The fanbois are now starting to come out and tell people the lag is gone and it's the players problem. I was in a ddochat and the devs could give 2 shits less and are actually laughing about everything they've done for the anniversary including their passive aggressive insults to the playerbase.

I say this with full conviction. Vargouille and Steelstar are NOT friends. No one at Turbine gives a shit about what has happened. People over there are laughing while ignoring the playerbase and making stupid single actions to give the appearance of working on issues.

Fuck the lag, what about the other shit that was messed up for the last year? They don't care. They're making the game more suited for their fanbois. Get out your tin foil hats if you will but I saw this developing over a year ago. If you're not part of the clique, you're gonna get phased out. Welcome to the NEW DDO.

No. Not here anyway.

It's still the same. Raids on normal is doable, as you can work through the lag,  else you need to shortman if you can handle that,  but it's still not any guarantee to have a hiccup free run.

6 man content isn't a huge issue for me.  Raids are unplayable.  Sure you can do LN or EN/EH, but what fun is that?  Unless I'm farming MoD, that's boring as hell.  I'm certainly not spending 50 minutes in LN shroud for 1 large ingredient.  Before the data center move you could plow thru LH in 30-35 min and get 2.  I want some challenge, fun, and some decent reward for my time.  Lag making me run stuff one or two levels lower and then fighting stuttering, spells not landing, and periodic lock ups is not fun. 

The game is playable as long as you don't want to raid.  But even "playable" isn't "smooth".  It's just that the lag is an annoyance rather than a hindrance.

Asheras wrote on Mar 27^th, 2016 at 11:15pm:


I would suspect this is because they know someone is looking. I logged on right in the middle of a conversation when I caught them in the middle of their revels of the complaints from players like they were having a Georgia hootnanny. In the past I've had the typical prescribed, benign and antiseptic conversations concerning my issues. But this was seeing the wizards behind the curtain giving each other hi fives after fucking the players in the ass and jizzing in their eye.

Asheras wrote on Mar 27^th, 2016 at 11:15pm:



I've never considered them or anybody from Turbine to be friendly. What would be naive would be to ever think these people would ever have our best interests for the game in mind I've only approached them as a paying customer with a list of grievances. One time 2 years ago I was in a group with Cordovan I told him he sucked and he needed to play more before being such a sanctimonious and overbearing blowhard before he introduced himself. The same has been playing out to presently.

Asheras wrote on Mar 27^th, 2016 at 11:15pm:


It's not what they're doing, it's what they're NOT doing that is breaking the game incremental and consistently every day. The nerfing of the champ chests and tome drops, ToEE bullshit, purposely letting the fanbois run wild, censoring of dissenting commentary, ignoring the commanding pleas to fix lag in DoJ, to not implement the 'balancing' garbage, the abysmal release of the incomplete legendary greensteel with its host of other bugs for u29, and now the latest in DDO FUCKERY. It's not what they do, it's what they don't do almost as seemingly to give them something to "fix" at a later time, you know, when they get around to it.

Digimonk wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 1:19am:


Acquiring the transcripts won't be too hard. I'll see what can be done.

Asheras wrote on Mar 27^th, 2016 at 11:05pm:

6 man has enough lag to kill people.

I typically had zero lag ever, could go a week without even seeing a little 5 second lag spike.  I now lag in dungeons and wilderness areas.  All since the data center move.  Raiding has almost dried up, and when they are run it is at N so people might be alive after the lag ends, because the mobs just do lower damage.

Severlain posted some horseshit about 'opening up new network paths', which is absolute BS if you only control the data center.  Maybe he's just phrasing it as if Turbine people did something more than opening their own ticket with their ISP, but it really just sounds like horseshit to me regardless.  At least one 2016 council member immediately jumped in to claim problem solved though, so if those idiots keep paying the game might stay open.

Frank wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 4:05am:

It doesn't matter if a few fanbois hop on the forums and say "lag problem solved".  Most everyone in game is experiencing the lag and is fucking pissed.  I passed on buying points this weekend on a double points sale and made sure Turbine knew why (and I'm one of those 2016 PC idiots).  I'm pretty sure I'm not the only regular spender who chose to not to partake in this weekends sale.

Asheras wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 10:04am:

How'd you do that?  Forum post?  Because that might possibly be read by someone in CS, or Snook.  Or it might not be read at all by anyone who works for Turbine. 

It won't get seen by anyone who will do anything other than maybe thing "Hmm, too bad about losing that $50."  I've cancelled my VIP renewal, but since that won't be up for renewal for a few months there won't be anything to tie that cancellation with anything at all.  And I'm not sure that's any point in trying to track down who might actually give a damn over there, because a years VIP is a whole $120 and do they care about that?  If I knew there was someone who was collecting this kind of info so that they might see a bigger dollar figure once it was all added up I'd submit it to them.  But again, I don't think they have any such person on their staff.

Yes it's fixed, the game is smooth as baby's arse.
Sev_Pay made sure that many useful changes like Manyshot, Fvs Archon and mob "ai" were done.

Wipe wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 11:41am:


lol

Asheras wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 10:04am:


I took this weekend's sale as a cynical attempt to wring a last few dollars out of the game on the edge of a precipice.  (This isn't a doom post). 
They shouldn't be trying to sell players shit, they should be giving shit away - big time.  Try to keep people invested, even though they can't actually play because running anything is a lottery.
Run events that are less susceptible to lag.  Find hidden crap in public instances, riddles leading to hidden chests of cool things where you can pick one item from.  Stuff to entertain the masses.  Serious players won't care for it, but they have nothing to keep them anyway.

Something they have done has really fucked the game up and it is getting worse for me, not better.

Lots of players have left and are leaving.  Even if they magically fix the lag through dumb luck, how do they convince the pop to come back?
Depending on how long it takes, people will find other things to do.

These creativity starved dickheads had better stop eating fucking pies and bagels and start working on some plans to save their jobs.