Darkfall date and pricing firmed up

By Oli Welsh Published 19 February, 2009

PVP MMO available for download next week.

Darkfall Online, the independently-developed player-versus-player MMO, will be released for download next week by Greek developer Adventurine.

The game will cost EUR 42 (approximately GBP 37) and come with a month of play-time. After that, a subscription will cost EUR 11.77 (GBP 10.36) per month, according to the developer. There will be 10 and 15 per cent discounts on the subscription rate for three- and six-month packages. These prices don't include VAT.

Pre-orders will be available "in the next couple of days". If you're interested in Darkfall, you might want to consider it - Adventurine is limiting the number of copies of the game it puts on sale, to ensure it has enough server space to cope with demand.

Although the launch is European only, players from North America are welcome to join in, and will be offered free character transfers to US servers as and when these become available.

Darkfall is a levelling-free, skill-based MMO with completely unrestricted PVP combat, and full corpse-looting on death, just like in the good (or bad) old days. You can find more information on the Darkfall gamepage, and look out for a full preview soon.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Benno #1 3 years ago

    looks awful, but i like the sound of the pvp rules

    i will have a look at some reviews before i buy i think

  • DoctorZoidberg #2 3 years ago

    Look's really rather expensive, but whatever float's your boat.

  • shamblemonkee #3 3 years ago

    a tenner before vat?! yoiks!

  • Wendelius #4 3 years ago

    "looks awful, but i like the sound of the pvp rules "

    I don't. I thought this blog post points out pretty well how unfun this will no doubt turn out to be: [link url=http://www.brokentoys.org /2009/02/18/darkfall-nda-lifted-uo-wants-their-backpacks-bac k/
    ]http://ww w.brokentoys.org/2009/02/18/dar...[/link]

    Also, check out this discussion on the UI: [link url=http://www.cuppycake. org/?p=651
    ]http://www.cuppycake. org/?p=651
    [/link]

    Yuck.

    Wendelius

  • Benno #5 3 years ago

    its obviously a marmite thing

  • iokthemonkey #6 3 years ago

    What, brown and tastes like shit?

  • Benno #7 3 years ago

    No, you either love it or hate it. You, very surprisingly, fall on the "hate it" side, how new and original for you.

  • iokthemonkey #8 3 years ago

    Marmite is brown and tastes like shit.

    I have no opinion on Darkfall beyond "it doesn't interest me."

  • Slabbathepave #9 3 years ago

    I am still on the fence about this too. If the whole thing works as intended the potential is immense.

    But...its an MMO.

    I'll let the shit eaters play it for a few months before i go anywhere near its undoubtedly broken arse.
    Edited by 1 at 19/02/09 @ 13:08

  • ZuluHero #10 3 years ago

    there's no way im paying over a tenner for such an un proven concept. Does anyone else think thats its crazy for a reasonably unknown dev to be asking so much?

  • Slabbathepave #11 3 years ago

    @Zuluhero

    Perhaps but i suspect they are aiming for the hardcore market and the only other outgoings they have are Everquest 2 subs.

  • Whitewalker #12 3 years ago

    Have been in Beta for a couple of weeks...first two days was rough, wasn't really sure, as it was so different from what I was use to. But I have to admit that I've found a new MMO that I'm falling for. Never thought I could enjoy being hurt & looted so much by murders, assassins, pkers and ninjas and left for dry in my underwear. I'm having a ball. Mob AI is beyond any other MMO, you only get this behaviour in single player FPS.

    Also pictures and videos don't do the game justice, the graphics are fine, borderline between Morrowind and Oblvion, leaning towards Oblivion and one hell of a huge world that begs to be explored. Game engine is excellent, in two weeks not one CTD and FPS aprox 60 and very stable...pings are way under 80. All in all, not bad coming from a small Indy team.

  • Olemak #13 3 years ago

    I will definately give this a go, been keeping an eye on it for a while. Darkfall is certainly not mainstream, but it could be marvelous within it's niche. Marmite indeed. Looking forward to it.

    I don't like marmite mutch, but then again I am not british. I do like some smelly cheeses, tho. And cured fish. And other oddities. And maybe Darkfall, will have to see.

  • Slabbathepave #14 3 years ago

    I like Marmite but only now and then, and even at these times i can only have it on one slice of toast. Anymore than that and i feel sick.

    Malke sure you all write that down in your Slabbatepave journals that i shall be issuing later this week.

  • iokthemonkey #15 3 years ago

    Massively have some hands-on experiences of it.

    From the sound of it, the FFA nature is open to exploit (much as AoC's "murderer" flag was - that's what you get for having "non-targetted" combat) and the item system sounds pretty flawed. If gear is so worthless that you don't mind losing it so much, what's the incentive? And if you can "fight back" to get gear with your newbie sword, why would you need to?

  • Whitewalker #16 3 years ago

    Gear is not worthless...rather the opposite, very important if you intend to fight, however you can and will lose it...and it hurts when you do. Just make sure you have another set standing by.

  • iokthemonkey #17 3 years ago

    That's the bit I don't get though - people seem to be saying you "get over" losing gear and can take gear from other people by beating them. So how much does gear count toward your success?

    Could you, for example, stick to your newbie perma-blade and beat people?

    What I mean is that if the game is purely "skill" based, equipment isn't worth anything. But if it is worth anything, doesn't that negate the whole "it's all about skill" thing?

    I'm not criticising - as I say, I really have zero interest in playing DF but I do wish 'em every success with it - I'm just trying to understand how itemisation works in a skill-centric game.

  • Trikk #18 3 years ago

    Does anyone else think thats its crazy for a reasonably unknown dev to be asking so much?

    Considering they had tens of thousands of people trying to preorder at the same time, for their beta tester "exclusive" preorder, I'd say it's not crazy. I think they could have charged more in fact and still sold out their limited number of preorders.

    The game is awesome. It's nothing like WoW, WAR, AoC, LotRO or any of the other cookie cutter MMORPGs, which will turn a lot of people away from it. You fight for your life in Darkfall. When you die, it stings. When you kill, it's glorious. The AI is excellent, although still a bit buggy as of beta build 125. The AI will actually attempt to dodge your spells and arrows, even taking cover sometimes.

    There is no game competing with it right now, which is why it will do extremely well the next couple of months. When competing games like Mortal Online start showing life signs, we'll see how well it holds up. As it is though, this is what all the big companies missed. AoC could easily have filled this niche and given a year extra for development might have been as polished as this game is. Too bad everyone hopped on the Everquest/WoW money train hoping to cash in on sameness.