So finally patched, and got to the character creation screen only to be told that the server is shuting down.

Current server status is :

Server Status for players: OFFLINE

Server Status for GMs: OFFLINE

Server Status for master GMs: OFFLINE

Server Status for Admins: OFFLINE

yea well i was all ready finish with my toons creation but was stuck at the name section it would not move to next and allow me to pick the city to go to lol go figure

Pretty sure we crashed the servers due to too much traffic. The front page of the forums is saying all is well:

Servers are finally opening up after a 12 hour delay. Processing the pre-orders took much longer than the original estimate we were given, and we caught a bug at the last minute that we didn’t want to launch with. We apologize for the long delay and we hope you enjoy your first day in Darkfall.

For the players that are getting lobby errors, check your version and if you don’t have build 1.0.35, get it from http://www.eu1.darkfallonline.com/dl/Darkfall.exe

We have extended the free month of play to 33 days to thank you for your patience and to try to begin making up for the inconvenience.

We’ll process the problematic pre-orders that were not charged, and have 0 balance later today. If you pre-ordered successfully but weren’t charged, or haven’t received your final notice for the remaining successful charge, you’ll need to be patient a few hours longer. We’ll also look at opening up more sales by tomorrow. We are a little behind schedule but we're catching up.

Forums have been down due to large volume, almost double our highest traffic to date, people weren’t able to access them. We brought them down in order to be able to post communications so you would know what was going on. MMORPG.com was kind enough to post our first announcement but we need to be able to communicate through the official Darkfall community. Darkfall IRC was causing the Stratics network problems with its volume and it was also temporarily shut down at Stratics request. The forum will be back as soon as possible, and we hope we can keep it up.

We’ll do our best to keep you updated.

Thank you

The Darkfall Team

Dont pull shit out of your ass. How do you know what crashed it? It crashed though. This isnt looking good.

Originally posted by Seytan

Dont pull shit out of your ass. How do you know what crashed it? It crashed though. This isnt looking good.

Who cares why .... still no game play

Welcome to the launch day of an MMO.  Reminds me of EQ1.  Considering there is far less money, only 1 server and a mad rush to join..its amazing we got in at all.