I don't like the tendency of certain forumfallers attaching so much significance to join dates but you are wrong to think the average person who joined the forums recently and posted in the advanced discussion section were offering quality posts.

They would ask stupid questions that would be answered in the FAQs posted in the Newbie forum.

Others were simply obnoxious when the questioned the integrity of the company making demands and not requests for information.

Before November 08 the number of people who went to the forums to harass the community couldn't be counted beyond one hand. After November I could easily see the number of flame baits escalate.

Speaking as someone who has actively tried to refocus the forumfall community from being less hostile to new people and has always viewed the core community as a liability I find the self importance, ignorance and obnoxious attitudes of the majority of late joiners who actively post in Advanced discussion even more intolerable.

It's the fault of the mods and admins that they allowed the core community to devolve into a hostile pack. But when I joined I didn't adopt the general hostility of the group that existed. That just tells me the rotten new people were already spoiled and rotten before the joined forumfall.

I can say for sure if anyone new forumfallers are getting into beta it is going to be the people who don't post at all (hence having no track record to hold them accountable for) or who post in a positive fashion.

Aventurine doesn't need assholes testing their game. No person desires hostile agents near their work.

Originally posted by mutantmagnet

I don't like the tendency of certain forumfallers attaching so much significance to join dates but you are wrong to think the average person who joined the forums recently and posted in the advanced discussion section were offering quality posts.

I never stated nor do I think that every new person is posting with quality. My point is to not stereotype people based on their join date or number of posts. Everyone should be judged individually.

They would ask stupid questions that would be answered in the FAQs posted in the Newbie forum.

Most questions are easily found in the FAQ or via a forum search, BUT the FAQ is also seriously outdated. 

Others were simply obnoxious when the questioned the integrity of the company making demands and not requests for information.

Making demands is obviously wrong and immature, but there is nothing wrong with questioning the Devs for their misinformation, lack of updates, silence, etc.

Before November 08 the number of people who went to the forums to harass the community couldn't be counted beyond one hand. After November I could easily see the number of flame baits escalate.

That's not accurate.  There has always been a good percentage of flamers/trolls/spammers/haters/fanbois.

Speaking as someone who has actively tried to refocus the forumfall community from being less hostile to new people and has always viewed the core community as a liability I find the self importance, ignorance and obnoxious attitudes of the majority of late joiners who actively post in Advanced discussion even more intolerable.

It's the fault of the mods and admins that they allowed the core community to devolve into a hostile pack. But when I joined I didn't adopt the general hostility of the group that existed. That just tells me the rotten new people were already spoiled and rotten before the joined forumfall.

I can say for sure if anyone new forumfallers are getting into beta it is going to be the people who don't post at all (hence having no track record to hold them accountable for) or who post in a positive fashion.

I'm not calling you a liar, but I question how you can say this for sure.

Aventurine doesn't need assholes testing their game. No person desires hostile agents near their work.

They don't need elitist testing their game either.

When it comes to forums and Internet communities there is one rule that persists despite anyone's best efforts....

You cant fix stupid!...... But you can ignore it.

Yet people continue to feed trolls and fix stupid.... Futile

Originally posted by joshwa

When it comes to forums and Internet communities there is one rule that persists despite anyone's best efforts....

You cant fix stupid!...... But you can ignore it.

Yet people continue to feed trolls and fix stupid.... Futile

it's sooooo fun watching them try though :)

Originally posted by xToiletduckx

Originally posted by joshwa

When it comes to forums and Internet communities there is one rule that persists despite anyone's best efforts....

You cant fix stupid!...... But you can ignore it.

Yet people continue to feed trolls and fix stupid.... Futile

 

it's sooooo fun watching them try though :)

Ah well that is so true but then they turn around and complain that theres ten pages of posts most of which are telling people to stop posting, always effective lol.

 Ah this explains all the low post counts in here. Hello darkfall forums peoples. Don't worry your forums will be back.. with a WHITE border around it !

Originally posted by vandorn

The forums should be back online soon, It is a funny  though the darkfall forums are a joke you should all go there and see all the fanboys screaming at anyone who does not agree with them. Vey very funny indeed. It would be funny if after thay take all the money for preorders the dev team dissapears with all there cash lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would rather pay Tasos 100 bucks a month to piss in my mouth, than play any of the other games on the market. There are no other games that deliver anything worth playing "mmo-wise" and single player games are not doing much better, for once technology has surpassed the abilities of game companies to produce serious quality game.

I think its time the designers think outside the box, introduce a game that requires a manual, a scratch pad and a fkin brain.

Originally posted by xxxfistxxx

Originally posted by vandorn

The forums should be back online soon, It is a funny  though the darkfall forums are a joke you should all go there and see all the fanboys screaming at anyone who does not agree with them. Vey very funny indeed. It would be funny if after thay take all the money for preorders the dev team dissapears with all there cash lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would rather pay Tasos 100 bucks a month to piss in my mouth, than play any of the other games on the market. There are no other games that deliver anything worth playing "mmo-wise" and single player games are not doing much better, for once technology has surpassed the abilities of game companies to produce serious quality game.

I think its time the designers think outside the box, introduce a game that requires a manual, a scratch pad and a fkin brain.

After that first part, I started to agree with you.

My son plays WoW with his buddies. I have jumped in there every once in a while, but almost always log right back out thinking what a mistake that was. Anyways, I was totally shocked at the most recent version where they give you so much info on your maps that it can't be any fun to play. I don't know what all of it was, didn't spend the time to check it out, but I half expect that someday soon, you'll just click on an icon on your mini-map and your character will go there, kill it, loot it, and come back. You can go get a soda pop and send a few text messages on your cell.

I wait for the game where I keep notes, review things to figure out what I'm missing, think about what things mean, decipher cryptic codes, look for clues that I don't know where they are, fight using my wiles as much as my characters numbers, and end the evening carousing with my companions just because it's fun.

I don't know if Darkfall is all that. But it's about half way around the world closer than anything out there for a fantasy based game.

Originally posted by xxxfistxxx

 

I would rather pay Tasos 100 bucks a month to piss in my mouth, than play any of the other games on the market.

Holy ... I mean HOLY ... Your mother is a proud woman. Please. Please. Please. Never. EVER let her see this post.

Originally posted by Amaranthar

Originally posted by xxxfistxxx

Originally posted by vandorn

The forums should be back online soon, It is a funny  though the darkfall forums are a joke you should all go there and see all the fanboys screaming at anyone who does not agree with them. Vey very funny indeed. It would be funny if after thay take all the money for preorders the dev team dissapears with all there cash lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would rather pay Tasos 100 bucks a month to piss in my mouth, than play any of the other games on the market. There are no other games that deliver anything worth playing "mmo-wise" and single player games are not doing much better, for once technology has surpassed the abilities of game companies to produce serious quality game.

I think its time the designers think outside the box, introduce a game that requires a manual, a scratch pad and a fkin brain.

After that first part, I started to agree with you.

My son plays WoW with his buddies. I have jumped in there every once in a while, but almost always log right back out thinking what a mistake that was. Anyways, I was totally shocked at the most recent version where they give you so much info on your maps that it can't be any fun to play. I don't know what all of it was, didn't spend the time to check it out, but I half expect that someday soon, you'll just click on an icon on your mini-map and your character will go there, kill it, loot it, and come back. You can go get a soda pop and send a few text messages on your cell.

I wait for the game where I keep notes, review things to figure out what I'm missing, think about what things mean, decipher cryptic codes, look for clues that I don't know where they are, fight using my wiles as much as my characters numbers, and end the evening carousing with my companions just because it's fun.

I don't know if Darkfall is all that. But it's about half way around the world closer than anything out there for a fantasy based game.

Ahh  SWG Pre-Cu

Originally posted by xxpigxx

Originally posted by Amaranthar

Originally posted by xxxfistxxx

After that first part, I started to agree with you.

My son plays WoW with his buddies. I have jumped in there every once in a while, but almost always log right back out thinking what a mistake that was. Anyways, I was totally shocked at the most recent version where they give you so much info on your maps that it can't be any fun to play. I don't know what all of it was, didn't spend the time to check it out, but I half expect that someday soon, you'll just click on an icon on your mini-map and your character will go there, kill it, loot it, and come back. You can go get a soda pop and send a few text messages on your cell.

I wait for the game where I keep notes, review things to figure out what I'm missing, think about what things mean, decipher cryptic codes, look for clues that I don't know where they are, fight using my wiles as much as my characters numbers, and end the evening carousing with my companions just because it's fun.

I don't know if Darkfall is all that. But it's about half way around the world closer than anything out there for a fantasy based game.

 

Ahh  SWG Pre-Cu

What did any of that have to do with SWG?

I wait for the game where I keep notes - did that in SWG

, review things to figure out what I'm missingt - did that in SWG

decipher cryptic codes - did that in SWG

fight using my wiles as much as my characters numbers - kind of did that in SWG

and end the evening carousing with my companions just because it's fun - absolutely did that in SWG  ;)

I think this is what took out the forumfall. All need to read and be aware of this.  www.aionsource.com/forum/basement/10789-attn-downadup-virus.html

NOTE: a forum mod from forumfall made a post titled "downadup" today and he did not sound happy.

and there was peace in the online world...even if it lasted for just one day....

Originally posted by aryaba

Are the darkfallonline forums down?

I sometimes wonder if anyone actually goes to the site?They already stated they are having attacks on their website.It has nothing to do with shitty servers or anything like that.It also has nothing to do with a failed game lol.This kind of things happens,some people need to quit making big deals out of nothing.

My prediction...the game will turn out to be another VG.It will look great and have a lot of cool ideas,but can they get people to play it and stay in subscriptions past the first month,time will tell.

I wouldn't be surprised if the servers were completely shut down by a DDoS attack.  Actually, it's playing out much like the Diablo II DDoS attack.  Major lag and disconnection issues, then complete shutdown of the servers.  Blizzard even reported that 2 of their servers caught fire during the attack.  When you aren't expecting them, DoS attacks are quite effective and dangerous.

Originally posted by xxpigxx

Originally posted by Amaranthar

Originally posted by xxxfistxxx

Originally posted by vandorn

The forums should be back online soon, It is a funny  though the darkfall forums are a joke you should all go there and see all the fanboys screaming at anyone who does not agree with them. Vey very funny indeed. It would be funny if after thay take all the money for preorders the dev team dissapears with all there cash lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would rather pay Tasos 100 bucks a month to piss in my mouth, than play any of the other games on the market. There are no other games that deliver anything worth playing "mmo-wise" and single player games are not doing much better, for once technology has surpassed the abilities of game companies to produce serious quality game.

I think its time the designers think outside the box, introduce a game that requires a manual, a scratch pad and a fkin brain.

After that first part, I started to agree with you.

My son plays WoW with his buddies. I have jumped in there every once in a while, but almost always log right back out thinking what a mistake that was. Anyways, I was totally shocked at the most recent version where they give you so much info on your maps that it can't be any fun to play. I don't know what all of it was, didn't spend the time to check it out, but I half expect that someday soon, you'll just click on an icon on your mini-map and your character will go there, kill it, loot it, and come back. You can go get a soda pop and send a few text messages on your cell.

I wait for the game where I keep notes, review things to figure out what I'm missing, think about what things mean, decipher cryptic codes, look for clues that I don't know where they are, fight using my wiles as much as my characters numbers, and end the evening carousing with my companions just because it's fun.

I don't know if Darkfall is all that. But it's about half way around the world closer than anything out there for a fantasy based game.

 

Ahh  SWG Pre-Cu

Anarchy Online had a steeper learning curve than SWG but not by much.

Hmmm both SciFi games maybe that should tell us something....Earthrise?

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there was a time, when the only navigation piece you would get in game is a compass...

your minimap was something that looked like this http://www.owo.com/archive/ftp/maps/u4/britmap2.gif

it was made of cloth and worthy of getting mounted and framed cause it looked so cool. can you imagine the amount of cool stuff that can be stuffed into that vague at best map...

Its the unknown and exploration that will truely keep people interested and digging for more. Some gamers came from games that if you didn't jot down where you were going in a dungeon you never came out. "Yeh restart the game 6 new toons"  Well stepping up into games online like AC or UO, UO was all about exploration in the early days, and AC was all about the patchday hunt for new content "they acutally patch and add content all the time" Finding places like bandit castle and tou- tou for the first time were exciting.

I guess it comes down to this... the more they give you, the less you use your imagination. I will say this, the requirement of an imagination to enjoy games these days just simply is not the same. The kids that play wow, just couldn't comprehend the complexity and mood a game like Darklands could throw you into on a cold winter night.

I guess its my own stinkin problem that I will never in my lifetime see a computer capable of generating the kind of shit my imagination is capable of creating... who knows.

are the forums still down, tried to enter them but got timed out . same as yesterday . i thought the trials where happening.. was wanting to ready what people thought so far..

Moving them to a new ISP is the official statement.  so yeh still down