I don't play Darkfall, but I do agree with the OP. However I see AV's predicament, it would suck for new US players to come onto a new server that already has players far beyond them. Obviously it's something they didn't really think through all the way before hand.
Currently Playing: Toying around with AoC and bored with Darkfall
Thinking of Playing: Fallen Earth or Darkfall after this months update.
Have Played: EQ1, EQ2, WoW, WAR, Vanguard, EvE, Requiem, PW, Lotro, Lineage2, AoC, SWG...
I don't play Darkfall, but I do agree with the OP. However I see AV's predicament, it would suck for new US players to come onto a new server that already has players far beyond them. Obviously it's something they didn't really think through all the way before hand.
The sad part in all of this, AV's predicament isn't even that. Most of us simply wanted to make new chars on the NA server and not even deal with transfers. Starting fresh on the fresh server would have been nice.
You're a gamer, which means you play on a Windows system, or less likely, a Mac. Microsoft and Apple have questionable business practices up the wazoo, but that doesn't bother you enough to make a 100% jump to Linux, right? Using your "I have integrity" model, you shouldn't even be using those operating systems.
Your arguement here falls apart fast. Lets use Windows as an example, you have bought Windows 7 and the one you bought was the US copy. Your wife however is Chinese and would find it easier to use the PC with the Chinese version. You do NOT have to rebuy Windows to do this.
When ti comes to Darkfall I have stayed away because of all I have heard about the way the company deals with the customers. They have shown a lack of competence from day one with this game but MMO grow over time so I held a wait and see. This move however has put them on my never buy list.
An MMO, more so than any other type of game, relies on the integrity and support of the company making it. The people making Darkfall have proven they are pretty clueless from day one and this last move goes beyond cluesless to just pathetic. Forcing people to buy the game twice because they do not want to transfer an account to another server. How long would this take, 3 minutes, it that?
The players understand that they would need to start over and most are fine with that so why not just transfer the account as empty, why the cloak and dagger about doing this with pauses and hidden costs?
Darkfall asked for PAYMENT to use what they publically acknowledged was a beta. Now they want you to double pay, was not the first time enough give from the customers? It is time for this company to give back to it's customers. However they do not see it that way and that is why Darkfall is a failure as a game and will be dead in less than a year.
It is a pretty good game but not good enough to put up with the BS the creators are giving their customer base.
You're a gamer, which means you play on a Windows system, or less likely, a Mac. Microsoft and Apple have questionable business practices up the wazoo, but that doesn't bother you enough to make a 100% jump to Linux, right? Using your "I have integrity" model, you shouldn't even be using those operating systems.
Your arguement here falls apart fast. Lets use Windows as an example, you have bought Windows 7 and the one you bought was the US copy. Your wife however is Chinese and would find it easier to use the PC with the Chinese version. You do NOT have to rebuy Windows to do this.
When ti comes to Darkfall I have stayed away because of all I have heard about the way the company deals with the customers. They have shown a lack of competence from day one with this game but MMO grow over time so I held a wait and see. This move however has put them on my never buy list.
An MMO, more so than any other type of game, relies on the integrity and support of the company making it. The people making Darkfall have proven they are pretty clueless from day one and this last move goes beyond cluesless to just pathetic. Forcing people to buy the game twice because they do not want to transfer an account to another server. How long would this take, 3 minutes, it that?
The players understand that they would need to start over and most are fine with that so why not just transfer the account as empty, why the cloak and dagger about doing this with pauses and hidden costs?
Darkfall asked for PAYMENT to use what they publically acknowledged was a beta. Now they want you to double pay, was not the first time enough give from the customers? It is time for this company to give back to it's customers. However they do not see it that way and that is why Darkfall is a failure as a game and will be dead in less than a year.
It is a pretty good game but not good enough to put up with the BS the creators are giving their customer base.
You didn't get the point I was trying to make at all did you? BTW, thanks for following it up with 5 additional paragraphs of drivel based on your original faulty assumption.
Seriously, AV are incompetant money grabbing tardboxes. AV allowed NA people onto the EU server despite the complete overload of the web billing/order page. Despite knowing the pings would be higher. They spent a few weeks mouthing how surprsied they were at the demand. All the while they knew that these US people would want to transfer. SImply put AV turned their incompetance and desperate for a PVP FFA game in to a opportunity to get your money. And on this will go.... fans of this game are being liberally miked.
Please don't defend them, whatever your thoughts on DF... AV are morons and their actions should not be allowed to become mainstream practice.
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I don't play Darkfall, but I do agree with the OP. However I see AV's predicament, it would suck for new US players to come onto a new server that already has players far beyond them. Obviously it's something they didn't really think through all the way before hand.
Currently Playing: Toying around with AoC and bored with Darkfall
Thinking of Playing: Fallen Earth or Darkfall after this months update.
Have Played: EQ1, EQ2, WoW, WAR, Vanguard, EvE, Requiem, PW, Lotro, Lineage2, AoC, SWG...
The sad part in all of this, AV's predicament isn't even that. Most of us simply wanted to make new chars on the NA server and not even deal with transfers. Starting fresh on the fresh server would have been nice.
Your arguement here falls apart fast. Lets use Windows as an example, you have bought Windows 7 and the one you bought was the US copy. Your wife however is Chinese and would find it easier to use the PC with the Chinese version. You do NOT have to rebuy Windows to do this.
When ti comes to Darkfall I have stayed away because of all I have heard about the way the company deals with the customers. They have shown a lack of competence from day one with this game but MMO grow over time so I held a wait and see. This move however has put them on my never buy list.
An MMO, more so than any other type of game, relies on the integrity and support of the company making it. The people making Darkfall have proven they are pretty clueless from day one and this last move goes beyond cluesless to just pathetic. Forcing people to buy the game twice because they do not want to transfer an account to another server. How long would this take, 3 minutes, it that?
The players understand that they would need to start over and most are fine with that so why not just transfer the account as empty, why the cloak and dagger about doing this with pauses and hidden costs?
Darkfall asked for PAYMENT to use what they publically acknowledged was a beta. Now they want you to double pay, was not the first time enough give from the customers? It is time for this company to give back to it's customers. However they do not see it that way and that is why Darkfall is a failure as a game and will be dead in less than a year.
It is a pretty good game but not good enough to put up with the BS the creators are giving their customer base.
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Your arguement here falls apart fast. Lets use Windows as an example, you have bought Windows 7 and the one you bought was the US copy. Your wife however is Chinese and would find it easier to use the PC with the Chinese version. You do NOT have to rebuy Windows to do this.
When ti comes to Darkfall I have stayed away because of all I have heard about the way the company deals with the customers. They have shown a lack of competence from day one with this game but MMO grow over time so I held a wait and see. This move however has put them on my never buy list.
An MMO, more so than any other type of game, relies on the integrity and support of the company making it. The people making Darkfall have proven they are pretty clueless from day one and this last move goes beyond cluesless to just pathetic. Forcing people to buy the game twice because they do not want to transfer an account to another server. How long would this take, 3 minutes, it that?
The players understand that they would need to start over and most are fine with that so why not just transfer the account as empty, why the cloak and dagger about doing this with pauses and hidden costs?
Darkfall asked for PAYMENT to use what they publically acknowledged was a beta. Now they want you to double pay, was not the first time enough give from the customers? It is time for this company to give back to it's customers. However they do not see it that way and that is why Darkfall is a failure as a game and will be dead in less than a year.
It is a pretty good game but not good enough to put up with the BS the creators are giving their customer base.
You didn't get the point I was trying to make at all did you? BTW, thanks for following it up with 5 additional paragraphs of drivel based on your original faulty assumption.
Seriously, AV are incompetant money grabbing tardboxes. AV allowed NA people onto the EU server despite the complete overload of the web billing/order page. Despite knowing the pings would be higher. They spent a few weeks mouthing how surprsied they were at the demand. All the while they knew that these US people would want to transfer. SImply put AV turned their incompetance and desperate for a PVP FFA game in to a opportunity to get your money. And on this will go.... fans of this game are being liberally miked.
Please don't defend them, whatever your thoughts on DF... AV are morons and their actions should not be allowed to become mainstream practice.