Epoch wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2013 at 8:21am:


Extra win for all players who get stuck with bugs causing all their karma + epic heart to disappear.

Barkabout wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2013 at 1:22am:

I don't know about anyone else, but this pretty much sums up everything in a Hitchhiker's Guide scale of everything.

This should be news feed.   

this year was rough for ddo, expansion sucked still sucks, and will probably continue to suck forever. (2 adventure packs? really?) 
epic tr was neat idea. the actual execution of epic tr (cov drop rates, turn in rates, past life feats, and bugs) makes me completely uninterested in the steaming pile of turbine that it is.
enhancement pass was a complete pile of meh.
chest reroll was and still is crap. (shitty money grab is shitty)
feather fucked the loot harder than he ever had before.

unwanted changes, spirit crushing bugs, and crap content caused my guild to become a ghost town.

money grabs and getting screwed by turbine is how 2013 felt to me.

edit to add that system changes for the sake of change all over the place also was pretty damn frustrating.

Bill Z Bubb wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2013 at 1:35pm:


Ah, of course! What was I thinking? And right after I told Harharhar I thought dollars were the metric of most interest to a for-profit corporation, how could I forget so soon?!

Well, if that's the definition of very good, then congratulations and I hope they gave you a nice cut, Maj, because even if I don't always agree with you, I most definitely respect you for being the only Turbine employee to have the balls to come here, and I do sincerely hope you get hazerdous duty pay

majmalphunktion wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2013 at 12:36am:



He could have very well meant monetarily.  It's a business, and at the end of the day, the numbers are all that matter.  Now some die hard geeky pointed head players may not like the game the way it is now, but it is what it is.

Hi, welcome.

majmalphunktion wrote on Dec 25^th, 2013 at 1:45pm:


Merry christmas mal, hope you are having a great day

thanks maj your willingness to talk with us and share your insight is very appreciated.

happy holidays.

majmalphunktion wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2013 at 12:36am:


Wow if you believe that I have some timeshares you would be an idiot to pass up.

mystafyi wrote on Dec 26^th, 2013 at 6:58pm:



That's mostly when I use this forum.  during an average shit.

majmalphunktion wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2013 at 12:36am:

I still enjoy playing DDO.  The problem is that the reasons I enjoy playing the game are, for the most part, because of things you did before this year. 

I enjoy TRing (heroic version).  I enjoy running Raids and Epic raids (not named CITW).  I enjoy getting loot with a moderate level of grind.  I enjoy STK, Tangelroot, Deleras, Tear, Gwylans, VoNs, Desert, GH, Vale, Amrath, Necro IV, Epic GH, The High Road, Sschindlryn, and The Kings Forest. 

The only two things that added to my enjoyment of DDO this year were: FoT (I like this raid and epic GH quests in general) and the enhancement pass (after getting used to it, I actually like the new options and the customizability.  It could DEFINITELY use some modifications and additions, but as a core system, I like it).

Stormhorns didn't suck, but I can't go so far as to add it to my list of likes.

Things you did that I didn't like:
Epic GH Loot - WAAAAAY to easy to get.
Level Cap Raise to 28.
Iconics
Wheloon
Epic TR
Level Cap Raise to 28 (Did I list that twice?  Must be a mistake.  No, wait.  It's not.  I really hate it when you guys raise the level cap too fast without raids and content to support.  Nothing kills end game faster).

So, yes, I am still here and still playing and I still love the game and still supporting it financially, but not because of what you guys did this year so much.  More despite it.

What you guys really need to do is give us some content to support level 28 cap (with raids!) and lower the number of CoV needed (or up the earn rate/options) and fix the loot grind level to balance things out.

Make that you goals for 2014.   

Epoch wrote on Dec 27^th, 2013 at 3:17am:


Time to let FOS loose on your gear?

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Dec 27^th, 2013 at 5:11am:


"They will create reasons for us to go on" to some other game or pastime. There I corrected your sentence for you, since that has been the results for many players when the cap with MOTU.

There hasn't been anything to realistically support Epic levels in the game. There is no character building via leveling past level 20. Besides more HP, SP, saves and UMD, the Epic commoner levels don't give much worthwhile to players, except maybe more BAB for non-warrior classes. So players are strictly dependent on Epic Destinies and gear for advance characters since there will be a 10 level cap next year between the actual character's build and the levels for quests. Epic Destinies have been narrowed to a handful of decent ones and the rest are weak. The Epic gear got trashed and the few decent pieces of Epic gear means that everyone is using the same gear. Forcing players to stick to a particular ED or gear to increase DCs, damage, etc just means more cookiecutter builds and gear layouts. And more 6 levels of Monk tacked onto a huge chunk of builds.

IMHO, MOTU's cap increase was the start of bad decisions for the game. I think it did more to drive people from the game any anything else. Since then, almost every decision has been ball trippingly bad. Why ball trippingly? Because the guy who pushed out Shadowfail as an expansion instead of a regular pack while at the same time attempted to destroy the worth of the stupidly-priced-but-heavily-neglected Vaults of the Artificers must have testicles so huge that his scrotum must scrap both walls in the hallway when he walk down it.

So yes, they very well may be creating reasons for players to go on to something else.