harharharhar wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 2:29am:


If they do this, someone will probably find a way to dupe adventure packs.

Great idea, but how is Turdbine going to get the word out?  They already suck at getting people to play in general.

5 Foot Step wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 2:36am:


comedy gold.......
cause its true

No

Why only 1 day? Other games with a monthly fee are sending once or twice a year codes to players (who haven't log in since some months) which give 7 days free 'VIP'.

Would be a chance to get people coming back to farm items from packs they don't own but always wanted to have. And some of them might continue to play after these 7 days for a while again.
Probably would result in these accounts might never buy some of the packs because they have the items they wanted from them. But if they are not coming back they wouldn't have bought the packs anyways.

A 1 day free vip for everyone might be an opportunity to check if you like some adv packs and really want to buy them. But this would probably lower the amount of accounts who buy the deleras pack. Even if it's a nice place to get xp most players only want the voice from there.

Just be careful how many items you farm on such days though, if someone reports you for exploiting a GM might think you have too many items from a pack you haven't bought. ^^

I thought coming back for a week or two, check new shit then break for few months again is what many do already.

I assume when you say ALL accounts, you mean the banned ones too?

1 day would be enough to transfer anything you could from any toons on a banned account to any toons on a new account.

Therefore, I'm with Epoch on this one.

No

All resources spent on something like this would be much better on SOME advertisement for the game.

After all these years it still has to be the most obscure game unknown for most people, you never see any mention, banner or anything on any game site, magazine or whatnot.
It boggles the mind.

It won't bring back the people that left because of bugs.  To get those people, they would have to actually fix something for a change.

qweeve wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 9:00am:


Yeah, this. I subscribe to the DDO Sales and Promotions mailing list still, yet on Thanksgiving on The Vault I heard about the DDO Black Friday one day sale. I ended up spending $50 that day. The day after the sale I got an email from the Sales and Promotions mailing list telling me about the sale I would have just missed had I not been a Vault reader. Turdbin attention to detail, FTW!

Fuck Off wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 10:07am:

Yeah, it's a great idea, but fix the bugs first. Bringing them back now they are going to say "Yeah, even more broken, glad I'm not paing for this crap"

harharharhar wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 2:29am:


I love the idea! I remember when my parents subscribed to HBO arfter a free HBO weekend. DDO could offer VIP week once or twice a year when every account gets the benefit of VIP (except for the free TP) and let people see if they like it.

And I definitely prefer the same week for everybody over codes they use at whatever time they choose, one of the big problems DDO has is the fact that ghost towns aren't inviting. Having the same week for everybody would give the maximum possible population boost. Of course, if the lag problem is that the code has gotten less efficient then maybe getting everybody on in the same week would be disasterous, if that's the case then the codes are a better idea.

But I don't think having the VIP benefits available for a dozen days a year is going to cause a reduction in sales. If the pack isn't worth playing more than a few days most people won't buy it anyway, and these days many people will assume it sucks (because most new content does) so trying it would lead to increased sales if it didn't suck as badly as was first reported.

Build your guild event version 2.0

I only approve if we can get the fucking annoying message everytime anyone logs into the server.

I can predict people will complain the date doesn't fit well with their calendar because they have to work, are on vacation, visiting family ...

AtomicMew wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 3:02am:

Same here