Darkfall

The MMORPG.COM message board are full of buzz about Darkfall. Over the past several days, I've seen several posters mention DF on non-DF boards. This is exciting news for Adventurine... but if by the end of the year Adventurine fails to prove they have a product, will the game lose all credibility? Or do you think people will continue to plug Darkfall as "the next big thing" ?

Whether or not it loses credibility, I'm not sure. All I know is, the game has been in development for so long, and people have hyped it up so much in their own minds that I doubt it can live up to their standards of what they think it will be like.

I can only imagine at the moment all of the hate threads here after the supposed release occurs.

Originally posted by Kien

The MMORPG.COM message board are full of buzz about Darkfall. Over the past several days, I've seen several posters mention DF on non-DF boards. This is exciting news for Adventurine... but if by the end of the year Adventurine fails to prove they have a product, will the game lose all credibility? Or do you think people will continue to plug Darkfall as "the next big thing" ?

As history shows people will complain and claim they give up on DF... but they will continue to watch and hope.

If they fail to deliver in 08 this wont be the first time they pushed it back.

Agreed with Gajari.

I have a feeling that when the game is out, it will suck not because of the developer/management but because people here hyped it waaay too much.

Originally posted by Kien

The MMORPG.COM message board are full of buzz about Darkfall. Over the past several days, I've seen several posters mention DF on non-DF boards. This is exciting news for Adventurine... but if by the end of the year Adventurine fails to prove they have a product, will the game lose all credibility? Or do you think people will continue to plug Darkfall as "the next big thing" ?

First off, I wanted to point out the name of the company is Aventurine (no 'd').

As for your questions, credibility loss will happen on some level since Tasos has said officially in a couple different posts that the game will release before the end of the year.  After all, the games development history (delaying beta fromm 2005 to 2008, 7+ years of development, infrequent and limited details released, etc.) has been shaky for this small start-up company.

However, if the delay is minimal and explained in detail, people should continue to be hyped for this game since it offers different game mechanics then the typical themepark MMO.

With WAR and WotLK in their prime is it really the time to release an experimental MMO?  If they were to release it now (i know they said they would) i think it woudl be a guaranteed failure.  I know that you cant wait for all the competition to disapate, but these two games are juggernaughts in the market, and if you try and take them down while they are new and exciting, you are doomed for failure.  I personally have wanted to play this game for a few years, but if it were to come out tommorow I would probably save my money considering how much fun each of these two games is, maybe if you roll around in 3 months and i'm bored, you'll stand a better shot.

It might lose some some credability with the very insignificant percentage of gamers that are affirmed darkfall haters and other people that spend too much time caring about such things.  I think most people realise that delays happen and won't be too fazed by it.  It's not going to have any impact on eventual sales of the game.

People have been following this game literally for years. Whether they deliver this year or early next, I do not see the die-hard fans losing hope.

I think the only time people will totally give up on the dream that is Darkfall is when it is cancelled or whatnot.

Originally posted by Xiliaro

...maybe if you roll around in 3 months and i'm bored, you'll stand a better shot.

There are a lot of people, myself included, that are already bored with current MMO Themepark games and are dying for a Sandbox game like Darkfall.

Originally posted by Ltldogg

There are a lot of people, myself included, that are already bored with current MMO Themepark games and are dying for a Sandbox game like Darkfall.

This goes back to what Gajari said:

What exactly is Darkfall?  I have been interested for a little while but I am having trouble finding actual, confirmed, concrete Dev posts on half the stuff I have seen some of the Darkfall Fanbois state is "definately in the game".

I have read some of the Dev Journals like this one http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/devjournals/darkfalljournals/2868-Darkfall-Dev-Journal-23-Tasos-Answers-29-Fan-Questions
but it interests me that answers like:
Fan Question: What will the construction system be like? Also, will players be able to create a city in mountains or in underground locations?

Tasos Flambouras: I'm not going to directly answer this question because we intend to show you at some point how the construction system works. Describing it here is not descriptive enough. We've said before that "building anywhere" is relative. In Darkfall you can't build in any location you want, but this provides with unique clan cities built in awesome locations. So your clan city can be built on top of a glacier, have a waterfall hiding its entrance, be built on several levels on the side and in caverns inside a mountain, have secret underwater entrances, on a remote island...that kind of thing.

Seem to have somehow been changed to "you can build anything anywhere!" in the minds of some Fanbois?  (That is certainly not how I read it?)

I can't help but think the 'community' is setting this game up for failure?