The Tradesman's Inn

I've been through a lot, some were great (LOTR), some not so great (SWG) but no matter how bad some of them were they all achieved at least one thing and that was you could actually play the game to a degree on the launch day.

DF has just passed it's launch window, the official forums have been closed for the last few hours, the servers are not up, the official website hasb't been updated in weeks, pre orders were a mess a guestimate of max of 15k out of 350k registered users pre ordered and the patcher is not working.

Still, maybe it will be okay tomorrow........

I do feel sorry for Tasos & co though assuming this isn't all some huge scam to make money and go an live on the moon. They have simply bitten off more then they can chew.

Hopefully it will work out though.

Agree with OP!

I can't even sign in to pre-order let alone anything else that may be there. I was able to make an account, activate it (which would fail) and then not be able to log in. Now I can't even access the log-in area.

Maybe the idea to wait a few months really was a good idea...

So much for "if you got the confirmation email, you'll be able to play the game". Still haven't been charged and my interest to play at all is fading fast...

I was able to get on last night at about 11 or so until the servers went down at about 2:30. They let way to many people in to the ONE server they have. I couldn't even do the starter quest because there were so many people I couldn't get a kill on the goblins much less loot their axes. Hard to loot when 5-10 people all open the corpse at the same time. This whole experience has been one giant cluster F@#$.

Yeah I've seen quite a few launches but I have to agree this one is the worst.

Not to say that things won't get ironed out eventually, but I'm thinking that maybe just playing other games for another month or so would be a better idea rather than just waiting around getting frustrated over the Darkfall launch... or lack thereof.

I agree there have been quite a few bad releases in the history of games, but as long as this game actually launches at the capacity they are shooting for it won't be the worst ever. Many games have dissapeared right before or after launch due to not being ready or just screwin the pooch. I'll be happy if they launch and get the majority of the bugs wiped out within 2-3 months.

despite the delays, which have been a bit overwhelming, including the synch issues, I'd say the launch went rather well. It's the first MMO from Aventurine and you cannot expect to have a perfect launch. They have also given all the pre-order 3 days extra to those, who had to endure these conditions.

I'd say it could've been better, but it's definitly not the worst launch in MMO history

Little known gaming company + Thousands of players tired of AoC and WAR, but don't wanna go back to WoW = Raw rear-end port sex of their servers, no lube, no mercy.

Adventurine definantly underestimated the MMO gaming community response to their game. I don't think they realized they are entering into a very fast pace enviroment, where their years of work could fail in a few months, and a bad release is just the start of their problems.

I stand by my statement of worst launch purely because it did not launch on release day but a day later.

Having said that i've played for a few hours and it was okay. It was hard with the sync bugs and it seems most of the big city spots were claimed on the first day byt the big guilds.

There are reports this was done with exploits and other denying it, I wasn't in beta so don't know about these.

Haven't even been able to start crafting yet but my swimming skill rocks

I am sure things will improve.

I was suprised though that really do only have one server. I am guessing that maybe they have another one which is their test server.....at least I hope they do!