wIPe tHEn aLL !

From this update I still don’t get wat will be the fate of Darkfall 1 and characters on it. Is it worth playing or not?

I’m sorry for beeing a bitch, but I’ve still never seen sails with rough/sharp edges all over.

I want to make this perfectly clear Tasos.

The only information I care about at this stage is your strategy for how to handle a wide range of pings in a full loot pvp game. To date this has not been clear. In fact, your tactics have been destructive in terms of creating a loyal customer base. The move of the US server without warning was abysmal.

You can create the best pvp game ever, but I am not going to experience it with 300 ping.

You will not get any further feedback, cooperation or support from me until your strategy for managing ping is made clear.

You either have to a) better distribute your servers to reduce ping (and be open and honest about it beforehand) or b) change the game mechanics so that someone with a high ping is not unfairly disadvantaged.

I look forward to reading more about this topic from you.

It occurs to me that one easy way to appease the people worrying about the wipe question would be to say that even if there is a wipe the stats of your current char will be refunded in meditation points for your 2.0 char. I personally don’t care about a wipe at this point. More importantly I will need to be convinced that DF 2.0 will actually be worth playing since the game in its current state hasn’t been worth my time or money for months.

I like a lot of the ideas AV talks about, but so far the execution has been lackluster. At this rate I am beginning to think that Elder Scrolls online will be more likely to actually exist, launch sooner and be the better game.

thing is, anyone of the above posters believe anything mentioned by the biggest troll forumfall has ever given birth to?

I’d be interested to know if you’ll be improving security in towns, It’s rather frustrating to be randomly killed by people while you’re banking or just passing through what should be a relatively safe area, watch them loot you casually and then just stroll off. It also means that many people I’ve tried to get the game have left. It’s one thing to have an open rules world, it’s another when it’s taken too far, people lose interest, and it’s no longer fun because you don’t actually get the chance to do whatever you want, you’re too busy replacing your gear and running back to where to were going.

Isn’t the point of it so that people can do whatever they want in in an exciting and dynamic world? That doesn’t happen if certain people can just take that whole experience away.

More pillow talk, you never fail me Tasos.

That screenshot has enough incorrectly rendered objects to make me think its not from a ‘playable’ anything.

If you guys are going to go full Duke Nukem at least put up believable screenshots.

Another Bullshit update that says nothing. Some people would rather not redo their characters. No matter if it took 3 minutes to get to the level they are right now. If it’s not going to make a difference, why bother?

1. he said that they’ll be more ‘communicative’. lets hope for at least one blog a week. it would be nice also if they’d update the information on the launcher, some of it shows from march of 11 or earlier.

2. at this point im curious NOT about the wipe, but how they plan to compensate everyone FOR the wipe. I’d be happy to see everyone start at 0 again. but fear that if it happens they will offset the new balance by giving “gimme’s” and catering to the complaints of lost coins, or lost experience, or lost ‘im a badass’. if they wipe it should be complete, total, and unforgiving and WITHOUT any sort of apology or ‘make up’ attempt. face it guys, if the playing field is going to be even, it has to be completely even.

3. city protection has always been an issue. noobs have been forced to attempt to stay within tower range due to the stupidity of griefers. i still contend that there needs to be some sort of better protection for noobs. i agree that if you’re at the bank, in an npc city, nobody should be able to touch you regardless of ‘war dec’ or any other excuse. banks should be safe as well as npc merchants.

4. they need to implement some sort of system to prevent ‘farming’ of city nodes. something like only being able to hit a node within tower range once within 24 hours. you’d be amazed how many times i run through a starter city and see some vet decked out in full plate standing side by side with an ALT farming nodes, and the poor noobs have no way of finishing the wisdom quests because of it.

5. the recent rash of packet hacking, lag switching, radar usage, and archery desynching, is something i hope they’ll be able to control with 2.0. it amazes me to no end that 12 people can report someone for an illegal hacking type activity with proof via fraps, screenshots and ‘during the act’ gm reports, and the player(s) are still in the game the next day.

6. any new ‘testing’ should include current ACTIVE accounts, not just a select few. i would also be happy to ‘participate’ in the testing.

7. server locations, everyone knows that ping is a major concern for the game. the recent mistake of a free weekend has caused ping and server lag to be cata’clysmically horrible. its not a question of where to put ‘the server’. they placed it in the appropriate place for the game base. what they need to do is equalize the game so that the player in australia with 300 ping has no difference or disadvantage to game play when compared to or pitted against the player that lives a block away from the server. i’ve lost gear many times because my ping is much higher than “the other guy”. its an issue that needs to be addressed.

8. they need to hire more GM’s or figure out some way of monitoring the game for cheaters/hackers. its my honest opinion that darkfalls biggest downfall, has been the exploiting/hacking client base and more strict rules for violators are needed.

9. im tired of seeing the spammed messages of gold sales, etc etc on all channels. get rid of the gold farmers that are taking nodes from regular players and if you dont want to kill them off because of subscriptions lost, at least restrict their advertising to the ‘trade’ channel as it should be and implement some system to keep them from farming in cities.

10. harvesting nodes… its strange to me, that things like selentine and other rare ores have such ‘random’ drop rates. one of the most commoly used ores, selentine, is so rare that the price for it is three to four times the cost of other rares, yets its the most ‘needed’ ore. there should be a ‘pyramid’ of drop rates instead of the ‘random’ drops for these ores. the ore needed to make dragon and infernal armors, or rank 60 and higher weapons should not be easier to get than the ore required for ‘rank 1′ armorsmith/weaponsmith mastery items. if its a ‘mid range’ armor, the drop rate should be mid range. for ‘rare armor’ types, the drop rates for ores and mats should be ‘rare’.

11. cheese, why is it that you can only get cheese from goblins, and that only ‘noobish’ players can obtain said cheese when its an ingredient to one of the best and longest lasting cooked foods? either expand the menu to include more options of available cooked foods or make the ingredients more easily obtainable. the ‘grave’ rate of goblins to higher level players is not as consistent as with lower level players. beside, why give the griefer vet community another excuse to lurk in noob areas? dragon milk cheese anyone? cheese by the way may seem to be a cheesy topic, but, its only ONE example of horrible drop rates. sorta like selentine as mentioned earlier. balance needs to be put in the game.

Yep, he is gonna wipe. Even with all the vague shit.

Remaining development work, without going into any details right now, consists of:

New apparel creation
audio work completion (environmental themes, music, special effects). I have to say that the new sound and music system are simply awesome.
Game Balancing
Work on the new crafting system
Work on new mechanisms related to the economy and the marketplace
Engine related work having to do with animation system improvements, network code, normal mapping, tools, etc.
New Interface work and implementation
Work on the Magic system
Completion of Monster works
Completion of Quests
Remaining work on new Skill system and new skills
Warfare, new concepts
New Weapons, integration and balancing
Remaining Worldbuilding tasks
Beta Organization
Launch procedures
Various marketing activities
IM kind of curios what has actually been done if you have all that still on the TO DO LIST.

may as well make df free and all x4 again … it just died in the game(for real, im there now) because of this post. thanks for being truthful about what you have yet to do. that took nerve. if you can do it in less than one year, wow.

U added EMBM on water and calling it new lighting system? it`s not even funny, list of TODO is telling that you did nothing about Darkfall 2.0 this years…
And please do something with hackers in your “game”

The game is so different that wipe is of little significance?!?
- Are you kidding me?

We worked for years to get to where we are now and to earn what we have now. The brave players that keep playing are working for something. This is a friggin RPG for us. Do you realize that we worked hard and we are emotionally attached to the things we own and our skills/stats?

I have 4 large villas and guest rooms. They are located in Ehetil, Three Pirates, Harjik and Khalbun. This didn’t come for free and I also have a very good character that I sacrificed real life things to build up. I also have a bank that I saved and nurtured through months and years of PvE.

Do you know that I did it for the future just as much as I did it for the moment? I’m not only a PKer. I’m a builder and a gatherer as well. I like to stay proud of myself and what I’ve accomplished through the thousands of hours I’ve spent in this game.

I respect Av for keeping economy and money sinks so well in check that now almost 3 years after launch things have not inflated like mad. That’s despite the very competitive nature of this game.

I honestly like Darkfall and I keep supporting this game with 4 subbed characters for many months now. I use them as banks in PvE, as banks extra for PvE resources, as equipment holders during sieges or asset destruction, as miners and as buffers.

I play Darkfall because I enjoy it, but I can’t say I haven’t thought about quitting. At least for a while. My houses have made me stay. My good bank from so much PvE makes me enjoy the game as well. And the journal that states at the very top Celiah Ailey #1 in PvE and #2 in all time PvE. That makes me proud as well.

You need to break it down and understand what keeps people playing. Quite often it’s how much they’ve invested in the game, the status they’ve fought for in countless hours. I can say that I’ve spent years on building up me and what I’ve got in Darkfall. It baffles me and it hurts my feelings when you can write in your blog post that it is of little significance.

If you wipe my bank and take my houses. If you take away my character’s skills/stats. I will NEVER trust you again. NEVER. You will have the worst reputation of all MMORPG development studios with me. Worse than SoE for what they did to SWG. I will never say a single positive thing about you again and I will hold a grudge for more than 10 years. I don’t care how amazing you think Darkfall 2.0 is going to be. If you take away what I’ve so carefully accumulated and fought for with my teeth and my nails in this grim and wretched survival-of-the-fittest simulator, then I will NEVER forgive you. I hope you understand me. And I hope you understand how your fans will feel.

Right now you’re fighting for subscribers to stay alive as a company. There are loyal people playing here who like the game and like you. Love and hate are two very close things. You’ve got some of the most hardcore individuals attached to this game. It takes a certain mix of personality to be a fan of this game. You need to be stupid, but strong enough to keep playing and you need to find ways to enjoy yourself. It doesn’t come easily to those who have made it work for themselves and even people that quit and come back ultimately feel this way because the game HAS disappointed all of us. So don’t you disappoint those who have stayed through all of this disappointment and still found purpose and happiness.

By the way I vote for a wipe if no hackers can dupe or exploit in the new version. It only makes sense if you want to get the competitive edge on things. Too many old school toons that are way OP and have too much money to care about doing anything in the game. Just keep our account names cuz I like my name:)

“We understand that the above may seem vague, and one may feel that we’re far off from any developments. In fact, real progress has been made on every front except on communication.”

How to Improve Communication:
Step 1) Review community’s questions.
Step 2) Formulate direct answers.
Step 3) Post them.

People need to stop looking at this as an “update”. It’s a whole new game now, Just in the same world.

“We’ve managed to develop this new game, while maintaining and working hard on the current Darkfall version,”

Stop thinking of a wipe in terms of this being an update that wipes your character from the current game, and start thinking of it as a new game that you get for free for buying their current game.

What I’m expecting at this point is that when they release this “new game” they will have an option to import your character from the old game, and that when you do so, you will get to keep some, but not all, of your previous items. Like a bonus for buying/playing the previous game.

This may or may not be what actually happens, but it’s about what it sounds like to me, and I don’t see anything wrong with it.