Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight

[Apr 26, 2012, 11:06 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Steam News announces that they are now offering pre-purchases of Torchlight II, and this includes the immediate gratification of a free copy of Torchlight in the meantime, offering the chance to play the first installment in Runic's action/RPG series: "Torchlight II is now available to pre-purchase on Steam! Act now and receive the original Torchlight to play right now! The award-winning action RPG is back, bigger and better than ever! Torchlight II takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets - and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands!"

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Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight

Apr 27, 2012, 10:29

WaltC

Graham wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 13:16:
deqer wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 11:56:
I was going to pick this up, but ever since they released that childish cinematic last week, I fear I would be picking up a game for 5yearolds--I'm not a 5yearold.

You sound like a rational person with reasonable opinions.

Protip: Being worried about you own personal, private hobbies appearing childish shows that you still have some growing up to do.

Sounds reasonable. I wonder how you'd relish a public revelation of your private Voodoo-Barbie doll collection, replete with long pins stuck through intestines and thoraxes, though...;) Seriously, he wasn't worrying about appearances, he was simply making a statement that in his opinion, based on the intro cinematics, the game looks childish. If it turns out that the intro to the game bears no resemblance to the game itself, he might very well purchase the game. I feel the same way. That intro, for me, was so childish it was very nearly insulting.

It closely reminds me of the way Asus used to package its $300 3d accelerators sold in the US: the cover invariably had a picture of what had to be an 8-year-old male, one thumb very nearly in his mouth, the other balled into a sort of fist and clutching some sort of purple plastic dinosaur, a hairdo that looked like he'd stuck a finger into a light socket--and a set of huge, wide-open eyes that looked as if they saw everything and understood nothing. It was plain to whom Asus was marketing that $300 3d card--and it *wasn't* to the US adults who could afford to buy the thing. Asus might as well have blared with a megaphone: "We have no idea why anyone would want to actually buy a 3d card in the US, but they buy lots of them, and all we can figure out is that the child on the front of this box best represents the demographics for our 3d accelerators in the US."

I don't know if Asus is still making product boxes like that, and I think Asus makes great products, but if I had to guess about that based on nothing more than the design of the box I'd guess it was a pile of junk...;) Impressions, especially first impressions, are extremely important in marketing.




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	1.	Apr 26, 11:10	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	nin
	2.	Apr 26, 11:22	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	Alamar
	3.	Apr 26, 11:27	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	nin
	27.	Apr 26, 21:40	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	.net_Drifter
	34.	Apr 27, 11:30	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	WaltC
	4.	Apr 26, 11:45	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	Acleacius
	5.	Apr 26, 11:54	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	nin
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	17.	Apr 26, 15:03	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	Cutter
	7.	Apr 26, 11:56	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	deqer
	8.	Apr 26, 11:58	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	nin
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	16.	Apr 26, 15:00	Re: Torchlight II Pre-Purchases Get Free Torchlight	deqer
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