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Decided to pass on Darkfall: UW
ice-vortex
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I was basically determined to purchase Darkfall: UW, but now with the monthly fee reveal of $15, I have decided against it. An MMORPG just isn't worth almost twice the price of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, Xbox Live, and Playstation Plus. At Darkfall's price point, I could subscribe to Gamefly or Blockbuster and have an unlimited supply of new games to play. With other sandbox games like the Repopulation, which is free to play, coming out, I just don't see a reason to subscribe to Darkfall at the price point the developer has set.
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Yeah I agree... $0.50 a day isn't worth unlimited entertainment...
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Games:
Currently playing:Nothing
Will play: Darkfall: Unholy Wars
Past games:
Guild Wars 2 - Xpiher Duminous
Xpiher's GW2
GW 1 - Xpiher Duminous
Darkfall - Xpiher Duminous (NA) retired
AoC - Xpiher (Tyranny) retired
Warhammer - Xpiher
too bad even that quantity of things put together still do not equal the fun and excitement Darkfall would have brought you
Damn .50C per day sure is a lot to ask for hours of entertainment per day eh...
I'd rather go get a large pizza and eat that in a few hours for $15 than play 100-200 hours worth of a video game.
If that approach were in fact the end all to player retention, DFO would have been a lot more popular. From my time on the forums it seemed most people were unhappy with how few problems Aventurine fixed over time.
Im praying they dont botch this too. I want a real pvp sandbox game this time around, not just a bunch of hollow promises wrapped in 1990s graphics.
WOW!! Darkfall only costs HALF A CENT per day? That's dirt cheap!!!
Cheapest around.
I know. I mean a year's subscription is under two bucks according to you. Awesome to hear.
Well it seems to me that the money they have made and any other money injected into development has resulted in them actually overhauling and re-releasing the game to give the playerbase a new and improved experience instead of giving the older playerbase minor patch's every now and then.
I know, don't know how they make any money though, but idc, it's awesome!
Haha not when many games now cost 0.00 cents a day to play !!!
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
(Uzik ibnYaraq in game. Always willing to help.)
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But that is their target audience.
Even if subscription was free, they'd probably not have many subscribers
Meh, game will prob die in 3 months or so, mostly due to the player corpse looting, I bet you if they made a server with a slightly diff ruleset, namely the no player corpse looting, it'd be the most full server they got, i got a ton of friends that would play DF:UW if the player corpse looting on any death part was removed, or if it offered a server with that rule removed. Besides, passing on darkfall UW your not missing much at all, other than the annoyed and frustration of asshats ganking you while yer fighting a monster, or griefers camping low lv area's on a high skilled char just to be a jerk. Its not that people are scared to lose items (As i understand it items were easy to replace in the orignal darkfall) But its more the fact that everytime they die they are going to have to waste time out of their playtime to run around town like a moron to replace gear, just to go back out and probally get ganked again and have to repeat the process. IMO you should only have a *chance* for stuff in inventory to be dropped, and equipped gear cannot be looted period.
I mean think about it: would you rather the game die in a few months? or would you rather it live? with the current ruleset in todays mmorpg market I doubt the game will last long. The so called "hardcore" pvp crowd is so tiny that its not enough to support a game and make it profitable. Removing one rule, will piss off a few of the so called hardcore people (however most of these hardcore people are the types who kill low lvs and run like a chicken from anyone who could fight back). But in return they will get alot more subs, alot more revenue, and the game will life a bit longer. But I'll be honest I don't expect any mmo released recently to last more than 6 months before having to go f2p or die. People are just getting tired of the subscription model, when most of the time they can find the same kind fo gameplay or even better gameplay out there somewhere for free.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
What are your other Hobbies?
Gaming is Dirt Cheap compared to this...
The monthly subscription price of $15.00 dollars a month is ridiculous. It is also ridiculous that $15.00 has somehow become an accepted standard. Small studios need to realize their respective places and not emulate the price points of major studios such as Blizzard, CCP, or Trion. For those people who enjoy throwing money away please PM me and I'll shoot you over my PayPal details.
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Enjoy WoW, Eve and Rift. For the rest of us, see you guys in Agon!
LOL.
You wouldn't like golf hehe.
Paying for some things aren't worth it to some and are to others. Maybe I should make a post about how I feel Darkfall is worth $15/mo and we can discuss that.
BTW, I and many others that played the first game do not want or like the FTP models. It just doesn't work in game of this type.