Darkfall Release verschoben auf 25.2....

[Belgeron]

...mehr Infos gibts im Darkfall Forum oder unten im Quote.

Ab dem 22.1 gibt es aber einen Trailclient zum Download um das Spiel zu testen. Sie haben aber Angst das wesentlich mehr Spieler in das Spiel wollen als Ihre aktuelle Situation überhaupt erlaubt und mit der Sie gerechnet hatten, das klingt sehr interssant

Es wird eine PreOrder Phase geben, alle die PreOrdern wollen bekommen früher Access um es etwas zu strechen, wie gehabt bei anderen MMOs eben.
Wenigstens erkennen Sie Ihr Problem und geben wenn auch spährlich Informationen raus. Mal sehen, das können wieder ein schöner Abend werden im TS und IRC

Preise gibts leider immer noch keine.

We know that the community has been speculating and wondering about the Darkfall release for some time. We haven’t replied until now because there were several complex issues to plan and work out. We also needed to get authorization before we could proceed with this official announcement:

Starting on January 22nd there will be a Darkfall trial with the distribution of the release candidate client allowing thousands of players to sample the game for free, help us stress test our servers and test the final features of the game.

It’s important to understand that there are well over 200 thousand applications by players wanting to get into Darkfall. This number makes it unrealistic to distribute the client and to open up our servers to everyone. We’ll try to accommodate as many players as are possible for us to manage at this stage. Even so, the demand exceeds our current capacity. Interest in Darkfall has surpassed all our expectations to the point that we may need to manage our release differently.

The date of the Darkfall European commercial release has been pushed back to February 25th, 2009. A pre-order will be made available mid-February. The pre-orders will get priority for early access to the game. The pre-orders will also get priority for the game launch if we have to go to a staged release. We’ll go to a staged release only in the case we have more demand than we can handle properly, and until we can upgrade our capacity. The pre-orders are necessary so that we can have some measure of the demand.

The reasons for the new release date follow:

* At this stage, everything is connected: Hundreds of elements need to come together. When one thing falls behind, everything else tends to follow.
* Demand for Darkfall at launch could be much higher than expected. If this is the case, we need a different process to better handle the demand.
* Darkfall’s partners (distribution, billing, account management, support, etc.) entered into the game at a late date and we needed more time than expected to integrate properly.
* We fell behind on a couple of weeks of beta testing progress and we need to make this time up. We need more playtesting data on several features we haven’t had much chance to test externally.
* We’ll use this extra time to implement updates based on tester feedback and also make some enhancements we were saving for after release.
* We want as many players as possible in the game before the launch and we haven’t had the chance to stress test our servers with live players yet.
* We underestimated the effect the holidays would have on our preparations. While we worked through them, the world around us seemed to stop.
* We don’t want to rush things more than needed. An extra month may not seem like a lot of time, but it’s enough to allow us to take care of any compounded delays.


Our hope for Darkfall is to have a good game with a tight player base that we can nurture and steadily build up. Hype surrounding Darkfall is huge right now, despite our best efforts. We’re not sure how this will translate on launch day but we have to make allowances for the possibility that demand could be more than we anticipate.

Announcements will follow with more information on Darkfall pricing, pre-ordering information, North American player access, and system specifications.


The Darkfall Team

Quelle: http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showth ... p?t=106082

[Max Power]

Auch wenn das Verfahren an DnL erinnert, sie haben wohl aus den Fehlern anderer gelernt, sie verlangen schonmal kein Geld und sie wollen die 200k Spieler nicht alle auf einmal ins Chaos stürzen sondern nach und nach

Bin ja mal gespannt, der kostenlose trialrelease ist auf jeden Fall ne gute Sache um die Skeptiker nicht gleich abzuschrecken.

[Niara]

Auf den Monat mehr oder weniger kommt es jetzt auch nicht darauf an.
Aber klingt doch schonmal alles sehr vernünftig.

Möchte endlich mal wieder was zocken, wo ich nicht ständig mit dem "Level" hinten dran hänge!
Will zooooooooooooooocccccccccccccken...*süchtel*

[Belgeron]

Will zooooooooooooooocccccccccccccken...*süchtel*

Ihr habt doch genug Dailyquests wie: "Such den Schnulli", "Wo kommt der Geruch her", "Lass mich doch endlich schlafen..."

Ja so ein Levelloses Spiel hat da schon vorteile, ich schau gespannt auf den 22.1. das wird ein Lustiger Abend werden.

[Max Power]

Am 22. wird vermutlich grad so ab 24h der Download/Accountserver erreichbar sein und das wars dann für den Tag.
Vor Samstag Morgen rechne ich nicht mit zocken und dann nur wenn spätestens Freitag der DL läuft.
Samstag Mittag ist dann Maintenance Serverdown bis 22h.

[Belgeron]

So in der Art stelle ich mir das auch vor Wobei die ja die Server selber nicht stellen, das unten drunter kommt ja von so einem großen US Multigaming Plattform Hoster der die Maschinen in Frankfurt a. M. aufgebaut hat, also ist zumindest mal vom Hardwarebetrieber und der Anbindung KnowHow da. Aber ich bin sowieso nur Do. Abend @home und komm dann erst So. wieder, also seh ich dem entspannt entgegen

[Tets]

Am 22. wird vermutlich grad so ab 24h der Download/Accountserver erreichbar sein und das wars dann für den Tag.
Vor Samstag Morgen rechne ich nicht mit zocken und dann nur wenn spätestens Freitag der DL läuft.
Samstag Mittag ist dann Maintenance Serverdown bis 22h.

genau deshalb hab ich irgendwie schon richtig bock auf den abend, weil wir alle mit ner bulle bier in der hand im TS rumlungern werden, um uns zusammen zu ärgern, dass es noch nich los geht
hoffentlich läuft das aufm lap .... sonst muss ich mich während der klausuren auch noch um nen neuen PC kümmern

[Niara]

genau deshalb hab ich irgendwie schon richtig bock auf den abend, weil wir alle mit ner bulle bier in der hand im TS rumlungern werden, um uns zusammen zu ärgern, dass es noch nich los geht

Wie wahr
Darauf freue ich mich auch schon.

[Belgeron]

Also als kleines Update von heute:

This is an update about what is happening today:

We have sent out the first wave of invites to clans and individual testers. We will send more waves of invites within a few hours. Invited players will be able to download the Darkfall installer.

We are applying the latest patch, and players will be able to start patching soon, and entering the game.

We are spacing out the invites in order to facilitate the download of the client and patching. We will continue sending out more invites every day until we reach our capacity.

Since this first phase has to do with stress testing the servers, and doing final testing on features, we are not lifting the NDA until this testing is concluded.

We apologize for the problems with the forums and the website today, we have been experiencing denial of service attacks, and we are working to resolve them.

Alles bleibt dicht, keine News nach aussen. "Open Beta" gibts sowieso keine, diese Open / Trail Clients bekommt man nur wenn man sich als Betatester angemeldet hat und dann einer der Glücklich ist der ausgewählt wird, man wird sehen.

Ob es wirklich eine Beta gibt mit Invites, werden wir ja die Tage sehen wenn die ersten NDA Breaks draussen sind. Vorerst bleibt alles noch unter NDA, happy per Order

[Max Power]

Tja dann wird halt nicht gekauft...Kann man das überhaupt irgendwo kaufen?
Earthrise soll ja auch dies Jahr rauskommen...

[Tets]

ach maaaan ich hatte mich schon so gefreut

[Niara]

"Warten können" ist wohl mittlerweile eine Tugend von uns

Aber was solls....bleibt uns ja eh nichts anderes übrig. So groß ist die Sucht zum Glück gerade nicht

[Belgeron]

Nein man kanns noch nicht kaufen, nirgends, es gibt wohl aber einen Publisher aber zuerst gibt das nur als Digital Download. Ich hab aber immer wieder im Forum was gehört von einem Kaufpreis von 15-20Euro, das wär nicht so tragisch. Ob das aber stimmt, keine Ahnung.

Naja mal sehen ob es noch ein paar KEys gibt, es sind ja noch 4 Wochen Zeit, sonst kommt halt was anderes.

[Max Power]

Pssssst... Nicht weiter sagen...

Hier gibts ein paar gesammelte inoffizielle Infos aus der Beta:

http://betaleaks.blogspot.com/

[Max Power]

Update:

Termin bleibt, Preise sind bekannt, NDA ist aufgehoben, alles Weitere folgt in den nächsten Tagen.

As of the time of this posting the NDA is officially lifted. In the next couple of days the Darfkall pre-orders will open up and stay up until right before Darkfall’s launch on February 25th or until they are sold out. This is how the pre-order will work:

The pre-order consists of the Darkfall client digital download along with a month of play starting on February 25th. The full cost for this is 42 Euro. This amount WILL NOT be charged during the pre-order. What will be charged is an initial 2.52 Euro non-refundable payment to activate the process. The remainder (39.48) of the pre-release price will be billed on release, February 25th. You’ll be free to cancel the purchase any time before the additional charge goes in on February the 25th.

Darkfall’s monthly subscription is set at 11.77 euro. A 3 month subscription with a 10% discount and a six month subscription will be offered with 15% discount on the monthly subscription rate.

There is 19% VAT added to both the initial payment of 2.52 Euro and to the remainder (39.48) for residents of the European Union. The same applies to all the subscription charges. People outside the EU will not be charged VAT.

For the pre-order all major credit cards are accepted. For Darkfall’s launch direct debit will also be available. More payment options will be available shortly after Darkfall’s launch such as Paypal, prepaid cards, wire transfer etc. Our partners for the billing are GlobalCollect, a leading and trusted global payment processor. (http://www.globalcollect.com/)

Players in North America are welcome to participate in the European Launch. The plans for US servers aren’t finalized at the time of this announcement. We will offer the option for character migration to US servers for N. American players who wish to use it. We have had people playing without problem from all over the US and Canada. That being said, our servers are located in Germany and distance does affect ping-time.
If the pre-orders are sold out, more Darkfall copies will become available on the launch date February the 25th. If they are also sold out, we will offer more copies every few days as we upgrade our capacity.

The initial system requirements for Darkfall are as follows:
Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Processor: 2.5GHz Pentium 4, or equivalent
RAM: 1GB for Windows XP, 2GB for Windows Vista
Graphics Card: 128MB PixelShader 2.0 support
Hard Drive Space: 12 GB Free Space Minimum

With the NDA lifted, there will be a lot of information out in the next few days both official and unofficial. There is a lot of passion surrounding Darkfall, both positive and negative. Some views, unsubstantiated by evidence, have become almost tenets of faith at both extremes. Now you can finally judge for yourselves and make up your own mind, through player testimonials and game footage. Be cautious of what is said however, by whom, and based on what experience. The beta has been through several phases, and it’s still a beta. The main purpose of beta is to provide the developers with testing data, and not provide players with a fun experience. Even during this process however the game has been extremely playable and while many consider it to be their best MMOG experience to date, others see the potential, some had something else in mind, and few don’t like it at all. Darkfall isn’t for everyone.

It should be stressed that as with any MMOG Darkfall will always be a work in progress. Darkfall’s potential however, being a sandbox game, is dependent on its players more so than other MMOGs. This is why we’ve been communicating with a lot of our players, have been listening very closely to the testers and are taking all the feedback, positive and negative, very seriously. Something important to understand is that we are committed to fully supporting this game and working with our player base to make Darkfall the best game it can possibly be. After launch we’re not going with just a “live team” to do simple maintenance to the game while the rest of us move on to other projects. All our resources are committed to Darkfall, and we will even increase our team size to meet our ambitious future goals for the game.

Thank you for reading and we hope to see you in Darkfall.
The Darkfall Team

UPDATE: I didn't think this would be necessary to explain but the volume of questions about it made it so:

Pre-orders will open in the next couple of days. You'll get a link to a page where you can preorder. This is not yet available. We will announce it as soon as it is.

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showth ... ost2720030