Perfect World CEO Kelvin Lau revealed in a financial call that the publisher is aiming to get the Torchlight MMO released sometime in late 2012/early 2013.
Lau mentioned in the call, “Torchlight from Runic, as mentioned, I think the MMORPG version is going to be – is scheduled to be launched in late 2012 or early 2013.”
Perfect World is a majority shareholder in developer Runic Games.
A month ago, Runic CEO Max Schaefer stated, “We have a lot of good ideas for the MMO, we just aren’t committing to any kind of schedule yet.”
Torchlight II is due later this year for PC.