This actually IS kind of an interesting question. Here's why...
There is no way to truly know if this game WILL release. Period.
You can only know whether it HAS or HAS NOT released. If the game hasn't released, then you must choose either to believe or disbelieve in it's ultimate launch. If the game has launched or collapsed, then the matter has resolved and there's nothing to believe in. The belief that this game is or is not going to release is tantamount to a religious faith.
Are you a believer or a heretic?
An interesting facet of belief is that it's nature is self-fulfilling. That is, if you believe something to be the case, you will generally come to interpret information available to you in a way that supports your belief rather than undermines it.
That is why the arguments on this board won't end until the game is either released or collapses.
And like a religion it is the IDEA, the CONCEPT of the game that has so enthralled the minds of the gaming public. It promises the nirvana of MMOs.
And the video that just released... It could have looked like just about anything. As long as it didn't change the fact that, in the minds of the faithful, the CONCEPT remained intact and secure.
IMO, the worst thing that could happen to the most fanatically faithful would be to play this game, since they would then be forced to reconcile the IDEAL of this game as it has existed for eight years in their minds with the reality of the game that they play with all its flaws and imperfections. That's why, if this game does ever launch, the greatest detractors of this game are going to come from within the flock of the most faithful itself.
Been thinking this for a while now but could have never put it in those words.
DarkFall can never live up to the image crafted by its followers.
Yes there are some fanatics that think this will be the end all of MMOs right off the bat and other companies will just shut down in lieu of its greatness.
However the vast majority of fans are just expecting it to be different and stay true to the features that Tasos has outlined, thats it. As long as it does that, then the fact that it is so different than your WoW, WAR, AoC, LoTRO etc in terms of gameplay will be more than enough to live up to the hype of every "normal" fan of this game.
"The monsters are tough. I was looking for a challenge, but these things are just too damn smart." -DF Beta Tester
"If people were dismissing it, then they wouldn't be talking about it. The well-meaning gamers root for efforts that try to raise the bar. So who's left? It's so easy being a skeptic." -Tasos
Comments
Been thinking this for a while now but could have never put it in those words.
DarkFall can never live up to the image crafted by its followers.
Yes there are some fanatics that think this will be the end all of MMOs right off the bat and other companies will just shut down in lieu of its greatness.
However the vast majority of fans are just expecting it to be different and stay true to the features that Tasos has outlined, thats it. As long as it does that, then the fact that it is so different than your WoW, WAR, AoC, LoTRO etc in terms of gameplay will be more than enough to live up to the hype of every "normal" fan of this game.
~~
Darkfall Releases on: February 25th, 2009
Darkfall Recap of everything that has happened the last 3 months: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/213296
"The monsters are tough. I was looking for a challenge, but these things are just too damn smart." -DF Beta Tester
"If people were dismissing it, then they wouldn't be talking about it. The well-meaning gamers root for efforts that try to raise the bar. So who's left? It's so easy being a skeptic." -Tasos
I want to believe.