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I wasn’t sure we could really trust the idea of a Torchlight MMO in that mix, especially from a company like PWE, which loves all of the bad aspects of free to play.Īnd now, I guess we won’t have to. The free to play apocalypse that Mark Jacobs had foretold seemed to be coming to pass and we have been living in a world of pay to win and lock boxes and bait and switch as studios scramble to chase too few dollars in an over saturated market. Then come 2018 PWE came back and announced something called Torchlight Frontiers, which seemed to be there to revive the whole Torchlight MMO thing.īut it was 2018 and by then the whole MMO thing had been falling down a sinkhole for a while. PWE closed the studio and the devs were scattered to the wind. So we seemed to be done with the Torchlight story. But by the time the team got the much-delayed MacOS version of Torchlight II out the company was sick of the game, the MMO was off, and that was that.Īll those links lead to even more links about what was going on. This was all in furtherance of what was eventually supposed to be a Torchlight MMO. But for me it just wasn’t that compelling. If local multiplayer or support for modding were your most important features, it was the game to back.
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In the market Diablo III had story, Path of Exile had the gritty Diablo II vibe, and Torchlight II was cute and colorful and full of features and just a bit too bland. A year later it was announced that the game would be delayed and, when it came down to it its big rival, Diablo III, shipped first.Īnd when it did ship… well… it was okay. Even the music was done by the same person, which meant it was really good.Ī year later the announcement came for Torchlight II, which would give us all the things we wanted. It had some issues and it was only single player and if you bought it from the wrong online store (this was before Steam was all) you had some trouble, but it was good in a very modest way and it was done by some of the same people who did Diablo and Diablo II back in the day. I am conflicted on Roman vs Arabic numerals right nowīack in 2009 a charming little solo ARPG called Torchlight came out. That the price was $125 million in cash and equity, less than half of what Daybreak sold for a year ago, one might infer that PWE titles would rank closer to the lower end of the Daybreak titles in gross revenue, and maybe even less in net profit due to some of them being licensed properties. No word on what it, or any of the other PWE titles have been pulling in recently. That means the nearly 12 year old title has made about $20 million a year, but I imagine a good chunk of that was early on and includes box sales. Star Trek Online, for example, was reported as having made $240 million over its life so far, with 4 million players trying the title.
I suspect that format was chosen to give the titles the best possible look financially. Not as in depth as what we got about Daybreak when EG7 acquired them last December, but still some data points including lifetime revenue and total player counts. Since Embracer is publicly held, they had to do a report on the acquisition, which included fresh new details about some of the titles. PWE will be slotted in as part of Gearbox in the organization.
The buyer is the Embracer Group, which also acquired Gearbox earlier this year. Just down the street from EA HQ, though Cryptic is less than 2 miles from my house
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