Player Events, we Love 'em!

[Tascha]

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the whole team here at Aventurine, we'd like to thank the community for their initiative and ongoing efforts in creating and running player driven events. Be they tournaments, fun events or just random acts of kindness (you can call it carebearing if it makes you feel better ;)), the community on both servers has shown time and time again that they care. We'll have you know that we're very interested in player-run events!

After my blog entry a few days ago, some of you might have guessed that the development team has a strong presence in-game. Indeed, keeping tabs on what's happening, evaluating the player experience and last but not least, taking footage and screenshots of real in game happenings is important to us.

We also really enjoy keeping an eye on player created events and we're usually there when these are happening. For example, several of us, including Aventurine's CEO, where watching from the shadows during the last 1vs1 Tournament on EU organized by Ninogan Swiftstep. We'd like to congratulate the organizers and the participants of this tournament. As tiny token of appreciation we thought you might enjoy watching a short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwcTkpfI0_M&hd=1) we put together with moments from the fights. We hope to be able to do this more often (of course, also for the NA server), and we're very much looking forward to your next events.

Make sure you check out the Community Event Forums (http://forums.darkfallonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=74) for an event near you. Additionally, we created a new facebook photo gallery (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25634&id=134645883249871) specifically reserved for screenshots from player created events.

Happy fighting!

[DALYDHXRAWR]

hell yeah! tascha!

[Swing]

Sweet, good to have more involvement from the team, even a comment or two!

[Sacred Blood]

i knew it

SUN is devteam and df will soon be frankfall

this is the end

[MaxEvil]

IM IN A CLIP! :D

n1

[Reckin Crew]

sweeeeeeet!

[xenom]

the icy barrier between players and our beloved devs is smelting...niceee :)

[peertje]

very cool :D

[DeManiac]

Next up, AdCon in Greece. ;P

[Ayn Sheron]

nice !

[Frank sinatra[SUN]]

i knew it

SUN is devteam and df will soon be frankfall

this is the end

Haha, i dunno how you keep up with those stories.
If it was true then why would i keep spamming the suggestion forums ? :).

That said Frankfall is somewhat catchy, so it might be time to change the games name before a asian relase.

On the video:
Great job, and its amazing how good it looks as well as its simply a masterclass in how pvp should be.

The only thing needed is less stat grind so its not only the early game macroers who can compete :)

great stuff, keep it coming.

/F

[smackyou]

seen the video before it was posted :P

[Sacra Luna]

IM IN A CLIP! :D

n1

Heh the human female that gets knocked up by magma storm followed by a melee slow is me... Still wonder why I was doing so bad lol.

[Uzik]

Nice

[Sacra Luna]

Bah can't edit. Wanted to say nice vid but abit short :P.

[foggen]

everything ends when I die, this movie clearly shows it..

[peertje]

everything ends when i die, this movie clearly shows it..

:d

[rbeck]

Good stuff

[Helcular]

Film crew coming? Sounds interesting enough

[Herbalist]

Nice!
Keep up the good job AV! In the last month something is changed and we all get it I think , )

[blob]

great pictures and video

[Sacra Luna]

By the way now that I think of it. Is it also possible for Aventurine to like have some ppl recording when ppl are having sieges and stuff. Would be good for promotion vids and it is allways awesome to see siege vids from a neutral point of view!

[-morph-]

:D Nice vid!

[Nathero]

By the way now that I think of it. Is it also possible for Aventurine to like have some ppl recording when ppl are having sieges and stuff. Would be good for promotion vids and it is allways awesome to see siege vids from a neutral point of view!

this , btw stop forumfall and go back to your locker. :ninja:

[Paragus]

Can't believe you actually posted! ;) Nice video.

[Sacra Luna]

this , btw stop forumfall and go back to your locker. :ninja:

Not much else to do other than updating customer pc's with remote desktop..

Oh teh joy.

btw. Go back to school!

[Remmold]

i was in bone so i understand that im not shown :P!!

[Arquiteto]

AV I really am starting to believe again. The recent improvement in communication is fantastic. Keep up the good work!

[Niburu]

Igame records with different camera angels are so epic <3 AV

[Sacra Luna]

Igame records with different camera angels are so epic <3 AV

That's why I want them to record siege battles :P.

[ninogan]

No pics of me and my sunbow. Disappoint :P

Thanks for putting up both the vid and screenshots though Tascha! Was a very awesome vid that captured the intensity of the tournament well. I'll put it on the website.

Looking forward to next time everyone ♥

[Gray Fox]

Nice short video Tascha, and yes we need film crews. Best Darkfall advert would be ingame footage of sieges, etc, not gay cinematics that other games choose.

[Miss Cheeky]

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the whole team here at Aventurine, we'd like to thank the community for their initiative and ongoing efforts in creating and running player driven events. Be they tournaments, fun events or just random acts of kindness (you can call it carebearing if it makes you feel better ;)), the community on both servers has shown time and time again that they care. We'll have you know that we're very interested in player-run events!

After my blog entry a few days ago, some of you might have guessed that the development team has a strong presence in-game. Indeed, keeping tabs on what's happening, evaluating the player experience and last but not least, taking footage and screenshots of real in game happenings is important to us.

We also really enjoy keeping an eye on player created events and we're usually there when these are happening. For example, several of us, including Aventurine's CEO, where watching from the shadows during the last 1vs1 Tournament on EU organized by Ninogan Swiftstep. We'd like to congratulate the organizers and the participants of this tournament. As tiny token of appreciation we thought you might enjoy watching a short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwcTkpfI0_M&hd=1) we put together with moments from the fights. We hope to be able to do this more often (of course, also for the NA server), and we're very much looking forward to your next events.

Make sure you check out the Community Event Forums (http://forums.darkfallonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=74) for an event near you. Additionally, we created a new facebook photo gallery (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25634&id=134645883249871) specifically reserved for screenshots from player created events.

Happy fighting!


Ninogan said NO NONPAYING Spectators!

You guys were lucky that he didn't see you ;)

[Lictor]

awesome vid!
thank you.

[AmonDominus]

Nothing says awesome like a girl Dev working on a full loot mmo <3

[Sinny]

Awesome stuff Tascha, it's nice to know you enjoy spying on us :ninja:

[Ruyn]

This is cool stuff.

[Sacra Luna]

Ninogan said NO NONPAYING Spectators!

You guys were lucky that he didn't see you ;)

They actually doubled the total prize money...

[ChinaCat]

Nice Video and great post.

[bladerunner1]

Fantastic angles, Game-Masters should do this more often. This is great marketing for the game because your recording is of fantastic quality and the editing is quite nice.

I have a suggestion; there are quite a few Video Engine Optimization softwares that allow you to upload to over 50 video web sites automatically, (Eg adds to google, vimeo, dailymotion, metacafe to name a few more than youtube). The advantage in doing this is you get a small amount of additional traffic from views through channels such as 'newest videos', or subsequent searches of the meta info you add.

The software is automated except in instances where you fill a captchya and it auto sends that to the site.

My opinion is that when you spent the time making videos its nice to then get leverage by spending 15 minutes getting the video to 50 sites. You can then use this array of videos for whatever end, certainly they are at the very least additional backlinks, or can be used for sophisticated SEO techniques like juicing.

I run a little internet marketing practice you are welcome to PM me and I'll tell you which software title I use in-house.

[Flutschi]

Nice Video!

[Ragnarok Delrhe]

the icy barrier between players and our beloved devs is smelting...niceee :)

darkfall's 2011 qq will be: Devs are too much implicated with the community! corruption and jealousy inc.

[sc0r0wnz]

Good girl, nice read up!

[DAA KAPUTTMACHA]

Thx Tascha. *thumbs up*

And now get back to work and make more awesome art stuff. :p

jk, hope you keep such documentations of actual ig happenings coming. It's great for advertising since it is real stuff and not some scripted polished eye candy.

PS: Nice screenies too, DF is just beatiful (with the right settings and hardware components ;) ).

[Banka plixz]

Proof that AV promotes the EU server! NOT NA! Come back friends!

[Croim]

i knew they had to put me in the film!



0,23 sexiest ork alive in dragonhelmet.



start fappin

[GreyEminence]

For example, several of us, including Aventurine's CEO, where watching from the shadows[...]

I'd very much like to see a feature like that for players for obvious reasons. I guess it's rather explotable though.

[Lictor]

Proof that AV promotes the EU server! NOT NA! Come back friends!

yeah, NA-1 is dead, come to us! :rolleyes:

[raapnaap]

Nice, more developer interaction is a good thing and shows some relation between player and developer. I hope we'll see more of this.

For example, several of us, including Aventurine's CEO, where watching from the shadows during the last 1vs1 Tournament on EU organized by Ninogan Swiftstep.

Don't let him watch live sieges, though. I fear the offensive public chat might make him force the addition of a chat language filter. And considering 65% of Darkfall's ingame chat includes some form of offensive or 'bad' language, we might suffer from a server-wide chat communication blackout.

Nice video anyway, It was rather funny that it ended when Xzyzz died. :)

[GreyEminence]

everything ends when I die, this movie clearly shows it..

i have a screenshot of that scene hanging over my bed now.

[cod3r_]

no one keeps up with what NA is doin tho huh..

[Temko Firewing]

Pfft, cheaters!

Av devs never paid the Spectator fee :ohno:

[ninogan]

Ninogan said NO NONPAYING Spectators!

You guys were lucky that he didn't see you ;)

I knew they were there but I was to scared to ask for gold >_>

[Luuranko]

Did they not double the prize money?

[PanCakeBunny]

the icy barrier between players and our beloved devs is smelting...niceee :)

This :]

[Aikar Walmoor]

i knew they had to put me in the film!



0,23 sexiest ork alive in dragonhelmet.



start fappin

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[brainiak]

Great video and a very good way to attract new players - is there any other MMO where fights look so dynamic?

[Elliania]

Great movie showcasing some good player skill and the very fluid movement of fights. Glad to see this- thanks.

[moocat]

A neutral/invisible, overview and also the "in the face" perspective of sieges is really needed for some good advertisement videos.

I hope AV can make some siege videos like that, and get some good footage from real DF combat as the old trailers are rather lacking and don't portray real combat at all. (1 hit kills, standstill meleefall, weird clothing etc)

[Simpo0]

i knew they had to put me in the film!



0,23 sexiest ork alive in dragonhelmet.



start fappin

Noticed!:D





*fap fap fap*

[Ivanhoe]

Pretty Awesome!

[c-darklord]

Very nice video and I love the music :D

[Wr1t3r]

I want PC like you have :)

[Rahkim]

As others have said, this kind of video captured during sieges could prove to be an excellent marketing tool. The game a newbie sees when they log in, and the endgame are so very different... it'd be cool to give new/potential players a glimpse of what is in store for them.

Great video and i hope to see more like it in the future =)

[schlock]

I enjoyed the video and the whole idea behind it but I wish things weren't sped up. It mis-represents actual game play and doesn't allow others to study technique properly.

Overall I'm pleased AV is getting into the mix of things.

[alazyguy]

Oh man.

I wish the NA battle royale event had a film crew.

Woulda rocked to see more than just Umberto and Ben.

[Laxe]

A neutral/invisible, overview and also the "in the face" perspective of sieges is really needed for some good advertisement videos.

I hope AV can make some siege videos like that, and get some good footage from real DF combat as the old trailers are rather lacking and don't portray real combat at all. (1 hit kills, standstill meleefall, weird clothing etc)

this,

and change of homepage design,

hell make a event for players to desight a skin for homepage for some unique pixel hat or armor ingame, and you will get awesome homepage that would of costed 10k in webpage market

[HeliosNorlund]

Ninogan said NO NONPAYING Spectators!

You guys were lucky that he didn't see you ;)

double the price money isnt excatly what i would call a nonpaying visitor.....

[Kiad]

They should have created videos like this with the WW1 and WW2 fights. That woulda been some ridiculously good marketing.

[bladerunner1]

They should have created videos like this with the WW1 and WW2 fights. That woulda been some ridiculously good marketing.

Even today on the smaller scale battles this is pretty cool, if Game-masters were tasked with invis filming sieges they could shoot some really good footage using their teleport powers etc. Of course it helps to have a beasty computer so you can shoot it at max res so when you scale it down to youtube it holds data well.

They could like film both sides preparing, travelling, and attacking each other, and get some really interesting war strategy angles as well as the pvp action.

In case nobody from AV got my last post on this very topic i made. Here it is, I strongly suggest anybody from AV interested in video production read my suggestion thread where I profiled a successful Darkfall video:

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=264216

I mentioned that well shot videos could be great for the game. At the time I wrote that there were 350 views on basher's post, its not at 4000 since then. THe user comments section shows a horde of users stating they were going to try out darkfall as a direct result of the video. The post I referenced shows:

<user1> LOL WHERE DO I GET THIS GAME!!!!

<user2> Been watching some videos on the game. looks fun. downloading now.

etc.

In fact there has been a steady stream of users for the past entire month. Imagine a fleet of 20-40 of these videos. The production cost is almost nothing and the lead generation is quite high.

---

In case the dev's missed my suggestion I hope that my suggestion post gets to somebody so they can use this for market research :)

[Mortimer]

I liked the video and the innitiative overall. But on the other hand, I understand why aventurine doesn't have any lags - Even ninogan has a worse pc. To actually fraps the fight with all details on, including shadows and to do it with such a quality And on top of that have a smooth gameplay.. damn.

Just remember that the average darkfall player doesn't own a nasa computer :rolleyes:

[Unit3d]

Just epic.

x

[ISVRaDa]

Good initiative AV.

Fantastic angles, Game-Masters should do this more often. This is great marketing for the game because your recording is of fantastic quality and the editing is quite nice.

+1

[Aodha]

nice

[ninogan]

I was contacted by Seraphina, one of Massively.com's writers for a comment about my latest tournament. They made a news post about it that can be seen here (http://www.massively.com/2010/10/28/aventurine-reaches-out-to-darkfall-community-with-tournament-vid/)

[campino87]

I was contacted by Seraphina, one of Massively.com's writers for a comment about my latest tournament. They made a news post about it that can be seen here (http://www.massively.com/2010/10/28/aventurine-reaches-out-to-darkfall-community-with-tournament-vid/)

saw it on facebook first, but nice!! :)

[theironchef]

This video was AWESOME. Excellent editing, fitting music, short but showcasing a lot.

Awesome job AV, hopefully this will encourage more events.

[Evilace]

Loved the video :)

[Miss Cheeky]

I knew they were there but I was to scared to ask for gold >_>

My fearless ninogan!? Nooooooooooo.....!

[Wr1t3r]

I wanna make videos like this!

[smoke2000]

don't bother with massively , it's 95% carebear public, they'll hate the game without taking 1 look at it.

[Dreading A]

Please make sure it has consequences on the real game world. ie. players still get to raid cities and destory the macroing idiots to gain valuable resources.

[KDSAB]

This is wicked. If DEVs want to do REALLY cheap advertising, have your camera crew prowl around the sea-towers, port to villages around capping and get more of these kinds of videos up. They don't have to be long. In fact, the more videos of this kind of length you put up the better, because it shows the living, breathing, competetive world you've built.

Great initiative and I REALLY hope you guys keep this up. Do more. Find the day-to-day PVP. Follow the well known PVPers around and see what they get up to, moar epic footage plz :)

[$id Viciou$]

They should start doing news with big sieges and show a video of some footage every month! That would be tight. The word would spread faster online if the DEVs followed the player-made storyline more often and shared it with the world from points of view that are not available to us.

[$id Viciou$]

Imagine seeing yourself as a speck on the ground running around at a large siege because the view was from far above and shown in one of the news vids. That would be so cool! Darkfall videos seen on youtube and stuff like that are already becoming some of the coolest game videos out there. Being able to record from high up in the sky and stuff like that would make the videos even better. Don't stop recording . ... definitely don't stop! Be the first MMORPG development crew to dominate in the AV (audio/visual) realm. Make the best videos out there and post them so that people who do not play are still interested in watching the news of what people are doing in Darkfall. That would be tight! Seriously I can imagine how much cooler it would have been seeing some of the fights that I've been in through the DEVs eyes in some news post and think that it would have helped keep people interested in the game more when I look back on days where there were more people playing. People could be complaining about the broken alignment system or some crap while you show them some cool race vs race battle footage and make them think twice about it.