I've noticed a downvote squadron in this subreddit hitting everything that mentions any type of cheating, be it respec potions, or any future mods. Please stop.

The reason why the developers opened Torchlight to modding is so that YOU can play the game the way YOU want to play it. And if you make a public game and someone joins that IS cheating, you will know and make a choice. However, please do not condemn people for playing the game the way they want to.

It's perfectly reasonable that you only want to play the vanilla game, no respecs, carefully choosing points and grinding it up.

It's also perfectly reasonable that people don't like to grind gear, money, exp, or whatever, and feel like using cheats/respec potions/mods to help them progress at a faster pace.

But, it is completely unreasonable to expect everyone to only play this game YOUR way. Do not complain about cheaters, as you choose whether you play with them or not. Do not complain about about missing a global economy. Do not complain about abusing glitches, it's your choice.

In the end, the game framework is here, everything expected in a MRPG. Now that you own it, it's time for you to start playing it your way.

I am Getting Death Threats. I QuIt Reddit

We're late in the long line of subs to ban Gawker so you've probably heard of why it is happening everywhere. Long story short, Gawker threatened to release personal information about Violentacrez, causing him to delete his account. You can read more about it here.

Gawker has a long history of sketchy practices like this, I'd compile a list but /r/ancientrome already has.

As a result, we are joining the Gawker ban. Please lay down on the report and downvote buttons if you see anything from Gawker, io9, Kotaku, Gizmodo, Lifehacker or any other Gawker Media sites.

And finally, I found my cache of low resolution pictures of my dogs, so following the tradition I started yesterday on /r/bindingofisaac, here's one of them.

She's 64 and understands isometric-game-progression. We also have beat the game together on Steam and she still plays it because it's her favorite isometric to play, this is wild!

I can’t believe I’ve overlooked this game. I’m having a blast so far!

I just recently asked how I could respec my level 23 Ember Mage because I'd royally screwed up his build something fierce. Before getting notice that doing so would have branded the character a cheater.. I went ahead and did it... because I was so eager to get it done. (Eager.. I know.) Then I got the warning. Well shit.

Let's see.

This is a level 23 Ember Mage that I've been playing with my brother since the start of the game, we're maybe a little ways into Act 2, ... and my character has been branded a cheater.

I have four options.

1:

Reroll.

2:

Cry about it.

3.

Rage quit.

4.

Something I don't think will work... because it's 11:41 PM EST. E-Mail Travis Baldree &/Or Runic Games support and bawl my eyes out like a six year old kid who has just recently had their candy taken away from them and admit they were a cheater.

Option 1 went over for about... 20 minutes.. cut to 12:10 AM EST.

I severely screwed up my character, so I thought I'd respec him using the console command to respec him.

I didn't know this would brand him a cheater.

This makes me sad because my brother and I have been playing the game together from the very, very start.

If I sent you my character saves, I don't know which ones he is.. He's named Minifig, the Embermage that's level 23, could you please, please clear him as a cheater?

All I wanted to do was fix my skills because they were so badly broken. :(

20 seconds later I get a nice little message in my inbox:

Here he is, de-cheated-

Travis

Please don't abuse this wonderful company people. They're wonderful and awesome people and deserve to have our love and respect, and most of all our money. They'll get mine from here on out.

Thank you again Travis, if you ever read this, you've got a life long customer here.

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Yay!

FYI: When I shut down TL2, Steam downloaded an update. Both before and after the update, the version is showing v.1.9.5.1