Don't get too excited about Darkfall it is still in its "honeymoon" period.

Like it says in the article we saw much the same thing with WAR and AoC, big numbers at the release dropping very fast because people get bored.

I know I'm sick of WAR already, first two weeks back were great, public quests still suck, did lots of RvR didn't see many bugs, third week was ok, did lots of RvR didn't see many bugs, fourth week was boring did lots of RvR didn't see too many bugs, after one month I'm done with the game, not even tomb kings and slayers can get me reinterested.