Yesterday, Echtra Games released the “Cursed Captain” update for Torch IIIAdding a playable class, new pets, and applying several bug fixes and quality of life changes to the dungeon crawler. The developer also announced that this update would be the last due to its update Takeover by Zynga in March.
Founded by the original Torchlight Studio Runic Games co-founder Max Schaefer continues to work on the colorful work in 2016 Diablo-esque action RPG series published by Echtra Games Torch III last October. It is a nice game with some cool and silly ideas, like the engineering class with their constantly evolving draft pet or their latest edition, the Pirate / necromancer Cursed captain.
Zynga acquired the studio in March of that year, working on an unannounced multi-platform action RPG alongside Zynga’s NaturalMotion Studio. See as Perfect World Entertainment owns TorchlightIt was only a matter of time before Echtra stopped working Torch III.
In one Letter posted to the community yesterdayMax Shaefer, the founder of Echtra, said goodbye to the players and the game his team had developed.
“As you may have heard on the news, we were taken over by Zynga on March 2nd. As a result of this transition, we are moving on to new (and exciting) things and will be handing the baton back to our partners at Perfect World. We absolutely enjoyed our time with Torchlight III and only hope for the best for the future of the franchise. We are grateful for the opportunity to have worked on it. In addition, we are very grateful to all of you who took this trip with us. “
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So this is it. Echtra goes on and there is no word on which studio Perfect World will tap to pick up the torch Torch III. But hey, at least we have pirate necromancers.
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