Max Schaefer gives a brief overview of Echtra Games. Given the amount of brain trust that he has been able to assemble, I believe that at its core, Torchlight Frontiers will end up being one of the best representations of what an MMO-ARPG should be like (it will also have some valuable lessons for those former Blizzard North folks, that they could not get past with their version of Diablo III which as Schaefer and Brevick mentioned in the past, was going to be an MMO).
The biggest “show stopper” might be the sort of monetization systems that Perfect World will require for this game.
