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I have respect for Aventurine/Darkfall and here's why...
I haven't been able to pre-order. I didn't get into beta. I am upset that I can't play a game (or even buy it) and it's supposed to be "released".
HOWEVER. I really hope, that in 1 months time, the game is up and running smoothly and people are ganking the living crap out of each other, battling at sea, and sacking each other's city.
I will be ordering as soon as I can, because guess what people... Aventurine isn't inept... they are BROKE!
Welcome to the Depression of 2009 people. Imagine Aventurine trying to get a loan last year.
"Ok, what's your business plan?"
"Uh huh, and um are you affiliated with Blizzard at all?"
"NEXT!"
The key for Aventurine is getting an initial injection of funding from the die-hard, old-school, UO players of yester-year, enough so that they can throw up some more servers, and ... hell... keep the friggin LIGHTS ON in their offices.
How many people is it in their office anyway? Five? Six?
ROFL.... Good luck people!!
I for one can't wait to get in. I just got my tax return and BAM! ... $60 goes to the Greeks with a plan! 
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Fools and their money are soon parted.
+1 OP.
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Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
Played: UO - EQ1 - AO - DAoC - NC - CoH/CoV - SWG - WoW - EVE - AA - LotRO - DFO - STO - FE - MO - RIFT
Playing: Skyrim
Following: The Repopulation
I want a Virtual World, not just a Game.
ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)
The biggest reason I like the devs is how they have removed certain aspects of the original idea due to being not fun or impractical.
Also how they fixed things in beta, It usally happend fairly quickly and they say they will be the release team also.
Although all of what I have said is being tested right now with this bad launch but I remeber all first released MMOs usally have release problems.
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Played: Shadowbane, UO, PlanetSide, SWG, EQ 2, City of Heros, AO, AoC, Daoc, WOW, lotro, Eve, GW, Tabula, Pirates of the burning sea (yup), Vanguard, Warhammer, Lineage 2
Out of all those I loved Shadow Bane, SWG (it had its issues but those first few months were great) and AO after about 5 months I was in love) RIP..not since then have I loved a MMO...
YAY!!!! Another "i have respect for Aventurine..." thread.
No wonder thier getting away with all this crap given all the respect they are getting.
they actually have 25-30 employees but yah they didnt really release it because they had no money they released it because there were very few problems until they just launched (dsync, billing, website lag, cracter creation issues) so a lot of these they couldnt really see coming except for billing which is completly their fault. (im buying the game when ever they get orders back up)
Didn't they already get a 10mil loan from the Greek National Bank? Which i believe is more a reason why they can't get another.....
Iiii-iiiiiit's.... me!!! *Hooray*
Financial Institution Guy: " Oh Mr Flambouras. Have a seat. Tell me how can I help you?"
Tasos: "We need more money to finish our glorious PVP sandbox game"
Financial Institution Guy : "What have you done to the 10 mil we lended to you?"
Tasos: "Bought shinnies?"
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I have been watching this game for years as many other have, I do want to try this game, well because I try every MMO that has striked an interest in my brain. I have lost out on most that I have tried because I didn't like the game and well that is part of spending money sometimes you are completely happy with how you spent it on and other times you regret wasting money. I'll stop before I go on a tangent, but the main point for me is I am frustrated that I don't have the option to buy this game, but I do respect them for not massively over loading there servers just to make a few bucks more and risk killing the game before it ever started. At least with the population they have now it is managable and they can make the servers stable for the players who preordered the game, because well they are true DF followers and they deserve it. Anyways I hope in the near future they get all the bugs solved and they are able to get this game completely live to the masses who want to play. I am one of them!
Lol you think only uo fool many AC also play Darkfall right now and many ex AC also waiting for this game fuke UO:P
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.
When did they open up new thread posting for lolcatz?
-Atziluth-
- Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
The only problem is they have stated that DF was in better shape then every other mmo that had been released, which was wrong.. They have been horrible in communicating with their community.. They haven't updated their website, nor the offical faq (which is just about completely false, now) in an extremely long time. We've yet to see how quickly they can address and fix these problems, and it's up in the air if they will do a decent job at updating, fixing numerous bugs/exploits, and generally adding new content. If they've been dishonest now, what makes you think they'll change thier current practices in the future?
Just note that some of the problems is caused by international banking issues. Some credit card compaines just wont do biz with certain compaines over seas due to how they out source their billing departments. This has been a problem with most foreign based game inculding AoC and Korean games I think WAR has some minor issues as well.
Games:
Currently playing:Nothing
Will play: Darkfall: Unholy Wars
Past games:
Guild Wars 2 - Xpiher Duminous
Xpiher's GW2
GW 1 - Xpiher Duminous
Darkfall - Xpiher Duminous (NA) retired
AoC - Xpiher (Tyranny) retired
Warhammer - Xpiher
Darkfall.
The special gaming olympics.
Don't buy it because the game is great , buy it because they are trying theyr best., even tough they didn't quite make it to the finish line , lets salute them and give them some money.
( yes i know i am trolling , but when i get baited like this i couldnt refuse )
Well, let's just have WoW clones for the next five years then.....
Well, let's just have WoW clones for the next five years then.....
No,
Why dont we have a game designed like Darkfall but developed by a company who dont employ Badger Ball's with legs.
Well, let's just have WoW clones for the next five years then.....
No,
Why dont we have a game designed like Darkfall but developed by a company who dont employ Badger Ball's with legs.
Don't worry, Earthrise is coming.
Well, let's just have WoW clones for the next five years then.....
No,
Why dont we have a game designed like Darkfall but developed by a company who dont employ Badger Ball's with legs.
Don't worry, Earthrise is coming.
Darkfall is actually one of the best developed games I have seen in this genre....but they have definitely dropped the ball with billing and being ready for launch, i wont argue that they really fucked up.
But that doesnt change the fact that the core of the game is extremely fun and the developers are VERY talented. Fix the sync issues and its going to be amazing just like in beta.
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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
Well, let's just have WoW clones for the next five years then.....
No,
Why dont we have a game designed like Darkfall but developed by a company who dont employ Badger Ball's with legs.
Don't worry, Earthrise is coming.
Darkfall is actually one of the best developed games I have seen in this genre....but they have definitely dropped the ball with billing and being ready for launch, i wont argue that they really fucked up.
But that doesnt change the fact that the core of the game is extremely fun and the developers are VERY talented. Fix the sync issues and its going to be amazing just like in beta.
By Genre you mean FFAPvP?
Because if you mean MMORPG then your wrong, so very wrong..and thats FACT.
But i hope you meant FFAPvP
Yes Aventurine is broke and they are trying to make it through with a very very Bumpy ride.
Prolly the worst MMORPG launch in History...but you know what? Who cares in the end, I do not care personally, I was expecting it to be bumpy.
Hacks and Cheats? To be expected as well, some of the most Kid Like Clans were in the Beta, that may have names dating back to UO but are filled with Kiddies anyways, that do anything and will exploit anything to inflate their epeen.
You know what, who cares? I don;t care about em either, I know they will play a few months and move to the next game anyways, as the exploits and hacks and cheats get addressed and they won;t be able to "own and pawn" anymore.
Low Budged MMORPG's have issues in the begining for sure, so bumpy ride is to be expected, cheats exploits to be expected as well.
But what does make me raise questions here is the lack of proactive preparation from the part of Aventurine, the main WebSite does not even show that the game has release, there is not even a fracking link to Account management from the main site.
It is a website, a couple hours tops to make the modifications and it could have been prepared LAST YEAR too, save on a disk and Voila on launch date you update it.
Out of Money and Broke does not excuse this.
Or are they gonna say now that they hadn't anticipated to release the game? It is a detail but it Tells volumes.
Expect a bumpy 3-6 months everyone, the game has potential for fun, I was in Beta and Exerience it, but it won't happen anytime soon, and that is also IF the game actually makes it as a Game after the first month.
And it mustev been at least a couple of years that Aventurine Knew in advance they have a big following, So you know I am listening to the BullShit for now, but everyone has limits to patience - Albeit, I can understand here that even if they knew when the money is out, the money is out.
Order of the Silver Star, OSS
ESKA, Playing MMORPG's since Ultima Online 1997 - Order of the Silver Serpent, Atlantic Shard
Finally someone I can fully agree with :
Good post