Munkenmo wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 4:59am:


Munk - no reflection on you or many others who served as best as you could, but the PC this year under Sev's manipulative mgmt style was intended as nothing more than a convenient scapegoat.

I wouldn't be surprised if a few of those less active PC accounts are nothing but dummy Turdbine logins, so they can post shit supportive of their decisions and then say "our feedback from the PC showed....."
That's the sort of shit we're talking about now.  Small minded petty tactics to prop up a fragile ego.

Barkabout wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 5:51am:



While this could be nice, I'm still leaning towards putting an underlevel bonus in place... That way those that can challenge quests will challenge then ( and find the game hard enough for them ).... You kill two birds with one stone.

But honestly : as long as it's on a quest by quest basis and that there's no Elite Streak to keep up, it will be good.

Wipe wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 7:34am:


Doesn't have to be a "pretty girl", it can be a guy as well, as long as it is someone who makes the effort and doesn't have off-putting presence like Fat Jerry and Toberlon girl have.

Obviously Turbine's management is screwing up the core game left and right. But the cold hard fact is that Jerry and his public interactions are doing damage to the game on their own, entirely outside of the management fuckups.

He is an unprofessional, fat, slovenly, repulsive, socially retarded buffoon who is only in the position as a result of coincidence and apathy, not design.   

Flav wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 4:27am:

Oh bullshit Flav. Cordovan is incapable of doing any better at picking the council than Sev_pay is.

While Sev_pay would be looking to add people who wouldn't rock the boat too much, Cordovan wouldn't pick people HE didn't like.

Either way, end result is the same...a bunch of milquetoast "Yes" men/women sitting on the PC lapping up Turbine's jizz.

Ah Pook wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 12:31am:


FTFY

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Hag Master wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 10:23am:


Couldn't agree more. That fat fuckwit spends all his time protecting his sycophants and ass lickers, especially the ones in the PC. 

Jerry's moderation sucks, but I'm not sure it would be different with anybody else.  They're all like that - companies are very protective of their forums, being searchable and all.

I think a hot chick would help introduce people, maybe.  The part that bugs me the most and wouldn't just be solved with eyecandy is that he doesn't know how the goddamn game works.  Everybody's mentioned it in the past - whatever boobs show up, if somebody asks a question, you'd better be able to answer it.  You don't have to run EE everything on the twitch, but you *should* be an expert on the game.

Ah Pook wrote on Jun 5^th, 2015 at 2:26am:


I would agree with Hag that there are professional moderators who could do a better job.  Someone not involved with the game and the people might be beneficial.
Technical questions can be answered by the technical team or as I see on some forums, well respected forum members/players.
Specific technical questions about the game need to be addressed by the devs anyway - Cordo doesn't know very much about the game.

The marketing person is a different role - it is the face of the company.  There is pros to having them be an experienced player and cons too.
I liked Hag's idea of having someone who isn't a DDO guru so they can't get hung out to dry on not knowing anal details about the game.  There are a lot of ePeens around this game so it is easy to get shot down in flames on not knowing largely irrelevant minute details.

But they can be polite, professional, well spoken, savvy, even handed & consistent - things DDO needs if it is to become a professionally run game.

DropBear wrote on Jun 5^th, 2015 at 3:18am:

Fixed a typo.

Flav wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 4:27am:

Disagree. Idiots choose to run Elite when not capable. That's a problem. There's no need for the extra streak difference to progress. Since coming back I've not had time, energy or inclination to maintain an Elite streak and levels still go by plenty fast enough on a Hard streak. I was pleasantly surprised (makes up for all the afk time).

kum-gulp wrote on Jun 5^th, 2015 at 6:06am:


you can disagree, and I disagree with you... for the first two sentences... On the other Hand I do agree with you that there's more than enough XP now to level fast enough on Hard and even on Normal.... At least as a First lifer.

Streak is stupid. People at large consider it mandatory to maintain an elite streak, and will not join Hard/Normal LFMs
Basically Streak is one of the mechanism that kills the LFM ( along with Dungeon Scaling ) because it's safer and easier to solo quests.

the Issue needs to be fully adressed :
- Killing BB and replacing it by a mechanism that gives out the same amount of XP ( underlevel bonus, daily bonus, whatever ) on a quest by quest basis.
- Killing BB so that people stop to do Elite quests two level above the quest nominal ( before Elite ) level.... And then whine that the game is too easy.
   With a mechanism like Underlevel bonus, people will actually challenge quests...
- Killing Dungeon Scaling and going back to the standard one size fit them all : Dungeons are Scaled for a balanced party of 4 people.
   A Full party will zerg through the content, a Soloer will have to be careful.
- Kill the No Death Bonus.... Because it's pointless if you bring back Underlevel bonus... people will die, even the best.

All in all the above will resurect LFMs ( as there's going to be an incentive to actually have a full group ).
It will also give something to chew to all the whiner that say that the game is too easy ( do a VON3 with a full party of LVL 5 First Life characters, and then tell me if the game is too easy... or a Madstone with a full party of LVL 7 characters ).
All the while it will allow new players ( we can dream ) and F2P to party up with others ( as Elite will be mostly for Favor farming, or reserved to the masochists that want's to get hurt )