Post by bobbyorr on Jun 15, 2015 13:59:28 GMT
As per his last (and first) post :
So, if there is a serious proposal, DFO rights could be bought. Can the community organize itself, make real studies about the servers and maintenance costs, raise funds (kickstarter?), and have a real spokesman that would speak for all of us? If he is serious about that statement, here we have a chance to become owner of the game, and have all the rights to host servers in any country of the world.
I am studying software engineering, and if such a project really take place, I would spend at least 40 hours per week working on it, if I can help setting things up.
How sick would it be if DFO was owned by the DFO community... we pay for OUR game, we update it the way we want.
I apologize for the previous message, it was not approved for posting. I'll try to be as specific as possible as per the community request to bring back the original Darkfall:
It's well known that we're a small independent game developer working hard to support one of the highest maintenance game types there is.
Bringing back the original Darkfall is unfortunately unrealistic and impractical. There is no doubt that it was a great game, which had its' chance, but unfortunately stopped being viable and had to end. It's as massive an effort and expense as launching any MMORPG and would require months of development in order to go back in time. Even if we did, it would require a sustained serious critical mass of players, in order for it to be viable. We are unfortunately unable to support that kind of an effort, and we don't believe there is a market for it.
Having said that, we remain open to serious proposals for licensing and supporting the original Darkfall. Unfortunately, to date, there have been none other than some quick semi-anonymous emails asking "how much would it cost". It would take a sizeable server investment to cover a region and a minimum low five figure amount just for bandwidth and basic systems operations. This doesn't include developer and customer support, and it certainly doesn't include the serious effort behind keeping the game updated. It's a large-scale operation to run an MMORPG, but Darkfall in particular, due to its' real-time nature, is even more demanding on hardware, bandwidth, and development support.
Our main development objective is to work on continuously improving our current game, Darkfall Unholy Wars, and to infuse it with some of the magic Darkfall Online had to offer. This is the time when we need to be able to focus on Darkfall Unholy Wars, and we need to know that we can depend on your support in that.
Thank you.
It's well known that we're a small independent game developer working hard to support one of the highest maintenance game types there is.
Bringing back the original Darkfall is unfortunately unrealistic and impractical. There is no doubt that it was a great game, which had its' chance, but unfortunately stopped being viable and had to end. It's as massive an effort and expense as launching any MMORPG and would require months of development in order to go back in time. Even if we did, it would require a sustained serious critical mass of players, in order for it to be viable. We are unfortunately unable to support that kind of an effort, and we don't believe there is a market for it.
Having said that, we remain open to serious proposals for licensing and supporting the original Darkfall. Unfortunately, to date, there have been none other than some quick semi-anonymous emails asking "how much would it cost". It would take a sizeable server investment to cover a region and a minimum low five figure amount just for bandwidth and basic systems operations. This doesn't include developer and customer support, and it certainly doesn't include the serious effort behind keeping the game updated. It's a large-scale operation to run an MMORPG, but Darkfall in particular, due to its' real-time nature, is even more demanding on hardware, bandwidth, and development support.
Our main development objective is to work on continuously improving our current game, Darkfall Unholy Wars, and to infuse it with some of the magic Darkfall Online had to offer. This is the time when we need to be able to focus on Darkfall Unholy Wars, and we need to know that we can depend on your support in that.
Thank you.
So, if there is a serious proposal, DFO rights could be bought. Can the community organize itself, make real studies about the servers and maintenance costs, raise funds (kickstarter?), and have a real spokesman that would speak for all of us? If he is serious about that statement, here we have a chance to become owner of the game, and have all the rights to host servers in any country of the world.
I am studying software engineering, and if such a project really take place, I would spend at least 40 hours per week working on it, if I can help setting things up.
How sick would it be if DFO was owned by the DFO community... we pay for OUR game, we update it the way we want.
