, sell your soul to the devil to get it funded, a bunch of stuff falls trough again, decide to release the product butchered by investors (and dev team) anyway, while trying to fix it as much as possible... again to mediocre audience response.
So yea, thats kinda what happened. Several bad decision more so than the no drm approach.

[40kTookMyName]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Scrangos:

Company went under after the first two torchlight games.

So much for the "no-DRM" business model.

Yeah, plenty of no-DRM games are making bank, especially indies like Rimworld, Stardew or Terraria. It's not the DRM, it's bad management and the devs cashing out of a sinking ship as others have pointed out.

But I'll also add here that it was also that the Torchlight IP was a victim of other successful IPs like PoE. Why play the more cartoony Torchlight when there are grittier, move expansive, more fleshed out franchises out there? Hate to say it, but considering the competitors to Diablo, there were winners and losers and Torchlight was a loser that couldn't hack it.

And now it's a bottom barrel gacha mobile game.

The real one-liner should be: "If you can't hang with the big dogs, you better stay on the porch"

[Kaluth]

It's because the 2nd game failed to capture what made the first game great, plus it didn't help that it felt very empty and long winded, plus D3 finally got its ♥♥♥♥ together (somewhat) also kicked the ♥♥♥♥ out of it. Then Torchlight 3 decided to mix things up and fell on their face.

Kinda like how the Devs of All Orcs must die thought making it a moba was a great idea. I just wanted to put that last one in because both IPs were fantastic only to fall down the stairs... And there was a lot of floors.

[Neoyoshi]

To be fair, the Diablo franchise has been in the same cashwheel conundrum for years now; being passed around to different markets and is basically a cow to be milked with little to no soul;- the only somewhat redeeming exception is D2: Resurrection turning out better then what people anticipated.

Whatever side people are on, this is the price of doing business these days; and we all have to shake hands with it, or.... not play video games. Moaning and griping about it isn't going to make the industry change.

[Kaluth]

Originally posted by Neoyoshi:

Whatever side people are on, this is the price of doing business these days; and we all have to shake hands with it, or.... not play video games. Moaning and griping about it isn't going to make the industry change.

True, but some times screaming into the void can be cathartic.