When I learned that level 30 will be the permanent level cap, I had a very small hunch. Now with these layoffs, that hunch grew bigger. I really hope I'm wrong, but I feel like some time in 2015 will be the start of maintenance mode.

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 2:50am:


whatever you say Quasimodo.

Yobai wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 2:58am:


Yobai, I've never been a doomsayer. Actually, I'm an old D&D fan and that's why I play DDO. This is the only MMO I've ever played and don't plan to play any other MMO, if it shuts down. What I wrote were what I feel & think. I really hope this hunch will come out wrong.

Yobai wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 3:10am:


LOL. Feeling blue today. Never noticed I had 2 hunches. 

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 3:19am:


cheer up buttercup!  it's almost the weekend!

So, since people have been spamming shit for 7 pages....

Do we have a list of those that worked on DDO ( beside the ones Plume de Soleil fed us with ) that were were culled from Turbine's ranks ?

It would be good to know. ( and no don't fucking tell me to look for it, I already googled, and came back with almost nothing to eat )

Flav wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 3:53am:


Who honestly cares about QA people and LOTRO people getting booted?  only 3 out of 8 of the DDO design/dev positions getting eliminated is hardly a big deal in the grand scheme of things.  how many devs do you really need for a game like DDO with the number of players it supports?

Too bad for TRD. He was one of the best there.

That's a real shame about the Rocking Dead, I liked both those quests.

It doesn't give me warm fuzzies if content guys are laid off, as content is really the thing I will pay for. Just not huge explorer areas and move along a tube kill some mob instances.

Ironically, I would have happily paid for A Study in Sable and the new Cannith quest - interesting quests with decent acting you can get to quickly.

Hopefully those laid off find good opportunities elsewhere. Good luck to them all.

Yobai wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 3:04am:


You're so bad at math it's insane. Who's a fucking idiot?

6 figures = 100,000-999,999

-1,000,000 being the absolute highest. I didn't say high 7 figures, or else I would have left off the 6 figure assumption.

X12 months:
1.2 mil to about 5 mil is my guess.

And 6 we'll paid software engineers should pull in at least 100k base, + benefits is probably close to 150-170k/employee.

That's already 500-900k a year, and we haven't gotten to:

Licensing/royalties
Hardware costs
Bandwidth costs
Overhead on facilities and equipment
Marketing
QA, network people, or management.

Or profit.

Pull your head out of your ass before you unload on someone and sound like a dumbass.

harharharhar wrote on Feb 12^th, 2014 at 10:08pm:


oh sorry thought you said per year....reading fail

harharharhar wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 7:49am:


I smell troll.

Yup. You need a bath, stinky.

It's not that so many devs got canned that's got me thinking about the longterm issue, it's the quote from that WB employee about realignment.

Oh well, just reinstalled NWN 1, that'll hold my D&D interest if DDO goes tits-up.