I'm honestly never sure why people complain about getting more game to play... I'm all for new classes, even if I never even play them, its just more to the game!

Do you really think that if they weren't doing a new class that they would be spending all that time doing passes on all the classes?

They should do nothing. Every fucking thing they do makes the game steadily worse.

Some thoughts:

~ There are some things that are clear from our datamining in multiple games and here is one of them; if the game does not occasionally offer new challenges and new rewards then players leave. This isn't power creep, but rather a planned increase in power and challenge. We call it vertical progression; an update with vertical progression will offer greater loot and also offer up larger challenges. That doesn't mean there aren't lots of opportunities for horizontal progression as well for updates that are focused on that.

~ The harder the content, the more player organizers have to pay attention to the gearing of potential adventurers. Sometimes it is the elitism of an organizer that just feels like having an easy run with geared out companions, but as the challenge of content increases it can also become more and more an issue of just being practical. If we tune content to be really hard then there will be players who are excluded because of gear. I've been there and it sucks to be excluded because you aren't geared up enough; we are sensitive to this. On the other hand making all content easy enough where gearing doesn't matter creates a game that not only lacks challenge, but also lacks any practical motivation for gearing up.

These are the types of discussions and decisions we work on all the time. The hardest part is that there is no one "correct" answer since a change that is good for one type of player could be bad for another group.

~ We talked about having a "Killer DM" difficulty level above elite that removed group scaling entirely, had an additional level of champion effects, and nudged up the damage and damage mitigation of enemies by, say, 10%. This has some challenges.

("Killer DM" is not serious, it's our internal joke way of referring to a higher difficulty.)

1.) We would now be spreading players over an additional difficulty. In the best scenario players who feel like grouping flock to this difficulty because it doesn't scale down with group size. In a worse scenario we now have players looking for groups split between Elite and Killer DM mode and it becomes harder to find groups.

2.) How do we reward players willing to run on Killer DM difficulty? Revamping all the loot in the game for a new difficulty is not an option. More loot boosts will just make items you can't use yet. We don't want to drastically increase the amount of XP players are getting as we already have players who don't feel they have enough to do. We could create a series of achievements based on completing Killer DM dungeons but would that really motivate players to participate?

3.) Would the game even be improved by a feature like this?

As you can see, these discussions bring up a lot of difficult side questions and potential consequences.

Sev~

except he's been posting like crazy in this thread

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/455491-Yes-It-is-another-End-Game-thre...

As you can see, these discussions bring up a lot of difficult side questions and potential consequences.

ag is another issue, but the appears to be a big problem with turbine's internet connection. Realistically, all the dev hours in the world aren't going to get them a faster internet connection

He has gone dark, let me be a bit more specific. After beating the drum and spouting lots of tasty tid-bits about the Warlock coming and how great it's going to be he stopped and went dark on the subject.

The only way would be to switch Tier 1 carrier to swap out Cogent or to get hosted somewhere else that in Pnap.

We could create a series of achievements based on completing Killer DM dungeons but would that really motivate players to participate?

all said about 10 billion.

On a related note, we are building a couple billion dollar datacenter for switch(supernap) in Nevada. there is talk of another couple buildings all said about 10 billion. I hope this will improve my ping times.

Two, I thought you had been told to stop the I have a secret  shit your not on the PC anymore so please don't keep trying to make yourself look so much better informed than all of us dirty plebs.