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Be a smarter consumer.
Do preorder this game.
It only costs a few dollars and you get to actually play the game when it finally releases after all this time.
It would be stupid not to preorder. It's your right not to. But, I definitely don't recommend it.
besides. if you pre-order you also give them more money so they can set up more servers, run the game for a longer time if it turns out to get into difficulties.
You even get to play the game for like a week or so prior to the release. I think that's pretty neat.
But, hey!.. If you don't preorder it just means that somebody else will. 
I know I will preorder within the first hour of those news. If I see it. I hope I do. .. I just wanna get in and give this game a chance.
No matter what happends with Darkfall, it's still the most daring and visionary game out there. I think we all deserve to give it a real chance and treat it well. Cause we've been bitching for years and we keep complaining. Now Darkfall is coming around to save us. Finally. .. let's show some gratitude.
I know I will.
Be a smarter consumer.
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Or....based on the way this company goes about business, the free world should boycott them. In the free world, lack of communication leads to disaster. How can any person support a company that forbids communication? Evidently thse people live in a world where "The Man" controls "The People"...and you support this.
dear op, i have a pointy tower in Paris i want to sell you.....
1: this is not the real world. This is a limited world... we're not even paying anything close to what customers pay in the real world. .. You think customers who pay 15+50 dollars get any saying on any product irl? And then even get support with that. Jeez. Your whole argument is flawed and completely incomparable.
2: I am not interested in towers. I am interested in Darkfall. An mmorpg. A RARE mmorpg belonging to a kind that only comes out rarely. .. This is a break from cookie cutter wow clones and generic anime games. This deserves a chance.
So dont compare this to real life. Sales of used cars or something else stupid.
Flawed arguments are so annoying. You just don't keep the bigger picture in mind, guys. Think about it for a second and stop being such hypocrits. You're trolling yourself when you troll Darkfall. You guys dont realize this is one of the very few games, if not the ONLY game that has the balls to try something that noone else dares to.
OP: you gonna pay back my money if i dont like the game? i dont think so, stop that stupid thing to tell peoples to buy something just because you want.
oh.. btw, how retarded you must be to preorder a game who dont even have the online credit card management or account management setup yet???
Sure go ahead ,pre-order! Be part of "the cool club" !!!!!!
But remember:
Iiii-iiiiiit's.... me!!! *Hooray*
line there pockets, don't mind about what your getting. We call that a toolbag.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
Are they even doing a pre-order or are people just assuming they will be? Perhaps there's some info i've missed but i havent seen any confirmation nor info on pre-orders. Given the companies history over the past 7 years then it wouldn't surprise me that even if there is, it would end up delayed until actual launch when every tom dick and harry can download/login anyway.
I see nothing smart nor intelligent about paying for a pre-order to an unknown company that has a very shaky track record as far as meeting deadlines etc. Furthermore to pay in order to beta test smacks of dark and light. The SMART consumer will, especially in these times, not spend their money on an unknown and wait for them to actually launch, get all their billing bugs ironed out and then, maybe, jump in.
However a fool and their money is soon parted. Dark and Light showed us that, and to think Tesos and the Aventurine group are any different is begging for disappointment. But go right ahead, pre-order away. But, please do not come back here in a month or two whining about being double and triple billed,
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
hold on, hold on. How is this not the real world? Or are you saying that Aventurine, Darkfall, Tesos etc are all illusions, figmants of people's imaginations?
Yes, customers do have a say. For one thing they are protected by the local laws against fraud. Secondly they speak in the loudest possible way for any business to hear them, with their cash.
The only argument that is flawed here is your own, but then again the fanatic has no logic, nor can they see the truth right before their eyes.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
When I read the title I thought this would be a post dissuading people to pay for a pre-order. That's what a smart consumer would do. I just hope that people have enough common sense to see when they are going to get screwed over.
Weren't you the guy who defended Dark and Light to the last?
Excuse me but i think i'm going to take anything you say with quite a few grains of salt.
So this clears it all up then. You fans have lost every aspect of the Real World and trully are living in a Dreamworld.
Seriously tho,
How can you say this is not the Real World? How can you not compare this to Real Life?
When you have to pay for this game and provide your CC details with your own hard earned money obtained in ? ofcourse... REAL LIFE! in the REAL WORLD!
Get a grip man.
Are we now gonna spam the forums with beg posts for people to pretty please Pre-Order the game?
After all that has happened. After all what Tasos has done the past years.
The only true SMART consumer, is the one that keeps his money in his pocket and waits for this game to actually release and see what it truly is! Before even thinking throwing a single dime at them.
Cheers
Was that for real? hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
you got faith, good for you.
but reading stuff like this, makes me understand why people like Victor Lustig could succed. this is a man who scammed All capone!!!
HAHA!
So a person who says that he rather keeps his money in his pocket and waits to see the game actually release first and see what state it's in, is an idiot?
I don't know tho. But when I look at the past years what has been released.
Then the cautious gamer is actually the smarter one here and the person blindly believing Tasos on his word, ignoring all his lies and throw money at him for a Pre-Order is more the idiot to me.
Just an observation. Nothing more.
Have a nice day.
EDIT: @Gruminator: Bernard Madoff is the biggest scammer of all time now.
i just said mmorpg is overun with idiots , i did not mean you
but
feel free to add yourself to that category ,
You espouse being smarter while doing the dumbest thing possible. Be the SMARTEST consumer and wait for unbiased reviews...
Wasn't it just a few short months ago where the fans were boasting about how Aventurine cared because there would NOT be a PreOrder and there would be an Open Beta and Trial Period before game launch so that everybody could try before they purchased in?
I think so... for years Darkfall fanbois have been spurting that, now, nonsense all over these Forums...
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
I've seen my fair share of threads on these forums. This one definitely has to go down as one of the silliest!
*attempts to pre-order dark fall from the magic candyman in the sky*
Scammer and bogus companies exist for one reason and one reason only... There are soooo many simple and easilly fooled people out there more than willing to throw their money on any person that speak highly of the thing they are trying to sell. If people had the brains enough to think at least once... just one simple thought passing their neural patterns... 90% of the scams out there would be impossible to pull off.
Even after they have been victims of a scammer they gladly line up behind the next one.
The whole "think twice" idea.. is way too advanced for people like this.
Good luck with your dreams... Meanwhile, in the real world:
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
Well you know how blind fans are these days. Not only in games. Everywhere basically.
They are blind for lies, ignore them and pretent they don't exist. That's why the expression 'Blind Fan'.
Cheers
*News Flash*
The worlds supply of rose tinted glasses have just sold out across the world. One comsumer is thought to be responsible.
Well, it's nice to see that there are still pockets of rabid Darkfall zealotry alive and well in defiance of all logic and reality. I have to admit I was getting pretty worried there... once hardcore posterboys like DarthRaiden started losing their faith I figured for sure this forum would become either a ghost town for an irrelevant title, or a one-sided gangbang with no-one left to defend the tattered sphincter of Aventurine's credibility.
To Aventurine's credit, their epic bungling of every single step of the process towards developing an MMO, together with their continued self-delusion (and that of their loyal followers) that somehow they could still succeed when they had so obviously already failed, has in the end made Darkfall far more entertaining for far more people than anyone could have ever predicted. For that, I think, we should all be a little grateful.
Too bad all the massive PVP has been on the forums and not in the game.
Your last sentence says it all really!
Stupidity reaches a new high.
1. Those small purchases add up to make Tasos and company very rich. If we do this and the game turns out to be crap, guess what we just told the MMO developer community? "Tell us you're doing something different, and we'll make you rich even if all you put out is crap." No thank you. A fool and his money are soon parted.
2. Unless you've played the game already, you're interested in the 'idea" of Darkfall. Few of us know for sure what the game is going to be like. You're likely in for a major disappointment.
As far as comparing this to real life, ask Tasos if this is real life or not. Ask him what puts food on his table and a roof over his head. It's a business and you're a customer. They're not putting a game out to be your pal or to satisfy your longing for a different kind of MMO. They're doing it to capture a share of the market and to make money.
So far, the only thing that DF has done differently is to take customer communication to an all time low. The game releases in a month (I should probably qualify that statement with a LOL). Can you tell me the minimum required specs? How about the price for the game? How about where I can buy the game? How about the subscription cost? Yep, they're doing something different all right. They're convincing nimnods to preorder a game based on promises and hopes.
BTW, I can't tell you how funny it is to read your original post and then see you use terms like "flawed argument." Thank you for the morning laugh.