The folks at Darkfall have announced that they are sending out another round of beta invites.

We sent out the second batch of beta invites last night and we’re going to continue inviting people as needed by our testing process. There’s no ETA to the invites, we’re moving along based solely on our needs. We might invite more people in as early as tonight, and as frequently as every day. The testers are under strict NDA and it would be very unfortunate if we had to ban people and/or to modify our testing - so we would like to ask everyone to respect our process and procedures, even those of you not yet in the beta.

If you’re not in the beta yet, please don’t take this personally, it’s likely you don’t fit our immediate testing needs. There are a lot of criteria, but it can be as simple as hardware, location, time zone etc. We appreciate your understanding as we're trying to get Darkfall ready, we take this process very seriously.

Read more here.

Still waiting to hear from one person in beta that the game exists and you can actually play it.   Wouldn't it be interesting if this was all a charade?

hehe true... but imagine this: If the game was actually for real, then it has been one of the smartest moves in gaming history... They have spent nearly nothing on marketing, and still the game is the most hyped game ever..

Yea, the most hyped game ever that nobdy has ever heard of.

I don't believe there really is a beta going on. I don't believe this game is anything but a hoax.

Originally posted by Draccan

 

I don't believe there really is a beta going on. I don't believe this game is anything but a hoax.

 

Agreed. If a dxdiag with a Quad Core, 8GB Ram, 5TB HD is not enough, then they are not inviting anyone. :P

Originally posted by Draccan

 

I don't believe there really is a beta going on. I don't believe this game is anything but a hoax.

 

Yea i firmly believe that all those people at that technology conference that were watching a live version of DF being played were all robots and all the developers were CGI or aliens.

Also, all the TV channels and Magazines that did reports on DF in the last month were government scams to get your first born child.

<3

Good news though as we are discussing it on the DF boards as well as the official ones.  I think everyone just gets worked up too quickly when they dont get instant results.  It was bad seeing everyone get all pissy because there was no update on the 10th.  The developers are people too guys and are obviously working hard.

Good luck getting into beta everyone and nice to see MMORPG.com showing some love to the updates...it gets pretty brutal on this site when DF comes up (as you can see)

On a note, they said they'll be testing hardware and such. Meaning, even if you're computer is the most godliest thing ever, they'll probably choose someone who can barily run a browser based game so they can see how well performance is. Just throwing it out there.

Originally posted by m3ta

Agreed. If a dxdiag with a Quad Core, 8GB Ram, 5TB HD is not enough, then they are not inviting anyone. :P

Thats pretty widespread configuration nowadays. My Athlon 2.5 hhz is much more valuable in the matter of testing on every possible system config

And nope, I`m still not in ...

Going out on a limb putting this in news. Have the DF fanboys been complaining about lack of coverage for their psuedo-announcements?

Originally posted by Mahlo

Going out on a limb putting this in news. Have the DF fanboys been complaining about lack of coverage for their psuedo-announcements?

wow lol...just when i thought i had heard it all

So do you honestly believe that it's possible for an amateur team to release the most advanced MMORPG ever without running any extensive beta tests? I'm really crossing my fingers for that to happen, but it is kind of unlikely.

Even the simplest EQ clones require months after months of testing to squash all bugs etc., and even then, after release, the game requires tons of fixes, not to mention balancing changes. Aventurine, however, isn't just making some cookie cutter MMO with nothing but grind in it, they're making a game with seamless world, housing, player run towns, open PVP, collision detection, mounts, sophisticated combat system, naval battles etc., and yet they don't need to do any beta testing whatsoever, even though they're pretty much just a team working out of a garage. They're confident that the game they're supposedly making is going to play well on every hardware configuration conceivable by man and that the servers are going to be just as stable as they were when they did some artificial tests.

The game's due in decemeber, since they said it's going to be available this year, but that means the master CD should already be on its way. Digital distribution then? OK, I can go with that. There's a beta, but everyone's so secretive about it and follows the NDA so strictly that there are no leaks and not ONE person on the internet knows anybody who's got access to it to confirm that the game we're so eagerly waiting for is indeed being played and tested by someone who's not a member of the dev team. But yeah, whatever, we shouldn't be too envious of those who were lucky enough to receive one of the invites, because they're not really playing the game anyway, as it's too early to test the character development -- they're just hardware testing. Not more than one month till release and they've not even tested the character development yet...

I've followed the game's development since the very first news about it hit the web and I really want to stay positive about the whole thing, but I've never been much for blind fanboism and the truth is they have never released ANY substantial proof that the game is in a state that allows for gameplay beta testing. Someone goes to Greece to visit them, we get some pics from their offices, some funny coffee cups, monitors and keyboards, and that's pretty much it. Someone's in beta, though we don't know who that is, we don't know what they're doing, what they're really testing, or if there's anything to test at all. The movie they've released a while ago doesn't really prove anything either. Sure it shows some stuff, but somehow I'm still not entirely convinced that the game's ready for release, that the servers are going to be capable of hosting 5000+ clients simultaneously, that all the skills, weapons, races are going to be well balanced, that the game client is going to be stable enough not to give any trouble to any of the thouands of people trying the game out if it does release.

There's not one MMORPG that I want to play more than DFO, and believe me when I say I'm going to be the happiest MMO gamer if I'm wrong about all this, but my gut tells me that it's either a hoax (remember Mourning?) or we're going to have another SB (or worse) on our hands in a few months.

Originally posted by m3ta

Originally posted by Draccan

 

I don't believe there really is a beta going on. I don't believe this game is anything but a hoax.

 

 

Agreed. If a dxdiag with a Quad Core, 8GB Ram, 5TB HD is not enough, then they are not inviting anyone. :P

They apparently don't want ostentatious asses testing their game.

This game will be the quickest failure of any MMO ever. Just looking at the Videos shows how crappy the game will be. Looks like a lame outdated  Hack and Slash.

and you're favorite game is.....Lineage 2?   lol   

Originally posted by corpusc

and you're favorite game is.....Lineage 2?   lol   

Yes, it is. Almost 5 Years old and still going strong.

Originally posted by m3ta

Originally posted by Draccan

 

I don't believe there really is a beta going on. I don't believe this game is anything but a hoax.

 

 

Agreed. If a dxdiag with a Quad Core, 8GB Ram, 5TB HD is not enough, then they are not inviting anyone. :P

The game must be vaporware if you werent invited?

What are you? 12?

Hack and slash sounds like a wet dream to me. Can't wait to hack and slash.

Woohoo, I'm in beta!

;(I'm sorry, I lied. ;)

I have asked around, and nobody knows of anyone that was accepted into beta. I'm starting to think this thing is some kind of scam to sell preorders. Only one month of beta to test a game this complex? You have got to be kidding me.