Memnir wrote on Jun 5
th, 2013 at 7:48pm:
I gave the new official forums a shot, but gave up on em pretty fast. Turbine's track record on listening to their public is bad enough to be a punchline... and the new WB logo on the tabs displaying the new forum pages instead of DDO logos makes me think this change was inflicted from way above Cordo and Tolero's paygrade. No chance it'll ever be more then just fractionally better then it is now.
It's no secret that I used to hold the other forums in high regard. Well, the people - not the Mods. Jerry can choke on a sloppy dick as far as I'm concerned. But, I enjoyed the community and had a lot of fun with most everybody over there. But the new forums are just horrible enough that I cannot even browse over there anymore.
And sadly, the community was pretty much my last tether to the game itself. I haven't spent more then 45 consecutive minutes in DDO for weeks now... and the times a week I even bother to log in at all is in sharp decline. I put up with fucking aweful game design for years, swallowed every questionable design choice since Unlimited was put forth, tried to put a polish on every Turbine turd-based expansion. Turbine finding a way to fuck the forums up the ass was just the last straw.
I should thank them for that, at least. It was beyond time to move on from this cluster-fuck of a game. At least they helped me find the impetus to do so at long last.
Fuck Turbine. They deserve themselves.
Agree with pretty much everything Mem said, beginning to end. The game always had its problems, but with WB at the helm it gradually became a fucking farce. It seems that Turbine has flushed away any shred of transparency and accountability they had left, and DDO simply became a corporate thing with zero player input, like something out of a EA memo.
The forums are filled with complaints about a ton of bugs that haven't been touched while they are pushing this new expansion out...while their spineless lapdogs like Hendrik and Trudh are tirelessly defending their masters. But just in case it gets too much for the two, dickless Jerry is ever-ready to delete, infract and ban.
I've been making a transition to Neverwinter over the past week, and I am starting to like it. While it certainly has its flaws, it is a fucking dream vacation compared to the shit I have to put up with on DDO.