Darkfall Servers Dark
Posted by Stropp on February 26, 2009Must resist urge to be snippy… will to resist failing… ahh what the heck.
What happens on release day when not even the servers start up?
The forums also go down, that’s what.
It looks like the much touted release of Darkfall wasn’t quite what the community, or the developers for that matter, were hoping for. From what I can gather from reading various reports, it looks like the servers didn’t even start up on the 25th. A notice on the official forums is now saying that the servers are finally coming up after 12 hours of down time, and that Aventurine is giving players some additional time on their subscriptions.
The interesting part of the note was the comment that the forums were down to extremely high volume. That may be partly true, but I think it’s far more likely the case that the forums were disabled to prevent the community from going into meltdown. Apparently even the Stratics network was having issues but that only appears to be limited to IRC, the forums are not particularly busy.
This does not appear to bode well for Darkfall and Aventurine.
I don’t know, if the devs can’t get the servers up at all for 12 hours on release day, does that count as the worst MMORPG release ever, or does it have to be a whole month of problems?
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My df client is busy downloading a patch. I don’t care if the server goes online a little late, the question is how stable that server is. If it holds they’ll have a good release.
I’m in. No time to play right now, though
Don’t miss this kind of ‘event’ that always overshadows a new MMO release, not one bit.
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