Darkfall's US server to launch today

Quite frankly, any interest I ever might have had in this game is completely gone. I can't think of another more horribly launched game in the past.

The forum comments on the thread linked in this article scream "Danger, Will Robinson!"

Does this game run on mac?

I really want to try this game, as I absolutely love PvP MMO's, and the release of a NA server makes it even more tempting.

But being that MMO's are just so "hit or miss", it's tough to make the jump without a beta or trial period, especially for a game with such a rocky release and mixed reviews...

C'mon gimme trial!

I was there at the start... have one thing to say... f$*k Tasos and that stupid game.

Well...so far the US launch has been perfect. Looks like EU got conned into our paid beta. :P

I'm disappointed that there isn't a more audible uproar about the fact that they're charging people who've already purchased accounts a second time to make new characters. I can appreciate why they would not want a new server immediately populated by thousands of experienced characters, but to not let people delete their characters and restart new on the North American server is an underhanded moneygrab for players willing to support their niche product.

and the best part?

EU is still as full as it was!

@doubles MMOsmacktalk is a good pod cast that looks at DFO compared to other games.

@szsleepy: Then you should just stop playing MMOs. Damncheaters is currently working on getting hacks working for the majority of MMOs coming out in the next year, and is currently working on by passing blizzard's Warren system.

You know I just went a read most of the new North American website and I have to say they did a great job with it, it makes the game look very appealing to even me who knows that buying it would be a dodgey venture. I'm thinking about buy a copy and giving it a try. Perhaps this slow and hard to get method of release will let it grow like EvE and will have avoided the big crash and burn of AoC and WAR. I'm starting to wonder if Adventurine isn't smarter then we all give them credit for.

The first 18 hours of my experience with Darkfall (and the last):

You won't have to worry about the PvP wooping your face in, as you will most likely get frustrated to all hell before you even get into the game.

Right from the setting up of an account and billing information to just be able to find out how much the game will cost, to the 2 hour process before the purchase actually went through, to the 14 hours before the game would launch and actually connect to the only server available after being installed, 18 hours in to my experience and still being in one of the starter areas for the dwarves with 5 mobs killed and a sever shock as to the unfinished-unprofessional-incomplete-horrifically-bad-controls, Darkfall is definitely NOT a game worth wasting time on let alone $50. Save yourself a headache, and go play another game, any game. Seriously! Even tic-tac-toe. This game has been my worst experience in games hands down, ever.

the controls, aside from W,A,S & D for movement, are nothing like a first person shooter. there is way more to the incomplete and clunky controls than just brushing it off saying "aww someone doesn't like it cause it's not click interface." I have played a lot of games with no click interface, and this one doesn't even come close to smooth controls.

I'll give an example of why I say the controls are clunky, and this is the simplest of them. In order to use your rest ability, which you raise your skill in by sitting around on your duff, you must first right click your mouse so that you can select the ability you want to use on your hotbar (unless you are already in the moving interface from having right clicked already), put away your weapon by pressing R, in this case it is rest; then you must hit left mouse to use the ability even though it is in one of the hotkey slots on your hotbar.

Sounds simple, yes? It's not until you've had your arse handed to you a few dozen times trying to slug it out and figure out what to do in the game that you figure out the most basic of controls like this as there are no descriptions of how things are used or work in the game, all there are is hard code descriptions when you hover above the skills in the skill window or hotbar that look similar to a_RestSkill_Description. There were half a dozen people in the global chat trying to get someone to help them figure out how to use the rest ability, which most of them hadn't even discovered existed at that point. We finally managed to figure it out 15 minutes later.

I appreciate that some people will slug it out and call this a hardcore MMO gamers experience, as they desperately want this game to be THEE game, but after having played almost every MMO since Ultima Online on, I can honestly say go play something that will give you the satisfaction of having done something enjoyable at the end of the day, instead of elevating this incomplete lump to the level of "Hardcore" just because it's experience is centered around PvP.

you must be missing the part where I mentioned trying to use skills from your hotbar. It was in slot 7 but when I used it I had to then left click for it to actually use the skill. As I said, this was the simplest function used as an example as this should be a one button press that is commonly referred to as a sit option in other games. Why make thing needlessly complicated, or have extra steps when it is not necessary? Things got worse and more complicated from here. I appreciate that you find this to be THEE hardcore experience for yourself, but this is by no means a game worth shelling out $50 for.

I bought this game when I could first pre order it thinking I would have access to the NA launch as well since it felt like such a paid beta... But nope. we have to buy yet another copy of the game to do that??

I was going to come back and see how the game was doing after it got a few more months of clean up but now I will just ignore it. I feel betrayed