Well I've been playing the game from the start and gonna prolong my subscription again. It's started to bore me a bit but there is still no other game for me that can be compared to DF (aside from EVE perhaps, but it's already bored me). Game is good at least but I see a one major problem for it - it's heavily unfriendly to noobs. I mean the leveling system above all. While in EVE noob has a slow start but can become on par with veterans in a half an year of playing, I can't even imagine the gap between a one year veteran and a noob in DF. But it'll be huge to say the least. Not only in terms of game advantage but especially in terms of time it'll take to narrow the gap. Considering this I'm afraid there won't be any noobs in DF in a year because they gonna be owned so hard it's not even amusing...
"You don't have to spend endless hours playing in order to enjoy yourself, or to become successful. Even if you only play in small doses, your character can be effective within his chosen field"
This is in their webpage feature list. Are you telling us they are lying?
I think the noob experience is second thing on thier list from the May 27th update on the forum:
Things to look forward to:
Our team is expanding and is fully committed to working on Darkfall. We are working on virtually every aspect of the game and our goal is to continuously improve the Darkfall experience.
Some of the things to look forward to in the near future include but are not limited to:
Imminent massive optimizations to further improve gameplay, massive battles and sieges
Improving the newbie experience, making the transition to Darkfall smoother and lowering the learning curve
Continuously adding polish to the game
Substantial improvements to the graphics
Large content updates
Massive feature updates
Further improvements to the economy
Massive improvements to the solo and the small group experience
More PvP diversity and options
Substantial improvements to PvE