If you wanted to come up with a method to lose the maximum number of subscribers to your game, a character wipe must already figure high on the list of things to do. But Aventurine figured that this might not yet be enough to stop the last few thousand players from playing Darkfall. So they went the extra mile and decided to shut down the old Darkfall this week, while postponing the start of the new Darkfall into at least next month. I'm sure they can extend that if necessary, they do have experience with that.