Do you like Darkfall? Does it go above and beyond the call of duty, insofar as paying a company a monthly subscription for their game can be described as a duty? Or, if you would consider your love for the game somewhat more pedestrian, would you be willing to go above and beyond for the tune of five thousand dollars? (Yes, yes, read it in the Dr. Evil voice if you must.) Then you may want to take a look at the recently announced contest on the official forums, the celebration of the game's birthday with the new "I Love Darkfall" contest.
Thraiax made the official announcement, calling for the game's fans to do... well... whatever they see fit. The contest makes no distinctions about how a fan shows their love, be it a video, artwork, or something completely out of left field. All that matters is that it shows the depth of your love for the game. The best entry, judged by the staff, will receive a whopping $5,000 prize, proof that love can indeed pay your bills. More will be revealed in the next few days, but for the time being, start thinking of how best to show your love. (Flowers probably won't work here.)
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 1:17PM (Unverified) said
This article gets +10 Rep for the gratuitous use of Motown.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 1:30PM Snow Leopard said
Anything to show your love?!!? As in…ANYTHING?!?!!?
My god. I foresee several children being named “Darkfall“ by the end of this contest. Such recklessness.
My god. I foresee several children being named “Darkfall“ by the end of this contest. Such recklessness.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 1:38PM kazamxi said
This is all part of AVs thinking different style of advertising.
Rather than paying tens of thousands of Euros to sites such as Massively or mmorpg.com they reward the fans.
First they introduced The Darkfall Community Publishing Program where they pay the people who refer new players to DF 20% of the revenue they generate on the sale of the game. This isn't free game time of free in game items but cold hard cash. This is prob less of a margin than they would have to give a retail shop if they sold the game
Now they introduce a huge cash reward for promoting DF through whatever means you can come up with. Only the winner will get the reward, but everyone who enters helps promote DF.
This is all on top of the screenshot and video contests where they gave out free game time and sweet graphics cards.
Why pay publishers/retail shops/websites when you can get better results and reward those who play and love your game?
Rather than paying tens of thousands of Euros to sites such as Massively or mmorpg.com they reward the fans.
First they introduced The Darkfall Community Publishing Program where they pay the people who refer new players to DF 20% of the revenue they generate on the sale of the game. This isn't free game time of free in game items but cold hard cash. This is prob less of a margin than they would have to give a retail shop if they sold the game
Now they introduce a huge cash reward for promoting DF through whatever means you can come up with. Only the winner will get the reward, but everyone who enters helps promote DF.
This is all on top of the screenshot and video contests where they gave out free game time and sweet graphics cards.
Why pay publishers/retail shops/websites when you can get better results and reward those who play and love your game?
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 3:06PM alucard3000 said
maybe they should just award the people that want to play their game and not make them pay for 2 extra months to get a deal on the original price w/o a box might draw some more revenue just my 2 cents
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 3:20PM wjowski said
If there's one group I'd rather not have running around advertising Darkfall, it's Darkfall fans.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:10PM Nottom said
Given the sort of people that enjoy Darkfall I predict that this won't end well.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:23PM (Unverified) said
What sort of people like Darkfall? Please explain.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:27PM (Unverified) said
What is it about the Darkfall fans? Why would an obvious non-fan care?
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:40PM (Unverified) said
The only redeeming quality I can conjure up about Darkfall is that it lasted a year.
The devs must be aching for some praise for their ass-backwards game, enough to pay players to speak glowingly about it.
The devs must be aching for some praise for their ass-backwards game, enough to pay players to speak glowingly about it.
Posted: Mar 5th 2010 5:56AM Misterlee said
I'll show them my love by sending them a 'How to make 3D game characters' book.








