Wakfu celebrates President's Day by detailing its political system

by Jef Reahard on Feb 21st 2011 1:00PM

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Unless you're a school kid or a federal employee, you might not have known that today is a U.S. national holiday. Yep, it's President's Day, and aside from being a spectacularly silly reason for taking a day off from work, it also marks an opportunity for the developers of Wakfu to hype the game's political system.

The upcoming MMO from the makers of DOFUS allows for players to run for the governorship of their nation, accessing privileged information on zone status, weather forecasts, and the number of mobs roaming the wilds. All of this info comes via interaction with Clan Member NPCs, and these select members of Wakfu's elite ruling class have been "granted special powers by the ancient gods," according to a new press release.

Potential player governors will need to declare their candidacy and gather votes, and if they're lucky enough to secure a victory, they will then have two weeks with which to "regulate laws and sales taxes." There's no word on whether Wakfu politicians can indulge in fiscal irresponsibility or illicit affairs, but player governors can declare war and attempt to conquer the territories of neighboring nations. Head to the official website for more info, and check out four new screens of the political system in action courtesy of our Wakfu gallery.

Wakfu beta screens

Source: Wakfu website

Tags: clan-member, declare-war, dofus, f2p, free-to-play, galleries, gallery, governor, player-governors, political-system, politics, screenshots, wakfu, war

Reader Comments (4)

I really looking forward this game.
This and GW2 are my games for 2011, too bad i missed the key giveaway.

I feel bad, I grabbed two beta keys (since you told me to sign up in EU but I live in NA, I had to get another for NA) and yet still can't get the game working. It won't let me download the NA client, and the EU client won't let me play.

Hope the eventual release is less screwed up.

...and then a million bots come and vote for kama-merchant ;)

PS: Also tried beta, but was crashing on the char creation.

The graphics are a little twee but I'm intrigued by the implementation of an actual political system. Could be interesting to see what emergent structures develop over time.