After 7 months of  efforts in Warhammer Online, DIE finally calls it and moves our attention to Darkfall.  In this news post I will summarize our time in Warhammer, review the game and then look ahead to our plans for Darkfall.

Warhammer is surely a polished game.   The launch was almost flawless and many of the ideas are a considerable upgrade over WoW (the game's Public Quest system for example).  Their PvP system is fun enough and also an upgrade over WoW, but when alls done and said all it is.....well...is an upgraded WoW.   Just like WoW there is really no challenge or fear of death.  You die and you die and you die again.   All you do is run back...over and over.  For a game that looked extremely guild friendly it surely turned out the opposite.  Not only is there little reason to be an "uber" guild in WAR, the game may be the most PUGGER friendly game in history as they have perfected "easy" mode by allowing puggers to just login, find the battle and move with the zerg.   While surely this will net them more money over time, it definately is not designed for the old school hard core gamers which explains why all of them have left Warhammer.

The bottomline is Warhammer is just more of the same (even if improved).   It's plain boring after a few months :(   Also, after being on Dark Craig for several months now, (they closed Hochland for it's low population) they STILL have not fixed our guild name.   After the move the guild name registry was broken and we had to take the name "Dead".  We petitioned, emailed and sacrificed Lisa, but only received the obligatory "we are looking into it".   How hard is it to give us our freagin' guild name?   No one else had it.  There was no reason NOT to.    Just really poor CS.

Now we are not saying Darkfall is gonna be the savior.   Sure, it brings back memories of the old school PvP days when you had a real "fear" of being attacked.   When hiding is the actual act of blending in with the game's environment.   PvP fights last for minutes not seconds.   And deaTH....well...it's sure not used as a means of travel in this game!   Darkfall is for the HARD CORE player who is tired of the ho hum easy mode of WoW and it's clones.

That said, we are concerned about many issues so far in Darkfall.   The game is NOT polished.   MOBs glitch.   Their billing system is BROKEN.   There are reports of exploiting and Carpal Tunnel Syndrom seems to be a real risk!   But one thing that stands out about Darkfall, at least for now, we enjoy playing it!