Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:10pm:


I cant actually remember... how much did they charge us for Shadowfall?

Some of the dungeons arent bad, though the explorer areas are a huge waste of time. An MMO releasing an xpac and not having a raid has to be one of the dumbest things you could do...

Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:10pm:


Doesn't exactly fit into a one word answer for me, but happy to answer the question.

Named Loot was poorly implemented (way too much power at heroic levels, uninspiring at epic levels)

Random loot changes were one of the worst things to ever happen to DDO

Wheloon Prison (explorer) could have been fun, but instant DA and lag made it suck

Wheloon quests (other than Mirror) suck

Purple haze effect is annoying (turning off post-processing helps though)

Storm horn Mountains is the most visual stunning explorer area in the game (I actually run all of the explorer points in the Storm horns every life)

Storm horn quests are actually somewhat fun

What goes up is one of my favorite quests (except for the purple haze), and should have been a Raid

Overall the content released would have been okay (Wheloon sucks but Stormhorn's are good) as a typical update, but was not good enough to be called an expansion

As for epic 3BC, So far we are only discussing high-level concepts, and those look promising.  As always though, the devil is in the details.

majmalphunktion wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 1:38pm:


Maj, I know you cant say anything, so I will say it.

DDO is going into maint mode. I have been saying it for months, since i heard the word. Why anyone still invests cash into this game is beyond me... fool and his money and all that.

Shuy wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:14pm:



He doesn't know shit until it has happened.  he's in QA.  Tolero is probably better informed than mal is.

Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 8:37pm:



Majmal is planning to take over Turbine, then WB, then ultimately, the world.

And he plans to do so using astral shards and the Ladder Bug of Destiny (R).

Just exactly how is still a mystery, but we're counting on him to make it look awesome.

NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 8:41pm:


There's no mystery. The key ingredient is his gold lame spandex.

Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 8:37pm:


Care to elaborate why you feel that way?
Is it because he is the only dev to come on here and make pithy comments?
"Losing half our staff - it was all planned" - yup, pure genius.
C'mon Bro - smell the BS wafting through here?

grimorde wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 2:21pm:


The point has been talked of, as well as 3BC choice...
The Council doesn't make the choices, we just give feedback to things we are asked.

Now since last time epicing a pack has been talked in the open the quasi unanimous answer had been Vale, there's some relative chances that it might eventually see the light.

Well, I do concur with you, and the worst of it is that Vale is actually Epic... it's just not active.
( old school epic though )

So it would just need a bit of tweaking to be put in line with today's version of Epic...
And Exquisite Greensteel would rock. ( that's the name for the Epic version of Greensteel )

DropBear wrote on Feb 27^th, 2014 at 6:00am:


Indeed. If they have any sense they will move this up the list of priorities.

If Rowan was responsible for bringing Ed Greenwood and Haunted Halls to DDO the net impact seems positive.

I can imagine Haunted Halls will attract some interest and traffic from long term tabletop players, some portion of whom may stay around. A few returns of vets who went elsewhere too. Depends on marketing how well marketing does as to the ultimate benefit.

If the player council is actually listened to, that will be a positive as well. That as much as anything will help determine his legacy.

Hathorian wrote on Feb 27^th, 2014 at 9:39am:


Investment is not always used for exact financial meaning.  You can invest in love, etc.
People invest their time and money in the game while expecting returns such as entertainment and good times.
If the return does not occur as expected, people get frustrated.
Normally there is no need to explain this to anyone here in the vault.
But you are a fanboi so...

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Feb 27^th, 2014 at 9:51am:


Thanks for re-iterating what I just said. If paying money into DDO helps you have fun then spend. If paying doesn't help you have more fun then don't. What doesn't make sense to me is why someone would say I am not going to spend money on DDO now because 5 years from now it might not exist. You pay $10 per month for current/short-term entertainment value ....I don't see how it is reasonable to expect my my February 2014 $10 "investment" to reap big returns 5 years from now. I don't say I am not going to spend $15 to go watch a movie because they might not create a sequel....If I think I'll enjoy the movie I'll spend $15, If I don't think I'll enjoy the movie I'll give it a pass. Investment is not the right word....