mystafyi wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 6:37pm:

You can't be any good at #2 without at least a little bit of ability at #1. Purposeful vagueness doesn't count either.. "a hardware-related problem" could mean anything up to and including "Edward Snowden sold our drives to wikileaks"

majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 8:31pm:


IC? Not ringing a bell...Any news your able or willing 2 share with us? :\ Thanks!

raybob wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 9:05pm:


Oh, ffs! Thank you sir! !

majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 8:31pm:


How about some free accounts for us vaulties? 

majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 8:31pm:


Boy, what timing - DDO is going to be love-starved from now to late 2014, with Pathfinder Online going into the Early Enrollment phase in Q3? PO may not be direct competition for IC, but as an essentially 3.5e D&D game (with more than 8 bit graphics!), they certainly are for DDO. And they have a huge head start over Turbine on communicating with players and incorporating player feedback into the game. At least they are capping enrollment, that should limit the drain on the playerbase.

Hopefully management will at least work extra hard at avoiding decisions like Ghostbane, Sagas for hearts, etc. for the next couple of quarters?

Ckorik wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 10:40am:


True, the non-consentual PvP, and the fact that it's subscription only, will keep many casual and/or family oriented players (myself included) from giving the game serious consideration. It's expensive enough buying adventure packs and expansion packs in multiples of 5 to keep my whole family playing, I don't need a $70 a month gaming habit for a subscription only game. And I wouldn't want to deal with an upset kid who was adventuring with Dad and got killed by some jerk.

But I think there are enough people in DDO who enjoy the personal competition and who have only themselves to pay for that Pathfinder could be attractive to a sizable subset of the DDO population.

And to be fair, Goblinworks has put a lot of thought and effort into making griefers suffer for being jerks. The death curse, bounties, NPC guards, etc. And they've said that if you are willing to settle for a lower reward rate, you can do your adventuring within lawful areas and run much less risk of attack by players.

Also, it's not like DDO doesn't have plenty of greifers. No game is going to be free of them, the big question is how effective Goblinworks' controls are.

Ckorik wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 10:40am:


LOL, that's pretty funny in a DDO forum, it's been a long time since DDO could claim more than "Inspired by the popular D20 system". DDO is like D&D (real D&D, not the 4.0e stuff) in that it rewards long term planning and an understanding of complex interactions, but it looks like Pathfinder Online is going to have that too.

So, yeah, Pathfinder Online isn't going to be a DDO Killer, but it's a good reason for Turbine to try extra hard not to have another 2013.

Ckorik wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 12:44pm:


Hmmm, now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing much about build customization. And I agree that build customization would be a key piece of crossover interest. Good point.

EQ Next may just be the next big thing. The builder looks cool, but what is the gameplay? Is it a sandbox, or another kill 10 boars game?

majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 3:30pm:



I'd have to have a look at it, but if it's like the other two EQ, I'll stick to DDO... as long as you make sure that the devs stop putting lame quests at the fucking bottom of a fucking extensive explorer area and go pay to win for a fucking teleporter to quest entrance.

DDO has always been about quests behind doors ( or no time wasted running to the quest ), the devs need to remember that, there's still lots of doors both in Stornreach and in Eveningstar that don't have a quest...

That's also one of the reason why people prefer to run VON3... 30 seconds ( talk to quest giver included ) from ship. Storm-Fucking-Horn quests are 10 minutes and 5 loading screen off in the worst case scenario... 5 minutes and 3 loading screen in the best case.

Now, back to EQNext... if there's interesting quests behind doors in a city... it might be interesting.

majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 3:30pm:



Like challenges were the next 'big thing?'  remember when you said they might change how we look at DDO?

might want to leave the prognostication to Chai.

majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 3:30pm:

I am looking at EQ Next too. I hope it is an open world like EQ was.

Challenges dont have to be written off.

If the exp was better on repeated runs, new items were made to keep pace with the level cap increase and the es ings could be traded for cov's they would get run more.

I love the rushmores challenges, they only problem with them really is the shitty rewards and lack of insentive to run them.