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It's a nice looking patch. I'm not sure it's enough to pull them out of the nosedive they are in.
Agreed that it is a very nice set of features. If they don't get a good retention rate after making this and launching in NA then they won't grow like Eve did. |
OP is assuming its somewhat of a design-goal of eve to make players happy.
this is however not the case.
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calapine
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The sithra is a powerful and awesome looking elemental weapon. It will strike fear in your enemies and will be the envy of your friends and clan-mates. With their long blades of pure elemental energy they can cut through most living things with ease.  Swooosh! Swooosh! Darkfaill is already aiming to eat into SWTORs playerbase!  |
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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Mrbloodworth
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So much for player skill mattering?
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DLRiley
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So much for player skill mattering?
It ever did? |
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Nebu
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It ever did?
A little. In some games. |
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Mrbloodworth
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So much for player skill mattering?
It ever did? I thought it was in the title name, right after dark and before fall. The developers would have you believe this. |
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LC
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So the servers have been down all day (Not really though, they have been up and down dozens of times for admin access.) for the big patch. We'd like to explain the long delay we're experiencing with the expansion:
We knew this was going to be a long process, but it's taking even longer than anticipated. It's due to the procedure for building the expansion which is a time consuming and repetitive operation. We've experienced a few setbacks during the process which have added to the building time.
This needs to be done right in order to minimize any further issues and we appreciate your patience while we're grinding away at this. As for an ETA, it could take a few more minutes or several more hours before we're done, it's impossible to estimate precisely. We're on the verge of being ready for hours now, and this is why we haven't posted anything until now.
Thanks again for your patience. So much for their claims of thoroughly testing it over the last few weeks. |
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« Last Edit: July 07, 2009, 10:45:28 PM by LC »
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Which? None of the ones I have played have ever given anything other than completely insignificant amounts of XP.
LOTRO has randomly spawning chests with things inside ( some times its a corps, chest, or other container) with items, potions, crafting supply and always a good chink of coin. I believe the longer it is not found the more items inside. That is pretty cool. Wish they would have had that in beta. Might have been enough to get me to play. |
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ashrik
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Threash
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This recent fad of calling patches free expansions is really pissing me off.
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patience
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*groans* Even their poll is in need of a patch. This recent fad of calling patches free expansions is really pissing me off.
An article I read pointed out that this was not a recent thing. Mythic were pioneers for this trend. |
OP is assuming its somewhat of a design-goal of eve to make players happy.
this is however not the case.
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tmp
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Looks they're officially out of beta now. |
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Mrbloodworth
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Apparently the new chests are completely exposed to the client, allowing people to filter the location, and teleport to them using client side hacks, or simply beeline over to them. That went well. As a study, I looked at the list of features for one of the more popular hacking clients. Good lord, the feature list is LONG and Extensive. More so than any other MMO they have clients for.... The new weather system is 100% client side, and not synced. So, it could be dark and rainy for you, but not the other guy. Perhaps its a bug, but, um, yeah...
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kildorn
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Oh dear lord, they're just trusting the client to do everything. Oh god.
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Nebu
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Oh dear lord, they're just trusting the client to do everything. Oh god.
In a pvp game, no less. Darkfail indeed. |
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tmp
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from a thread about the weather effects, on the official forums: Well what to you expect from Darkfall? They also claim to have a "sophisticated and secure trading system" which turns out to be just a chat window. pretty much sums it up.  |
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Feverdream
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Hey, wasn't today supposedly official DF release day in North America?
Game available for official N.A. purchase, servers open, all that...
I wasn't expecting anything earth-shattering, but you'd think this would create just a slight ripple somewhere in the fabric of the MMO universe.
Surely someone out there...cares.
Or was their website 'attacked' again?
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Surlyboi
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Or was their website 'attacked' again? Yeah, the server became self-aware and tried to jump out the window of their offices rather than be party to such a shitfest. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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According to their website (which finally has been updated to denote that the game is actually out of beta), they went live today. No word on who their NA publisher is; people are saying their cards are being billed from "Aventurine". Stop complaining about buy the game again, its fun and way better lag |
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Nebu
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Step 2: Darkfall changes its name. |
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Shatter
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Yeah but you need to play at least a month to properly review it, so setup your macros, afk and come back in a month to let us know what you really think!
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Draegan
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Some or most of it, is just plain bad. Maybe I can be a professional MMOGs reviewer and get paid too.
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Some or most of it, is just plain bad. Maybe I can be a professional MMOGs reviewer and get paid too.
Not with those comma splices you can't. |
THIS IS THE MOST I HAVE EVERY WANTED TO GET IN TO A BETA
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HaemishM
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You must not have read the referenced article. The man is a King of the Grammar Snake Dodgers.
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ashrik
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Some or most of it, is just plain bad. Maybe I can be a professional MMOGs reviewer and get paid too.
What was so bad about it? From a content standpoint, I rather liked his review as well as his writing. |
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Draegan
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Some or most of it, is just plain bad. Maybe I can be a professional MMOGs reviewer and get paid too.
Not with those comma splices you can't. I can not be judged by my posts from my G1! What was so bad about it? From a content standpoint, I rather liked his review as well as his writing.
I just got the whole feeling that he/she was trying to hard to be funny or clever. |
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HaemishM
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Some or most of it, is just plain bad. Maybe I can be a professional MMOGs reviewer and get paid too.
What was so bad about it? From a content standpoint, I rather liked his review as well as his writing. The first page was unbearably badly written. It got better after that, but I gave up and started skimming about 3 pages in. Way too long to say this game really does suck except for that very tiny minority of lunatics who will like this sort of game. |
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The review was over long but fine.
Good on Eurogamer for doing it, especially since the reviewer indicates that people were trying to get the editor fired from his non-gaming review job as a result.
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LC
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The first page was unbearably badly written. It got better after that, but I gave up and started skimming about 3 pages in. Way too long to say this game really does suck except for that very tiny minority of lunatics who will like this sort of game.
I'm waiting for your review. Only then will I be able to decide if I should like darkfall. |
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patience
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When I clicked that spoiler tag I was hoping for something like this.
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OP is assuming its somewhat of a design-goal of eve to make players happy.
this is however not the case.
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HaemishM
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The first page was unbearably badly written. It got better after that, but I gave up and started skimming about 3 pages in. Way too long to say this game really does suck except for that very tiny minority of lunatics who will like this sort of game.
I'm waiting for your review. Only then will I be able to decide if I should like darkfall. The game is shit and you are a drooling retard for paying some Greek cunt to play it. Also, the developers are mouthy twats who should shut their spreck holes. |
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gryeyes
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Sooo 6/10? |
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