Runic Games and BoI2?

Runic Game's helping make another game? Appears our beloved dev's are getting quite popular. Check out the story here:
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010-08 ... le,1.shtml
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010-08 ... le,1.shtml

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And i hope this isn`t the alternative answer of PW to continue an IP instead of TLMMO. As for me i`m not really hyped for TLMMO as i am for TL2. I prefer Friendly co-op play over huge play commitment. TL2 is just something that suits me more. Play a bit do something else. Always having the possibilty to play at your desired pace and not beeing influenced by ingame ecconomy.
This is bugging me a bit. They even have a time counter on their website saying half a year until release. CB, OB whatever.
http://sgcq2.wanmei.com/
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Except that this time Runic Games involvement with BoI II is mentioned in the official BoI I website.
To quote myself from the other thread:
:shock:
And so it was last time. Runic said "nuh-uh!" back then too, as they've done now. We're not out on a limb on this, honest
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The official anouncements never before actually had that statement.
Last time actually was the case of broken telephone.
a blogger or gaming website took announcement/interview about torchmmorpg and announcement of pwi's new game ANDthe video with runic game staff playing fwa bit earlier than others (during christmas) and mashed them together. entire internet then copied it.
this time the actual press release states it. and no it doe snot state that "runic games is developing it" it just states parts of Runic Games are also part of boi II deverlopment team. Duowan interpreted those parts as "Travis Baldree and Eric Schaefer".
good to know :P
Repeat after me,"Webbster is all knowing. Webbstre is wise. We dine in supplication of his all knowing knowingness".
Exactly this part.
nowhere in the website does it state that "runic games is developing it"
To take my analogy further lets see:
you have a music band, "nightwish" and you have the side project of bassist, Tarot. Then you hear that tarot, who also contains the nightwish bassist, is releasing a new album.
Of course Tarot nor the new album has nothing to do with Nightwish. But the bassist still is involved with it as person and musician.
Runic is obviously not developing anything outside torchlight franchise nor has any connections with other pwe games., but "part of runic", namely those two names, might have some real involvement with it. I think it requires some sort clarification about those individual persons themselves and the extent of work(if they did work in some form on BoI II) they did.
Im chinese but I can't read chinese, however, it is possible it was referring to them taking inspiration from Torchlight.
Anyways, yeah, someone who speaks Chinese should e-mail them :P
I never mentioned in the above post that I studied Mandarin Chinese for 3 years, did I? :P Too bad I never continued with it.
This kind of thing actually happens a lot, when some small site posts "news" that other sites see, but fail to check their sources, leading to the exponential growth of an untrue rumor.
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Ahh, the joys of the internet and how grand it is that so much disinformation can travel so quickly.
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But its good to hear Runic, in fact, have nothing to do with BoI2.
I pretty much stop going to MMOsite, its a mess of a web site and I never found any of their articles interesting enough to read.
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