Buying Darkfall is hard

Apparently buying a copy of Darkfall, the recently released MMO from Adventurine, is harder than finding a frog’s teeth. After hearing about the numerous complaints on this subject, I went ahead and took a look for myself. Well, the first thing I noticed is that a visible e-store is no where to be seen on the Darkfall Online website. I’m not sure whether or not that’s intentional or just a result of bad design. I sort of suspect the latter. What game developer wouldn’t want an accessible way to sell their games?

So after searching around, I discovered that the online shop is buried in the account creation screen. Yes, you need to create an account first to get a shot at buying the game. Adventurine says that it only releases a handful of copies for sale per day so it doesn’t overload their server capacity or form long queues to get into the game. They also only make the game available on 7 PM GMT (or 11 AM Pacific time). That sort of stinks if you say happen to need to go to work. The store is open pretty much for only 15 minutes as literally thousands of players all vie for the limited amount of copies. Read more