I haven't played DDO now for like over 4 weeks. I've taken 1-month breaks before. But, I think I'm at my longest away from the game since I started. I have to say, the longer it goes, the less I care.

I ended up taking time off because I'm taking some grad classes, my kids started baseball, and I didn't have time.

I kinda miss some people I played with. But, it hasn't got me to log back on. I've thought about it several times. But, then I went and watched an episode of House of Cards.


Is this how never playing again happens?

I'm pretty sure this is how it works with anything really, not just with online games. But you will eventually log back in, everybody does.

I had a rage quit moment in that new raid with the jumping part (Try doing that shit with 400ms latency). That was about a week and a half again.

I've logged on once since then, checked some auctions and just haven't bothered to log on again. I can't say I miss it either.

The frustrations have just gotten too much, I'm getting bored with running the same content and that targeting issue is annoying.

I'll probably be back but I think it will be good to take a break for a bit.

When I think about you I touch myself

I touch myself
I touch myself
I touch myself
I touch myself
I touch myself
I touch myself

I honestly do
I touch myself
I touch myself


ohhh, you meant DDO... Umm, well, this is awkward, for you, maybe?

I haven't played since GW2 came out.  Played that for about a year then quit.  That game has it's own problems but I also got bored.  While playing though, I was always thinking about how much better the PvE is in DDO.  Then I think about the bugs and lag.  DDO is a much better game but doesn't have the quality that GW2 has and tries to maintain.  GW2 didn't have any lag unless in WvW fighting over garrison and all 3 full map zergs are there or world bosses.  Server can't handle everyone trying to do something at once in a small area.  I think ANet has a better chance at fixing that, they do try to fix stuff way more frequently than Turbine.  Not saying everything there is perfect but it is in a way better state and the people in charge have a better view of how things should work and not this release and ignore the bugs(so called "patch later policy") that Turbine has.

Played Battlefiled 4 but that game is fucked up also.  I don't think it will get sorted out for another year.  EA pushed for the game to be released before it was actually ready.

I like DDO still but can't bring myself to play because of the bugs and having to work around and knowing that Turbine has a policy of release and fix later, if they decide to fix at all.

I'm hoping GTA 5 will be released for PC.

I don't see myself going back to DDO unless they actually fix stuff and have a massive improvement of quality.

I did only von5/6 in 1 month, was hard first few days, but after that, it is like meh.

Meat-Head wrote on May 19^th, 2014 at 12:10pm:


Sure is bro.
Know how you feel.   Once the micro psychological hooks fade, you realise you have all is spare time!

ATM, I log in, potter around on the auctions, look at inventory full of nice shinies I've been meaning to sort, and then can't be bothered, so go and watch GoT or Walking Dead instead.

The changes to inventory mgmt will kill it for me, as it will just make the game more of a chore than it already is.

Enjoy the family time Meat.   

I took off last summer and I have seen my play time wain this year too.  The trend seems to fit.  Take some time off for RL.

Lag. I used to play 10, 16, sometimes more than 24 hours at a stretch (when special events were new. Cove, mostly). Now I log in, and sometimes I'm not lagged. I run a quest or two, lag begins ... I'm done.

I've put every video option at minimum, sound and mic off, all possible options off or minimum. Still, without fail, ridiculous lag after an hour or so. Worse if I let my toon stand still for 5 minutes. Worst of all if I log out to switch toons rather than quit and restart.

I have quad core (not that DDO uses more than one), 16gb ram, i7-4770 3.4ghz. and 30mbps download/6mbps upload, 19 ms latency.

DDO runs only a little better than it did on my P2 with Wndows xp.

Yes you must be wasted to understand my #3 IQ post

IF you have not surfed well you not get the comment >your couch is not a way to live .

BAMBIBEER wrote on May 20^th, 2014 at 1:08am:


The dangers of drinking salt water.....

DropBear wrote on May 20^th, 2014 at 3:41am:


LMAO! At first I thought that with enough beer I might understand Bambi, but I think you're right, it's not beer, it's salt water. Beer I'd be willing to try, but I'll pass on seawater.

Yeah, a month or 2 ago I got back from a break of 7-8 months, and already the shine has worn back off, maybe time for another break.

If only inventory management wasn't such a pain. And I can't wait to see how much fun it's going to be when I can't hold 2 windows open at once.

I wonder if I'll even notice my whopping 12 shared collect/ingredient slots.