Update April 3, Launch announcement and wobble patch.

We’re going to make the launch announcement later today with a launch date of April 16th and we wanted you guys, Darkfall’s hardcore supporters and critics, to know it first. We realize this is short notice announcing 2 weeks before, it’s not our ideal scenario and we didn’t mean to be ninja about it, however it was difficult to get this window to open up where everyone including our partners are on the same page, and we decided to grab it rather than risk having to delay another couple of months.

It’s important for us that we launch the game and shift into high gear, get out of testing limbo and move on to our post-launch development plan under live conditions, where the stakes are high. In hindsight, beta was totally necessary and useful and we're happy we put the game through it. Even so, it’s a phsase of testing and you cannot really take the game to the next level while in beta, it poses restrictions on creativity and innovation and it’s difficult to evolve, not to mention that the testing population on the servers is getting low after nearly 5 months of beta.

We have another couple of weeks of hard work ahead of us before the launch where we optimize the game for launch and we will depend on you for feedback. We have a patch this week to get the new wobble system in, plus some work on the starting experience.

Communication and player interaction in this game is extremely important. Daily updates will go on indefinitely, and will become more substantial and varied as our liaisons and our support staff become more active starting next week. We know that this game needs the best possible player-developer interaction loop in place to evolve into the best PvP MMORPG experience and we have made this part of our process.

Last but not least we cannot thank you enough for working with us for the past 5 months to get this game launch ready. Your input led to major improvements while in Beta, and is responsible for major improvements to come. The feedback we got from you in the last few days alone on the roles and on the starting experience has been invaluable. We know it hasn’t been easy and we appreciate your patience and your efforts and we hope you stick with us for the next couple of weeks and beyond the launch.

We’ll have a separate announcement about lifting the NDA tomorrow, and we’ll ask you to respect it until then.

Thank you for everything

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