Let’s say none of it is true.

Why in the world would you CONTINUE to point out this reviewer when you have no other reviews (yet) to back up your points? A single review is quickly shot down if other reviewers come to differing opinions.

At this point (debatable at the start) they are only bringing this negative attention upon themselves. I personally, wouldn’t have bought, or not bought, a game on a single review (and whose even HEARD of Eurogamer before??). Now? I see a whiny bitch howling at the moon for it’s brightness.

There is nothing you can do Aventurine, and if you were so morally superior you would have ignored the “big bad bully” instead of pointing him out to every parent you can find. And since nobody can even play your game 90% of the time, maybe you can find some review sites that “actually” played your game.

P.S. Refusing the re-review was a complete dick move and destroyed your game’s credibility, despite offering to fly one of their members out to your office. Yeah, I’m sure they have the time to spend 3 days out of office just to justify your log claims when you can’t even keep your registration server running for a few hours at a time.

Eagerly awaiting the next bullshit drama,
Cybercat

For a small dev without major backing, that SHOULD be viewed as rather groundbreaking, considering the rest of the industry believe you have to have a 50mil+ budget and a major publisher to create a viable subscription-based MMO. Imagine if every niche of the MMO space (hardcore group PvE, exploration, economy, etc) got a DarkFall-like game, each with it’s own unique take on design ideas. I’ll take that over more WoW 1.5 MMOs any day, and would view that shift as rather groundbreaking.

Different from the norm, of course. But hardly “groundbreaking” considering it follows squarely in the vein of UO, Shadowbane and a few others.

Before someone nukes my pants for that comment, stop and think. I didn’t say ‘clone’, I didn’t say ‘copy’, I didn’t say ‘remake’, I didn’t say ‘knock off’, I didn’t say ‘derivative’. I said ‘follows squarely in the the vein’. Which means its not really breaking any ground, but following in the steps of others. A perfectly cool thing to do in my book, but come on now, we’re not talking about the second coming of anything here.”

I’ll agree with you to some extent. But other than Vanguard, Darkfall is the only game out there that’s attempted to make an entirely seamless instance free loading free world, AND it did it while hosting 25 thousand players online, with 500 man battles and twitch combat a la Elderscrolls 4 Oblivion. With the siege works, mounted combat, arrow and spell physics, yes same vein, but for 30 guys its a technological breakthrough.

Different from the norm, of course. But hardly “groundbreaking” considering it follows squarely in the vein of UO, Shadowbane and a few others.

Before someone nukes my pants for that comment, stop and think. I didn’t say ‘clone’, I didn’t say ‘copy’, I didn’t say ‘remake’, I didn’t say ‘knock off’, I didn’t say ‘derivative’. I said ‘follows squarely in the the vein’. Which means its not really breaking any ground, but following in the steps of others. A perfectly cool thing to do in my book, but come on now, we’re not talking about the second coming of anything here.

Also, don’t you think if they COULD sell the game to everyone, they would? They’re a company and they like money.

And lastly, everyone on the forums had already read the review before the news post and were broiling with how many factual errors it had.

They really need to update the website though.

People complain whenever a new MMO is released and say “I can do that in WoW too”. Yet a different game with a set of a rules that these people are not used to comes along and they receive it with such hostility.