Thought I'd toss up a requiem post here, because DP was a decent game that unfortunately never realized its potential, due to SOE's then-unknown financial troubles. It's flourished rather well in other markets around the world, but unfortunately, on Monday, its North American publish was sunset by Daybreak.
I'm not sure what happened between Runewaker and Daybreak to decide on a complete closure of its North American release, but I'm going to guess that Daybreak wanted to dump it, since it had lost a lot of its community while it was under SOE's publishing thumb and it would have been too difficult to make improvements and recover. (Hey Daybreak... ever hear of a little trainwreck of a MMO called Final Fantasy XIV?)
So much potential... which was thrown in the toilet and flushed. I hate to see this happen to games, but who knows, maybe someone who wants to make it work (and has the means to make it work) will work something out with Runewaker for a return to the NA market.
