Originally posted by Kyleran

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So who knows what this game is really going to be like until they get a chance to see and play it. When that day comes, then I'll know for sure, until its released, its all just vaporware to me.

 

 

 

Originally posted by RDBeast

What a negative way to think about the game. lol

Actually with Kyleran's way of handling hype/expectation; it would seem to eliminate the need to be concerned about issues that he has no control over.

I could be wrong... but I didn't see his statement as a negative thing at all.  He's just not going to worry about it one way or the other until he gets the chance to actually install the game, play it; and then form an opinion on it one way or the other.

Probably a lot better approach to judging the merits of a MMO than any other method that I can think of. 

Originally posted by javac

i wouldn't get too worked up about whether they've played it or not, as polar quite correctly points out, it's business, and business partners never say anything but glowing words about each other.

 

darkfall beta is clearly not far away, and clearly going to happen this time, pretty soon the lucky ones amongst us will be able to judge for ourselves.

 

i'll throw in my prediction and say some people will love the FPS-style real-time combat, and some people won't, and others still won't get into it cause it's not enough like a WOW MMO, or like UO, or SB, etc.

 

I'd say that's a pretty safe prediction. 

No game will ever be the be-all-end-all for every gamer. 

Take WoW as an example... pretty much the darling of the main-stream media. Most non-gamers probably think that all MMO gamers love and play WoW.  Obviously that is not the case.  A fair number of us just don't really care for the gameplay of  WoW.  It's not a bad game.  The players that do like it aren't bad gamers.  It's just that we all have different preferences in games and MMOs in particular. 

Hopefully when Darkfall is released it will be the game that they wanted to deliver.   I think pretty much everyone would agree that Aventurine took a different approach than most developers do... we'll see how it works out in the end.

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Polarization

3 months from launch nobody except anonymous guild members and friends of the developers have played Darkfall and written articles about it.

 

This is the part where you blatantly  lie ,  because you know better according to informations you collect you should know this quote :

"“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."

www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/

Please explain  to me  how  Derek Wise is a a "anonymous  guild member"  or "developer friend"..

From that link above... they are planning to release the game simulaneously to 50 countries.  Yet, I seem to remember reading that the United States wasn't one of those 50.  Is that still true?  Is there a list somewhere of the 50 countries that it is being released in? 

Originally posted by SignusM

Originally posted by Polarization

What exactly is their to gloat about, its yet another Greek article from a virtually unknown publication, that community members had to find and translate before any of us new it even existed. 

Where is the coverage from the “various mainstream media” Tasos was talking about happening 4 months ago?, this is certainly not it.

Well, actually, its a major Greek newspaper, which is why it was found so quickly. This is the third or fourth Darkfall article to appear in the media recently.

Good to see they got those new computers Tasos was talking about earlier this year.

The article is actually quite objective which makes a nice change though.

Notice he says they have been working on Darkfall for 7 years, so much for the “they started from scratch” crap.

Notice he says it’s a “small team” so much for the “they have 30, 40, 50+ people working on the game” crap.

 

30-40 people is a very small team these days

 

 

Just some info. I found on the newspaper in question:

If I translated the header info from the pictures posted in the OP's original post the newspaper/tabloid is:

Eleftheros Typos

The link below shows that it is a Greek-only newspaper (meaning it is not translated into other languages).

www.greeceindex.com/various/greek-newspapers-magazines.htm

This next link shows that  Eleftheros Typos is a right-of-center (some even call it right-wing) leaning newspaper/tabloid.  (The whole left/center/right classification is more of a European thing with their newspapers and tabloids.  It's not really pertinent as it pertains to Darkfall anyway though).

www.eiu.com/index.asp

The link above also says that as per 2005 (the latest that data was available apparently).  The circulation for the newspaper/tabloid  Eleftheros Typos  was something less than 74,602.  The pertinent quote from the link above is:

"The largest daily, the centre-left tabloid Ta Nea, had a daily average circulation in 2005 of just 74,602. The most influential centre-left daily is To Vima; on the right the largest-selling newspaper is the tabloid Eleftheros Typos."

One last quote that I found interesting from the link above:

"Surveys have shown that many young people under the age of 25 never read a newspaper."

Which may not be all that different from the U.S. actually since I would think more and more people get their daily news from the internet as opposed to print media anymore.
 

As a point of reference the NYT (New York Times) has about 1,077,256 average daily circulation.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/emnew-york-timesem-circul_n_98991.html

Obviously Greece is not New York though... so take that into consideration when considering the difference in circulation numbers.

Anyway... just some random info. I found that might be pertinent to the discussion about the newspaper in question.