GAME ON: Darkfall Online is Finally Online, EU1 Server is Live!

UPDATE 12:25 PM: Reports are that the lone Darkfall Online server has been up and steady but there is significant lag. The closest goblin camps are crowded (20+ players), though some of them further from the starter towns are less crowded. One bastage is reporting the lag is only allowing 1 in 10 swings to register as hits. Fortunately he was able to get his newbie staff and and upgrade to the polearm by looting 120 gold from a dead player. Woot!

Also there are reports that despite the increased price of clan stones, some clans are already established and declaring war against each other!

Also confirmed that Darkfall Online only allows 1 character slot per account unlike our Beta accounts. Looks like if you want separate characters for PvP and crafting you'll need two subscriptions. In any case it is probably best to use the same character for both anyway as crafting skills such as lumberjacking will increase your STR. It is yet to be determined what total skill caps are set to.

Still no word as to when the rest of us will be able to open new accounts. There are even some players who report having successfully pre-ordered, received charges and are getting a invalid account message upon login...

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Well of course these guys got the server up 30 minutes after I wrote my previous post and hit the sack last night. Here is the official message from the Darkfall Team:

Servers are finally opening up after a 12 hour delay. Processing the pre-orders took much longer than the original estimate we were given, and we caught a bug at the last minute that we didn’t want to launch with. We apologize for the long delay and we hope you enjoy your first day in Darkfall.

For the players that are getting lobby errors, check your version and if you don’t have build 1.0.35, get it from http://www.eu1.darkfallonline.com/dl/Darkfall.exe

We have extended the free month of play to 33 days to thank you for your patience and to try to begin making up for the inconvenience.

We’ll process the problematic pre-orders that were not charged, and have 0 balance later today. If you pre-ordered successfully but weren’t charged, or haven’t received your final notice for the remaining successful charge, you’ll need to be patient a few hours longer. We’ll also look at opening up more sales by tomorrow. We are a little behind schedule but we're catching up.

Forums have been down due to large volume, almost double our highest traffic to date, people weren’t able to access them. We brought them down in order to be able to post communications so you would know what was going on. MMORPG.com was kind enough to post our first announcement but we need to be able to communicate through the official Darkfall community. Darkfall IRC was causing the Stratics network problems with its volume and it was also temporarily shut down at Stratics request. The forum will be back as soon as possible, and we hope we can keep it up.

We’ll do our best to keep you updated.

Thank you

The Darkfall Team

If you want to be technical I think the just managed to squeeze in on the 25th inside the PST time zone. Some Bastages reported that the servers were only up for a short period before going down again. It appears they're back up again early this AM (EST) according to first hand accounts. You can also check the server status page to see whether it is up:

At press time there was only one EU server up. I'm waiting for additional reports on server stability, etc. Still no word on new accounts availability.

One interesting piece of information: the price of Clanstones on live servers has increased to 10k.