Information Update

[Anamodiel]

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=198228

On the American server: The American server will launch on July 7th. Characters from the European server can be cloned and moved without their possessions 3 months after the American launch. Certain restrictions and charges will apply, to be announced at a later date. In the meanwhile if you want to play on the American server at launch you need to buy the American Darkfall client. More information on the American server will be available in a few days.

Darkfall will launch a massive free expansion update the first week of July, something that the Darkfall team has been working on for a while now. This expansion includes major new features and major content, PvE, and PvP updates.

In the last few patches we had implemented several major optimizations making it possible to support even larger battles and sieges and more concurrent users than ever before. As a result, massive battles now run smoother than ever. We’ve seen some of the largest and the highest frequency of massive battles this past month, which has helped us find even more ways to optimize the Darkfall experience.

As a result of these optimizations we’ve also been able to keep sales open most of the time. We’re still being careful because Darkfall resubscription rates remain very high even though this is a time for exams and/or vacations. It’s still difficult to buy Darkfall but we hope that after the US servers have launched it will be easier for new players to learn about and to buy Darkfall.

To that effect, a new site is coming, along with new forums for Darkfall players only. These forums will be readable by the public and only players with active accounts will be able to post in them. The current public forums will remain active for anyone to post in, but moderation will be stronger. This because we’re getting people from other communities with the sole intention of disrupting our forums. The Darkfall community has always been a source of good feedback, constructive criticism, and inspiration for the Darkfall developers and we'll keep it that way by doing away with the non-constructive elements.

Our next major patch will be included in the Darkfall expansion the first week of July.

Thank you for reading
The Darkfall Team

Clarification: American players wanting to clone and transfer their characters do not have to buy another client. Everyone else needs to buy the American Darkfall client to play on the American server. The European rights and the American rights to Darkfall do not belong to the same company, therefore you cannot freely transfer between the two territories, as is the case with most MMORPGs. Our offer of character cloning / transfer to American players is because we had said that we would try to accommodate them should they want to start playing on the European server.

[Setun]

Wow, gg Aventurine....

[likwidtek]

Yeah that sealed the deal for me.  Fuck that.

[Manic Velocity]

The Aventurine business model:

1. Dig a big hole.
2. Shit, we're stuck in this big hole.
3. Convince people to throw money into the big hole.
4. Keep digging! We'll get out eventually!

[Tecknik]

So...  Characters will be able to be transfered to the American server WITHOUT possessions, 3 months after launch, and it will cost you.

OR

You can pay another $60 for the new American server client, and start all over again at launch.

Sounds awesome!

[Da6onet]

4. Keep digging! We'll get out eventually!

and end up in China...

[Manic Velocity]

OR

You can pay another $60 for the new American server client, and start all over again at launch.

That's assuming that you can access the client purchase page at all...

Within the unspecified hour that it is available...

While competing with the hundreds of thousands of other people flooding the server...

Which is actually Apache installed on a Casio calculator wristwatch.

[Erathaol]

That's assuming that you can access the client purchase page at all...

Within the unspecified hour that it is available...

While competing with the hundreds of thousands of other people flooding the server...

Which is actually Apache installed on a Casio calculator wristwatch.

Ah, so they've upgraded?  Zing!

 In other news, I after reading this post I've unsubscribed.  Maybe I'll resubscribe at a later date, if they let me play NA without buying the game twice.  Maybe.

[Subb]

This is fucking ridiculous. I'm so glad I didn't subscribe to this game and let it die after a few days of playing.