It's going to the same place where the dodo went...

the crapper

Down.

Why ask this now?

Turbine doesn't even know where the game is going, nor have they since I joined.

Looking back, it's rather obvious there's never been a long term plan, DDO has been going forward with short term plans that constantly change with staff.

This is all because every dev here is like a selfish child with absolutely no vision, just the constant need for validation.
Why work as a group to achieve something meaningful when you can be an attention whore and piss all over everyone else's content? Also, why dress in anything other than (un)fashionable scarfs & ridiculous hats..

Tspoon wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 5:51pm:


Towards extinction.

Some of the developer had free reins with the previous producers and did develop their pet projects to make DDO more mainstream. ( Trash Loot better than named loot, Random stuff on loot, Enhancement Crash, Impending E-TR Doom, ED Tree/circle format )

The problem is they didn't look at the people playing the game... And didn't notice that we don't care about being mainstream, and actually we are better off not being mainstream.

At least Rowan showed some cojone by stopping the E-TR Doom before it was too late.
Now let see if he has enough cojone to kill, fix and/or rollback some of the idiocy done during the last two years. ( like stopping to raise level cap until he has rebuilt a complete endgame worthy of farming and prepared an endgame worthy of farming once he raises the cap again. And no endgame worthy of farming is not 10ish quests, it's 10ish raids and 20+ quests )

Spoon, I agree with you.  Back when the cap was 20 and ToD king, the game made sense.  You had TR'ing for past lives, you stayed at cap to grind epic loot or raid loot.  You ran ToD, Shroud, Vod, Hound, Reavers, Abbott, eVon, eDQ, eChrono and some 6 man epics. 

There was something for everyone.  Some minor modifications to the seal/shard/scroll system would have been all they needed to do. 

Instead they totally screwed it up by moving the cap to 25 too quickly when there wasn't the content to support it.  Although lack of content isn't really the biggest problem.  The ease with which you can obtain loot is.  Dropping fully completed Epic items at a 10-20% drop rate is too easy.  Giving away the EN version on end rewards/3rd completion runs is too easy.  Making everything unbound is too easy.  (I'm a huge fan of BtAoA).  Combine all that with a power leap instead of power creep in the loot power and you have massive problems.  You are giving away loot in 1-3 runs that is 2-3 times as powerful as loot that used to take 40-60 runs to acquire. 

It makes your game casual in a hurry because there's just not much to do after a few weeks.  It only leaves you with the TR/XP grind path.  And, if that's not your thing, then you get bored.  There's not something for everyone anymore.

Lurp wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 5:02pm:



Yup, that worked fine for 10 to 12, then for 12 to 14, and 14 to 16...

16 to 20 worked fine too because Amrath was tough and VoD/HoX were located in a raid explorer
( by the way anybody ever got all the explorer locations there at level )

The raises beyond 20 were too fast and too much...

Long term 30 cap might save DDO. Emphasis on might.

Flav wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 6:02pm:


I did, way b4 u14, was fun
sometimes I get urges like that, a few weeks back I ran around ~2h in the underdark just for fun

Khyberian wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 6:09am:


I really like the High Road, Stormhorns, Kings Forest, Schindlryn, and Underdark explorer areas.  There's something about Wheloon prison that bothers me, not sure what it is.   Same is true of the Demonweb.  It annoys me and I find myself moving on rather than bothering to get everything.

I think the only toons that caused me any concern were the triple classed ones where the +20 wasn't going to get the job done in one pass.  In some cases, it takes two LR's because of the 3 class limit.