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chokepoint 7/18/08 8:59:24 AM
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maskedweasel 7/18/08 10:32:05 AM
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Joined: 9/24/07
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. |
New videos next month.. possible chance of a few local articles... restricting visits to media only. Interesting.. can't wait to see what they produce next month. |
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maskedweasel 7/18/08 10:40:53 AM
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Joined: 9/24/07
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. |
Hey when they're right they're right, can't argue with that. Video in a month, I'ma hold them to it. |
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Antikythera 7/18/08 10:48:55 AM
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Originally posted by maskedweasel
I'am sure everyone else will to. But here's the thing. If the video they are supposedely going to release is not simply AMAZING then they are going to get ripped to shreds. For all the fanboys sake I hope that they don't watch a video that shows some people swinging weapons at each other and riding mounts around. LOL If the video does not contain the core features being put on display 5 months to a supposed launch then you can bet they stripped them all out and are kicking a bare lady build out the door. |
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Polarization 7/18/08 10:53:31 AM
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Joined: 1/06/05
This is the way the Darkfall ends Not with a beta but a whimper. |
Briefly checking in with you on our progress:
What progress, this is just breifly talking about progress, when will you actually start demonstrating this progress?
We're working on two fronts, development and publishing. Yes you might be "working" but what are you achieving exactly?
Development is mainly focused around testing and fixing bugs. We're also optimizing client and servers. We're playtesting a lot, we've also logged many hours of large battles and we're very excited with what we're experiencing.
The most importent and significant testing, bug fixing, optimization of the client and servers or playtesting does not begin untill Public beta starts, I hope for your and our sake you appreciate that.
And when exactly will we be able to get excited about what your experiencing?, you keep telling us how exciting it is but so far seem incapable of showing us, all we have are old screenshots and videos, and of course your words.
While playtesting we're getting a lot of video footage that's going to end up in a video we'll be releasing next month so you'll get an idea of what we've been talking about.
Presumably you are talking about that comprehensive gamplay video you where looking at releasing in a few weeks, 2 months ago in May, so 3 months to make a video, are you kidding?
And whats this sudden emphasis on footage of "exciting" large battles, you did say a comprehensive gameplay video in May, I do hope you will show something other then just large battles comprehensively.
As far as publishing activities go, we're working on the servers, customer and technical support, billing, and distribution solutions along with our partners. Who exactly are your partners, and are you still planning to self publish?
We've been hiring people in all departments, and we have eight new team members. lets hope 8 more will be sufficient.
Since it's summer and a lot of people are on vacation in Greece, we've been getting a lot of requests to visit the studio. We've already had a few people come over and we had to say no to a couple of others due to the bad timing of their visit. The people who have been here may or may not write about their visit, we didn't make them sign NDAs and we showed them the game. "May or may not write about their visit", what a joke, lets hope for the community's sake they do.
We enjoy these visits, but unfortunately we can't spare the time unless it's media so we won't allow more visits for at least a couple of months. We've also had some media over here and there should be a couple of articles in the local press. So the only members of the media who are interested or have been accepted to visit and presumably see the game are members of the local Greek press, how predictable.
But of course again "there should be a couple of articles", so lets hope there are, but of course if there's not, its not your fault, and its certainly a convenient excuse if there aren't.
We've been putting in the long hours, so the next three weeks we're on a weekly vacation rotation, the last chance we'll get to rest for a long time. You've been putting in "long hours" recently but its apparently still going to take you 3 months to make a video of your feature complete game thats currently in internal beta testing.
And your taking vacations 5 months before your game launches, when public beta has not even started and you still dont have any publishers or distribution contracts, and you have not even started any publicity campaign's or announced any official information or any detailed schedules about any of this yet.
Your either supremely confident or something else entirely.
The next update will likely be in a couple of weeks. Lets hope it will be that comprehensive gameplay video.
Thanks for reading. |
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daarco 7/18/08 10:59:48 AM
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Joined: 12/19/06
Want Darkfall now! |
A bit short, but eight new developers can be bad. And all i care for right now is a damn good video from Aventurine showing some kick as footage : ) But are the DF trolls ready for that? What if we get to see all features in that video?? It could be very interesting. |
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Noktaris 7/18/08 11:04:44 AM
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Normally I'm not a big person on graphics as long as the game play is good...but I can't even get slightly excited about this game (if and when it ever is released) because the graphics just look horrid to me. Just my personal opinion. |
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Polarization 7/18/08 11:17:40 AM
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Joined: 1/06/05
This is the way the Darkfall ends Not with a beta but a whimper. |
Surely the question of fare more importance is finally after 3 months, “what if we don’t get to see all the features demonstrated comprehensively using gameplay footage in the video?" Just to put this in perspective. Two months ago: May 23rd “We’re looking at releasing a comprehensive video sometime in the next few weeks.” One month ago: June 20th We've started collecting in-game footage for a video update which is taking a while being low in the immediate priorities list, but moving along. Today July 18th “While playtesting we're getting a lot of video footage that's going to end up in a video we'll be releasing next month so you'll get an idea of what we've been talking about.” Does anyone else see a pattern developing here?, probably only the “trolls” do I should think. |
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Locklain 7/18/08 11:19:43 AM
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Joined: 5/30/04 |
Do you mean all of the empty promises? |
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Polarization 7/18/08 11:37:42 AM
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Joined: 1/06/05
This is the way the Darkfall ends Not with a beta but a whimper. |
Here’s a few more examples of recent “promises” to “show” things that the majority of the community promptly and conveniently forgot about, which I’m sure Tasos has probably been quite grateful about. 6 months ago : Jan 25, Dev journal 23 “I'm not going to directly answer this question because we intend to show you at some point how the construction system works.” 4 months ago: 28 March , Dev journ | |
