You can also say that 100% of the reviewers that dislike niche PvP games give those games a bad score, just like Ed did.
Why didnt he play the game before making a review on it?
We both know the answer to that, dont we?
Rubbish. His review did not give bad marks to the game because it is a "niche PvP game" but rather because of basic things that it lacked. Like good gfx, controls, good UI, good community etc. Being a "niche PvP game" is no excuse for not having those.
No, DF is not lacking those is just Ed didnt want to make use of the tools DF offers. For example he didnt used the toolbar. I would like him making a review on LOTRO or nay MMO without using the toolbar.
I have PLAYED the game and I know it is lacking in those areas. The only reason you don't realise this is because you are in love with the game and probably Tasos aswell.
You guys can vote on the poll to, its not just closed to current DF subers
I don't care about low scores. I'll defend someone who gives DF a low score when he has reason to do so, but Ed falt out lied about basic game mechanics and then used the lowerst possible res and low grapic setting to take pics of the game. Even in his screen shots you can see that he didn't even bother to read the in game help menue and he asked maybe 3-4 questions in pulic chat before finally saying the game sucks. At that point he didn't even have his weapons on his hot bar.
You guys can vote on the poll to, its not just closed to current DF subers
I don't care about low scores. I'll defend someone who gives DF a low score when he has reason to do so, but Ed falt out lied about basic game mechanics and then used the lowerst possible res and low grapic setting to take pics of the game. Even in his screen shots you can see that he didn't even bother to read the in game help menue and he asked maybe 3-4 questions in pulic chat before finally saying the game sucks. At that point he didn't even have his weapons on his hot bar.
Exactly. EG should not have published the review without confirming with the guy that he actually played the game and instead playing the game Ed used 3 hours for digging his nose, 3 hours watching pron and finally 15 minutes on the general channel shouting "hlep, how i paly this gaem".
And now DF has bad publicity because of that which is totally unfair to the devs that made truly excellent game for us hardcore pvp guys.
Best pvp game there is by far, pvp with a meaning with consequence.
You guys can vote on the poll to, its not just closed to current DF subers
I don't care about low scores. I'll defend someone who gives DF a low score when he has reason to do so, but Ed falt out lied about basic game mechanics and then used the lowerst possible res and low grapic setting to take pics of the game. Even in his screen shots you can see that he didn't even bother to read the in game help menue and he asked maybe 3-4 questions in pulic chat before finally saying the game sucks. At that point he didn't even have his weapons on his hot bar.
Exactly. EG should not have published the review without confirming with the guy that he actually played the game and instead playing the game Ed used 3 hours for digging his nose, 3 hours watching pron and finally 15 minutes on the general channel shouting "hlep, how i paly this gaem".
And now DF has bad publicity because of that which is totally unfair to the devs that made truly excellent game for us hardcore pvp guys.
Best pvp game there is by far, pvp with a meaning with consequence.
I hope EG gets what it deserves from this.
and i hope Aventurine will get what they deserve.
that Tasos' lack of proffesionalism have scared other media off so EGs review will be the only one they will ever get.
Originally posted by Roin Yet another, "You aren't playing DF how it was meant to be played" reply. Introducing DF the self-proclaimed Sandbox, that you can't play the way YOU want to play. YOU have to play it the way THEY want you to play. Oh no he didn't have skills on his hot bar. For a game that brags about semi-FPSish in it's combat. Why should thta even matter? It's almost as asinine as complaining about someone in CS:S buying a TMP when could afford a M4. If I can win a fight with the TMP (i.e just normal swings) then why do I have to use the M4 (i.e Hotbar with skills) I should be free to play however I want if it really is a sandbox.
Lolwut.
Yup, lets make one weapon of each category and give them to all players, so they can use 1-5 to change weapons. Also, lets give them one spell, that they can use with the middle mouse button....
Do you people even think what you're talking about? I'm positive that DF's UI needs a somewhat big improvement, but when you're talking about semi-FPSish combat, you're not talking about the FPS genre. Think a bit before you post.
You guys can vote on the poll to, its not just closed to current DF subers
I don't care about low scores. I'll defend someone who gives DF a low score when he has reason to do so, but Ed falt out lied about basic game mechanics and then used the lowerst possible res and low grapic setting to take pics of the game. Even in his screen shots you can see that he didn't even bother to read the in game help menue and he asked maybe 3-4 questions in pulic chat before finally saying the game sucks. At that point he didn't even have his weapons on his hot bar.
Exactly. EG should not have published the review without confirming with the guy that he actually played the game and instead playing the game Ed used 3 hours for digging his nose, 3 hours watching pron and finally 15 minutes on the general channel shouting "hlep, how i paly this gaem".
And now DF has bad publicity because of that which is totally unfair to the devs that made truly excellent game for us hardcore pvp guys.
Best pvp game there is by far, pvp with a meaning with consequence.
I hope EG gets what it deserves from this.
and i hope Aventurine will get what they deserve.
that Tasos' lack of proffesionalism have scared other media off so EGs review will be the only one they will ever get.
???
Man you people are weird. Why bash a game which got 2 out of 10 points a ridiculously low score that's not even close to justified.
It's been alot of discussion wether Darkfall is worth a low score or a high one after the Eurogamer review. There have also been a discussion if the Eurogamer reviewer actually played the game before making his review on Darkfall. I think that the Eurogamer reviewer didnt enter Darkfall with an open mind. He had his score thought out BEFORE he logged in first time. What puzzles me is how a reviewer can act like he did. If he dont have an open mind to Darkfall then he isnt the one that should make this review. He is coloured with his negativism before logging in. This is how the players of Darkfall rates the game and the result is as you all can see very far from the Eurogamer reviewers score of 2/10 - http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=185381 80% of today Darkfall players rate the game btw 6 and 10. I give Darkfall a 9. Darkfall isnt for everyone and letting a carebear like this Ed guy from Eurogamer review Darkfall is born to fail. He like carebear games like LOTRO and isnt interested in Darkfall. It's like letting the devil review the bible. Worst part of it all is that he didnt even play Darkfall before making his review. I would be ashamed of myself if i were Ed Zirgon.
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
It's been alot of discussion wether Darkfall is worth a low score or a high one after the Eurogamer review. There have also been a discussion if the Eurogamer reviewer actually played the game before making his review on Darkfall. I think that the Eurogamer reviewer didnt enter Darkfall with an open mind. He had his score thought out BEFORE he logged in first time. What puzzles me is how a reviewer can act like he did. If he dont have an open mind to Darkfall then he isnt the one that should make this review. He is coloured with his negativism before logging in. This is how the players of Darkfall rates the game and the result is as you all can see very far from the Eurogamer reviewers score of 2/10 - http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=185381 80% of today Darkfall players rate the game btw 6 and 10. I give Darkfall a 9. Darkfall isnt for everyone and letting a carebear like this Ed guy from Eurogamer review Darkfall is born to fail. He like carebear games like LOTRO and isnt interested in Darkfall. It's like letting the devil review the bible. Worst part of it all is that he didnt even play Darkfall before making his review. I would be ashamed of myself if i were Ed Zirgon.
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
Dang, I am loggin on in the waiting wing, just before boarding a plane, and I saw this thread expecting some interesting new findings.
Come on, no one cares about this game much, even the fanatics, the Aragon himself is gone. Let him fade, he need an excuse to get off the stage. Don't harass him any more.
No one cares about this game any more. People are talking and playing Aion. Someone next to me in the VIP room has Aion online, his plane is furthere delayed for another 6 hours. Poor him.
It's been alot of discussion wether Darkfall is worth a low score or a high one after the Eurogamer review. There have also been a discussion if the Eurogamer reviewer actually played the game before making his review on Darkfall. I think that the Eurogamer reviewer didnt enter Darkfall with an open mind. He had his score thought out BEFORE he logged in first time. What puzzles me is how a reviewer can act like he did. If he dont have an open mind to Darkfall then he isnt the one that should make this review. He is coloured with his negativism before logging in. This is how the players of Darkfall rates the game and the result is as you all can see very far from the Eurogamer reviewers score of 2/10 - http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=185381 80% of today Darkfall players rate the game btw 6 and 10. I give Darkfall a 9. Darkfall isnt for everyone and letting a carebear like this Ed guy from Eurogamer review Darkfall is born to fail. He like carebear games like LOTRO and isnt interested in Darkfall. It's like letting the devil review the bible. Worst part of it all is that he didnt even play Darkfall before making his review. I would be ashamed of myself if i were Ed Zirgon.
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
The game atm has maybe 3k suscribers. What amazes me is that there is any interest about it at all anymore. Serious, id just as soon revisit vanguard then try DFO. Then again theres no free trail, so thats a no brainer.
yet another fanbot footshot. according to OP 20% of all that play darkfall gives it under 6 in score. and thats from the people that plays it!! 20% thats insane... if we are saying 15000 people are playing darkfall, 3000 think its mediocre at best. wow, congrats with yet another awesome victory.
Making a similar poll in WoW would result in millions. Truth is many MMO's have bored players continue to play while bored.
DF has far less then any other.
Proof of that statement please? Numbers? Charts? Statistics?
Or, are you just pulling things out of thin air again as usual?
Really love how people just make these arbitrary claims as though they're fact but never bother to provide any proof of it. I guess if it's something nice to think about, then it's good enough to post as fact, eh?
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
You can also say that 100% of the reviewers that dislike niche PvP games give those games a bad score, just like Ed did.
Why didnt he play the game before making a review on it?
We both know the answer to that, dont we?
Rubbish. His review did not give bad marks to the game because it is a "niche PvP game" but rather because of basic things that it lacked. Like good gfx, controls, good UI, good community etc. Being a "niche PvP game" is no excuse for not having those.
Ed from Eurogamer played the game for 3 hours - so how can he have ANY opinions on it?
The ones he had was false ones. False cause he didnt know the basic game mechanics of the game. Kinda like playing a FPS without using your weapon.
Kinda pathetic, wouldn't you say?
Would you come to the same conclusion of someone who only played 3 hours, did no more than Ed did but gave it a raving review? Or, would you do like other rabid fans here and hold them to a different standard, rendering their review valid?
Now, be honest...
And further... What of the people here who have played it since launch, enjoy open PvP, enjoy a sandbox game and, in a couple cases, continue to play it, who are highly critical of it, pointing out current and specific examples to back up their statments? Do their opinions matter when they say that Ed's review is pretty much on mark?
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Hehe. Yes the first impression when you pick it up is 9/10. After awhile of playing since launch you have run out of things to do. THere just isn't enough in the game to feel immersed or to keep you busy. So yes the new experience is awesome. Everything past the second week of play it's all about who macros their skills more.
Hehe. Yes the first impression when you pick it up is 9/10. After awhile of playing since launch you have run out of things to do. THere just isn't enough in the game to feel immersed or to keep you busy. So yes the new experience is awesome. Everything past the second week of play it's all about who macros their skills more.
It takes longer than two weeks to run out of content, more like two months.
Two weeks gets you familar with the character part of the game and your races area and that is if you are playing 40+ horus a week. It doesnt give you enough time to explore the other areas and get familar with the player city world.
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
It's been alot of discussion wether Darkfall is worth a low score or a high one after the Eurogamer review. There have also been a discussion if the Eurogamer reviewer actually played the game before making his review on Darkfall. I think that the Eurogamer reviewer didnt enter Darkfall with an open mind. He had his score thought out BEFORE he logged in first time. What puzzles me is how a reviewer can act like he did. If he dont have an open mind to Darkfall then he isnt the one that should make this review. He is coloured with his negativism before logging in. This is how the players of Darkfall rates the game and the result is as you all can see very far from the Eurogamer reviewers score of 2/10 - http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=185381 80% of today Darkfall players rate the game btw 6 and 10. I give Darkfall a 9. Darkfall isnt for everyone and letting a carebear like this Ed guy from Eurogamer review Darkfall is born to fail. He like carebear games like LOTRO and isnt interested in Darkfall. It's like letting the devil review the bible. Worst part of it all is that he didnt even play Darkfall before making his review. I would be ashamed of myself if i were Ed Zirgon.
/fail
Is it a surprise to anyone that people playing DF like it? This post was a waste.
This means nothing as the score is biased. This is like asking a chef if he likes to cook.
You assume Ed is a particular way buy you know nothing about him.
I went to an out of the way hot dog stand once with 3 friends. 3 of us loved them and had 2. The fourth guy didn't like them and only ate half of one.
In realistic terms, it simply means that one of us didn't like the hot dogs enough to continue eating even one.
To rabid DF fans, it would mean that the one person isn't a real fan of hot-dogs and isn't entitled to an opinion because they didn't eat enough.. they're just a hater of hot dogs. Also, they aren't allowed to say why they don't like the hot dogs or criticize them... they should just shut up and walk away.
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
It's been alot of discussion wether Darkfall is worth a low score or a high one after the Eurogamer review. There have also been a discussion if the Eurogamer reviewer actually played the game before making his review on Darkfall. I think that the Eurogamer reviewer didnt enter Darkfall with an open mind. He had his score thought out BEFORE he logged in first time. What puzzles me is how a reviewer can act like he did. If he dont have an open mind to Darkfall then he isnt the one that should make this review. He is coloured with his negativism before logging in. This is how the players of Darkfall rates the game and the result is as you all can see very far from the Eurogamer reviewers score of 2/10 - http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=185381 80% of today Darkfall players rate the game btw 6 and 10. I give Darkfall a 9. Darkfall isnt for everyone and letting a carebear like this Ed guy from Eurogamer review Darkfall is born to fail. He like carebear games like LOTRO and isnt interested in Darkfall. It's like letting the devil review the bible. Worst part of it all is that he didnt even play Darkfall before making his review. I would be ashamed of myself if i were Ed Zirgon.
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
It's a pretty normal thing, actually.
The game is new... it's different and novel and interesting. As time goes on, the novelty wears off, everything becomes more familiar and you begin to see what the game *really* is.
The thing is.. it's a matter of degree. The more hyped up you are about something at first, the more disappointing it can seem to be "once the honeymoon is over", so to speak.
In DF's case... the promises and hype and expectations were so high - based on the game AV was promising to deliver, including all the cutting-edge features that Tasos bragged about - that the actual game lost steam that much more quickly.
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Playing 4months now and i still give it a 7/10 i still enjoy it and have blast!
Ok i dont pay attention to all the whiners on offical forum and ingame i just play and have fun!
Im solo building up slowly my character just reached 75 sharpshooter and rigor at 50, have nice attributes like strenght vitality dexetery intelligence wisdom.
Travel alot explore/pvp! And yes ive lost alot of banded sets but i also won some nice loot i harvest rare mines in hamlets sometimes have to fight my way out of there but its fun.
i leech raids by looting gravestones and kill sometimes players in citys who craft:)
Yssam is my favorite island:)
Darkfall will hopefully become better and better:)
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009..... In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Playing 4months now and i still give it a 7/10 i still enjoy it and have blast! Ok i dont pay attention to all the whiners on offical forum and ingame i just play and have fun! Im solo building up slowly my character just reached 75 sharpshooter and rigor at 50, have nice attributes like strenght vitality dexetery intelligence wisdom. Travel alot explore/pvp! And yes ive lost alot of banded sets but i also won some nice loot i harvest rare mines in hamlets sometimes have to fight my way out of there but its fun. i leech raids by looting gravestones and kill sometimes players in citys who craft:) Yssam is my favorite island:) Darkfall will hopefully become better and better:)
Yassam is in fact the best of the four main islands!
The absolute center is an intresting trip btw. I made it all the way to the top floating island and into the zone.
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
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"If he dont have an open mind"
This is where I stopped reading.
100% of people who enjoy being pee'd on say golden showers are good for the skin, try it.
and that 80% of darkfail players is 0.000000000000000000001% of the mmo community around the world...
soo...
You can also say that 100% of the reviewers that dislike niche PvP games give those games a bad score, just like Ed did.
Why didnt he play the game before making a review on it?
We both know the answer to that, dont we?
Rubbish. His review did not give bad marks to the game because it is a "niche PvP game" but rather because of basic things that it lacked. Like good gfx, controls, good UI, good community etc. Being a "niche PvP game" is no excuse for not having those.
No, DF is not lacking those is just Ed didnt want to make use of the tools DF offers. For example he didnt used the toolbar. I would like him making a review on LOTRO or nay MMO without using the toolbar.
I have PLAYED the game and I know it is lacking in those areas. The only reason you don't realise this is because you are in love with the game and probably Tasos aswell.
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You guys can vote on the poll to, its not just closed to current DF subers
I don't care about low scores. I'll defend someone who gives DF a low score when he has reason to do so, but Ed falt out lied about basic game mechanics and then used the lowerst possible res and low grapic setting to take pics of the game. Even in his screen shots you can see that he didn't even bother to read the in game help menue and he asked maybe 3-4 questions in pulic chat before finally saying the game sucks. At that point he didn't even have his weapons on his hot bar.
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Will play: Darkfall: Unholy Wars
Past games:
Guild Wars 2 - Xpiher Duminous
Xpiher's GW2
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Darkfall - Xpiher Duminous (NA) retired
AoC - Xpiher (Tyranny) retired
Warhammer - Xpiher
Exactly. EG should not have published the review without confirming with the guy that he actually played the game and instead playing the game Ed used 3 hours for digging his nose, 3 hours watching pron and finally 15 minutes on the general channel shouting "hlep, how i paly this gaem".
And now DF has bad publicity because of that which is totally unfair to the devs that made truly excellent game for us hardcore pvp guys.
Best pvp game there is by far, pvp with a meaning with consequence.
I hope EG gets what it deserves from this.
Exactly. EG should not have published the review without confirming with the guy that he actually played the game and instead playing the game Ed used 3 hours for digging his nose, 3 hours watching pron and finally 15 minutes on the general channel shouting "hlep, how i paly this gaem".
And now DF has bad publicity because of that which is totally unfair to the devs that made truly excellent game for us hardcore pvp guys.
Best pvp game there is by far, pvp with a meaning with consequence.
I hope EG gets what it deserves from this.
and i hope Aventurine will get what they deserve.
that Tasos' lack of proffesionalism have scared other media off so EGs review will be the only one they will ever get.
Lolwut.
Yup, lets make one weapon of each category and give them to all players, so they can use 1-5 to change weapons. Also, lets give them one spell, that they can use with the middle mouse button....
Do you people even think what you're talking about? I'm positive that DF's UI needs a somewhat big improvement, but when you're talking about semi-FPSish combat, you're not talking about the FPS genre. Think a bit before you post.
Newsflash: 80% of the people who enjoy McDonalds rate their hamburgers higher than average. You've read it here first.
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Exactly. EG should not have published the review without confirming with the guy that he actually played the game and instead playing the game Ed used 3 hours for digging his nose, 3 hours watching pron and finally 15 minutes on the general channel shouting "hlep, how i paly this gaem".
And now DF has bad publicity because of that which is totally unfair to the devs that made truly excellent game for us hardcore pvp guys.
Best pvp game there is by far, pvp with a meaning with consequence.
I hope EG gets what it deserves from this.
and i hope Aventurine will get what they deserve.
that Tasos' lack of proffesionalism have scared other media off so EGs review will be the only one they will ever get.
???
Man you people are weird. Why bash a game which got 2 out of 10 points a ridiculously low score that's not even close to justified.
Here, have some trolls:
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
Dang, I am loggin on in the waiting wing, just before boarding a plane, and I saw this thread expecting some interesting new findings.
Come on, no one cares about this game much, even the fanatics, the Aragon himself is gone. Let him fade, he need an excuse to get off the stage. Don't harass him any more.
No one cares about this game any more. People are talking and playing Aion. Someone next to me in the VIP room has Aion online, his plane is furthere delayed for another 6 hours. Poor him.
Goodbye. Loggin.
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
The game atm has maybe 3k suscribers. What amazes me is that there is any interest about it at all anymore. Serious, id just as soon revisit vanguard then try DFO. Then again theres no free trail, so thats a no brainer.
Making a similar poll in WoW would result in millions. Truth is many MMO's have bored players continue to play while bored.
DF has far less then any other.
Proof of that statement please? Numbers? Charts? Statistics?
Or, are you just pulling things out of thin air again as usual?
Really love how people just make these arbitrary claims as though they're fact but never bother to provide any proof of it. I guess if it's something nice to think about, then it's good enough to post as fact, eh?
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
You can also say that 100% of the reviewers that dislike niche PvP games give those games a bad score, just like Ed did.
Why didnt he play the game before making a review on it?
We both know the answer to that, dont we?
Rubbish. His review did not give bad marks to the game because it is a "niche PvP game" but rather because of basic things that it lacked. Like good gfx, controls, good UI, good community etc. Being a "niche PvP game" is no excuse for not having those.
Ed from Eurogamer played the game for 3 hours - so how can he have ANY opinions on it?
The ones he had was false ones. False cause he didnt know the basic game mechanics of the game. Kinda like playing a FPS without using your weapon.
Kinda pathetic, wouldn't you say?
Would you come to the same conclusion of someone who only played 3 hours, did no more than Ed did but gave it a raving review? Or, would you do like other rabid fans here and hold them to a different standard, rendering their review valid?
Now, be honest...
And further... What of the people here who have played it since launch, enjoy open PvP, enjoy a sandbox game and, in a couple cases, continue to play it, who are highly critical of it, pointing out current and specific examples to back up their statments? Do their opinions matter when they say that Ed's review is pretty much on mark?
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Hehe. Yes the first impression when you pick it up is 9/10. After awhile of playing since launch you have run out of things to do. THere just isn't enough in the game to feel immersed or to keep you busy. So yes the new experience is awesome. Everything past the second week of play it's all about who macros their skills more.
It takes longer than two weeks to run out of content, more like two months.
Two weeks gets you familar with the character part of the game and your races area and that is if you are playing 40+ horus a week. It doesnt give you enough time to explore the other areas and get familar with the player city world.
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
Please do not respond to me
/fail
Is it a surprise to anyone that people playing DF like it? This post was a waste.
This means nothing as the score is biased. This is like asking a chef if he likes to cook.
You assume Ed is a particular way buy you know nothing about him.
I went to an out of the way hot dog stand once with 3 friends. 3 of us loved them and had 2. The fourth guy didn't like them and only ate half of one.
In realistic terms, it simply means that one of us didn't like the hot dogs enough to continue eating even one.
To rabid DF fans, it would mean that the one person isn't a real fan of hot-dogs and isn't entitled to an opinion because they didn't eat enough.. they're just a hater of hot dogs. Also, they aren't allowed to say why they don't like the hot dogs or criticize them... they should just shut up and walk away.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
I re-visited this somewhat older thread and it got me to thinking....
First off, I had given the game about a 4/10, which I thought was fair given it's unfinished condition on release ( not to mention what I would call a bumpy release, at the very least ).
So, my real question is - we saw *many* posts like this where fans gave what I would consider an extremely high score for this game.....yet just a few months later, the game has lost a significant portion of its player base and already appears to be in trouble......something I would not have thought to happen to a game rated a "9" by so many of its fans.
Any thoughts on this?
It's a pretty normal thing, actually.
The game is new... it's different and novel and interesting. As time goes on, the novelty wears off, everything becomes more familiar and you begin to see what the game *really* is.
The thing is.. it's a matter of degree. The more hyped up you are about something at first, the more disappointing it can seem to be "once the honeymoon is over", so to speak.
In DF's case... the promises and hype and expectations were so high - based on the game AV was promising to deliver, including all the cutting-edge features that Tasos bragged about - that the actual game lost steam that much more quickly.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Playing 4months now and i still give it a 7/10 i still enjoy it and have blast!
Ok i dont pay attention to all the whiners on offical forum and ingame i just play and have fun!
Im solo building up slowly my character just reached 75 sharpshooter and rigor at 50, have nice attributes like strenght vitality dexetery intelligence wisdom.
Travel alot explore/pvp! And yes ive lost alot of banded sets but i also won some nice loot i harvest rare mines in hamlets sometimes have to fight my way out of there but its fun.
i leech raids by looting gravestones and kill sometimes players in citys who craft:)
Yssam is my favorite island:)
Darkfall will hopefully become better and better:)
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Yassam is in fact the best of the four main islands!
The absolute center is an intresting trip btw. I made it all the way to the top floating island and into the zone.
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Obviously or they wouldn't be playing.