We hope you enjoyed October's deep dive into sound design, the atmospheric ambient tracks, and peeking behind the scenes of how game sounds are made. Torchlight 2 is out this week on September 20.Hello and welcome to the year-end Diablo IV Quarterly Update. But it's at the expense, a little bit, of the replayability.” I think that Diablo III focused a little more on super-polished mechanics and balance and look and art direction. 'I think that we also have, maybe, a longer game at this point. I think that could have the possibility of reducing longevity, because once you've played through it with a character, there's no particular reason to go through and try a different build. 'There's less of an opportunity to make a character that's truly individual for you. 'Some of the criticism of Diablo III was about how there isn't really a lot of differentiation between builds of a character, because they all unlock the same skills at the same time,' he said. Schaefer said there will be more randomization of dungeons and character customization with Torchlight compared to Diablo 3 as well.

We're giving our development tools out with the game so that the modding community can go crazy with it and make all kinds of cool new stuff.' We don't have to have these crazy protection mechanisms in place. Basically, we're not trying to create a secure economy.

But what I think we're offering something that some players may prefer, things like the offline single-player play. 'They've actually put out a significant product there. 'No matter what they do, it's been 10 years and the expectations have built up so much. Meeting the expectations of the Diablo community is going to be impossible,' said Schaefer. Speaking with IGN, Schaefer said while Diablo 3 is a good product, in comparison, Torchlight 2 will offer players offline single-player and more replayability. Diablo 3 is a 'significant product,' from Blizzard, according to Runic CEO and former Blizzard man Max Schaefer, especially since it's nearly 'impossible' to meet the expectations of the Diablo community.

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