Someone please explain to me the profit in Darkfall? Sorry to disillusion you, but that game will be history in less than a year or so. Clueless developers will be the reason. They don't have an glint of an idea how to implement a ffa full loot game. It can be done, but it must require the proper consequences. Oh and Eve is a very good example of a ffa full loot game that is successful. They have well thought out consequences in some areas and none in others which gives players a choice of risk. Now Eve is not perfect, some rules are a bit obtuse, but all in all a decent job. That is why Eve will continue to succeed and Darkfall will die a quiet death.
I dont think Darkfall will 'die' anytime soon. Even EVE started out with less than 10k players and in Adventurine's case it was intentional. Always comedy reading knee jerk posts on these forums with no data; just emotions with lack of hard data indicating the developer is bankrupt.
Although I personally dont really like the concept between either darkfall or EVE they are successful niches for some players who find that kinda of gameplay fun. Will darkfall fail? I dont know. Its a small indie type developer and they managed to launch the thing on a limited budget. Seems to me its starting out the same way EVE did. It will only die if the small group of developers is starving to death and decides to kill it on purpose... As long as there are people playing and enjoying these games in my mind they are a success. (even if I myself dont like them..) A game with happy players that is one server large is to me a successful game. In the scheme of things 10k happy players playing Darkfall or EVE or hello kitty online is just as successful as 1 million players or 10 million players playing WoW. The only one that will kill these games is the developers if they give up due to lack of funds and nothing more. At this point in time darkfall is running on a low budget and I see no sign of the developers throwing in the towel cause they aren't making a 1 million bucks in a couple of weeks.
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I dont think Darkfall will 'die' anytime soon. Even EVE started out with less than 10k players and in Adventurine's case it was intentional. Always comedy reading knee jerk posts on these forums with no data; just emotions with lack of hard data indicating the developer is bankrupt.
Although I personally dont really like the concept between either darkfall or EVE they are successful niches for some players who find that kinda of gameplay fun. Will darkfall fail? I dont know. Its a small indie type developer and they managed to launch the thing on a limited budget. Seems to me its starting out the same way EVE did. It will only die if the small group of developers is starving to death and decides to kill it on purpose... As long as there are people playing and enjoying these games in my mind they are a success. (even if I myself dont like them..) A game with happy players that is one server large is to me a successful game. In the scheme of things 10k happy players playing Darkfall or EVE or hello kitty online is just as successful as 1 million players or 10 million players playing WoW. The only one that will kill these games is the developers if they give up due to lack of funds and nothing more. At this point in time darkfall is running on a low budget and I see no sign of the developers throwing in the towel cause they aren't making a 1 million bucks in a couple of weeks.
i am sure the op is one of these childs that think everyone need what he need.
but not, we know more... there are people that want a differnt experience than the wow pve questrain type of game.