Aventurine has officially announced a 14-day free trial for their PvP-centric fantasy MMORPG known as Darkfall. Lead developer Tasos Flambouras brings us the good news via the game's forums.
"After our experience with the 1 euro/dollar trial and after several further improvements we feel that we're ready to offer a free trial which won't disrupt the current user experience and will help with making the game available to a larger playerbase and getting new players into the game," he writes. He goes on to state that North American and European customers will receive priority handling in the event of overcrowding.
You can check out the European trial client or the American trial client to get started.
[Thanks to everyone who let us know!]
Reader Comments (16)
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 1:32PM (Unverified) said
Could this have anything to do with the impending launch of Mortal Online?
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 5:36PM Monkey D Luffy said
Mortal Online sucks tho, why would Darkfall, the top PVP MMO, need to worry about an unfinished game like that?
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Posted: Jun 3rd 2010 11:40AM Valdamar said
"Mortal Online sucks tho, why would Darkfall, the top PVP MMO, need to worry about an unfinished game like that?"
Because when you have a really small/niche playerbase any similar MMO coming out is a threat to your game's existence?
Or maybe Darkfall's pay-for-trial was a complete flop and this is just Aventurine doing what they should have done in the first place.
Anyway surely EVE is the top open PvP MMO in terms of subscribers (and it probably still has less subscribers than the total number of regular/active players on all of WoW's PvP servers).
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Because when you have a really small/niche playerbase any similar MMO coming out is a threat to your game's existence?
Or maybe Darkfall's pay-for-trial was a complete flop and this is just Aventurine doing what they should have done in the first place.
Anyway surely EVE is the top open PvP MMO in terms of subscribers (and it probably still has less subscribers than the total number of regular/active players on all of WoW's PvP servers).
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 1:32PM DrewIW said
Awesome.
I'll have to give it a try to see if it's improved since launch.
I'll have to give it a try to see if it's improved since launch.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 2:06PM (Unverified) said
An image that is not from the early beta would have been nice to use in the header. Not really putting Darkfall in a good light by putting up that image.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 2:29PM (Unverified) said
Wait, they've improved the graphics since the NA severs went online?
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 3:21PM Keen and Graev said
That image used actually paints a far better picture of Darkfall than the actual in-game graphics.
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 2:20PM (Unverified) said
Wont that kill their potential for future sales though? As someone that tried Darkfall I can tell you the first few levels make you just wanna crawl through the screen and punch the noobie stalkers on the other side. This is one of those classic pvp games where if you weren't in the first group at release to level up your going to be meat for some bored 12 year old. Grit your teeth, log out for awhile, log back in, and hope his mom called him away from the computer long enough for you to get at least some clothes back and possibly a level....until another bored kid shows up
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 2:25PM (Unverified) said
Ive been playing Darkfall since day one... on EU then made a new toon on NA... great game ... give it a try.
I tried the Mortal beat and boy that game is not ready.
I tried the Mortal beat and boy that game is not ready.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 5:14PM (Unverified) said
Wow, what's up with the pre-beta screen shot? It look's a lot better than that, assuming that you have a decent system.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 6:06PM (Unverified) said
sanarchy go away and stop trolling.
"As someone that tried Darkfall I can tell you the first few levels make you just wanna crawl through the screen "
Darkfall has NO LEVELS, stupid troll
"As someone that tried Darkfall I can tell you the first few levels make you just wanna crawl through the screen "
Darkfall has NO LEVELS, stupid troll
Posted: Jun 4th 2010 9:02AM Seraphina Brennan said
Nero,
Please refrain from attacking other commenters directly. The person you are responding to was able to give a situation he related to, while your comment only serves as an attack.
Instead, why not tell us why he's wrong? Give us a few examples of how the game isn't actually like that. Tell us more about the game, not attack others.
Thank you in advance,
~Sera
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Please refrain from attacking other commenters directly. The person you are responding to was able to give a situation he related to, while your comment only serves as an attack.
Instead, why not tell us why he's wrong? Give us a few examples of how the game isn't actually like that. Tell us more about the game, not attack others.
Thank you in advance,
~Sera
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 9:06PM Aetrix said
Ugh... Just gave it a whirl again for the first time since launch. I simply cannot stand fumbling around with their bizzare control system... Seemed like PvE has been made much more lucrative though. I was able to make several hundred gold in about half an hour at the goblin camp. Didn't get to PvP because of the newbie timer... Honestly the game would be halfway decent if the controls weren't so frustrating.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 10:09PM (Unverified) said
Would of been a decent game maybe 7 years ago. I tried it and just did not understand how intentionally making the controls frustrating makes it a superior game. Looting takes at least 4 steps, combat is repetitive even for an MMO....
sorry...there is nothing here unless you love self-punishment.
sorry...there is nothing here unless you love self-punishment.
Posted: Jun 4th 2010 5:53PM (Unverified) said
Seraphina Brennan said...
Instead, why not tell us why he's wrong?
What part of "Darkfall has NO LEVELS," did you not understand?
Seraphina Brennan said...
"The person you are responding to was able to give a situation he related to"
He was lying.
I'll say it again, Darkfall has NO LEVELS, if the guy im responding talks about "the first few levels" obviously he is
a)Lying
b)Trolling
c)Very confused
I'm not saying Darkfall is a good or a bad game, just the fact that is a game without character levels and anyone who logged in DF for a single minute must know that already
Instead, why not tell us why he's wrong?
What part of "Darkfall has NO LEVELS," did you not understand?
Seraphina Brennan said...
"The person you are responding to was able to give a situation he related to"
He was lying.
I'll say it again, Darkfall has NO LEVELS, if the guy im responding talks about "the first few levels" obviously he is
a)Lying
b)Trolling
c)Very confused
I'm not saying Darkfall is a good or a bad game, just the fact that is a game without character levels and anyone who logged in DF for a single minute must know that already
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