Azaroth

Phase 2… nerd tears?

Hello, this is a small update on our current activities:

Since September the 22nd we’ve been running tests to make sure that Darkfall runs properly on a variety of hardware configurations. Any external people are being selected strictly by their hardware configuration and are selected and let in gradually. Absolutely no other criteria come into play other than hardware. Also, we are not playtesting. If you are selected for this hardware test you will be notified by email to the address associated with your Darkfall community forum account.

Once we’ve concluded this phase, we will gradually allow more people in based on various other criteria associated with the testing needs. We may not announce the start of every phase. All the testing up to the open beta phase is protected by NDA.

About the Athens Digital Week event, there will be a Darkfall presentation and possibly announcements based on our progress by then. Any information on the ADW site concerning Darfall is currently inaccurate and a placeholder. We’re not directly responsible for this content but we’ve asked for the information to be corrected.

We’ll keep you updated on any significant developments.

Thanks for reading.

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=70992

It seems as though this COULD actually be happening. I don’t say *is*, because I’ve seen them do this before. And, well, it’s been nearly a decade since they started development. In fact, you’ll notice that Azaroth was one of the earliest registered usernames on their forum. Way back in 2001.

Now, in my experience, these are nice guys. I slam them a bit, but you don’t really get any slack after 8 years of a whole lot of no game. Not to mention a whole lot of broken promises. You just can’t expect it.

I also get the feeling that the entire thing is going to end up being one big broken promise. I’ll send my ex-girlfriend over. She knows how to handle THAT shit without letting anyone get away with it.

So here we are, on the precipice of despair. Take the leap, my fellow oldschoolies. Ye of too much faith.

Because once you realize that Darkfall either:

a) crashes, lags, clunks, and plays like it was developed by people learning on the fly, or
b) fails miserably for the exact same reasons IPY did, crashing and burning because they got exactly what they wanted (or all of the above, of course)

Well, then you’re fucked is what, Bob.

Will I eat crow and be completely wrong? Will Darkfall release without a hitch, handle every problem that nobody else could very smoothly and be EVERYTHING to EVERYONE - especially UO players?

No. Of course not.

Wow, I’m tough today. Why not just “Hey, we’ll see. Maybe they can pull it off”.

Well, that’d be the RIGHT thing to do.

Besides, I’m cheering for them. Really, I’ve been the biggest Darkfall cheerleader in the world for a very, very long time now.

I’m just realistic, and I’ve handled this playerbase before. Beyond that, I think we’ve all seen what happens when indies attempt a AAA MMO. Yeah, tends not to work out.

But hey, go for it you crazy Sweeks. At least someone is trying.