About a month ago I wrote my first impressions of Darkfall after about 2 hour of playing. Well it seems that Eurogamer.net wrote their review of the game with about the same amount of time as me, then gave the game a 2/10. Obviously Aventurine, the developers behind Darkfall, didn’t apperciate the review and after contacting Eurogamer privately and getting no where, they decided to take matters into their own hands. One of the developers posted a response to Eurogamer’s review stating that the reviewer didn’t even play the game.
We checked the logs for the 2 accounts we gave Eurogamer and we found that one of them had around 3 minutes playtime, and the other had less than 2 hours spread out in 13 sessions. Most of these 2 hours were spent in the character creator since during almost every one of the logins the reviewer spent the time creating a new character. The rest of the time was apparently spent taking the low-res screenshots that accompanied the article. At no point did this reviewer spend more than a few minutes online at a time.
Ouch. If this is true this is not good news for Eurogamer and even worse for the reviewer. Eurogamer at the time of this post has offered to re-review the game, but not to remove the first review. They also stated that the reviewer is a “contributing writer” not a “staff writer” as if though that makes them less liable.
As for me, I played Darkfall for about another 5-6 hrs after the original two then quit since I really didn’t like it and didn’t want to force myself to play it. And no, I won’t be writing a review.
wow – though they are lucky to get a review given some of the stories I am hearing as it seems on many sites reviews are related to advertising.
Name n shame these sites imo
Given that MMO have no end, one would assume that a reviewer would spend a fair amount of time playing the game to truly be able to provide some intelligent critique.
I’d agree that 2 hours is realistically not enough, but that begs the question, what is? And should a reviewer play every class? Use every weapon, skill sets, etc to truly get to know the game and provide feedback to readers? What if the MMO is of the sandbox-genre (aka EVE Online). Then the task becomes even more difficult.
“Most of these 2 hours were spent in the character creator since during almost every one of the logins the reviewer spent the time creating a new character.”
Ok then the reviewer could actually review only the character creation process…
If he played for 10mins in a FFA Full-Loot PvP game and compared it to WoW means he probably was playing WoW instead of Darkfall and getting payed by Eurogamer to review a game. These kind of journalists should shove their pages to their arshes and get the hell back to WoW!!!
Yep, because Tasos is such a reliable and trustworthy mouthpiece.
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Hype surrounding Darkfall is huge right now, despite our best efforts.
– Tasos Flambouras, Darkfall community announcement
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Also, we are talking about the company that has the following gem of a community manager employed:
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I’d be happy to tell you to go fuck yourselves! But a lot of people say that’s bad PR
so…I’m trying not to
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The only thing Eurogamer has to answer, IMHO, is why other crap MMOGs escaped with higher scores.
“Also, we are talking about the company that has the following gem of a community manager employed:
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I’d be happy to tell you to go fuck yourselves! But a lot of people say that’s bad PR
so…I’m trying not to”
Honestly, with the bullshit that people put on forums, this is not really a bad thing. Especially with all the false accusations the game has had recently.
Well heartless maybe those other mmogs that escaped with higher reviews had money exchanged behind the scenes.
2 hours in this game is a long time, I played for 20 mins was ganked 5 times and just uninstalled it. Whats the point of playing if you can’t even get away from the respawn point.
Well heartless maybe those other mmogs that escaped with higher reviews had money exchanged behind the scenes.