Asheras wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 6:31pm:


Not true either.  Gainfully employed and I don't spend shit on this game.

Asheras wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 6:31pm:


I have a buddy like this. He probably could have bought the game for what he drops in SP pots and cakes.  I've tried to help him, but he said "fuck it, I'm having fun and spending less than I would on a drink or two at the bar".  I did notice he spends more TPs on "rum night" though...

Bigjunk wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 9:05pm:


You are missing the point.  He said time in game = money spent.  I'm saying time in game <> money spent.  In fact, I would be willing to bet that the majority of your top 25% of spenders does not fall in the top 25% in terms of time spent in game per week.

People playing this game for 60+ hours per week (8-9 hours per day, 7 days a week) either 1) don't have the money to spend or 2) don't need to spend it because they can farm ee Loot, etc and trade for what they want. 

I happen spend a lot of money to improve my game experience, mainly on beer and smokes.

The metrics are nowhere near this simple.

Asheras wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 4:42pm:


The fun thing about the older loot was even though it was kind of long to acquire once you did get these items and had them epic and whatnot they stayed relevant for a long time.

The new way of things seems to want to make old gear meh much to damn quickly which quite frankly is killing the fun of the game for many.

Kimberlite wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 8:28pm:

Biggity Bingo.

My only question is this:  If you don't buy Shadowfail do you get the 'enhancement trainwreck' if you are F2P?

Aeolwind wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 8:56pm:



Yes you dont have to buy them like the epic enhancements errm sorry ''destinies''

Bigjunk wrote on Jul 24^th, 2013 at 12:04am:


For some reason, I got a mental picture of this being said by Trinity  while she holds a gun to a cowering dev's head...

What the game needs more than anything at this point: 1) stability, 2) content.  There are lots of fixes to be made and a lot of tweaks to bring some semblance of synergy back to the various elements of character-building, but at the moment it feels like anything and everything is subject to change, with or without notice.  That's not a comfortable place to be.

majmalphunktion wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 4:16pm:

So?

kum-gulp wrote on Jul 28^th, 2013 at 4:05pm:

Mind telling me how long items like the Torc, greensteel, Madstone boots, and many other items were viable? Voice of the Master? Is DDO a better game by replacing these with FoS'd  shit gear with random effects?

In the 14 month span that includes Eveningstar, GH, and Shadowfail, we got two pointless commoner level cap increases, and three gear grinds. Compare that to three years of relative stability from 2009-2012.

Dhalgren wrote on Jul 29^th, 2013 at 7:49am:



Lets see how bad he takes the criticism about Random shit on Named Items, and the general underwhelming-ness of said named items. ... He asked for feedback, he got it.

Flav wrote on Jul 29^th, 2013 at 9:22am:


I could live with some randomness on named items.  The eGH dragon helms, for example, don't bother me at all.  I kinda like it because it gives you some flexibility in gear options.  I wouldn't mind the Dun'Robar/Avithoul/Szind rings, if they only had one thing that was random.  The Stat OR the Combat Effect.  Not both.  That makes for too much difficulty in getting the right combination. 

What I can't deal with is raid loot from the highest level raid (FoT) being invalidated 5 months after it comes out.  You only have 2 end game raids, currently.  One is a year old, the other is 5 months old.  And you basically wipe out one of them and weaken the other.  And don't bring anything new to the table to replace it.  (Which would suck anyways).  End game needs to be ADDITIVE.  Not Zero Sum.  And definitely not reductive.