Thoughts on a Possible North American Darkfall Server

I don't have any official details yet, but Tasos' last update on March 21st does have some useful information:

Since Darkfall’s launch we have been dealing with issues round the clock, and we’ll continue to do so in order to improve your gameplay experience with every day that goes by. We read all the support requests and are aware of every issue that comes up and we want to thank you for your excellent feedback.

The queuing has been addressed and resolved. The lag and sync issues some players were experiencing have also been addressed and resolved. Random crashes have been all but eliminated. We will give all player accounts a total of 34 days free play included in their initial purchase to compensate for any inconveniences caused by downtime.

An issue we are facing now is with more Darkfall availability. The reason we had throttled the availability in the first place was to avoid queuing. At some point we hit the threshold where queuing began and we needed to increase capacity. Now that we know more, we’re working in advance so that queuing doesn’t become much of an issue again. We hope to be able to open up for more sales sometime this coming week; again it will have to be a limited amount of copies to allow a smooth integration of new players into the game. We will announce when this is ahead of time.

We are also working on opening up new servers to meet the demand. This is not as simple as some forum posts suggest. Darkfall has a huge and very complex infrastructure. There will be announcements when this is nearing completion.

I also came across the following in the comments section of Syncaine's blog Hardcore Casual:

syncaine: As for waiting, I think the best bet (if you are going to wait, honestly the game is more than error free right now to play) is to wait for the NA server to open. No date on when that will be, but it will open before EU-2 opens. They are most likely going to allow naked character transfers though.

I tried to get a source out of him and he only responded:

syncaine: Not public I don't, no. Should be 'soon' though.

Does anyone else have any inside information to share? We're currently debating it internally, but I still think it is too early to make a decision, especially since we don't even know how long it will take to get a North American Darkfall Online server going.

Either way if they do at least open up new sales this week I've been suggesting to some of the Bastages on the sidelines that they should think about getting in now so they don't get locked out later on due to another throttled release of accounts.