To say it’s a surprising disaster would be unfair, because if you didn’t see it being a disaster pre-release you must be painfully blind. At least those games understand what they are, rather than awkwardly pretending to be something they clearly are not capable of delivering.Ī more recent core problem has been the combat overhaul. So why grind up to play in an arena when you can play a better version of exactly that in games like Chivalry or even your MOBA of choice. My alliance would always wonder what I see in a game with no long-term plan, goal, or point, and admittedly I look a bit foolish now with my “they are working on that guys!” enthusiasm, because nope, they really aren’t. The above is also why DF:UW gets laughable indifference from so many EVE players. Inq to this day mocks me about trying to get them to give the game another shot. But as they saw the state of DF:UW’s beta, and the general design flaws of the game, they never even bothered showing up on day one. Even DF1 was able to initially attract some of these valuable players (Manus, Glut, Osium, etc), which is what kept that game’s meta interesting for the first two years or so. Where games like EVE have people like The Mittani creating content for tens of thousands of players, those key people have long since left Darkfall, and in their place stand directionless ‘leaders’ providing little if any content. There is no reason to PvP other than for the sake of PvP, and this is reflected in the quality of the playerbase.
#DARKFALL UNHOLY WARS MAP PLUS#
Plus how many times have MMO players heard the song and dance from developers about not selling power when F2P is announced, and a few months later the cash shop is offering you the One Ring? When things get dire, devs get desperate, and DF:UW’s core issues persist to this day.Īnd what are those core issues? The main one is the game is still an oversized arena PvP game, rather than an MMO. How many times will someone accept their current build being nerfed into the ground and told they can fix it for just $5 before they get fed up? You can pay AV $5 for a prowess (XP) reset, which is pretty ‘convenient’ when you have a game in constant flux due to a massive combat overhaul and general developer indecision about balance and the direction of the game. This is made all the easier since buying more than just fluff is already in the shop. I was asked here a while back if I would continue to support DF even if it went F2P, and at the time I said I would not. Recently a cash shop was added, which sets the stage for the game’s F2P conversion coming ‘soon’ (it’s already F2P in Asia). The game is going in multiple directions that don’t appeal to me, the community has lost those who make the game worth playing overall, and comical developer incompetence and corruption was the final little push I needed to finally move on. Darkfall and I have had an interesting history (the fact that I heard about the first game from Tobold entertains me to this day), and unfortunately I think this post marks the final chapter.
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