All Posts by downtoearth

Originally posted by Zayne3145

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by Lughsan

Nothing they do will stem the Tide of haterade and disappointement that the game will invariably spawn due to its limited release, shoddy developement and crappy play/graphics...

and you know this how?

 

I think this is merely a conclusion based on everything we've learnt so far. Let's face it - the odds are stacked against this game. We're all just hoping it delivers in the face of overwhelming odds.

whaty ive seen and hear the gameplay is fine gfx arent perfect but who the hell is expecting a perfect game im just expecting a game that freaking works and its a sandbox skill based yadda yaddaa yadda thats all not perfection

i see imprefections in the vids but as long as its fun who cares swg precu was fun but it was no where near perfect

 and them imprefections can be patched in

alot easyer than fixing a broken game

Originally posted by Lughsan

Nothing they do will stem the Tide of haterade and disappointement that the game will invariably spawn due to its limited release, shoddy developement and crappy play/graphics...

and you know this how?

Originally posted by Random_mage

Since disagreeing with anyone of the fans on this forums brings on the "Tinfoil hat" issue, I've got a real conspiracy for you..

Aventurine received money from the government to fund Darkfall.  The first investor was out 500k (The Dev team moved to Athens). What is actually happening is:

Darkfall videos/screen shots are just a modified Oblivion.  There are no "testers" but actual players who think they are playing a mod of Oblivion.  So, the quotes we received are real, but not for Darkfall, they are for an Oblivion Mod.

Darkfall has been in development for so long with it being "feature complete" for almost as long.. With only tidbits of information stringing people along. It's easy to be feature complete when you're just modding a game..

The 27.5 million?  Well, with 20 odd devs, that's 196k a year for each developer with their expenses being paid for by grants.  And they can drum up more money by showing these "tidbits" of information to the fans, building a near riot, then sending the investors to the sites to see how "excited the fans are" about Darkfall.  Chaching.

 

And that concludes my conspiracy theory.

1 thing they dont make no where near that

Originally posted by Mahlo

Originally posted by berniebear

Even if DF were to fail id still love tasos for creating so many tears from the trolls. It's so funny to me how trolls come here and cry non-stop. Tasos is the ultimate baiter.... look at all the trolls he has QQing.

 

This is such a desperate post. The joke is on the DF fanboys. The 'trolls' find it all highly amusing. That's why they're here.

same goes for you guys the fans wouldnt be here as much if you guys didnt post so meh if you dont want to listen to us stop posting its that simple

Originally posted by KyutaSyuko

I like the whole "Pet" system of the series.  How you can fuse your devils together to create new, more powerful devils which tend to be stronger then if you had gone out and contracted one.  I just don't want to participate in CB too much because everyone knows there's always a wipe after CB but usual isn't one after OB.

o yea

Originally posted by KyutaSyuko

This series of games actually started out on the PSOne here in the US I believe and has a handful of different series, Persona and Digital Devil Saga are the only 2 I can think of off the top of my head right now through...  It's a pretty decent game, one I'll enjoy more of once OB starts.

yea tech its a closed public beta lol meaning open beta but in closed status. i enjoy the challange of it

Originally posted by Elsabolts

Never heard of this game and im not real big on off-shore games they tend to be usually f2p in long run and not made well. Example of such a game that should be f2p but is still hypeing and collecting subscriptions is Age of Conan. This is purley my opion no one else's

yea heh i think the game is here now the jap version is sitll running over there but this is a english version : )

to ones own tho : ) its doing well over in japan thats why its beign made into english version for us

info here  http://megaten.aeriagames.com/

I have notice a way to get into  the closed beta by just having an aeria account and signing up for closed beta its lets you log in. with out a beta invite or key

Originally posted by altairzq

Originally posted by SignusM

Originally posted by altairzq

Originally posted by SignusM

Originally posted by Enigma

Originally posted by SignusM

Hmm... first off, development has been going on for 5 years, not 8. 

 

Wrong. Aventurine was developing the game since 2001. That's not 5 years.

Haha, that's wrong on TWO accounts, nice job. You're going to try to argue facts with someone who's been following the game? 

 

This is on their PRESS RELEASE (where they also announce the release date, so it defeats the OP of this thread too) 

"venturine's main project is Darkfall Online, a groundbreaking game scheduled to launch January 22nd, 2009. Development of the game, the technology platform, game engine, and tools began in 2003. The Darkfall team consists of thirty veteran developers."

There you go, game in development for 5 years. 

 

Someone might try to sell you an island...

Yes, because clearly this game is a big scam, and they're lying about when they went into development. Are you that braindead? Look up the copyrights. Darkfall was a game being worked on in a basement by 4 people under Razorwax. 

 

In 2003, Razorwax moved to Greece and merged with a much larger team, Aventurine, and started over. This is a well known fact most vaportrolls just ignore to keep their "been developing since 1999 lolz" argument going. Well you finally have something official stomping on your idea. Oh wait, thats never stopped them before... 

 

I mean because you believe everything that is written. Maybe it's you that is braindead?

then why are you posting?

Originally posted by Superman0X

I think that people have forgotten that Darkfall is designed to be a sandbox, open PvP game... and that we have all seen the type of people that will play it.... because they are the people that post on these forums about how they love/hate Darkfall.

So, anything technical about the game aside, the game is doomed, because the players will ruin anything good that might come from it. Who really believes that should the game come out, that the people who have so eagerly expressed thier love/hate for this game will suddenly get along... and that they wont take this exchange into the game?

 

wtf are you talking about

i see soe is trying to put them selfs out of biz

Originally posted by kTam

Don't get me wrong – I really wanna see this game in Jan – I'm taking a week off work, buying a new computer, putting the kids into boarding school, installing a toilet under my computer desk – but I have my doubts about the official release date.

there really should be somewhere we can lay bets on the release date! I mean, the sportsbet sites offer heaps of other crazy stuff to bet on, I wish one had the darkfall release date listed.

What do you rekon the odds would be for a Jan 22nd release or before?

I think about 5 to 1, ..and after Jan22.. about 1.80 to 1 =)

i would say 3.5  out of 5

Originally posted by Azrile

This really just shows how nieve they are.  It's kinda like their 'feature' list.  It's a whole bunch of stuff that in theory sounds nice, but in the real world it won't work.   Yes, there are certain companies that used a limited beta testing process for PR purposes (warhammer and AOC)... but even those games found a ton of issues that would have never been found by a handful of testers.

Simply put, expect the official 'launch' in January to be the real beta.   If games like Warhammer with a huge open beta and huge finanical resources had a ton of CTD's and major hardware bugs at launch, wait until you see what happens when your custom build computer tries to play Darkfall.

they ahve already beent esting custom build that whatt he hardware test was for ibet yout he few hundred testers have diffrent setups for computers

Originally posted by fantaros

Probably to host servers in the US, since Darkfall atm only has european servers as far I know

its only for distribution for the shelfs probly gni can host the us server

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IT's been happening for a while.  Fanboys take what the devs say and turn them into fact.  The take would liek to have a trial to WILL have a trial.  And Whenever the company promises don't materialize, they deflect. 

There haven't been stated they there will not be any free trials either. Hope or not. There have been no mention of preorders. That means they are not out to scam you for your money, what other reason could it be that there is something "fishy" is goin on with DF and  Aventurine ?

 

If they have no trial, it's the same as having pre-orders. Making you pay to find out the game is shit.

You really think even half of the "fanbois", much less anyone else, is going to put even $1 into Aventurines pocket without seeing the game first? Sorry, ain't gonna happen.

The bright side is, if it is some kind of scam or just a really shit game, only a handful of people will lose anything if forced to buy before try.

 

I have to laugh at your "no trial is the same as pre order".  I never realized that every game on the market is pre-order then.  CRAZY!!   

Hey, I've got plenty of money to waist.  Doesn't bother me to lose a few bucks if it ends up sucking.  

 

Most try to find humor when they fail to grasp the point. So let me make it clearer and spell it out for you:

Pre-order = "Hi, give us your money  for our game sight unseen and hope you like what you paid for."

Release with no open-beta or trial: "Hi, give us your money for our game sight unseen and hope you like what you paid for."

So yes, same thing.

And after AoCs' famous "Can't go past level 13 in the "open beta", Aventurine had better think before trying to pull that one. If they're reluctant to let you see the game past a few early levels ( you know, past the goblin areas which seem to be the only areas shown to everyone who rights a "review" ), then there's a reason why.

They've got 40 days left to have an open beta ( open to everyone, not a select few ) and get the game out. That means they have less than 40 days to convince enough people to buy the game at release. And sorry, there ain't enough diehard fanbois to foot that bill.

look at forum regerstrations enough said granted it doesnt = what subs will be but theres goign to be a public beta anyways

o yea we seen orcs too so not goblin areas only HA wrong again

Originally posted by Jackdog

I'd settle for some previews from CGM, IGN, Games Radar, Gamers Hell etc. The only thing i have been able to find that is even semi legit was the Italian MMORPG site preview and that was done in their office  in a very controlled environment. Nope for a game that is supposedly releasing in a few weeks there are entirely too many BS flags up the flagpole.

There is no way I would pay for this pig in a poke and that is assuming they can come up with a last minute way for N Americans to purchase.

digital download enough said

Originally posted by Rastical

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by Mahlo

Originally posted by Flarinstar

There is a good chance there won't be an open beta. They are confident that they have fully tested the game and that open beta is unecessary. The only reason that there is the closed beta in the first place is to test different hardware specs utilized by gamers. 

 

So confident that they're scared shitless of anyone outside their group of hangers on getting their hands on it off-site.

 

wrong tons of people from the forums that dont know who the devs are are in

 

Oh really? Who are they?

if i named them i would get banned so no thanks

Originally posted by Losttale

 No need...why would they?!

This is a God-send game from up above to Tasos. So we shall follow what Tasos says,  we shall never - I mean never - question Tasos and his God-send game which is one of a kind and above of all those MMOs now and the next 1000 years. We shall not seek 'truth', we shall not ask for anything besides holy mighty Tasos gives us, provides us...

If you have doubts, questions about this God-send game from up above, still holy mighty  Tasos and his followers might just forgive you, as long as you dont go ahead and search for answers...

 

 

 

 

 

and thats over doing it now

Originally posted by Azrile

Originally posted by Silkskin

Try their official news forum. Or maybe the news paper which it was published in also. :/

 

 

And maybe look there first from now on before jumping on the hate bandwagon.

 

-Cheers

 

I think his point is that if you actually have to 'search' to find the release date of a game it means something is wrong.   This game feels more like  a player-made mod for NWN then it does a MMORPG (as far as professionalism and marketing).

While nobody wants to see games like AOC and Warhammer where they hype to eternity and then fail to deliver a good game.   A real gaming company, after 8 years of development, would at least have a huge banner on it's website announce the release date of it's game and would have up-to-date feature lists on it's website.. not something that is 50% inaccurate and from 5 years ago.

I'm still calling vaporware.  What will be available in january will not be what many people think of as a MMORPG launch... it will feel more like a UO private server run from someone's garage.   Customer support? LOL   Patch notes and PTRs? LOL     24hr server maintenance? LOL

and thats so wrong its not even funny