Darkfall: Tasos Takes on the Release Issue

One of the most interesting tidbits taken from last week's fan report on a visit to the Aventurine Studios is whether or not Darkfall will have a simultaneous North American and European release. See what Tasos, lead Darkfall dev, has to say about it:

The answer to the question on whether we're going to launch in N. America and Europe at the same time is: "Right now it doesn't look that way"

I've been frustrated by issues like these while waiting for a game myself, and I'll try to explain this as well as I can:

• First of all, this isn't an issue of us being located in Europe. It just means that things are moving faster for Darkfall in Europe. A few months ago, it was the other way around and that's how fluid things are at the moment.
• It would be a publishing and a logistics issue that the European launch might precede a N. American launch. We have a publishing partner in Europe; we haven't settled on one in N. America yet. Unfortunately as things stand right now, we can't launch in both regions at the same exact time but, of course, we would like to.
• While the actual status on this hasn't changed much since our friends visited our offices, things are moving at a fast pace.
• What we can say with relative certainty is that the first beta test will be on the European servers. This isn't to say that N. American players will be excluded from it.
• It also doesn't necessarily mean that N. American players would be excluded from playing on a European server.
• While we haven't selected a publisher in N. America yet like we have in Europe, this doesn't actually mean that we need one, or that we're going to wait for one, in order to launch the game there.
• Our publishing effort has been for a common infrastructure and we've been adopting solutions with a global reach so that the setup in one region could be shared by- or quickly duplicated in the other. I don't want to say that we could be up in N. America in no time, but that's our intention.
• 8. It's important to remember that our preferred scenario is to launch Darkfall in N. America and Europe at the same time. This is on our mind as we move forward. Even if we don't manage this, it's our intention to move very quickly to catch up.

Let us know what you think about the explanation on our forums.

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OK so.......im back from 3 years ago..i came back to see if this game rather quit or had a release date up yet...and still no its still giving us the same trash it did before all these journals with a buncha old ass videos that barely show u anything ya so i suggest u guys just give up and choose a new game or i guess u can waste more of ur life waiting for this game....

O AND btw maybe u guys should listen to teedle hes been here forever and he knows what hes talking about

ok perfect u fucking idiot i am not teedles alt i am another human fucking bean that hasnt looked into this shit ass game that u believe in in three years...and that song was fucking gay

Dude you upset teedles alt! thats too much sanity from you!

y dont they worry about opening something before worry about opening at same time. Is rediculas that people are still arguing on fourms after what 8 years of this game coming out soon? How many dates were given? I dont even see the die hard followers on the fourms posting anymore. There losing support bad and i dont blame anyone thats pissed at them for promising them a game every year and jus disappointing everyone. By the way how good cn a game be when it starts out the first day of release already 9 10 years out dated? what a horribly dumb retarded unexperienced company. id be so embassered if i was anyone represting that company or even worked there.

you managed to copy paste your poorly written post Brandoo

Bravo

you must make your mother proud!