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If the DnL devs deliver would you be interested in playing?
Oakstead
Member Posts: 455
I can't help but think that all the strong negative emotions about this game come from a profound sense of disappointment that the game has not yet delivered what has been promised., that everyone who still visits this forum really wants to play a game with the features promised by DnL.
So would you be interested in playing a game with the following DnL features?
Settlement - place villages (holdings) and castles on any flat land area.
PvP (but not all the time) - your settlement must be defended from only one opposite alignment. You can cooperate with allies or just nearby characters from the same alignment for castle defense and raid defense.
Player based economy - the location of land based resouces and resources from MoB spawns will govern the best places for settlement. As will the nearness to trade routes.
Fantasy setting with flyable dragons.
Huge world with little server side lag due to dynamic load leveling on the game server cluster allowing large concentrations of characters.
Territory definition using player operated mana fountains that buff all characters of the same alignment.
So would you be interested in playing a game with the following DnL features?
Settlement - place villages (holdings) and castles on any flat land area.
PvP (but not all the time) - your settlement must be defended from only one opposite alignment. You can cooperate with allies or just nearby characters from the same alignment for castle defense and raid defense.
Player based economy - the location of land based resouces and resources from MoB spawns will govern the best places for settlement. As will the nearness to trade routes.
Fantasy setting with flyable dragons.
Huge world with little server side lag due to dynamic load leveling on the game server cluster allowing large concentrations of characters.
Territory definition using player operated mana fountains that buff all characters of the same alignment.
Comments
I have read both sides albeit it appears there is more negative than positive information about the game and especially SoG. I applied and was invited when the first batch came out. My only experience with SoG has been: Get home from work, check e-mails, see "You have been accepted to be one of #### Settlers of Ganerath" or along those lines. Thought to myself this is cool then followed the link to finalize registration and download and was greeted with " We are sorry but all accounts have been distributed, please check back as we will be slowly adding more accounts as the beta develops ( again something along those lines )" The only thing I could say at that time was; how did I just get an e-mail stating I was accepted, follow the instructions to download just to ultimately discover that I wasn't allowed in? Heheh was slightly perturbed I must say.
Maybe that is truly a portent of their competance? Not sure but it spoke volumes to me at that one little moment in my life. With all that said I am still willing to try it out as nothing is appealing to me at the moment in the current MMoRPG market. I will not jump the gun and Download it on the 30th but will wait some weeks or a couple months and see if the positives overtake the negatives. If it continues to receive the same press then it won't get a second thought from me.
I don't buy the translation problem, I have played other french games and they are fine, and german, russian and a few of the thousand asian ones. The communication is not mistranslation it is either falsification or fabrication. (Falsification being outright lie, fabrication being the AD team makes something up just to have some kind of news)
I understand making an MMORPG is a HUGE undertaking and it take a long time to produce a quality product. I also understand that any game that is released is already behind the cutting edge tech and the longer it is postponed the farther it trails.
Fans will come and go and not everyone will be happy with any game. HOWEVER few games have seen the mass exodus DnL wittnessed at the SoG fiasco. At this point any reputable marketing agency would not touch this game. It has gone too far to turn around public opinion in the expected life of the game. (unless of course they can pull of a biblical miracle with the code)
In short, yes. I would like to play a game that had all these features. If DnL could produce them I might consider it. On the other hand, I really want to be able to fly like a superhero, yet every time I jump into the air I hit the ground. So far it seems SoG/DnL is no better off then I am.
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The fact is, in the very long time D&L has been in development, other developers have noticed the positive attention many of these features have attracted and they're being incorporated into other games.
I gave up on D&L after all the negative feedback about SoG - and every time I've checked back, it seems the wisdom of that decision has been confirmed. I've found another game that looks set to deliver many of the features I was attracted to in D&L.
This game does seem to have attracted a lot of negative publicity and I frankly doubt the final product will be up to scratch. If I had to make a prediction, D&L is going to be trampled by its competitors.
Even if D&L is better than a lot of its competitors when it's released, it isn't better than the game D&L promised to be and that's what many players will be measuring it against. That's the big marketing hurdle.
In many ways I think they (and we) would be better off going bust, selling the code and content and letting someone else make the game under a new name.
Of course Oakstead....
The whole one world server and huge explorable world are something a lot of people are would be interested in for an MMORPG...In fact it's the only thing keeping people following DnL..They simply have several good ideas.
I know a few folks who are working with other game engines trying to duplicate several of DnL's key features, but until they get farther along I'll just cheer them on from the sidelines.
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
I hope you are refering to the OP otherwise nice troll job towards Naars post.
Anyway back to the OP's point...... Of course the game "sounds" interesting and "promises" so many things but the delivery won't be there on the 26th.
This is game is already dead and the final life support will be pulled in a short time if it even actually launches. Too many broken promises, too many missed dates, too many left out features, no proper beta, I could go in for pages.
It was a brief flash in the pan, now it is just ashes and we will start up the funeral dirges soon.
Popcorn anyone????? Just got a new case in for watching the crash and burn of V:SoH
Long answer: Farlan/NPCube is still Farlan/NPCube. If another developer deliverd on all those promises and then called it Warhammer, then yes I would play.
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