Darkfall

Aventurine - GNi Press Release - Wednesday September 17 2008
Posted by Darkfall News on September 17, 2008 11:41
Aventurine to Launch New Game on GNi's Leading Multiplayer Game Hosting Platform
GNi Selected for Convenience and Scalability

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sep 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Aventurine SA, a developer located in Athens, Greece has selected GNi, a leader in infrastructure-as-a-service, to host their groundbreaking game, Darkfall Online, which is scheduled for release later this year.

"True to our game development philosophy, we demand uncompromising quality for Darkfall's hosting needs. We want it all: world class service, hardware, and bandwidth, while offering competitive pricing and terms flexibility. We also demand game industry knowledge and experience, and, more importantly a shared vision for our game and a long-term relationship. We've found all of this in GNi. We're very impressed with their professionalism and their commitment to the success of Darkfall and Aventurine. We feel very confident we made the right choice and are pleased to be working with them in bringing Darkfall to our customers," said Jade Mehdawi, CEO of Aventurine SA.

"Aventurine is a creative, energetic, quality organization and we are excited to have Darkfall Online running on our platform. The game looks great, offers compelling new experiences and freedom players don't often see with some of the most widely played MMOs. Darkfall offers a rich variety of experiences that will appeal to MMO veterans and new players alike," said Derek Wise, founder and CTO of GNi, Inc.

Darkfall Online Offers Highly Immersive Experience

Darkfall Online is a massive multiplayer online (MMO) fantasy role-playing game featuring a fun, fast-paced, real-time combat system, massive battles, clan warfare and empire building. Darkfall combines role-playing, action, and strategic gameplay. Darkfall has been designed to create intensely realistic and highly immersive combat and a challenging, realistic environment for a more immersive experience. With full collision detection battle lines really matter and well-aimed spell blasts will send opponents flying. Darkfall's goal is to provide players with a fun and challenging experience through a seamless and zoneless, non-instanced, "sandbox" game world.
Game To Be Launched Simultaneously Across 50 Countries
With a projected usage of over ten thousand concurrent users per game world, Aventurine's massive investment in Darkfall will pay off for players across the fifty countries where it will be launched.

About Aventurine and Darkfall:

Aventurine SA is an independent computer games developer located in Athens, Greece. Aventurine is fueled by passion for gaming and game technologies, which motivates and guides our activities. Aventurine's main project is Darkfall Online, a groundbreaking game schedule to launch later in 2008. Development of the game, the technology platform, game engine, and tools began in 2003. The Darkfall team consists of thirty veteran developers. In August 2008, Aventurine secured a publishing deal with Audiovisual Enterprises SA for publishing and distribution of Darkfall in fifty countries.
Visit us at www.darkfallonline.com

About GNi

GNi is the leading infrastructure-as-a-service provider for online games, software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, and online digital media. GNi's infrastructure supports more than 12.8 million users, 425,000 concurrent connected users at peak capacity, and more than 27 titles. GNi delivers rapid scalability with uncompromised performance. GNi solutions thrive in the most demanding online environments and offers variety of smart systems including rapid on-boarding and deployment. GNi is headquartered in San Jose, California with infrastructure facilities located across the globe. For more information please visit www.gni.com.
Note: GNi is a registered trademark of GNi Corporation. All other trademarks are registered property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: GNi

For Aventurine SA:
Tasos Flambouras, +30 210 6897185-6
info@aventurine.gr
or
For GNi:
Chris Tamblyn, 415-464-7076
ctamblyn@gni.com

Copyright Business Wire 2008 End of Story

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

does that imply that this company with ship copies for north america? i hope so

web server provider, not publisher

 atleast they are moving in the right direction

Still good news nonethless :)

i wonder how many people have tried to give tasos a ring since that was first posted, lol

Sad. It was bad enough when distributer was publisher, but now internet host is publisher. How many publishers do they need? (Clue: IF they had a publisher, the publisher would get a distributer and a host for Adventurine, as well as act as a billing agent, do customer support, and pretty much everything else except development.)

Originally posted by roguetech

Sad. It was bad enough when distributer was publisher, but now internet host is publisher. How many publishers do they need? (Clue: IF they had a publisher, the publisher would get a distributer and a host for Adventurine, as well as act as a billing agent, do customer support, and pretty much everything else except development.)

well...GNi isn't serving as a publisher. They are merely hosting a server. But I do agree with your second half of your statement.

Its a VERY bad idea. If the servers crash, the devs cannot go right into the servers and reset them...because they dont own them nor have access to them directly. A lot of people are excited that they have someone to host their servers but it really isnt a good idea.

Also, I agree with the publisher issue.  The current Greek publisher has had VERY limited experience in terms of distrubution...only Greek translated VHS and DVDs. In addition the publisher has had zero gaming distribution experience.  While they may have experience in distributing in Greece, they have zero experience in Technical Issues.

We'll see what happens but it isn't exactly a common road for a game developer to have a VHS/DVD distributor as their publisher.

Its a VERY bad idea. If the servers crash, the devs cannot go right into the servers and reset them...because they dont own them nor have access to them directly. A lot of people are excited that they have someone to host their servers but it really isnt a good idea.

Does any company host their own servers? Blizzard and Sony use AT&T for hosting.

If outsourced server hosting works for them then why not DF?

Also I do not agree that the Greek distributor is inexperienced as they handle distribution, and I would presume translation, in Greece for some major Hollywood studio's. 

There is no discernable difference between movie distribution and games distribution, in most retail outlets where games are on display there are movies right next to them in identical packaging. 

What about server remote administration ?

It is possible ...

If AVE can deliver any hollywood dream since 1962 they sure should be able to ship the DarkFall CD..