DarkBlood Online to Shutdown
Man, reality wasted no time rushing back after the holidays to smack us in the face. Outspark announced yesterday that their side-scroller action MMO Darkblood Online would be shutting down.
The MMO will be officially closing on January 15, with the premium shop having already closed down yesterday. For those that had made any purchases in the last few months, Outspark saw fit to reimburse players with varying amounts of SparkCash depending on when purchases where made. Players can expect compensation the same day DarkBlood shuts down. You can find the full breakdown on all of this here.
Outspark assured fans that the game would seek a new publisher and preserve player's character information until new publisher arrangements could be made. What were your opinions on the game? Let us know below.
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Because this game is still alive in Korea(dblood.happyoz), China(db.changyou), Japan(not sure), and Indonesia(hoa.megaxus).
I wish DBO can return again for NA or english speaker... sorry if my english is bad.
nice control on pvp/pve (well monsters was to easy until my 21 lvl at list :p)
the only thing is missing was free world and custom stats that makes
the game pure mmorpg (without ppl can c your build like many games do now)
if u got nice brain activity you can make the best build and because someone
alse c it c/p u...
Last i'd like to ask why all good games shouting down? ''Client & Browser''
this is unbelievable... only the big NCSOFT - Blizzard and other huge company's last...
anyway same another nice game like this closed :/
whe he open
There's just so many Korean F2P games coming over these days any any publisher of them I've tried has proven themselves to be pure crap eventually. I went into playing this game figuring it'd be my last Korean F2P game and about two weeks later the shut down announcement came. Even if the game is pretty good they just can have the fun drained out by these craptacular publishers so it's not even worth trying as you have to know they will screw your over eventually.
a pity that the game is dead.
I liked being able to play a hack n slash with an xbox controller and still keeping the mmo values. was lots of fun killing time thats for sure.
as good examples for genre - long liver mapple story and, i personally think so, elsword. great examples how to run sidescrollers and dungeon run based games.
i don't think, that game itself failed, i think publisher failed.
hope a publisher that doesn't pussy out gets it nextime. Outspark is lame.
aftetr divine souls shut down i dont played nothing from out$park
The population that still wants to play those old school games arent alot. Unless your game is able to sustain itself on no or low profit, all the new released crap aint going to make the cut.
2013 my prediction will be double that, which game's, I really can't say.
F2P is not the future of gaming,One of my reason's is that once all the Main stream company's all start doing it and giving us AAA quality game's with a brand name behind them. The little company's will suffer the wrath first.
Once every company start's doing it No game will be safe no matter What company or quality it is,No one is going to use a cash shop if within 1 year thier game is gone!
To many game's out, Not enough player's in the world to keep them alive!
Inflictious
Inflictious
Guess its not been a jolly one for them.
It certainly wasn't a bad game and I actually enjoyed it.