Will Darkfall be important to the genre?

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Important to the niche market it's aiming at, but not important to the genre. It's a refuge to jaded and hardcore gamers and while they may enjoy that refuge with relative success, the major mmo's will still be enjoying their majority of the overall market and know that there's very little they need to change to keep them.

The success of darkfall (which is the only thing worth worrying about atm) will only have an impact on smaller, independent developers shwoing that they can succeed by utlilising the majority of the minority.

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I totally agree with Vidarr ; important to the niche, not to the market.

Since every single hardcore aspect trumpeted completely repels me, I don't much about the innovations side... but even if it is in fact just an old school MMO with current generation graphics then that still sounds like a lucrative little makret to tap.

I don't like the WorldIV article finale though ; biggest playerbase & profitability ever is hardly the MMOs industry's "feudal dark ages", and I'm skeptical that reviving features previously eliminated by natural selection constitutes shiny new thinking.

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