Dark and Light gets improved

By Ellie Gibson Published 15 August, 2006

Players get three free months.

Publisher Farlan Entertainment has admitted that Dark and Light, billed as "The Largest MMORPG You've Ever Seen!", isn't exactly The Best Put Together MMORPG You've Ever Seen.

Apparently the game "was released prematurely due to pressure from its investors and from the gaming community", according to an official statement. So now Farlan has unveiled a new initiative to "correct and improve operational aspects of Dark and Light."

They've signed a new deal with developer SnailGame to sort out the graphics, and they've set the D&L dev team to work improving the game's "technical challenges". Which means you can expect a better user interface, processing speed, battle progression and even "game immersion".

The good news for subscribers is that gameplay won't be interrupted while the improvements are being made. The even better news is that anyone who's already signed up will get to play free of charge for the next three months, during which period all user accounts and player credits will be maintained.

Dark and Light, which was released back in June, claims to feature the biggest gameworld ever created. The 13 kingdoms of Ganareth are spread across 40,000 kilometres of playing surface, and there are no loading times. Just a lot of bugs and stuff, unfortunately.

According to Farlan, the improvements should be complete within the next three months.

Picture of Ellie.

About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

Read more articles from Ellie by visiting the Ellie Gibson archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (6) Latest comment 6 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • El_MUERkO #1 6 years ago

    cool if it works out, had a look, even downloaded the beta but never played

  • Laserbream #2 6 years ago

    This was released? I looked at it ages ago but wasn't expecting it until 2007. I guess that explains a lot, really.

  • Sko #3 6 years ago

    So "We know it's shit. We're sorry. But here, come play the shit version for three months, free!"?

  • mikewl #4 6 years ago

    I bought this awhile ago, installed and got it all updated ready to play, then loaded the game.

    Once the title screen appeared there was a faint humming noise that kept getting louder coming from my speakers which got very loud after a few seconds and crashed my pc, it did this everytime I tried.

    Turns out the game has alot of problems with ATI cards, I was running a x800xt and others with the same had similar problems.

    I am still keen to try this game but I think the best thing would be to wait untill these improvements have been done, or at least some of the major things before trying it.

  • ave #5 6 years ago

    "So "We know it's shit. We're sorry. But here, come play the shit version for three months, free!"?"

    Better than "We know it's shit, but it took us 3 years to publically accept it, tough break buyers!."

  • Sko #6 6 years ago

    No mention of refunds so "tough break buyers!" seems to be fine with Farlan.

  • some1 #7 6 years ago

    So "We know it's shit. We're sorry. But here, come play the shit version for three months, free!"?

    no, those who are *already* subscribed will get the next 3 months free, and yea I would definately consider that somewhat of a refund if the people are still playing. New commers are expected to come after the repairs to the game are done im guessing.

    I cant say I have played the game, but theyre doing right by their players anyway which is good in my books