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Will it make it 3 months?
Jackdog
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That was what i voted in that poll that was on here at the games release, but I ma seriously starting to dobt it now. Unless they can survive on a hundred players. People are already comparing to to a single player game. Moderators over atr their forums are ban/lock crazy posssibly thinking that fewer dissenting voices over there will help. It won't, word is already out on the street that the game is crap.
I miss DAoC
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The game is done for.
My friend who lives in Poland told me that one of the biggest gaming sites there (1,8 million hits a month) gave a short review of DnL.
Here's the summary (it's translated, so sorry for any mistakes):
playability: none
graphics: nice, if you look at it from a distance of a mile
advantages: huge world, too bad it's empty
disadvantages: everything else
plot: none
support: average
new content: what content?
prospects: none
PS I think it's Angelina Jolie you want your wife to resemble.
I voted 3 Months, too. I can say that from german side the game is dead. On the official board are only the rest of "free month" players, a hand full fanbois and the hardcore fanbois, which are posting and moderates on the board in one person (AD suckers). DnL goes <= 2 months from now.
Sorry for my english, but it has Potential
About the Subs.
Someone in the official D&L Site actually brought up a great info.
Each and EVERY D&L Account MUST have a Forum Account also.
Now here is the Official D&L Forum membership numbers as of 6/24/2006 at 2:30PM EST.
DnL Forums Statistics
Thats 315, 633 Forum accounts.
We know not ALL of them has an account.
We do know that there has been thousands of refunds.
Soemthing to think about.
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Thats probably because the game looked very promising at first. I am one of the 315k forum accounts, I never posted and never played the game after reading about it here.
I do think they'll still be trying to sukcer people into buying the game 3 months in. It will die before the end of this year.
Don't flame me but I still play every now and then to see if the game improves.
I know the world is huge but I hardly ever see other players online.
Is this good for a game that is still early in its launch?
Jack,
I said it LOUDLY during the week of E3, but I predicted the bankruptcy of Farlan as early as April, but I will say it again here on these boards.
Dark & Light has already flopped..! (-Zvorak April '06)
The MMORPG community has already unofficially voted on this turd indirectly through guild chat, EQ2, EQ, DAOC message boards and other /ooc channels.
Over the last 3-4 months, 8,881Pioneers left SOG and went home to their guilds and respective games (EQ, DAOC, RZM, SWG,..etc) and told their friends what a POS this game is.
I logged onto an EQ2 character and even before I got into game the was alot of /ooc chatter about "It's horrible", "OMG... that was put together by a bunch of high schoolerz" ... before i could even /ooc What game are you talking about.. i already knew.. he he. For the next 20 minutes all everyone did in the whole zone was laugh at how horrible D&L is.
THAT was 2 months ago.... now, the game has no chance of redeeming itself !
-Zvorak
For most other MMO's there has been hope but the recent patches are such a disaster and clearly proves that the devs have no clue how to fix this game.
In a while even the most hardcore fanbois will give up and they game will die.
With the amount of people that did not purchase the game.
With the amount of people that are still refunding the game.
Subtract those numbers with the current total registered users in the official D&L Forums.
You get a sum that is the amount of people that "MAYBE" playing or subscribed to D&L".
The final total just does not look like it will be in the Hundred Thousand.
I personally do not see it even get in the Ten Thousand marks.
And you will need many PAYING monthly subscriptions to keep any project like this afloat.
That is what I meant by think about it
PS:
Some of you may already know that Snailgame has delayed the release of D&L in China.
That is more lost revenue to keep this project alive.
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I dunno. Word is out on the street now how lousy this game is as well as its customer service and now the dnl forum moderation is making a gestapo name for itself. Hitting new heights as to the total incompetence in all areas (or lows for that matter). I said it months ago that DNL was a joke in the mmo industry and its beginning to show all over in many aspects. The harder they try to diminish the horrible faults, the more desperate they appear and the worse they make it.
3 months? maybe..with the recent denial of release by the chinese it very well may look as tho they will not be able to stem the tide of self-promoted failure.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true...
Dude, No more than 4,000 - 5,000 people even bought this game ...! It has no advertisment, it is not in any stores and anyone who had ANYTHING to do with this game over a year ago ordered it as a Pioneer and got their money back already.
That leaves about 4 to 5,000 unsuspecting customers who got suckered into buying this game. Of the 4-5,000 that did buy this game, I'd think that perhaps only 5% will renew their subscription after the first months.
That means come August, Dark & Light will already be on life support with about 250 people stull subscribing. This is quite obvious to anyone who been around these game for any length of time. ie: Horizons had 48,000 copies sold the first month, and still went bankrupt in 7 months. Farlan is a bargin bin developer and thats how they should've marketed their game... @ $4.99/month. They would've got alot more customers and people willing to stay threw all the BS.
The game has already flopped, it's not opinion, it's a FACT ...!!!
-Zvorak
yeah if they gave a free client download and charged 5 bucks a month I would subscribe for a year just for charity to give em a chance to finish the game. No way in hell I will pay premium price and premium sub for a POS alpha/beta though.
I miss DAoC
I guess I must have worded myself wrong ... sorry guys
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Also factor into your numbers Kilim that some of us have more then one forum account for various reasons and that will lower your numbers more.
Now if they go to a subscription only board then we can see damn quick how many people are actually subs so that is just one more reason that it would be a bad idea for them. I think that they are stupid enough to do just that though, thinking somewhere in the back of their pea-brains that they are making a smart move by "removing" all the haters.
What are they going to do when they start banning paying customers from the boards? That will really drive the final nails into the coffin.
The latest in this saga is that the last patch allowed for super-duper weapons which can deliver so much damage they insta-kill mobs that are much higher level. Combined with the well-known "no armor" bug, some players are leveling at incredible rates.
This of course is an exploit, but it has been going on for so long that it has created an imbalance between those who have and have not used the exploit. I'm not a fan of Mythic, but at least they generally shut down the servers for an emergency patch once an exploit was found. These clowns at Farlan can't even do that. Furthermore, they have asked a PLAYER to post on the forums that on behalf of the GMs and devs to destroy the weapons. Ya, like that's gonna work.
So, now a debate rages on about a server rollback. If they rollback the server a few days, it's going to really annoy half the playerbase. If they don't, the imbalances of the exploiters will not be forgotten. The third option is to go through the code and find the exploiters and roll them back on a case-by-case basis. Given how screwed up the game is, I doubt they have the manpower and resources to do a case-by-case basis in a timely manner.
It's so screwed up now, I actually feel sorry for the fanbois.
I respect that they really want the game to work, but jeez, it's sad when players are abused this much by a defective game.
3 months? Hmm, probably. Definately not longer than 6.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true...
I agree. Watching them now tear at each other is interesting. Guess this is the "maturity" level that is needed to play such a "complex" game eh?
DAMMIT.... I am banned too. I was the first, won't anybody give me credit..? (he he)
-Zvorak