Dürfte wohl in Zusammenhang mit der Meldung stehen:
Today we stopped charging for Darkfall Online since we’re going to shut down the Darkfall Online service in a month, on November 15th, to make more room for Darkfall Unholy Wars.
We would like to thank our players, past and present, with a small token of our appreciation, by opening up our game servers. The game will be free for all players, of good standing, who ever bought the game.
We hope to see you in-game as we all enjoy our final month of Darkfall Online.
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