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"Blizzard Entertainment's PC MMO World of Warcraft lost nearly three million subscribers in three months, publisher Activision Blizzard announced on Wednesday as part of its latest earnings report.
For the quarter ended March 31, World of Warcraft had 7.1 million subscribers, down 2.9 million from the 10 million subscribers it had at the end of 2014."

https://games.yahoo.com/news/world-warcraft-loses-nearly-3-201000672.html


Some great timing, I must say.

I guess WoW really is better than DDO at everything including losing market share and customers. I don't think even Turbine could lose 30% of it's subscribers like that, even with Severance-pay in charge. Sigh, poor DDO, always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

And Destiny, amazing levels of money involved everywhere in the industry.... except Boston, heh.

That would be bloody brilliant, just brilliant.  It's easy to forget how great it was when the game had a healthy growing base.

Imagine DDO being able to really afford development, and support.

I'm happy in our little niche-world, but it was great back in the day.

I think if a million people logged onto DDO the servers would explode.

Metal-Beast wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 10:17pm:


I played wow from the first month until the latest expac made me rage quit when they nerfed my panda to complete shit after a 4 month item/rep grind; I then came to DDO since I loved AD&D.

That being said, DDO is a huge pita to learn and the online resources someone like me comes to expect simply dont exist, so figuring out the game becomes more of a chore than anything else;Thats not a learning curve, its an exercise in absolute frustration.

It wouldnt be so bad if the people in game were helpful or if Turbine didnt constantly screw with the rules, or if some helpful web resources existed besides a outdated and underwhelmingly confusing wiki, but thats not the reality.

I'm only hanging on because of some help I got here on a build thats supposedly an exploit, but was solid enough that even someone without knowledge of the game could survive (that coupled with buying a LR +20 stone to make a viable build out of ths shit I had been working with for two months) - but even then I still cant even figure out how to level efficiently,  what gear to go after, or probably a ton of other things that make playing DDO enjoyable since that fount here dried up.

WOW is dying because Blizzard Activision decided a few years back to cater to the under 12 market base and removed any satisfaction you got in accomplishing anything by handing out rewards like candy, and  DDO died a while back just because the company running it is incompetent and the people that know the game arent sharing the knowledge they have openly via blogs/websites/ forum posts that would be helpful to new players.

I'm more tenacious than the average player, and I can say without any doubt in my mind that 90% of the WOW player base would give up on DDO inside the first couple weeks if that.

I surprise myself every day I log in because I really really want to enjoy this game, but its getting pretty old spinning my wheels and not getting into groups, so yeah...

WOW player arent going to go from a sinking ship to one lying on the bottom already. It just isnt going to happen.

Well Fail, I was going to quote you but I'm on my iPhone writing this and can't be assed to futz with the select nodes.

But your diatribe confirms my suspicions of the WoW player base. I had a few Guildees step out and try WoW, they were back within days. They couldn't handle the Backyardigans crowd in WoW's player base.

And yes, you are better off coming to the Vault for DDO info, even if you need to grow a dragonhide to receive it...

If there's something you need to know just start a "neD hjelp" thread in Builds or Guides.

Just make sure you wear your Helm of Greater Shitstorm Resistance when you read the replies 

Metal-Beast wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 11:24pm:


I can understand that.  WOW five years ago was amazing, fun , and had a dedicated core on each server of serveral guilds, each hundreds strong (not a bunch of alts either) that was simply outstanding to raid and group to the point that raid nights were a special day and looked forward to.

These past couple years, the old timers are gone and mostly pissed off (yes Im among them and yes I talked a ton of smack about a care bear expac that turned out to be pretty damn fun to play, but required skill and technique to do well with. The kiddies couldnt get to grips with it and out the window it went like most things unable to be smacked into easy mode), so whats left are welfare cases of kids/loners who expect everything good to be handed to them and the game played in easy mode with one hand.

These people are also not so fun to be around and mostly make you want to gouge your eyes out after trying to group with them a few times.

DDO if it had open resources available and Fing Turdbine wasnt screwing with shit 24/7 would be a viable alternative.  I just dont see that changing.

I do have a thick skin btw, and freely admit to being a scrub - i try to learn what I can here and sometimes the info flows freely and helps a lot but a lot of times it doesnt, so its still frustrating.  The occasional troll or douchebag poster doesnt bother me though - My real life sucks hard core, so nothing anyone could say on the interwebs could rattle me.
------------- to the other poster:

Yes, btw, I am on ghallanda with my two active characters and in a guild, though for the most part, they and I dont jive but the buffs are too good to pass up. 
I figure if I stay and eventually figure out how to be a decent player who isnt a liability to play with, Ill ask to join another, better guild.

If someone out there really wants this game to get better and attract new players, you could do worse than start a blog or a website with information a new player could really use - some helpful guides and what not. 

The worst problem is that with something this complex, often you dont even know when you need help, should ask someone something, or are just plain doing it wrong.  If you dont know, you dont ask, then you fail and get frustrated and move on.

Thats the point of newbie guides - to help overcome that before it gets to be an issue and DDO doesnt have any.

I think the few remaining die hard ddo players only play because it's based off of dnd pnp. Turbine could kill the game and gut it and those same people would still keep playing because of it.

Fail wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 11:04pm:


You're epic right? Run Chamber of Raiyum, Spies in the House, and Jungle of Khyber on EN every 18 hours and you'll hit cap rather quickly. For gear, farm out (or buy) Thunderforge mats for weapons and armor and farm Epic Orchard for accessories and you are pretty much set. What else do you want to know?

Starkjade wrote on May 7^th, 2015 at 12:48am:


And the constant system changes invalidate those guides too.

There have been lots of changes to mob behaviour, toon development and combat systems to make it a moving feast.

DDO wiki is still a decent resource. Some of us still update it.

mudfud wrote on May 7^th, 2015 at 1:01am:


Idk if it applies to everyone but this is one of the reasons why I play this game.

Pants Shitter wrote on May 7^th, 2015 at 7:02am:

I have never seen anyone help a fellow player ingame. Are you sure you are playing the same game ?

Barkabout wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 10:34pm:


Poor Ultras 420R... ( at least that's what they look like... they could be HP 9000 Swervers too )

But that's what happens when you're too dumb to take serious measures to protect your server room.
And when you use a nice rack with a windowed door... You definitely forgot that Servers needs to have air flowing from the front to the back... ( not you bark, the poor sod that had his server room go Fireball )

Ah Pook wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 11:22pm:


Nah, G-Land is hosted in a secure facility with all the security... no wait it's going to burst into flame.

Now I have it on good authority that most of G-Land Hardware has been replaced during the last few weeks.