MMORPG.com Darkfall Correspondent Andy Cormier writes this first in his ten part overview of what Aventurine's sandbox MMO is all about.

Vaporware, savior, amateur, hardcore, troll, fanboi, scam, beta, broken, epic.

Welcome to Darkfall! If any of you have followed Darkfall over its nearly 8 years of development, seeing these words in forum posts or splattered across various internet sites has almost become a prerequisite of posting. For better or worse, Darkfall has become the most loved, hated, and talked about MMORPG in recent history. Sadly, for those of you that were not fortunate enough to get into beta, you were left scrounging for any official information you could find about the game. Good luck trying to find any! Over the past 2 years the only information available were the seemingly random statements given to obscure media outlets from Darkfall's lead developer Tasos Flambouras.

Read Game Overview, Part One