Will Darkfall be important to the genre?

This is nostalgia, not innovation.

But anyway, I predict that it's massive failure will be due to quality of implementation, not quality of ideas.

I've been one of the people who has always cried vaporware. However, with the anouncement of the release date, I have taken more notice in the game.


Even if you had free roaming PvP, I think darkfall (If done correctly) will be an important game to the genre. Current MMORPG's boast a very liner fashion of playing and progression, and as a gamer I feel sad to think I missed out of the old days where one could just roam around the world, set out their own path. The only chance I had was playing UO on a friends PC when I was 11/12 years old.


Still, I hope that the game will do well. I hope that it will deliver on what it promises. The genre needs a game like this to show MMORPG gamers and, more importantly, the WoW crowd that there is more than one way to make an MMO. Not all MMO's need to be focused around an item grind!

And really, darkfall has a long journey ahead of it. As evidented by posts above we have a lot of players still trailing on this idea that loot in darkfall will be like loot in WoW, when it isn't even close. I think that even PvE players should be excited about this game, because it brings a whole new level to the experience. Instead of just grinding a dungeon you go out, you explore for once and make your own path.


God I hope this game is good.

Darkfall is always being bashed for taking too long. But think, real-time shadows, real-time combat with backstabbing doing more damage, mounted combat, naval warfare, real-time projectile simulation, real-time chopped-head simulation, super scale differences, a player-driven economy, a huge world, an extensive set of skills, and a dynamic progression system. If Darkfall kicks off well, and makes a profit, it will show that developers should put great effort into all of their game systems, and not be afraid to put in extra years to add more. The payoff is of course more continual revenues.

"the once-hated ganking and player killing"

Don't you mean still hated?

It's certainly pushing my 'avoid avoid AVOID!' buttons. Along with 'die in a fire' and 'the sooner this game is a unlamented failure, the better'.

The reason I don't play WOW is because I don't enjoy the treadmill-like nature of the game. I enjoy playing open-ended games, especially ones where I can have an effect on the environment and story. If Darkfall has those features than I will be happy, at least. I think a lot of people will be turned off by the PvP elements.

I've been waiting for darkfall for some time now, not as an incredible fanboy , I don't even know any of its lore for that matter. All I know is that they've taken a lot of design from Ultima Online (pre-uor) which I loved.

I do not want it to become the next WoW, that would kill the game with all the crybabies. I want it to have a stable and decent playerbase, which doesn't have to be millions. Most of the people looking forward to darkfall are not at all expecting WoW players to be convinced to play it, most hope they aren't.
I do agree that this game is perhaps suited for only 10% of the entire mmo player population, but this 10% has been trying mmo's for 1-2 months every single time one is released and quit because of disappointment. It's about time we get a shot at an mmo that actually starts out with ideas we approve.

All that's left now is to hope that they managed to transform their ideas into a solid implementation.

I feel darkfall has the potential to be everything EVE has become and more depending on its execution. As some people previously stated the game must be technically sound at launch. With launches of mmorpgs being SO important to their success technicalities can cripple mmo's before they even get off the launching pad. One of the hugest things that makes WOW so successful is that it is such a technically sound game. WOW easily has the best game engine and is very user friendly these days, this must be present at launch I feel. If the game launches well I feel the game will succeed and I will be one of the many playing it. The market is there and waiting for a game like this to come take the reigns once again.

I'm very anxious about the upcoming DF release.

Not, because it is especially innovative. Most of its features have been either implemented or discussed in in the developmentof other MMOs.

But if Darkfall succeeds, it will demonstrate that there is indeed a market for MMOs that don't walk the theme park road (i. e. taking your customers by the hand like little children and trying to prevent them from ever losing anything).

If Darkfall succeeds on the same level as EVE Online currently does, I'm hoping to be able to play this type of game for a long time in the upcoming years.

If Darkfall fails (due to technical problems, most probably), this will also mean the demise of any following sand box MMO like Mortal Online or others. And it will probably force me to quit the MMO genre and play casual games 24/7 out of depression. =D

The only impact it will have -- and I wholeheartedly admit it will be a positive one -- is that it will give sandbox enthusiasts a place to go so they can quit clogging up other games' message boards about how every game in the world would be better if it were sandbox.

It will also give the rest of us the ammo we need against them. We will be able to tell them "Yes, someone finally made the game you've been dying for all these years, and guess what? We still don't like sandboxes or open PvP. Now go have fun and leave us alone."