Looks like Darkness Falls from DAoC may be showing its wonderfully dark head here in ESO. This is a small quote from an Article on MMORPG.com. Link to Article here!
We recently had an opportunity to interview ESO’s lead PvP designer Brian Wheeler and we asked him about the idea of recreating Darkness Falls in ESO. This is what he had to say:
“Everybody always asks me that and all I can say is that, if we’ve given you everything you want so far for PvP massive scale feedback, just, you know, stay tuned. We’ll have more information on something that people have been asking for for a long time and I’m working on things that will try to give that same sense. Right now we have the caves, where you can go into them and kill people, but obviously people want things that are a lot more involved, like you guys said, like Darkness Falls.
In case anyone doesn’t understand what Darkness Falls is, the easiest way to describe it to people is a single PvE space that only one alliance has access to at a time. People have been asking for that for a long time. It’s stuff that’s on the radar, but I can’t go too much into when or how it will come into the game.”
ZOS isn’t even playing coy with this one. It’s pretty clear that they want to recreate this experience in some form in ESO, and it’s my thinking that the Imperial City will serve as the location for ESO’s version of ‘DF’ whenever that comes about. This doesn’t make me a genius or anything. Just about anyone who read Brian’s response earlier this week put two and two together here. It just makes a whole lot of sense.
ZOS has reserved this very important space in Cyrodiil and controlling the crown requires capturing territory directly surrounding this space, so the only logical conclusion is to tie control of the crown to the ability for players to enter the Imperial City. If things work out the way I just described, this would give a pretty clear answer to anyone asking ‘What’s in it for me?” or “What now?” when it comes to helping capture Cyrodiil for their alliance and crowning an emperor.
