Its a question many prospective players of Darkfall ask themselves as they look at the feature list of Darkfall. Why would I want to subject myself to this? Whats in it for me? How would this make my game time a more enjoyable experience?
A Darkfall community member posted a great article on this very issue. Read about it here.
http://df-en.curse-gaming.com/articles/details/2055/
http://df.warcry.com/forums/read/270.42541
For anyone who isn't a Darkfall fanboy like myself following the game with bated breath, you may not have read the latest entry from Tasos the lead developer of Darkfall.
In it he states " We've specified that our internal target date is this summer and we can't get more specific yet, but we will when we're ready to make an announcement."
Awesome, hopefully the Darkfall Developers are able to follow through with this internal date. The refreshing thing about these guys, even if it doesn't release this month, next month, or next year, is that we know its not going to be another Vanguard, or another Dark and Light. I think its promising that they have shown the ability to constantly reassess the condition of their graphics (back in 2002) and realize that an upgrade was neccessary (to whats current).
As a first entry this is not a stellar one, but it serves its purpose in kicking off the discussion of Darkfall.