atleast they are moving in the right direction

Aventurine - GNi Press Release - Wednesday September 17 2008
Posted by Darkfall News on September 17, 2008 11:41
Aventurine to Launch New Game on GNi's Leading Multiplayer Game Hosting Platform
GNi Selected for Convenience and Scalability

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sep 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Aventurine SA, a developer located in Athens, Greece has selected GNi, a leader in infrastructure-as-a-service, to host their groundbreaking game, Darkfall Online, which is scheduled for release later this year.

"True to our game development philosophy, we demand uncompromising quality for Darkfall's hosting needs. We want it all: world class service, hardware, and bandwidth, while offering competitive pricing and terms flexibility. We also demand game industry knowledge and experience, and, more importantly a shared vision for our game and a long-term relationship. We've found all of this in GNi. We're very impressed with their professionalism and their commitment to the success of Darkfall and Aventurine. We feel very confident we made the right choice and are pleased to be working with them in bringing Darkfall to our customers," said Jade Mehdawi, CEO of Aventurine SA.

"Aventurine is a creative, energetic, quality organization and we are excited to have Darkfall Online running on our platform. The game looks great, offers compelling new experiences and freedom players don't often see with some of the most widely played MMOs. Darkfall offers a rich variety of experiences that will appeal to MMO veterans and new players alike," said Derek Wise, founder and CTO of GNi, Inc.

Darkfall Online Offers Highly Immersive Experience

Darkfall Online is a massive multiplayer online (MMO) fantasy role-playing game featuring a fun, fast-paced, real-time combat system, massive battles, clan warfare and empire building. Darkfall combines role-playing, action, and strategic gameplay. Darkfall has been designed to create intensely realistic and highly immersive combat and a challenging, realistic environment for a more immersive experience. With full collision detection battle lines really matter and well-aimed spell blasts will send opponents flying. Darkfall's goal is to provide players with a fun and challenging experience through a seamless and zoneless, non-instanced, "sandbox" game world.
Game To Be Launched Simultaneously Across 50 Countries
With a projected usage of over ten thousand concurrent users per game world, Aventurine's massive investment in Darkfall will pay off for players across the fifty countries where it will be launched.

About Aventurine and Darkfall:

Aventurine SA is an independent computer games developer located in Athens, Greece. Aventurine is fueled by passion for gaming and game technologies, which motivates and guides our activities. Aventurine's main project is Darkfall Online, a groundbreaking game schedule to launch later in 2008. Development of the game, the technology platform, game engine, and tools began in 2003. The Darkfall team consists of thirty veteran developers. In August 2008, Aventurine secured a publishing deal with Audiovisual Enterprises SA for publishing and distribution of Darkfall in fifty countries.
Visit us at www.darkfallonline.com

About GNi

GNi is the leading infrastructure-as-a-service provider for online games, software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, and online digital media. GNi's infrastructure supports more than 12.8 million users, 425,000 concurrent connected users at peak capacity, and more than 27 titles. GNi delivers rapid scalability with uncompromised performance. GNi solutions thrive in the most demanding online environments and offers variety of smart systems including rapid on-boarding and deployment. GNi is headquartered in San Jose, California with infrastructure facilities located across the globe. For more information please visit www.gni.com.
Note: GNi is a registered trademark of GNi Corporation. All other trademarks are registered property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: GNi

For Aventurine SA:
Tasos Flambouras, +30 210 6897185-6
info@aventurine.gr
or
For GNi:
Chris Tamblyn, 415-464-7076
ctamblyn@gni.com

Copyright Business Wire 2008 End of Story

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does that imply that this company with ship copies for north america? i hope so

 this is what you do you have 3thingstodo

1. update all VIDEO and AUDIO sound cards, and even the MONITOR driver.

if this doesnt work then there are 2 more solutions

2. reinstall your operating system (vista works better for WAR ive heard because its optimized for vista)

if this doesnt work there is 1 solution

3. Wait for the technical supports reply

if they dont give you a seficient answer then 

1.your computer is out of date and should get a new one

2. you have specs that are so off from the norm it wont run WAR

want to know what i think ithink dont care if WAR is "inovattive" all i know is its very funto play and everything was exicutated right (except alittle class blance) so im playing WAR i like having fun not a list of features that arnt fun bye bye creepy froum people who refuse to play games.

here is my theory, you know how WoW is pretty much just made for little kids (9-15), well if you didnt know that is their biggest playerbase in the US (not sure on asia) anyways little kids dont stay informed AT ALL, 50% of the US wow playerbase has never heard of WAR there is the problem with WAR know one will ever here of it if they dobnt leave their tiny circle of WoW.

the only way WAR will ever get ahead of WoW would be in 3 possible ways

1. WoW collapses on it self

2. with the support of EA WAR has the best and the most advertising for an MMO (it might just take the best advertising for any game) because if they can get you realed in with a flashy comercial you pretty much know that they will think it looks cooler than WoW.

3.WoW players mature and leave it

you are now aloud to play 1 tier lower than the normal tier you zre aloud to be in in open RvR servers only, because they had to many whiners.....that is all

greenskin mainly because from what i heard it is the most fun to play and they look really cool ill probably roll alot of other things i might even go to order at launch just dont know for sure.

or you could preorder and get in 3 days before the crowd.

funny

doubt anyone bought it from there on this website.

Originally posted by grimfall

1. UO - Greifing and pixels?  Let me at it.

2. EvE - Most boring game I've ever tried

3. AC - Rubberbanding and graphics that were a generation behind EQ, despite releasing 8 months after EQ.

 

 

sounds like some one is playing AoC at the moment, in all these games right here that you listed are all about game play then graphics (except eve has good ones)

simple post the worst 3 MMO's THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED and back up why for each one.

rules

1. you may not put game that have not released yet, but you may put games that were suppose to be released but were completly abandoned (dont put darkfall)

2.you may not include games just because they rival the game that you play atm.

3. you may not include the following games on your list:

WoW

LOTRO

UO

DAoC

EvE

AC

4. you did not have to play the game you put on your list you just have to have a basic knoledge of the game and why it is so bad.

mine are

3. AC2

2. Dark and Light

1.Mourning

AC2 was an insult to all AC players it was unoriganal and an over all bad game with lack of content and many bugs.

Dark and light is a huge ingame world but a pethetic attempt of a game it self many consider it as the worst MMO ever, but alot of you havnt heard the #1 chioce for me

Mourning-------i dont want to explain just go here http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/37720

they are both horrible but id go with picture 2

no post its just a title wow this is what we call trolling if you had a good reason why i might support you but for now

Originally posted by Arcken

Originally posted by pb1285n

Originally posted by Arcken

So I watched the video today, and I have to say, I liked what I saw. However, dont expect me to roll over and play doormat to Adventurine just because they made a video. We all know a video and a fully functioning game with all their promises intact are a far different story.

Im still wary of these guys, theyre throwing a lot of promises out there, and theyve been stringing a lot of us along for almost a decade. And Im sorry but 1 video does not constitute a "Im sorry we've been jerking your chains."

So to all you guys switching teams and hugging around the campfire singing koobayah, or however you spell it, have fun at your meetings. Ill be saving my apology for the day it launches with ALL their promises intact.

 

The trolls went from saying

"Darkfall will never be released"

to

"Darkfall will never be released with all the features they promise"

It's progress...

Thats the problem, they made a good portion of the fans into trolls. Blame that on Tasos&Co.
 

and they made a good portion of haters into fanboys go figure.....they had the most users logged into their forums yesterday around 1,300 at the same time thats more than this place normally has so i think thats a quite a bit.

Originally posted by ados25

I like the setting, races, and classes in WAR more than darkfall.

 

And personally I think Darkfall is vaporware.

do you know what vaporware is it in short definition is something that doesnt exist we just saw it exist so you are a dumb ass then end

Originally posted by ddev

Originally posted by Draconus

instead of calling it vaporeware we can now call it "Crapware"

the game play and the graphics look like crap in the video and i know people in the beta that say this game is not anything close to what was promised and they don't even test anymore.

For your guys sake I do wish that it is everything you are looking for, because I would never wish that anyones game would fail, but from what I have seen so far this will be nothing but a bunch of guys running in circles in a FFA frag fest with there 8 year old PC becuase they can't play anything good.

best of luck to you all, you will need it

 

Let me expand a bit with your permission of course :p

The game is BOTH Vaporware AND Crapware ... :)

And its also the only candidate of  DINOSAURWARE (10 years in development, 10 year old designs)

let me help you all comprehend this its looks semi good if you download the file but you watched it on youtube and it looked horrible, the graphics them selfs are turned to medium including the shadows and textures, and spell animations, cannonballs, and maybe this ship ons ( not sure bout the ship ones) would turned all the way on low want to know why because the computers have a 6800 nvidia card and they are recording a video in HD and playing the game at the same time bad combo just maybe so yah the game will impress alot more when open beta is started.....also the animations looked choppy because they did a 3:4 ratio on the frame rate instead of 1:1 while they edited it so the video would not be 2 gigs.

Originally posted by Scriar

Wow, what a waste of 20 minutes. I just watched the HD trailer (which took almost 2 hours to download ><); people really must be beyond desperate for this game if they are blown away this easily.

First, the animation was incredibly poor, which I admit I was surprised about because their older trailers gave the impression that animation was one of the stronger features.

Running for instance looks very sluggish, the swings of the weapons, general spell effects, buildings being destroyed, ships being sunk etc were so bad (looked sluggish, generic, or for instance with the buildings they just disappear lol) it really lowers the quality of this game immensely.

This is something that could be fixed in their beta though, but they still want to insist of a short beta, and to be honest they have had 8 years already, so I would not hold my breath.

I don’t really care about the graphics gameplay is more important, but that said they look like something from 1999 not 2008. This is not exactly going to sell someone on their game in 2008.
The combat is meant to be their main feature; it looks good in some areas like for instance spells bar the effects, and archery. But the melee combat really looks tedious, like its just spam click the attack button until someone dies, definably looked like this in the large scale, very staged, fights.

The mounted combat looks incredibly dull, there seems to only be one or 2 attacks for the mounted character, and 1 attack for the mount. The general effectiveness of mounted combat seems useless as well, somehow I doubt that staged fight portrayal of mounts charging in from the side being realistic with actual players.

I would not usually be this harsh on a game, but these guys have been hyping this vapourware for years as the saviour for sandbox gamers, well the game looks underwhelming, and really does not justify the long wait for it to come out.

This game looks like it is just a failure waiting to happen, if they were not so insistent on having a short beta I might bother to type that it has potential, but somehow I don’t see them improving all of the listed problems and releasing within 2008.

Edit: Ill still keep an eye on this game, I have been since 2001, hell I even bothered to sign up for the beta (who wouldnt out of curiosity alone ;p) but I wont hold my breath on a large improvement in quality.

the graphics were set on medium and animations on low so that they would not lag at all because its well a HD video and the in house computers as far as i know have the 6000 nvidia series on them or atleast some do so i kind of makes since to do it that way------i thought the graphics were ok (you can tell from the shadows they arnt turned up all the way) but im i really thought the animation would be a tad bit better (unless turning the animations up actually change it to make it look good)

P.S. ive been following this game for a year and i want it even more now.

there is one....only one possible way this game will be successful....if it does well for xbox360

 WoW

vs. 

WAR

Vs.

DARKFALL!!!!!!!!

who will win