Just as i thought, AV is keeping Darkfall 2.0's general progression on the Downlow:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/24/new-darkfall-video-shows-off-bone-armor/

Above shows that the game is a little more developed then we think.

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Also Reports of people doing un-ordinary things ingame, such as selling a lot of items with out proper motive,
hence coming to the fact that,
Darkfall 2.0 Beta might be going on, just without acutally telling people.
I believe Tasos is trying to keep DF 2.0 from discouraging current players to keep playing.

http://massively.joystiq.com/category/darkfall

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