Darkfall's US server to launch today

Glad to see you can easily buy the game now. I'm so tempted to try this game out but I'm worried about getting frustrated by getting my ass kicked all the time in PvP, especially when a "try" costs me $50. Some days, I like to just adventure around in my MMOs. You guys think there's a game in there for me? I'll go read some recent reviews.

"While the account management is working and you can create an account, the shop is currently offline and unable to take new purchases of the game"

You think they would of got this right this time around.

So glad I never tried this.

This game is is obviously called DARKFAIL for a reason.

2/10 for a reason

Tasos justified the cost of the new client and transfer by twice referring to the fact that the rights to the game belonged to two different parties. We know AudioVisual is the publisher/distributor for Europe, but who's the publisher/distributor for North America? Barring any other evidence, it appears that Aventurine is self-publishing. That's pretty shady for two reasons:

1) By referring the the rights belong to two separate parties, they imply the participation of a North American publisher. If they're self-publishing, why not just say so? it's a lie by omission.

2) If they're self-publishing, they've cut out the middle-man. Good for them. The problem is they're using the "separate parties" argument to justify charging for the NA client and transfer fees (and there will be fees, per the link you provided: "Certain restrictions and charges will apply, to be announced at a later date."). If they're self-publishing then there's no other publisher/distributor to pay. I can see having to pay AudioVisual for them to release accounts for transfer, but what about new accounts on the NA Server? Why charge existing clients at all if they want to start a brand new character? It seems exceedingly greedy and misleading.

~Ripper

Unless you have a severe hard-on for high fantasy, you'd be better off playing EVE.

@ double9s I'm the person who runs that blog. The things that he complains about are vaild to a point but you should of read my response to the post. The hacking in the game isn't "rampant." Like any PvP game you may run into 1-2 hackers a month unless you are unlucky. The rest of the stuff he complained about has been fixed by the expansion i.e player housing is in game now, crafting has been upgraded again, and the grind has been reduced again through more drops off of PvE and Mobs giving higher skill gains than players now.

http://bannerfall.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/edit-objective-review-of-dfo/ has a review of the game prior to the expansion as well. Note: The exploiting has been fixed for the most part by making mobs more intelligent and having them despawn a little quicker.

The shop is up and the game is awesome!

I just bought a copy, happy :D

Bought a copy, happy :D

So many retracts and edits in the original post that I almost thought it was written by Tasos himself! :-D