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Darkfall NEW Release Feb 25th
Tasos said at the hp :
"We know that the community has been speculating and wondering about the Darkfall release for some time. We haven’t replied until now because there were several complex issues to plan and work out. We also needed to get authorization before we could proceed with this official announcement:
Starting on January 22nd there will be a Darkfall trial with the distribution of the release candidate client allowing thousands of players to sample the game for free, help us stress test our servers and test the final features of the game.
It’s important to understand that there are well over 200 thousand applications by players wanting to get into Darkfall. This number makes it unrealistic to distribute the client and to open up our servers to everyone. We’ll try to accommodate as many players as are possible for us to manage at this stage. Even so, the demand exceeds our current capacity. Interest in Darkfall has surpassed all our expectations to the point that we may need to manage our release differently.
The date of the Darkfall European commercial release has been pushed back to February 25th, 2009. A pre-order will be made available mid-February. The pre-orders will get priority for early access to the game. The pre-orders will also get priority for the game launch if we have to go to a staged release. We’ll go to a staged release only in the case we have more demand than we can handle properly, and until we can upgrade our capacity. The pre-orders are necessary so that we can have some measure of the demand.
The reasons for the new release date follow:
* At this stage, everything is connected: Hundreds of elements need to come together. When one thing falls behind, everything else tends to follow.
* Demand for Darkfall at launch could be much higher than expected. If this is the case, we need a different process to better handle the demand.
* Darkfall’s partners (distribution, billing, account management, support, etc.) entered into the game at a late date and we needed more time than expected to integrate properly.
* We fell behind on a couple of weeks of beta testing progress and we need to make this time up. We need more playtesting data on several features we haven’t had much chance to test externally.
* We’ll use this extra time to implement updates based on tester feedback and also make some enhancements we were saving for after release.
* We want as many players as possible in the game before the launch and we haven’t had the chance to stress test our servers with live players yet.
* We underestimated the effect the holidays would have on our preparations. While we worked through them, the world around us seemed to stop.
* We don’t want to rush things more than needed. An extra month may not seem like a lot of time, but it’s enough to allow us to take care of any compounded delays.
Our hope for Darkfall is to have a good game with a tight player base that we can nurture and steadily build up. Hype surrounding Darkfall is huge right now, despite our best efforts. We’re not sure how this will translate on launch day but we have to make allowances for the possibility that demand could be more than we anticipate.
Announcements will follow with more information on Darkfall pricing, pre-ordering information, North American player access, and system specifications.
The Darkfall Team"
its a quote
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hehe, guess noone is surprised
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The Sceptics, yes they're special but we've need them to.. I guess.
And if they're put more effort MMORPG.com can create a 'Team Sceptic'
and send them to the Special Olympus.
LMAO
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Pre-order the game......I dont think so,is there no end to this company embarrasing themselves?
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
whaat the... !
$OE lies list
http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
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And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
I'm shocked.
So....let me see if I get this straight.
January 22nd, we'll get a very limited Free Trial, limited because they will limit access to numbers they can handle. If that is the case, how will they decide who gets to play and who not? First Come first served?
And then we -do- get a pre-order with Early Access and bonuses? I thought they didn't go for that kind of commercial crap?
Well, regardless, I'll try to get into the Free Trial. Who knows, I might actually make it in.
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Final Fantasy 7
Well I guess EVERY mmo company embarrases themselves when they push back thier release date....
I am glad they are not rushing release, and I am DEFINATLY preordering asap.
Darkfall's release date has been pushed back?
What!?
I'm....shocked! Baffled! Perplexed! Surprised!
Who would have ever thought that Darkfall....Darkfall! would be pushed back!?
Oh well, at least there is this Beta test free trial.
I hate to say I told you so!
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He explained the reasoning for a pre-order. I would guess they would give EU players prioirty, or at least I would hope so.
Your mind is like a parachute, it's only useful when it's open.
Don't forget, you can use the block function on trolls.
Well I guess EVERY mmo company embarrases themselves when they push back thier release date....
I am glad they are not rushing release, and I am DEFINATLY preordering asap.
LOL thats even more fun than the delay....."I am glad they are not rushing release"....stop it your killing me here.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
lol
Either way, we will have a free trial/open beta on the 22nd unless it is delayed.
Your mind is like a parachute, it's only useful when it's open.
Don't forget, you can use the block function on trolls.
Well I guess EVERY mmo company embarrases themselves when they push back thier release date....
I am glad they are not rushing release, and I am DEFINATLY preordering asap.
LOL thats even more fun than the delay....."I am glad they are not rushing release"....stop it your killing me here.
Why take 6 years to make the game if they are going to release before they are ready.....
On another note hopefully NDA is over Jan 22nd, not that I dont have my sources
, but it will be nice to talk about it out in the open.
*tons of tons of TONS of tons of red lights and sirens starts to go off by the word pre-order*
$OE lies list
http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
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And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
Best part i think '' We want as many players as possible in the game before the launch and we haven’t had the chance to stress test our servers with live players yet. ''
Now people will have good chance to test without buying game ,darkfall fans enjoy your time and good luck i hope it delivers what you want/ waiting .Let the trolling begin , DF forum will be nice place to watch until release
Assuming the trial opens on the 22nd it sounds like they don't have the infrastructure to handle anywhere near something like a stress test...you know, what they usually do to an mmo before release...and will be restricting serve access.
Wait in a queue for a trial? No thanks. Would rather spend time reading the pure gold on the forums.
This reply wins.
Anyway open beta on 22nd YEEES means they dont have anything to hide...i dun care if i dun get in...some1 else will and it will be same as i did coz NDA will be droped CHEERS
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lol
LOL Especially since it had been leaked by beta testers already.
Your mind is like a parachute, it's only useful when it's open.
Don't forget, you can use the block function on trolls.
ROFL!!!!
Thank you Tasos. If nothing else you have entertained me beyond compare.
Well I guess EVERY mmo company embarrases themselves when they push back thier release date....
I am glad they are not rushing release, and I am DEFINATLY preordering asap.
LOL thats even more fun than the delay....."I am glad they are not rushing release"....stop it your killing me here.
Why take 6 years to make the game if they are going to release before they are ready.....
On another note hopefully NDA is over Jan 22nd, not that I dont have my sources
, but it will be nice to talk about it out in the open.
You gotta admit though...
Them doing a complete 180 on their stance on pre-orders is... disturbing.
Unless of course you'd rather we dig up all the posts defending their pre-order stance and all the posts saying that they will NEVER do pre-orders.
Come on... have a bit of integrity.
Well I guess EVERY mmo company embarrases themselves when they push back thier release date....
I am glad they are not rushing release, and I am DEFINATLY preordering asap.
'every mmo' isn't 5 years after their original open beta announcement and still no open beta though.
darkfall began development before DAoC was released. nuf said.
TOTALLY EXPECTED.
one of the guys leaking on the noob chat said release pushed back and OB on 22nd, and I thought it made sense because this way everyone wins in a way. I even wrote up a thread: rumour OB on 22nd but decided not to post since I'd probably get ass jacked since its just some guy on the internet. the guy was getting totally flamed in the noob chat bet hes pretty smug now.
My blog:
My question to all this is really pretty simple. Is the jan 22nd "trial" going to be accompained by a NDA? If it is, then bad news. If it isn't then good news.
-Currently looking forward to FFXIV
-Currently playing EvE and Global Agenda
On condition that the free trials are large and conducted in transparent fashion I don't think people can complain about this. Personally I won't be preordering unless I have been playing in the free trial and it's a good game. If you preorder without being in the trial and it sucks you will have nobody to blame but yourself.