Originally posted by Stuu

 

It’s a big slap in the face for me. They are trying to do so many things, and it’s a small development team.

Karrair’s posts made me realize something that hundreds of people screaming vaporware couldn’t. This game is never coming out.

Official release 2008. Read latest Dev Journal.

Instead of being a hater, try have some faith in DF Devs and cheer on them for making the best MMORPG ever created.

For anyone interested in Darkfall a thread with lots of reading:-

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=43318

I'll just drop the link in again for anyone wanting to read as the discussion goes on

Originally posted by Thunderous

IF Darkfall release with the feature list it claims, it will be HANDS-DOWN the greatest game of all time. 

That is a BIG IF.  No wonder it has taken them 7 years to get to where they may or may not have a viable game, that feature list is insane.  It is practically perfect.  Just imagine the incredible amount of artwork it would take to accomplish this.  Think of all the POI's.  Think of what the engine must be able to absorb to have collision real-time combat and support that many gamers...

In conception Darkfall is the perfect MMO, we'll see what happens.  That's an incredibly impressive list of features and they CLAIM that the game is about feature-complete...

Who knows.  If they pull it off it will be amazing to say the least.

Any designer/programmer worth their salt will know that if you try to add or improve a design after the event you will generally come accross a lot of unsurmountable challenges.

If on the flip side you design the structure so that it includes everything , which is complicated/difficult but not impossible. Then the ability to re-use functionality can be a great advantage, so no it isn't unbelievable and totally possible. The challenge is the game mechanics forget the artwork as it is a < insert here component > they don't initially need fancy graphics to test functionality.

Originally posted by Aragon100

 

Originally posted by Stuu

 

 

 

It’s a big slap in the face for me. They are trying to do so many things, and it’s a small development team.

Karrair’s posts made me realize something that hundreds of people screaming vaporware couldn’t. This game is never coming out.

 

Official release 2008. Read latest Dev Journal.

Instead of being a hater, try have some faith in DF Devs and cheer on them for making the best MMORPG ever created.

Aragon, with all due respect. I don't know what fantasy realm you actually live in but, you state the following.

"cheer on them for making the best MMORPG ever created."

You do realize that "THEY" haven't actually made anything yet, don't you?

Even you must realize that...

You have personally NEVER seen nor played Darkfall.

You personally don't actually know anything more than anyone else here on the forums.

You personally don't know for sure a working build of Darkfall actually exists.

You personally realize that there are still people on Earth that actually BELIEVE the Earth is flat, even in this day and age. And, there's NO convincing them otherwise.

Wishing for something is one thing, but being fanatical to a point of insulting others, bashing other games and publishers, and acting as if you are the only source of truth on this planet, is disturbing.

Originally posted by Aragon100

 

Originally posted by Stuu

 

 

 

It’s a big slap in the face for me. They are trying to do so many things, and it’s a small development team.

Karrair’s posts made me realize something that hundreds of people screaming vaporware couldn’t. This game is never coming out.

 

Official release 2008. Read latest Dev Journal.

Instead of being a hater, try have some faith in DF Devs and cheer on them for making the best MMORPG ever created.

A hater? So you can call me names but I’m the hater.

I haven’t followed the game that closely. I read a few things about it I really liked so I’ve checked up on the game every few months or so to see if there is anything new. So when I found this thread I was a little shocked seeing all the things they’ve said will be in it.

Take a look at all those features again with fresh eyes. Think about all the games you’ve played and how much trouble MMOs have had putting in houses, or how much time it took for companies to develop games that are just about naval combat, or the huge hurdles it would take to get fps gameplay in an mmo.

All of it. All of it in one game.

Hater, no. Unbeliever, yes. Now I am anyway.

I’ll tell you what though, if Darkfall comes out with all these features without major bugs and lag issues, (Not perfection, just playable) I and everyone who ever heard of an mmo will lift the makers of this game out of their chairs and carry them around town, praising them as programming gods.

Anyone believing a FIRST TIME developer will have even 3/4ths of all of those features, let alone ALL OF THEM at LAUNCH is either delusional, smoking some good stuff they need to pass to the rest of us, or have no freaking clue about the history of, or how MMO developement works. 

My vote is all of the above.

Thanks Staatsschutz for the list. Both sarcastic trolls Kairarr and Catizone rely on this guy amazing compilation  over from this source :

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=43318

Sad but some of  whats going on here remind me of   lynch law. Noone knows for sure whats it will like be but its good to shoot at it first.  Very clever, really.

The source was stated in the first post, and me and catizone are doing our best to hype this game, cuz you know, it is coming in a couple of months.

Originally posted by golstat2003

Anyone believing a FIRST TIME developer will have even 3/4ths of all of those features, let alone ALL OF THEM at LAUNCH is either delusional, smoking some good stuff they need to pass to the rest of us, or have no freaking clue about the history of, or how MMO developement works. 

My vote is all of the above.

You mean to say how MMO development doesn't work. Because currently most companies add after the event for all the wrong reasons.

Originally posted by Kairarr

The source was stated in the first post, and me and catizone are doing our best to hype this game, cuz you know, it is coming in a couple of months.

Happy again ?

Originally posted by Kairarr

The source was stated in the first post, and me and catizone are doing our best to hype this game, cuz you know, it is coming in a couple of months.

No i don't know its coming in a couple of months . Can you backup this with a quote or a link please ? 

Originally posted by Stanford

Originally posted by Kairarr

The source was stated in the first post, and me and catizone are doing our best to hype this game, cuz you know, it is coming in a couple of months.

No i don't know its coming in a couple of months . Can you backup this with a quote or a link please ? 

Link... http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/devjournals/darkfalljournals/4883-Darkfall-Dev-Journal-26-Questions-Answered

Check: "To this I can say now, that during a planning meeting we determined that our launch date will be inside 2008, with the public beta preceding it by a few weeks. This is official and internally we're a lot more specific, but pending an announcement, we cannot say more at this time."

So, it will be, accordingly to Tasos, somewhere in the next 6 1/2 months.  Not sure if they will set it for 12/31/08 as some people joked about.  Just simple cuz it's holidays.  So I am guessing they will try to set the date before the holidays or just fail another promise.