Originally posted by rozenblade1

The game will release!!!

There was just a big write up of it in Massive Online Gamer Magazine.........Never really cared to take a look at the game before, but man...now I wanna play!

Funny thing though concerning that Darkfall report from MMOZine (issue 9), is that they end it off saying:

"With a European release already underway as you read this (and a US one to follow shortly after), we'll see if these Greeks are bearing a gift worth spending time with very soon now"

Oh it also says that the ETA for the game is January (100% incorrect though).

I just wish that there was more information in the article about the game that wasnt already mentioned elsewhere (ok granted, a couple of screenshots that i havent seen before, but then again i have only been following this game (screenshot wise) very intermittantly... on the other hand, i have been reading up on most of the articles that get published about the game.

Originally posted by rozenblade1

The game will release!!!

There was just a big write up of it in Massive Online Gamer Magazine.........Never really cared to take a look at the game before, but man...now I wanna play!

I actually bought a copy of that this week. Its not a preview, just the writer talking about what shes read from press releases and on the forums as well as the FAQs. It also states the game goes live Jan 22nd in Europe.

Not sure why this thread got so many pages, I find it normal that the game rating media will ignore titles that won't let them have any access to them as in previews and whatnot.

Not to mention there are plenty of games with a bigger appeal compared to Darkfall going to be released in Q1. F.E.A.R. 2, Dawn of War II, Resident Evil 5, the list goes on... and I'm pretty sure most of these games will eventually give more information for hands-on articles and whatnot.

Long story short, they're just going for what will bring more attention: the big titles.

Originally posted by Routver

Not sure why this thread got so many pages, I find it normal that the game rating media will ignore titles that won't let them have any access to them as in previews and whatnot.

Not to mention there are plenty of games with a bigger appeal compared to Darkfall going to be released in Q1. F.E.A.R. 2, Dawn of War II, Resident Evil 5, the list goes on... and I'm pretty sure most of these games will eventually give more information for hands-on articles and whatnot.

Long story short, they're just going for what will bring more attention: the big titles.

I can sort of see your point there, but that doesnt explain why sites that deal in just MMO games cant get a peak at the state of the game. Many have asked and pretty much been told no.

I'd like to begin by saying that I won't be playing Darkfall, whether it releases or not.  The concept simply doesn't appeal to me and as such I have no vested interest in seeing this game fail or succeed.  I simply come here to read and enjoy the drama and hysteria whipped up by both camps.

As a disinterested neutral party, I've come to the following conclusion.

Darkfall could launch and be brilliant, HOWEVER, the level of over-inflated anticipation means chances are that it will disappoint the fanbase regardless.

Overhype could kill this game before it sees the light of day.

That said, with the current state-of-play its looking more and more likely that its either terrible or simply nowhere near ready for launch anytime soon.  People who say 'Aventurine aren't looking for commercial success' are misleading themselves..it equates to 'Aventurine are setting out to fail'.  No company, no matter how much they love their product, work for the pleasure of it alone...money must be made somewhere.

If Darkfall fails, its another nail in the coffin of smaller developers in the MMO genre which is bad for the all MMO fans, fewer companies will want to invest development budgets and all we'll have left is WoW.  Nobody wants that.

"Why hasn't this game been reviewed by any major magazine or website"

Because no magazine has a low enough rating system in place......J/K.

Originally posted by Maughann

I'd like to begin by saying that I won't be playing Darkfall, whether it releases or not.  The concept simply doesn't appeal to me and as such I have no vested interest in seeing this game fail or succeed.  I simply come here to read and enjoy the drama and hysteria whipped up by both camps.

 

As a disinterested neutral party, I've come to the following conclusion.

 

Darkfall could launch and be brilliant, HOWEVER, the level of over-inflated anticipation means chances are that it will disappoint the fanbase regardless.

 

Overhype could kill this game before it sees the light of day.

 

That said, with the current state-of-play its looking more and more likely that its either terrible or simply nowhere near ready for launch anytime soon.  People who say 'Aventurine aren't looking for commercial success' are misleading themselves..it equates to 'Aventurine are setting out to fail'.  No company, no matter how much they love their product, work for the pleasure of it alone...money must be made somewhere.

 

If Darkfall fails, its another nail in the coffin of smaller developers in the MMO genre which is bad for the all MMO fans, fewer companies will want to invest development budgets and all we'll have left is WoW.  Nobody wants that.

the highlighted, along with the "we don't want many people playing the game" have me intrigued...

didn't these guys get a multi-million dollar loan/investment/whatever?  aren't those people going to want their millions back plus interest?

Well I'll say this, if Darkfall lives up to the objective reviews that it has had in the press then I'm right. It is vapourware!