I think he honestly just doesn't know anything. He admitted last week or so that he is "a bit behind on what exactly is going on." Nobody tells kobold nothin'. Either that, or he just doesn't understand any of the network jargon. Any time he has gotten into any technical speech, it is very clear that he is just parroting words from someone more qualified than him. Which results in us more or less being left in the dark.

For more transparency, we would really need a detailed Producer's Letter getting into the grit of what is going on and when they actually expect for things to improve. I believe the reason this has not happened is because the news is pretty bad, and according to rumors things won't have a chance of starting to improve until June at the earliest. Which is something they don't want to admit to their customers, much less their bosses.

"DDO Bonus Days bring you a Buddy Weekend! Get +10% XP per party member other than yourself, starting on Thursday and running through April 17th!"


Turdbin trolleth ........ durp durp

To fix the lag issue, they need to offer +10% XP for every  member of the party under 6, i.e. +50% for soloing since that's pretty much the only way to avoid the really bad lag.

They can post a "Mission Accomplished" banner during the weekend.

Vtec wrote on Apr 13^th, 2016 at 10:22am:

DDO has been inching closer and closer to a solo game for a long time, this may be the final push. Of course, solo DDO is about as fun as solo D&D.

Doodle wrote on Apr 13^th, 2016 at 11:49am:

Turbine is incapable, Warner doesn't care. I'm sure there at least some Turbine employees that are truly lamenting the state of the game, but they don't have the skills or knowledge to fix it.

And management isn't going to try something like opening the source code to the public.

kum-gulp wrote on Apr 13^th, 2016 at 12:33pm:


If we weren't all idiots, we wouldn't be playing DDO.  A rational and intelligent person would have given up and gone to neverwinter long ago.

WeHaveLived wrote on Apr 13^th, 2016 at 1:26pm:

Yeah. I was gonna say. Even despite all it's flaws and horrible mismanagement, DDO still manages to be better than Neverwinter.

Knight Solaire wrote on Apr 13^th, 2016 at 1:44pm:

Yup. Tried NW again a couple weeks ago (after maybe a year away) - that lasted all of about 30 minutes before I realized nothing I disliked about it had changed at all.

Try Black Desert
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/

majmalphunktion wrote on Apr 13^th, 2016 at 10:36pm:


I tried Black Desert. It's a beautiful, shmexy... korean MMO. All the things people don't like about those are still there. But damn, are those boobs delectable.

Cairnoir wrote on Apr 14^th, 2016 at 2:52am:

This tells me, if they are running VMWare (I have zero experience with the other VM vendors products) that they are running the professional version rather than the desktop version, since the desktop version basically runs an OS such as Windows on a VM platform while the server versions run a native OS.

From the brief comments Sev made on Jerry's Wednesday livestream about eliminating OS calls this seems likely.  And it is actually a decent plan.