Who the hell uses steam for tracking game time?
You either use xfire or raptr.

Raptr has ddo.

�ed wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 5:45am:


The starting figures are for July 2012, right after MotU was released, and there was a big spike in the population.
Still, it shows a player loss of about 50% during the last 1.5 year... for those it tracks... seems to be quite accurate with the DDOracle site charts, relatively speaking.

DDO is the reason I switched to raptr from xfire 3 years ago, couldnt use xfire in game, raptr I can use in game.

Viktor Vaughn wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 6:25am:

Before they quit, some guild friends did. Just because it offered a way to chat outside if we weren't logged in.

kum-gulp wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 11:10am:


The drop after the Enhancement Crash is radical...
With numbers like that it's tough to consider it as something good for the game.
It would be interesting to have the real numbers from the servers.

I know the two most active players in my guild (and i am talking 5-8 hours a day player) took a dip in the enhancement pass pool and walked out the door.  One of them was paying for 3 VIP subs at the time due to altitis.

Tried to convince them to return of late and they just aren't interested.  They didn't jump ship to another MMO either, they just up and quit cold turkey and honestly I don't think there is anything sort of rolling back to MOTU that would entice them.

Can't say as I blame them.  Character building got about 1000 times more boring after the 1-2 punch of MOTU and the Enhancement pass.  I know I am probably down to 3 or 4 hours a week when I used to grind that a night easily.   More often than not I log in to check auctions and roll the dice and then log out.

Flav wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 1:44pm:

But...but...MajMal said 2013 was a GOOD year?  They got bonuses even?
I guess their KPI was based on trimming server loads then.....

Flav wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 1:44pm:

Yeah it drove my entire guild out, I took a break up to the card event, but even now only have bothered to pick enhancements on 4 of my 30+ characters and play maybe a couple quests a week. And with those pathetic numbers, I'm the most active member of my guild! And we've spent close to $1,000.00 or more in the past 4 years, but I doubt any of us will spend any more now. We're still playing together, but rarely here.

And it's not becaue it "broke" our characters, it's because we don't want to take the time to learn a whole new set of enhancements and what is broken, and finally get it sorted out only to have them break it again or re-balance or whatever they call it.

I play the game to play it, not to re-learn the rules and workarounds every time I turn around.

They say 2013 was a great year, but the Alexa numbers look terrible - they dropped from a peak rank of around 20k to barely poking their head above 100k. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ddo.com I hope they invested their bonuses wisely, I can't imagine many more are coming.

Meursault wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 8:56pm:


Makes sense to me. Can't keep changing the game and breaking/nerfing rules. Although I do see their dilemma .... I doubt anyone in 2006 foresaw what this game would have to contend with 8 years later.


If only they showed the same consistency in game as they do with adhering to rules on what they can publicly communicate.

My beef . Um dead cow Bacon is this when i found out this beast was D&D fuck YA ! Now no D&D rule base  what so ever . No team play, no adearing to Clasic D&D 3.5 rules

Groo The Wanderer wrote on May 9^th, 2014 at 5:31pm:


Are you from QE?