Haha that's so true, his last video was hilarating.

To be honest DDO has taken multiple jumps over the shark in the last few years, but I've been either ignoring them or telling myself "it was only a little shark" this whole time.

The talking parrot, there's no hiding it.  This is the one that made it perfectly clear the game has now jumped the shark all the way.  Talking cosmetic pets.........

Lag is at an all-time high,

Exploiting is rampant,

Their fixes to the exploits only make duping easier,

They just pulled one of the most obvious money-grabs in the form of guild ships since MotUD,

And now when I run through the harbor I get to hear an impossible to mute grade-school quality voice actor try to pull some bullshit pirate's parrot dialog.

This is more like the shark jumping over the Fonz while wearing a top hat and singing "Over the Rainbow".

MotU actually had stuff going for it. Shadowfail was the obvious cash-grab.

Watch out, the parrot will snitch if it sees you exploiting.

I like the parrot. It's another DDO store item which is going to get Turbine money without giving any benefits at all. And if you don't like the parrot you just don't buy it.

I see the problem with all the talking, especially with several players having one, but let's see how bad that really is in 1-2 weeks when the parrot is not new anymore and many players going to use their other cosmetic pets again.

And since the pets can be at different positions ingame for different players under some circumstances I'd say the code for the positioning of the pets might be one of the things turbine has done right -> not using any network traffic for handling the position of the pets. That's why I doubt that they are causing any noticable lag/delay in raids even if some players are some kind of crusade to make all pets disappear.

All the players using voice chat to have some shit chat while running quests or raids cause much more network traffic...


Just see the positive side... money for turbine without introducing another pay to win item, which seems to be a major problem for some players.

5 Foot Step wrote on Jul 25^th, 2014 at 1:09am:

Yea, but it was a cash grab more than shadowfail, because without shadowfail you can still be competent.
Without destinies you are crap.

Coming soon to the DDO store - parrot mute trinket to block out parrot sounds.  Only 650 turbine points and includes your own Richard Simmons companion who'll shout motivations at you while you quest.

Viktor Vaughn wrote on Jul 25^th, 2014 at 4:00am:


I'm one of those guys that preorders and buys most of the stuff... but then, DDO is a hobby of mine that I genuinely enjoy. Over the years, I've probably spent $600 or so on DDO. To me, that isn't bad for a 'hobby'. Compare that to MTG, which has run me thousands... Warhammer, another $500 or so, etc. it isn't bad at $100 a year. That's 4 movies a year with how much movies cost where I live, with a popcorn...

I'm taking a bit of a break from ddo atm though, and playing ESO and Dungeon Keeper 2, among some steam games as well. When I get back on DDO, I think I will buy the talking parrot as well, because... it amuses me.

Viktor Vaughn wrote on Jul 25^th, 2014 at 4:00am:


FTFY

Destinies can be bought seperately. MotU is unnecessary.

they talk in quests, too 

What Lag ? I didn't notice any more lag than usual... and most of it comes from my PCI-E 1.2 interface... I can't handle the bandwidth needed by the graphic card.

Them parrots have some voice range on them. All the way on other side of eveningstar I was hearing the one from someone in party yesterday.