...hold yer horses.
I just got an e-mail saying that I've been charged the full price for the game. The login screen still says 'Account is not active #3', though.
Might be for the best, though. In the thread I'm watching, the two people who have been able to get the patch installed, claim their installs are now 'bricked'.
Got my email "purchase created"
It seems they may have fixed the patch problem. I'm downloading it now, at 500kbps.
And it's now the 27th in Greece, so Darkfall has officially missed it's launch date. ;p
We’ve been waiting for the pre-orders to process through billing and it has been moving along but not fast enough. We’re almost done with this. Many of you will be getting notifications of this during this process. As soon as this is concluded we’ll process the accounts and open up the servers for the pre-orders. This will be done tonight; the game has been ready and waiting.
Unfortunately we’re running behind schedule as far as opening up the extra sales which we hoped to do tonight as well. We’ll do this tomorrow as early as possible, likely sometime around noon GMT time, around the time of our first scheduled maintenance. At this time we will also process the problematic accounts which had 0 euro problems, no charges, no balance, but received a successful pre-order message. We are also looking into the few cases that have pre-ordered but have not received a confirmation email and we will resolve all these issues. Most of these problems were due to a combination of lag, multiple sessions, and multiple charge attempts.
We want to thank you for your patience again, and we would like to let you know that we’re adding a couple more days to the free month of play making them 33 for everyone that pre-ordered and that will buy the game tomorrow. This is to make up for any bad experience with the account management, the lag and the delays you’ve had to face with purchasing.
The traffic volume we’ve been experiencing has been unbelievably high because of the initial rush and was compounded by users hammering the system with multiple sessions. You should also know that we have been doing everything necessary to resolve all these issues as soon as possible.
We’ll post again as soon as the server is open.
The forums will return shortly as well.
-Tasos
blah Helemoto beat me to the copy/paste posting of Tasos latest info.... damn you sir!
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Hopefully, we can get our pre-order guys on tonight to claim the city. At least this way, we only have to compete with other pre-orders than everyone else.
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Game Account Created - Check
Pre-Order Confirmation Email - Check
CC Account charged for Pre-Order and Retail - Check
DFO Patcher done updating - Check
Client Error #3 on load - WTF!!?!?!
There lucky their stupid European ass is so far away so that people can't jump in there car and put an ass whooping on these dumbass's.
I am really glad I didn't call in sick today, and won't be calling in sick tomorrow either.
Downloading another server now.
The login server is working & accounts are confirmed but not activated yet. Once all accounts for pre-order are activated then they will take them live.
You can almost hear the programmers "Ho shit! I forgot something! Quick lets recompile!! They won't mind waiting another few hours before going live because this new patch will make 2 different kinds of birds fly around between the times of 14:12 and 14:20. Totally sweet and totally worth the delay!"
The previous statement was translated through facebook translator Greek to Engrish
Just to make it complete:
Update made at 4am GMT 2/26
A bug was discovered during final testing, and we need to resolve it before we can open up the servers. We didn’t want to launch to just say we launched. We can’t apologize enough for the long delay. The current ETA is two hours but it could be longer. We will launch as soon as possible and we will keep you updated.
We have extended the free month to 33 days to compensate for the inconvenience. Problems will occur from time to time but we need you to know that we’re committed to supporting this game to the best of our ability. It’s unfortunate that we are facing these issues at launch, and we’ll do everything we can to make this up to you.
The Darkfall Team
