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Hello, In a recent hypemeter comments and forum posts you expressed your concern about the darkfall community. I just want to let you know that there are those of us that who are not fanbois foaming at the mouth. We want to make the game a good community and want people to be able to play without getting ganked every 30 seconds by 12 year olds that think its the greatest thing in the world. Yes, all games have their rotten apples and the darkfall community seems to have a lot of bad apples, but please don't disregard the game, or the rest of the community because of the poor ones. Many people have been following this game for over 3 or 4 years, many of those years left them... us, with little information and little hope. Many found ways to pass the time, some are certainly more bitter than others. We aren't proud of this fact, but its what we had to do to pass the time. It certainly isn't an excuse, but hopefully it helps explain a few things. Again, not all of the community is bad. I, personally, hope that a lot of the community will change once the game is released and get their initial excitement and anger out of the way. Darkfall is unique. You only have your one character per server, you can't be an ass and then jump on another character. Your actions have consequences, if your are a jerk, news will spread and it will work against you. People that are known as being helpful upstanding players will be rewarded. Hopefully this will help douse the flames of some of the more severe members of the community. Only time will tell. All I ask is that you give Darkfall a chance. I truly believe that there is a little something for everyone. PvPers and "Carebears" alike can find something that appeals to them if they just give it a chance. On behalf of the civil members of the community I want you to apologize for the others. All I can offer is the hope that they will cool off once the game release and that if not, hopefully they will be the minority. |
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9/08/08 10:16:19 PM#2
Thanks for the sentiment Arcturussage, It's kind of ironic however that the people who will read your post and take it in the spirit you intend knew this was the case already. Nearly all online communities seem to have a collection on these immature posters lately. They claim to be "hardcore PvPers" yet most of them have never played WWII Online or Plantside and if they did most of them simply wouldn't last. A number of your more mature members have said that they "simply ignore" these people? The pay off will be a community you can be proud of.
I tried playing Real Life but the graphics sucked, the community was annoying too. |
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Reborn17
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Joined: 9/17/07
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." |
9/08/08 10:23:17 PM#3
/Applause to both of you "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." -Edmund Burke Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" |
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9/08/08 10:25:32 PM#4
Hi Arc, my near evil twin There's no need to worry, for this will be a niche game so you wont see those kiddies and bad manners playing this game if its launch. Right now because there's nothing for them to do that's why they will go to any forums and spam. By the time DF is release, WoW and War have already caught their attention (sad to say though). If the game is really release with most of the gameplay in, i'll pm you so that we can be partner or even be in the same guild... cya!
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9/08/08 10:35:04 PM#5
Arcturussage does not speak for the forumfall community.
We need no apologizing, as we did nothing wrong.
If you are one of the people who were some how offended by the fact that we are "hyped" about Darkfall, then you would probably get slaughtered in game and cry on the forums about how you need safezones and epic loot.
We will take your Hype meter advertising for our game, but we do not need your support MMORPG.com (Uzik ibnYaraq in game. Always willing to help.) |
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9/08/08 10:45:21 PM#6
Originally posted by Uzik He doesn't - yet you do?
My suggestion to you is that you email the editor of MMORPG.com and have the Darkfall forums removed and Darkfall removed from the game list? The link you need is in the FAQ. Then again, I'm betting the Developer would be very annoyed if that happened? I tried playing Real Life but the graphics sucked, the community was annoying too. |
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9/08/08 10:46:17 PM#7
Originally posted by Uzik
The fun thing about you? Once all your little kitty friends become tire of swinging teh hammer leik in teh video they will quit. If the game is any good at that point, there will be an influx of new players. The second gen players will be more the "other" mmo crowd, and if your game wants to continue making money, they wil soften sort of liek L2. You have always had PvP options, almost every game has a PvP server. I just can't wait to see youback here complaining both 1) How you got ganked or 2) How you got nerfed or 3) How the game is all care-bear in 6 months after release or 4) How no one plays anymore. I played WH beta, it's not even salvageable (WoW, graphics and all). This game doesn't stand a chance. Just an opinion. |
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9/08/08 11:14:44 PM#8
Originally posted by dalevi11
The fun thing about you? Once all your little kitty friends become tire of swinging teh hammer leik in teh video they will quit. If the game is any good at that point, there will be an influx of new players. The second gen players will be more the "other" mmo crowd, and if your game wants to continue making money, they wil soften sort of liek L2. You have always had PvP options, almost every game has a PvP server. I just can't wait to see youback here complaining both 1) How you got ganked or 2) How you got nerfed or 3) How the game is all care-bear in 6 months after release or 4) How no one plays anymore. I played WH beta, it's not even salvageable (WoW, graphics and all). This game doesn't stand a chance. Just an opinion.
Anyone who thinks that a "PvP server" is equivalent to open PvP has no idea what they are talking about.
UO and AC Darktide showed us the potential and flaws of open PvP. The Darkfall developers are disciples of those games, and have combined the good from those games, with their own style and innovative new features.
If you don't like it, tough. The game is coming out and we will all see then.
As for representing the Darkfall community, I would say that I represent "forumfall" pretty well. I'll be nice and civil if I see nice and civil. MMORPG.com has always been hostile to Darkfall, so I am hostile to MMORPG.com
As you can see, my join date for this site is '04, yet I only have a handful of posts. My SOLE reason for being on here is to defend Darkfall. I've done so for years, and with beta coming close, I won't let the naysayers get the better of us.
Apologizing is not the in the style of Darkfall. If I could, I could kill and loot you. Unfortunately, the forums don't have those features, so my posts will have to suffice. (Uzik ibnYaraq in game. Always willing to help.) |
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9/08/08 11:56:17 PM#9
Originally posted by Uzik
Anyone who thinks that a "PvP server" is equivalent to open PvP has no idea what they are talking about.
UO and AC Darktide showed us the potential and flaws of open PvP. The Darkfall developers are disciples of those games, and have combined the good from those games, with their own style and innovative new features.
If you don't like it, tough. The game is coming out and we will all see then.
As for representing the Darkfall community, I would say that I represent "forumfall" pretty well. I'll be nice and civil if I see nice and civil. MMORPG.com has always been hostile to Darkfall, so I am hostile to MMORPG.com
As you can see, my join date for this site is '04, yet I only have a handful of posts. My SOLE reason for being on here is to defend Darkfall. I've done so for years, and with beta coming close, I won't let the naysayers get the better of us.
Apologizing is not the in the style of Darkfall. If I could, I could kill and loot you. Unfortunately, the forums don't have those features, so my posts will have to suffice. I only hope that the main community is more like arct and not like you. If not, DF wont survive.
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9/09/08 12:00:07 AM#10
Originally posted by arcturussage
Apologize for what? Hyping the game we like? Dehyping the games we dont like? Thats the purpose of the hypemeter. If someone made alts they did wrong. And this apply also to the haters that made alts to dehype Darkfall. The hatred towards Darkfall latest year have come from some of the most immature individuals in the history of game websites. Wasnt one thread that werent ruined by the haters and no-sayers. These Darkfall haters dont deserve any appologize from the Darkfall fans doing the right thing, hyping Darkfall and dehyping games they dont like.
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9/09/08 12:07:13 AM#11
Originally posted by Keeper2000
Anyone who thinks that a "PvP server" is equivalent to open PvP has no idea what they are talking about.
UO and AC Darktide showed us the potential and flaws of open PvP. The Darkfall developers are disciples of those games, and have combined the good from those games, with their own style and innovative new features.
If you don't like it, tough. The game is coming out and we will all see then.
As for representing the Darkfall community, I would say that I represent "forumfall" pretty well. I'll be nice and civil if I see nice and civil. MMORPG.com has always been hostile to Darkfall, so I am hostile to MMORPG.com
As you can see, my join date for this site is '04, yet I only have a handful of posts. My SOLE reason for being on here is to defend Darkfall. I've done so for years, and with beta coming close, I won't let the naysayers get the better of us.
Apologizing is not the in the style of Darkfall. If I could, I could kill and loot you. Unfortunately, the forums don't have those features, so my posts will have to suffice. I only hope that the main community is more like arct and not like you. If not, DF wont survive.
Ahhh, it wont survive you say? Can you elaborate abit on that cause i dont understand abit what youre talking about? Uzik is a good representant for Darkfall community as i see it. Have a nice one Aragon - Member of B@D guild |
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9/09/08 12:09:43 AM#12
Originally posted by Aragon100
Apologize for what? Hyping the game we like? Dehyping the games we dont like? Thats the purpose of the hypemeter. If someone made alts they did wrong. And this apply also to the haters that made alts to dehype Darkfall. The hatred towards Darkfall latest year have come from some of the most immature individuals in the history of game websites. Wasnt one thread that werent ruined by the haters and no-sayers. These Darkfall haters dont deserve any appologize from the Darkfall fans hyping Darkfall and dehyping games they dont like. And what about the people that is not a DF hater? Or do you think the human race is now divided only between DF lovers and DF haters. I never thought the OP was apologizing to the DF trolls. I thought he was apologizing to all the people that are having a very "interesting" show of how some fanatic people can act. All MMO have fanatics. Dont you remember how high AoC was rated after release in here? If you are trying to show that DF is not different than other MMOs (which are full of fanatic people) you achieved your objective. Well done!!! DF community is not different than all the WAR fanbois, WoW fanbois, AoC fanbois. Well done!!! Now try to tell people to come to a FFA PvP w/full looting, which is full of fanatics too.
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9/09/08 12:14:26 AM#13
Originally posted by Aragon100 Yes, I can elaborate. FFA PvP is not for all. Less with full looting. You and others arent informing people. Just hyping. And you will be success! Many people will buy DFO on the hype and find it NOT to be what they were looking for. Then the whines and the cancels. And in the end it will happen what happened to every single FFA PvP MMO ever released: it will mutate to a more carebear environment or die. Soon you will find playing with yourself and Uzik. You dont like my opinion? You think I am wrong? That not only DF will be all that is promised, without bugs and with uberness all around... but you think it will have a player base that will economically support it and that Aventurine will hold their beleives to the end? That's your opinion. Mine is what I said. And if the DF community is like you adn Uzik... then you will just ruin the game. I know there are asshats in all MMOs. I just hope you are the minority.
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9/09/08 12:19:38 AM#14
*standing ovation for keeper2000* very well said |
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9/09/08 12:27:31 AM#15
I accept your apology. Being someone that is interested in Darkfall solely for it's similarities to UO, I find the community to be rather discouraging. The only way to have a conversation about Darkfall with Darkfall zealots is to make a post that praises it...or, sometimes, completely bashes it. If you just want to discuss an element of the game, people will come in and just say "it's the best" or "you don't agree? you're a troll!" Simply put, discussing Darkfall here is completely worthless. It's even worse than the WAR forums. Your apology though, gives me a little hope for the community. _________________________________ |
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9/09/08 12:30:55 AM#16
Originally posted by arcturussage I agree with just about every point, so all I can add is, I apologize as well on their behalf. I don't think they realize they need people who aren't PvP maniacs just as badly as they need the game itself. The world has to be alive! |
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9/09/08 12:41:32 AM#17
Originally posted by Aragon100
I can elaborate (this is a repost from another thread here - but in case you missed it...) http://brokentoys.org/2007/07/23/see-you-in-ultima-online-no-shadowbane-uh-daoc-hey-swg-wait-horizons-vanguard-darkfall-yeah-totally-see-you-in-darkfall-newb/
In relation to Pirates of the Burning Sea these people were well entrenched in the "community" more than a year before the game was released. They dominated the forums.
Interestingly - I have seen a few of them posting on the WAR boards in the last couple of days. The only problem was they liked it because it allowed them to 'dominate' at the expense of the game. Once they had their thrills and their free play - they left. I tried playing Real Life but the graphics sucked, the community was annoying too. |
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9/09/08 12:43:48 AM#18
Forumfall offers no apology. And neither do I. My brother wil be here soon to echo the same sentiment. |
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9/09/08 12:46:20 AM#19
fan (f?n) pronunciation An ardent devotee; an enthusiast. [Short for FANATIC.]
Ever seen any fans around here? Yes. Most are annoying. It's the internet. To the OP: nice post. Also to the OP: You are largely apologizing to a bunch of irrational haters for a bunch of irrational fans. People that don't really care about darkfall one way or the other aren't flaming/getting flamed. Some might get caught up in the discussion, and then they'll find that if they attack the game they get flamed by fans and if they defend it they get flamed by haters. I'm a fan. I was a fan, at first, of AoC, mainly because I read most of the original short stories when I was younger (not the hack trash that AoC ended up using in its stupid fluff "asides", that showed me what kind of devs we were dealing with). But I didn't worry about coming to AoC's defense, I wanted to try it and see it. I tried and it failed. (EDIT)(I'll edit here to respond to those who think ganking killed the game - the lack of in-game mechanics and the ability to avoid ganking killed the game... along with everything else about the game, of course, it largely sucked... hunters got bored with easy hunts and the hunted (often including myself) found that they couldn't get anything done with tempest of sets hitting them with bolts from 30 feet away with 100 percent chance to hit and 100 percent damage). I believe the devs when they say that DF is feature complete, and hope that it is implemented properly. If it is not I will cry in my pillow and take up fly fishing or something. Either way, the goal of the devs has remained pure and all the people talking about emoing it down to take care of carebear feelings don't understand that carebears are fickle and have tons of games to choose from but the hard-core pvp base is likely the only base that will come and stay. The dev's aren't stupid enough to sacrifice one to gain the other. Again, it's all about whether the mechanics of the sandbox work out or can be made to work out. Either way, I'll not apologize to the haters. Fuck 'em. |
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9/09/08 12:49:42 AM#20
Originally posted by Keeper2000 Yes, I can elaborate. FFA PvP is not for all. Less with full looting. You and others arent informing people. Just hyping. And you will be success! Many people will buy DFO on the hype and find it NOT to be what they were looking for. Then the whines and the cancels. And in the end it will happen what happened to every single FFA PvP MMO ever released: it will mutate to a more carebear environment or die. Soon you will find playing with yourself and Uzik. You dont like my opinion? You think I am wrong? That not only DF will be all that is promised, without bugs and with uberness all around... but you think it will have a player base that will economically support it and that Aventurine will hold their beleives to the end? That's your opinion. Mine is what I said. And if the DF community is like you adn Uzik... then you will just ruin the game. I know there are asshats in all MMOs. I just hope you are the minority.
You should check out this little game called EvE with its 1/4 of a million subs... |
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