Is it still scheduled to come out this year? I haven't been keeping tabs on the thing

Originally posted by Aragon100

OP have some serious problems. Why go through all this trouble making fake e-mails just to bash some coming MMORPG?

 How do I have serious problems? I simply emailed an editor who visited them to get some info. Where exactly did I "bash" anything???

Fake emails? I think you're the one who has serious problems if you think my emails are fake.

My correspondence is 100% legit and i did nothing wrong.

So what's your point?

This is not confidential information.  She even said that she would be willing to email the DF devs and see if she can get a Q&A with them to check on the status of things.

I would post that email also.. but of course it's fake. 

unbelievable

Are you seriously that caught up with DF or it's success that you can't bring yourself to email a person who visited them and believe what she is saying because it has negative undertones?

Holy moly bat man. You're a headcase.

Check it out. This is the extent that DF fanboys will go to for Darkfall.  Disbelieving anything and everything that shows DF in even a slightly bad way.

and Zorvan. I am putting you in the same basket. lol

My emails are 100% legit

Originally posted by Friction2u

Give us your email and password so we can check it for ourselves or it didn't happen ... or get a reporter from a gaming magazine to visit you and see the email for him/her self.

Photoshop? LOL

Are you serious? Wow you're seriously nuts.

Email her yourself. 

Originally posted by Zorvan

It doesn't make falsifying documents to support an argument any more proper.

Uhm falsifying documents? ..  LOL

Header not matching? I don't really get what you're talking about..  but if you think my emails aren't real..

Just email her yourself.

I'am not a DF fanboy. In fact I could care less if it comes out or not. And I actually think this is more harmful to DF than it is "good". But it's the facts as she says them to be.

so whatever.

But if you honestly think this person is lying - you have some issues.

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:36:22 -0400
Subject: Re: [feedback] form submission

I'm not sure what their status is today, but when I interviewed them they certainly had a burn rate and were going full speed ahead.  Seeing as how I don't see much updated on their site, and the fact that the news isn't updated frequently (although they did make a post in June), it's quite possible the funding issue bit them in the butt and they had to slow down.  I got the impression that the founder had money from a previous venture though-- he claimed to have enough to pay for the development without a publisher if they couldn't find one that was "hands off" enough.

But it's been several years now... and self-funding for that long is going to take a toll.  Who knows, I'm just speculating. 

This can seen as both a good thing and a bad thing.

The good? There's really a game trying to come out. But I don't think many people actually doubt that there's a game. What they doubt is if it will ever come out and what shape it's really in. Even the person who visited has doubts about it ever coming out.

The bad??  Darkfall development is self funded. Self funding and MMORPG's simply don't mix good together. Especially one with DF's intended feature set. Just think how much money it took to make World of Warcraft's features and than think of people attempting to match WoW with self funding. An almost impossible feat.

Also , the current 2008 engine and screenshots appear similar to what she saw in 2006.

This is from an editor at woman gamers who visited Aventurine in Aug 2006 who I emailed to ask for some info.

 

Re: [feedback] form submission‏
From:	Ismini Boinodiris Roby
Sent:	Tue 7/08/08 7:32 PM

I spent somewhere in the tune of 4 hours talking to the devs, and maybe 30 minutes actually looking at the engine.  So, I didn't get to see a lot of the complexities of the engine in action, just the combat, some of the zones and the mounts.  I haven't really been keeping up with the latest content, but as far as the graphics engine goes, it looks similar to the screenshots that are currently on their site.

Why do you ask?  I can assure you that after having seen a team of guys at computers working on in-game models and coding, as well as seeing someone ride around in the engine and chop off a few heads, it's not vaporware. They're paying for that office in Athens and that's not cheap.  It's not like a few guys in a garage blowing smoke-- it's very much a studio. 

The Darkfall guys are almost obsessively dedicated to making what they consider to be the perfect game, and since they are self-funded, I wouldn't be surprised if it takes them a long time to get the game out (or on the flipside, if they end up never being content enough to launch it).  Although I can't imagine anyone would fund years of MMO development without ever launching... that would be a massive amount of wasted money in salaries and rent.
 

[edit] I removed her email per her request (spam)

Why does Tasos / Aventurine always invite unknown people to look at Darkfall in Greece?

They never invite any people from places like Gamespot or IGN or PC gamer etc. You know REAL industry people.  All anyone would have to do is connect to their client / world remotely. It's not like it's even a big hassle to do.

Originally posted by theanimedude

Alrighty, I dont know how many Harry Potter fans there are around here (if any) but I found this on one of my days where I was bored, and scouring the internet for some 3D artists... lol.

To explain it in short, I went to a site, which linked to another persons site, which linked to another, and eventually to this portfolio, WHICH I found something that might prove the eventual existance of Hogwarts Online.

If you go to http://www.newpencil.com and click on Portfolio, then proceed to click on "Environments" on the new menu that comes up, you will see, many screenshots of a world they are developing for EA for the upcoming "Hogwarts Online".

They seem like a credible site, and I see no reason for them to post false media on their portfolio... so enjoy

If it's true than its just going to be some shitty mainstream kids game