Det er ikke mange dage siden at Torchlight II blev formelt annonceret, men chefen for udvikleren Runic spekulerer allerede i mulighederne for en tre'er. Grundet udviklerhusets effektive størrelse (de har svoret aldrig at vokse over 40 mand), mener CEO Max Schaefer at de kunne have et tredje Torchlight-spil ude af døren, inden Diablo III udkommer.
Til spilbloggen Joystiq siger han: "[Blizzard has] an impossible task. Blizzard can not get away with doing a Torchlight 1. If they put out a single player game, an RPG that's kinda stripped down for $20, people would say, 'What the hell happened to Blizzard?' They don't have that luxury. Everything has to be super epic. More epic than anything that's come before, more epic than World of Warcraft. They have to do that. It puts them in a really tough spot, I don't envy them. It has to be perfect."
Og han mener i øvrigt kommentaren om Torchlight III før Diablo III helt alvorligt. "I really think we will, I'm not joking about it. I'll be the first to buy Diablo 3, I'm a huge fan. I just know what it's like over there", siger Schaefer.