Lets hope Fernando actually asked and confirmed with the devs this time around. Unlike the paralyzing fiasco. that guy talks through his ass.

Will believe it when i see it.

*shrug*

That's the obvious reaction to the complains that PUGs are dead.

Instead of trying to understand why some of the changes in the last few updates killed the Pugs and gatting rid of those changes ( or at least finding a way to keep them that doesn't impact pugs ), they go the other way.

PUGs are dead ? no problem : we will force them to pug.

Now I can't wait to see raids changed to daily/weekly/<put relevant timeframe> stuff that WILL HAVE TO BE PUGGED NO MATTER IF WE ARE 12 IN A PARTY ALREADY. That will be the death of everything endgame. ( and the end of it for a lot of people )

I think some marketdroid wants us to do things the way they are done in mainstream MMO, said marketdroid should be made aware that DDO is NOT a fucking mainstram MMO.
( between that and the new enhancement tree, it's really the way I see it going, and if they follow that slippery slope one day they are going to remove the active combat system... because the losers playing mainstream games can't cope with it. )

DDO is what it is because it is so different of mainstream MMOs, and people play it because they prefer it to the other games...

If its what they have in LOTRO, its pretty similar to the WOW 'Looking for Dungeon' queue.

You choose an instance and go into the queue, the game then pairs you up with other people based on what they can do, tank/heal/dps etc.

For the most part people are crying over nothing, I'm pretty sure its an optional feature that you do not have to use, have a guild group already? Off you go. Need one more person? Stick up an LFM or just chuck yourself into the Instance Finder as a group and get a random person.

mudfud wrote on Apr 8^th, 2012 at 5:51am:


If it's anything like the system used in WoW, I would think it would get rid of that by porting you directly into the dungeon.

Auran wrote on Apr 8^th, 2012 at 5:07am:

Your faith in Turbine's ability to not break an existing system when introducing something new is touching. Truly touching.

Auran wrote on Apr 8^th, 2012 at 5:07am:

This is step 1 in cross-server groups/raids.  With Turbine's track record, the initial five releases won't work.

At this point I think the Turbine staff uses to deliver a bunch of really, really bad talking points.  That way, when we see the finished product we think “Well, at least it's not that abomination the ‘the nando’ talked about in that interview.”

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Another way to zerg and grief flower-sniffing puggers? Doesn't sound so bad.

Really this is a boon to established players: all the shitty new people will be grouping with other shitty new people.

Grace wrote on Apr 9^th, 2012 at 5:46pm:

Everyone knows that Gloves of Performing give a +2 psionic bonus to sparkle fingers.

Bitching and moaning about others is about all that's keeping me playing lately. Bring on the random grouping!