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Darkfall (DFO)
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MMORPG | Genre:Fantasy | Status:Final  (rel 02/22/09)  | Pub:AudioVisual Enterprises
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Darkfall News - Aventurine's Final Word on EG Review

Posted by Keith Cross on May 08, 2009  | 123 comments in our forums

Darkfall's Tasos Flambouras has posted what is hopefully the final word on the now infamous 2/10 review of Darkfall on EuroGamer, rejecting EuroGamer's offer for a re-review and in the end saying "we’ll just take it on the chin and stick with the original review."

Dealing with this Eurogamer scandal has been extremely frustrating for us. To those of you that believe we’re unprofessional for calling Eurogamer out on this, we’ll have you know that there’s nothing professional about this entire affair. It’s obviously personal when someone will tear our game apart without actually playing it. It’s certainly personal for us to see our livelihood being torn to shreds by a fraud using a respected large game site to do it through. We tried to deal with this privately but Eurogamer wouldn’t hear it, so we had no recourse but to go public.

We would never accuse Eurogamer , Ed Zitron or anyone without solid evidence. We know for a fact that we’ve been wronged. Eurogamer is right to keep it up as they’re seeing some good traffic from this, but in the meanwhile we‘re taking irreparable damage and there’s simply nothing we can do about it. We are in an impossible situation, with many future possible repercussions to our game and we’re helpless to react. The Eurogamer smear piece is picked up by online media everywhere and this will stay with us long after this issue is forgotten. Gamerankings and Metacritic for example have already used this Eurogamer score of Darkfall, and unless this review comes down, a new review won’t be taken into consideration. Metacritic informed us earlier today that they sympathize but they can’t do anything unless the review comes down.

Read yesterday's comments here.

Read about how this started here.

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