Free Weekend – Fast Skilling – Phat loot
November 04, 2011 
Tasos Flambouras 
In two weeks, every Darkfall account will be reactivated to participate in a free weekend with accelerated skilling and great loot.
More details on this next week, along with a development update.
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Great news.
I guess this is good…. Wasn’t the reason we played Darkfall — that there was this epic journey of progression, where we were not limited by game mechanics but our own time? I hope when we’re all back and cozy into Darkfall us vets have something to work for, other than the limitless goodies our fallen cattle provide us with.
ALSO: WTF? IS THIS REALLY A MARKETING CAMPAIGN? AWESOME.
An epic progession of character developement was definitely not the reason I played Darkfall…
Bad@$$! Short and Sweet Tasos!
Hum I dont know what to think of this? Is there any Dev at AV trolling?
Hey, if it’s phat, it’s gotta be spelled lewt.
Thats the first thing I thought too
Um, yeah, let me go back to a game that hasn’t changed in over a year.
For once, Tasos, you’ve actually given us a worthwhile update – you’ve confirmed that subs are at an all time low.
Danke! ^_^
Lol put this in game. Rotate the zone with faster skilling and better loot every couple hours. Announce it in global and highlight it on the in game map.
Shadowbane Hotzones.
hmmm, i dnt need any more skilling or lewt….whats in it for me? :p
Exactly
maybe people to actually play with?
idk, df negativity is surging in this one.
almost bankrupt?
Good job players! Keep unsubbing! That’s the best way to send a message – this is clearly Tasos’ way of saying that subs are low.
Keep it up guys! Keep unsubbing as it’s the only way we’ll get our message across. Once they start actually working 8 hour days to improve the game (instead of the typical 4 hour work day Greeks are accustomed to), the game devs can actually get somewhere.
Greece is simply a failed country. Tasos, do what’s right and move your company somewhere else!
Behold Jeff’s picture! The new Barbarian Armor! HOOOO!
Wow there is alot of morons posting here. I have been a vet since beta. Yes I still play. I think a free weekend is a great thing to attract old players to come back or new players to join. Last patch was great it showed that they are finally listening. The population is small but steady and if you ask me slowly growing again. All you nay Sayers that post are ridiculous abs half of you don’t even play the game. From someone who plays GJ AV! Keep it up small patches get some new content and finally market your game. Just make sure you keep doing it.
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Sooo I assume that accelerated skilling might come with more convincing reassurance that there will not be a wipe with 2.0? Otherwise I think it is time that Darkfall goes the path of FFXIV and stays free to play for people who bought the game at any point until 2.0 launches to maintain interest in the game… the longer 2.0 is delayed the harder it will be to get anyone to care about 2.0 imo.
You idiots Kill the content by Unsubbing. Its a hardcore PvP game More players More action. So when i read Dumb Comments Like I dont need skills, whats in it for me? Makes me laugh. Personaly i just reached 4 months and am probably alittle under developed for my time. Therefore i will be taking full advantage of the Excerlerated Skill gains, This means when this goes live, I and im sure a shitload of people are going to be populating the map out farmimg mobs n grinding skills. If i were a vet I would be taking full advantage all the free loot running around the game. If anything this should encourage some Nice pvp for a couple of weeks. Isnt that why we play?
Nice, tell EVERYONE!
Could be that a good bye? …or new age?
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Much rather just see a straight 10x skill gain on mobs permanent change for both magic and mellee.
10x gain all the time…. just a tad excessive.
That won’t get me back.
I will only resub, if DF 2.0 goes live AND it is awesome…
New graphics, blood splatter and animations are NOT awesome, but new features, cafting diversity, an actual economy would be.
What does “an actual economy” mean in a game? Can you give some examples of what you’d consider proof of an actual economy?
Or you could take advantage of 2 days with a char you already have skilled and jump into things like vcps or sea towers which have changed DRASTICALLY since id assume you last played.
So what changed ? Sea towers now go live at 8pm instead of 10pm ? Never had a problem with that. I also didn’t have problems with the “bad village capture rewards”.
I got bored of doing the same things for 1 1/2 years and never had a chance to be useful to my clan / alliance since everyone plays the same role and has the same crafting skills all the time.
Why should i bother to raise alchemy while 90% of the people have it maxed already ?
They should make the world more dynamic ( mobs attacking cities ) and the economy meaningful and more interesting to explore ( random events ). That would get me back in no time.
Now do it every weekend and it will be great
Thank you Tasos. As I will point out the cynical anti Darkfall comments have been reduced astronomically.
Remember to do this once every 1 or 2 months, plan on having a Christmas sell and it wont matter how long you work on 2.0 because you will be taking care of the player base.
I will at least be supporting Darkfall again now that your priorities are getting back on track.
Sounds to me like goodbye to Darkfall version 1.Perhaps 2 is closer than we think.Accelerated skilling could simply mean that all players get 100 to all skills and spells.
Interesting for sure.
Ya who gives a shit.
I know that I don`t have any chance to go through that straight moderation on this blog but what ever:
What about hackers? And, should I invest my time into this proposition?
well its safe to say Xavega Starkiller will be making a comeback
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This is obviously a horrible attempt at getting subs back in DF, so that they can even reach the launch of DF2010 expac, which is no doubt not going to release until at the EARLIEST of summer next year.
I really hope you get a few subs back to help continue development but I for one played the same game way too long without any good new content to warrant getting back into game and “trying” out something that hasn’t changed near at all.
Good luck AV.
“This is obviously a horrible attempt at getting subs back in DF” This is obviously a horrible post about a great idea.
Darkfall is dead face it common close it down have some dignity Tasos AV has failed in every thing they done for game last 18months a patch isnt gone change any or a free to play weekend the core issues havent been fixed.And other games have or are just about to come out on market you had chance back in august but failed in that too soo R.I.P Darfall its been a fun journey but even that has to end sometime..
“And other games have or are just about to come out on market you had chance back in august but failed in that too soo R.I.P Darfall its been a fun journey but even that has to end sometime..”
Wut skyrim? ya thats an mmo… wait.. you mean all those other mmos that have released since DFs launch?
Just because you copy and paste from people posts won’t make you right. In the end it’s everyone decision to do as they want with their money.
Though, I find it logical not to pay for a product that doesn’t show signs of improvement. A product that basically offers the same experience (or worst) as one year ago.
Skyrim btw takes long enough to play to keep people busy for at least a month. It might now be a MMO, but it will offer much more satisfaction than old Darkfall for sure.
Peace !
This is just to get people hyped up on DF 2.0 and remind people what it is like to play with a healthy population, and maybe give them a taste of the progression in 2.0. I don’t think it is to necessarily secure subs now, but to make sure that when df 2.0 hits it will be worthwhile.
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transform DF into DF2 Alpha testing
u will find more people play for an alpha stage game as an game where whe know it will end in a few months (if we lucky)
u missunderstand a important part of mmorpg
PERSISTANT WORLD
i for sure dont waste time in a 99% wipe szenario
if i want quick action i can play BF3 or sililar fps games
DF need to deliver persistanr ongoing and increasing content
there u failed
amd make things skill faster in DF2 wont solve it
it even more put presure on it to fill game with content
Unsubbed.
don’t worry they will reactivate your account for free in 2 weeks!
So fucking desperate, rofl. Might as well name next weeks blog “Free Shit. Please come back.”
ABOUT FUCKING TIME DARKFALL DID SOME SMART MARKETING WOOO!!!
Smart marketing? lol, rofl, roflmao, guys.. they do a mass ban of their already low population, smart would have been to i dunno.. ADVERTISE, or maybe hrm… ADVERTISE.
They wont say anything about a wipe.. sorta like new presidents wont say anything about taxes. SO… THERE WILL BE A WIPE OF SOME SORT or they would have already stated NO WIPE. Its the primary reason i unsubbed, no point in the grind if i’m gonna be wiped. I LOVE THE GRIND, but hate not knowing.
They keep talking about selling out and making things easy, sad days if that day ever comes. Its already too easy.
I couldnt give a rats ass about horses under water to be honest, fix the hackers, loot scripting, afk macros, people outrunning a bluetail on foot, combo casts that allow casters to catch a ship (my god how lame that really is, if they’re gonna allow it, at least make ships ‘anchored’ so that theres a logical reason people can catch it), bunnyhop scripts, and all of the other crazy crap that makes people wanna throw their pc into the road. new content would be great but not if its the ONLY improvement.
Im glad they fixed the underwater mounts, but still for the life of me, cannot understand how that particular bug harmed anyones game experience or ‘fun’ so much that people felt the need to bitch about it. Way to waste time on silly shit. I’d rather see the archers shoot their bow ‘FORWARDS and CORRECTLY’. OR, fix that bug/exploit that allows people to ‘hide’ behind bookshelves and beds on the upper floor of clan houses so that they cant be touched or seen. Make those afore mentioned ‘multi’ casts go away. Nothing is more annoying than watching people launch themselves higher than the ‘towers’ or even on top of them. In DARKFAIL jetpacks are optional apparently. Seriously guys, far bigger problems to focus on rather than bicker about mounts underwater or other ‘non profitable’ bugs.
why do all these pissed off hordes keep sulking around here? if its junk and you dont like/have zero hopes, why would you bother coming here and shouting it over and over. move to something you DO like.
i just dont get it, i really dont, some sort of a payback, masochism?
whats the value in all this wild assumption screams about 2.0 coming lets say next summer, no1 knows it. might as well be next month or in 2 months, why shout that crap about summer then, why specifically summer.
if its so f’in dead and hopeless, just move on, i personally still have moderate interest and hope they manage to resurrect df, it was and is great game, despite everything that is wrong, biggest problem is lack of players.
im just fed up with all the negativism, i dont care if its based on something or not
When AV will start to show their work…
the era of weekly bonus xp and loot holidays begin? friday’s +5% mage damage? thursday +5% damage to archery and so on.
And i lost new infernal set + bag of loot cause of ur “monkey server falll yesterday”. fkn good news for me and i dont care at this crap above!
Well i think its already too late for DF 1.0, and i think that this Phat lewt promotion is also 3-4 months too late since at 20 december a new MMORPG (SWTOR)is going to be released and they will loose again a lot of players. so basically if they want to bring out DF 2.0 in year early 2012 it just gonna be a total fail. I would say that they plan to release it in late Q2 2012, so good luck to all players which are still playing DF i hope you have fun.
Obviously an (last?) attempt to get back some players. But I won’t come back because of “fast skilling and phat lewts” since the core issues of the game haven’t been fixed and balanced.
R.I.P. Darkfall.
Yay, this event is going to be great!
Will accounts that are already currently subbed receive 2 free days then?
This would be nice.
may i know the reason why you dont do the real changes? you need to make differences btween races and playstyle, and QUIK. i guess the ideas are not missing. i suggest you to make the difference without doing extreme class separation. and make secondary differences… like the backpack should be 500kg for a ork 450 for a wolf and dwarves/humans stays 400, elfs 370, and alfar 350.
You see. you can SEE it that battlehorn is not being used SO its obvious, why dont u do something? make it a little bit faster then normal mount, and a little bit slower then faster mount! ITS EASY! i want to know why dont u just make things like this?
I have nothing positive to say about whats going on except for that i quit wasting my time and money on empty promises. Plus with a 99 percent feed back rate with all negative comments shows me that aventurine is just cashing out on the people who still have subs until they close down their game.
right, that’s it, going into account and unsubbing right now..
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*There are some interesting points in time in this article but I don’t know if I see all of them center to heart. There is some validity but I will take hold opinion until I appear into it further. Excellent write-up , thanks and we want far more! Added to FeedBurner as properly