Wufiavelli :God i cannot wait till this over and i can enjoy the game without all the rabble, zergs, and fly by night malcontents (many will stay) leave.
Said this would be tragically bad.
Game will likely survive it though.

We’ll see.

The problem is that right now it looks like a mad rush to buy Darkfall, but that is more because they created a situation where 10,000 customers was an overwhelming number. What is the real amximum market for this game? I doubt it’s 300,000 or even 200,000 people pounding on the door. Is it 100,000? Hard to tell.

Whatever that number is, experience tells us that this is likely the high-water mark. With a launch like this, and the general STFU-or-GTFO nature of the core Darkfall community, what sort of retention rates is Darkfall going to see in the first three months.

The numbers just don’t seem to work, in my view. I personally can’t see more than 30,000 subscribers by the time the dust settles and that’s likely overstating it. Given that the world was designed to have a PvP focus in a large landmass on 10,000-concurrent-user servers. 30,000 total subscribers or anything less just seems like a recipe for a big, empty, moribund PvP world at most hours of the day.

Sure, it might survive, but Aventurine seems to be quickly using up what little margin for error they had to pull it off.

Said this would be tragically bad.

Game will likely survive it though.

That was the point at which I knew I would never stop laughing.