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what do you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkfall

Until it comes out people can think and will think whatever they want.  Many will place their hopes and dreams squarely on Darkfall's shoulders.  Some will be pleasantly surprised, others will have their hopes and dreams crushed.

As it stands now I'm indifferent.  When I have an actual, tangable product that I can play then I'll tell you what I think.

there are 2 all time sandboxes atm, one that is sci-fi called eve, and the other is fantasy called darkfall, i dont think it can be called thee greatest as it wont be the greatest of the sci-fi mmo genre, but it will be thee greatest of the fantasy genre

I think I want to play it before I make such a bold statement.

Darkfall will be fun for a lot of people.   but the fanbase that has been growing around it will be UNplesantly surprised by it.

Granted who knows the DF team hasn't even decided whether to have local or global banks yet(local is the only thing that makes sense for the features it claims to have).  So I really do doubt they'll even meet a 2010 deadline for a beta.

I don't people should really place a lot of faith in Darkfall. It has already been letting down people for years. I'd take a cautious mild interest, that way if it is wonderful, its a pleasant surprise, and if it bombs, well, no big deal and move on to the next.

A lot fo the recent hype is from recent people following the game, like within the last year or so it looks like. I'd like to know where those people stand when the beta hasn't shown up for 2-3 more years. I certainly hope the timetable is sooner than that, but i've become jaded after like 7 years of waiting for a beta.

Anyways, I doubt it will be the best sandbox of all time if it is released, but I hope it is enjoyable. As far as EVE, I know a lot of people like it, and I love scifi, but I just can't get into that game at all, and I've tried. It could be the start of the game for me is just so discombobulated.

Originally posted by paulscott

Darkfall will be fun for a lot of people.   but the fanbase that has been growing around it will be UNplesantly surprised by it.

 

Granted who knows the DF team hasn't even decided whether to have local or global banks yet(local is the only thing that makes sense for the features it claims to have).  So I really do doubt they'll even meet a 2010 deadline for a beta.

How can you know whether the fanbase will be unpleasently surprised? I'm sure you haven't played it and it has already been stated that the first part of beta has started, yes I know it is not playtesting yet but it is the first stage of beta which is to test the playability of DF on different computer specs and as I remember they have been doing private testing with hired testers for a while now, also I'm pretty sure they decided on global banks already although don't take my word for that one I might have just read it off a forum post which is not exactly a reliable source.

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Wish people wouldn't proclaim a game as the greatest game of all time before they've even played it. It'll be another Age of Conan, Shadowbane or whatnot all over again. And it's usualy the same people who were cheering for the last game, shouting it's the greatest ever before they even played it. Then demonizing it online for weeks before moving onto the next one to proclaim it the greatest before it even came out. See a pattern? Sometimes you people have the memmory of a goldfish. And that makes me a sad panda :(

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Originally posted by paulscott
Granted who knows the DF team hasn't even decided whether to have local or global banks yet(local is the only thing that makes sense for the features it claims to have).  So I really do doubt they'll even meet a 2010 deadline for a beta.

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I don't know where you are getting your information from. DF developers have clearly stated that there will be universal banks:

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Tasos; May 23rd Update. Darkfall News Forum.

The universal banking system we’re implementing in Darkfall is because we found it was very tedious not having it. Universal banks have become an industry standard for a reason. We've found that their existence does wonders for the fun factor as opposed to their absence. Darkfall is challenging in every way, you don’t need it to be tedious. We’ll balance universal banks to work as well as possible and we’ll continue balancing them if we have to.

As for caravans, firstly, we never confirmed that they were in the game. They were never in the original design; they weren’t announced as a feature, they were just brought up and have been promoted by some community members. We have looked at them as a possible cool feature but to be honest, I can't say they're that cool in practice. As things stand you can form a caravan using mounts, ships etc. With them you can move large quantities of goods, fairly fast, rather than running small loads back and forth over and over. The world is huge and the distances to travel are great and there will be a need for transport of large amounts of resources such as those intended for city building.

You do have the freedom of forming caravans. You also have the option of universal banks. When we make design decisions like these, we’re thinking of the majority of players and we speak from experience. Few players would initially enjoy the absence of universal banks, but even they would get tired of the wasted time commitment.
 

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