Originally posted by MadnessRealm

 

Wrong, they said 150,000 have bought the game. Bought the game != Active Players.

 

i bought WoW, Rift, and Swtor and the subs have been cancelled for months already.... so no, "bought the game" doesnt necesarilly mean "active players"

Originally posted by rojo6934

Originally posted by MadnessRealm

 

Wrong, they said 150,000 have bought the game. Bought the game != Active Players.

 

i bought WoW, Rift, and Swtor and the subs have been cancelled for months already.... so no, "bought the game" doesnt necesarilly mean "active players"

That is what I said.   " != " is used in computer programming to say "does not equal".

Originally posted by Volarin

DF2.0 will fail unless:

 

- effects of skills in combat is taken way down so that a newbie still stands a chance against a vet

- an ongoing racial territory war is started that players can lead and influence. Orc incursions into human lands etc.

- get rid of all race clans they ruin the lore

- get rid of the stupid village system, add player housing in cities or out in open

- add local banking

- increase crafting complexity

 

If some kind of ongoing racial war that is lore led is not intoduced the game decends into epeen clan vs clan.

Just my thoughts.

Some extremely bad advice above.  Trying to turn Darkfall into some sort of faction vs. faction World of Warcraft style game will turn off the playerbase that they are catering to.  Darkfall is an FFA game, the entire point of the game is to have "epeen clan vs. clan".  That's what FFA full loot pvpers want, they do not want some sort of WoW type game.   The problems with the game had nothing to do with the PVP system.  Darkfall's problem was the absolutely massive grind, and the massive advantage that undertaking the grind gave the grinder.   I'd still be playing Darkfall if it wasn't for that horrible horrible grind. 

what happened to the link can anyone inform me?

on the darkfall forums there have been suspicions that there was a beta going on with most of the community not knowing about it.

Did something leak?

All nice and good  but why  we had to get the info about  DF beta / release 2005 in a documentary  made by some  greek TV  in 2012 and not then when it was needed ? 

That alone shows you how they they value their playerbase,  TV shows, Business  Events, there seems the hand out Information that poses them in the best light. Not the first time player found themselves such events and presentation without a word from the company.

Their daily business isvery different from those presentations and to refer to the point about the 2005 beta/launch the playerbase got not a single word about and now 7 years later !  we have to learn that a credit institute stoped the funding on the project  and they had to restart it.

7 years later and from a 3 party random source  !

The sad part is they didn't changed a bit since and we still don't know exactly why DF2010 didnt happen in 2010 and why Arena expansion never happened and whats going on with wipe and Beta.

This company just doesnt value their customer regarding communication.

200 players a second?  If the servers had not crashed... that would of sold as many as Shadowbane did in their first day.  300k copies or more.

Originally posted by -Zeno-

200 players a second?  If the servers had not crashed... that would of sold as many as Shadowbane did in their first day.  300k copies or more.

The server didn't crash cause only a fixed amount of people were allowed to buy the game every day.

The online store was laggy as hell though as I remember it.

For all its faults, i keep missing DF.  Well, DF, SWG and DnL...

Seems like Aventurine was trying really hard to do something great, they just couldnt pull it all together...  Hope DF2.0 works out for them!

The next person to say that FFA PVP games are a EPeen measuring contest need to go wash the sand out of their Evag.

My clan just got back into Darkfall. It's a struggle that's for sure. A new player is nothign more than a punching bag for a veteran, but after 2 and a half months I can tell my character is getting there. Where I used to die in 3-4 hits it now takes them 8 or 9. Where I used to cause no damage I now take them down to half or so life. It is a struggle, but nothign that's worth it has ever been easy.

Originally posted by TruthXHurts

The next person to say that FFA PVP games are a EPeen measuring contest need to go wash the sand out of their Evag.

 

My clan just got back into Darkfall. It's a struggle that's for sure. A new player is nothign more than a punching bag for a veteran, but after 2 and a half months I can tell my character is getting there. Where I used to die in 3-4 hits it now takes them 8 or 9. Where I used to cause no damage I now take them down to half or so life. It is a struggle, but nothign that's worth it has ever been easy.

I envy you the amount of your free time as it seems you are willing to waste it on something so insignificant like DF grindfest.

Originally posted by wyrdaskolir

Nobody will ever understand how fking hard game programming is.. 

true.  if you haven't done it (or MAJOR complicated coding projects in general), you have NO idea how many complexiities there are to the seemingly most simple features.

Originally posted by Blindchance

Originally posted by TruthXHurts

The next person to say that FFA PVP games are a EPeen measuring contest need to go wash the sand out of their Evag.

 

My clan just got back into Darkfall. It's a struggle that's for sure. A new player is nothign more than a punching bag for a veteran, but after 2 and a half months I can tell my character is getting there. Where I used to die in 3-4 hits it now takes them 8 or 9. Where I used to cause no damage I now take them down to half or so life. It is a struggle, but nothign that's worth it has ever been easy.

I envy you the amount of your free time as it seems you are willing to waste it on something so insignificant like DF grindfest.

Ya sorry bros it's not WoW. You can't reach endgame in a week.You actually have to put in work to be good at this game. Yes free time is nice. Make some good inestments and maybe you can have the time to stay home, raise your kids, and play darkfall. 

By the way I have got my character up without any afk grinding. The new meditation system gets you up to a level that lets you compete in a fairly short amount of time.