New player race: Wayans brother

OldCoaly wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 2:28pm:

Not sure if this means Tolero is still there or if she's gone.

noamineo wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 4:29pm:

Nope, not his sock. It's someone else's.

Flav wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 12:58pm:


I'm assuming that the 25 people that will see the movie are already aware of the game.

somenewnoob wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 3:32pm:


Well done

I claim this as bunk for all the reasons others have pointed out.

BUT!!!  If "profits" are only $1 Turbine only has to get to $3.  That is doable.

If Turbine profits are $2,000,000 that means it needs to get to $6,000,000.  That won't happen.

I will hazard a guess that Turbine's profits are around $100,000.  Pure guess.  Based on zero facts and zero research.

That means profits need to get to $300,000.  This can be done by firing employees.  Oh wait, Turbine has already been doing that.

Mo more free fruit Tuesdays and Free bagel Fridays.

noamineo wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 3:21pm:


I'm hoping that too... but really the decision is in Hasbro/WoTC hand and maybe a bit in WB hand.

So there's basically 3 path for Hasbro/WoTC:

- Use a really aged MMO named DDO
- Use a somewhat aged MMO named NWO
- Licence a new MMO.

Since the movie is made by WB... There's some non negligible chances that DDO will be used over the other two choices.
Maybe that's why we all feel that DDO is on life support right now...
All the competent people are behind the scene working hard on a complete revamp and relaunch of DDO just in time for the movie.... ( One can dream  )

I reckon bullshit. They still rarely, if ever for some item categories, cut in the store during sales like they did in the early days. If they were in that much trouble we'd be seeing more than just ~25% Flash Sales. They used to regularly give out better deals than we've had in a long time, on TP too IIRC, until perhaps quite recently for TP.

Doesn't smell bad to me, except in a lack of well developed content sense, but the game has been through that before too. We'll see. I think OP was bored and wanted to stir the pot.

Hey all,

let me previs this with this is prob speculation hearing it 2nd thread in the grapevine and all but here it goes.

DDO is profitable right now but how profitable is at question. Turbine is taking a look internally into the department as a whole to see if it would be worth it to revamp and possible revitalize it considering the downgrades they have made to the department last year. The department has been given a goal )i don't know exactly what it is but most likely the goal is to recruit x% of new accounts while retaining x% of current accounts in the game sub or otherwise) they have till the end of 2016 to meet half and the end of 2017 to meet the full of this goal to prevent more cuts to the departments budget. If they meet this goal we might see boosts in development of DDO.

So that's all I got, you never saw me type this... some one hacked my account.

majmalphunktion wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 5:11pm:

You would need entirely new staff. all of it. cant take turbine and suddenly make them good now. theyre outdated, has beens, relics, washed up.

they cant possibly do that when they have devs in the game that name loot after themselves with butthurt names and flavor text, for an anniversary party that they crashed. No part of that event had anything to do with ddo's history aside the gifting of old items. What it was instead was a circlejerk of devs congratulating each other for who could come up with the most shitty ideas per update and get them live with the lowest amount of people realizing how actually shitty they were.

Rubbinns wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 5:43pm:


Incorrect.

There was a lot of DDO history in that event, though a lot of it was hidden in party guest dialog. There were even mentions of exploits, such as selling the cove rods to vendors, and other amusing things, like the old bloodstone gem type being sold/traded as the trinket.

majmalphunktion wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 5:11pm:


This is, has been, and forever shall be, the stupidest idea ever presented on this board.

Try to think about how much competition it has.

Flav wrote on May 21^st, 2016 at 1:25am:


So the movie is being done by WB and WB owns turbine, IF a ty-in game gets made, it'll end up getting made by turbine. Why would they do anything else? To us players, sure, turbine is a piece a shit. To an executive making the decision, who had to have "video games" explaiend to him by his 10 year old son, this is how it looks:

"Hey, we own this company. they have 3 long-tunning MMOs to there name, that have been successful enough to keep open for a while. Hell, one of them even ties right into our movie."

Now, tell me, is this exec going o roder his team to go find another game company to make this dungeons and dragons video game, or is he gonna go to turbine?

We might still end up getting DDO2, and when we di each and every one of you will owe me an apology

Another random thought: As Ashron's Call became EOL, turbine, in fact Severelin, discussed on their forums possibly releasing a private server build so players could keep enjoing their game after it passed. if they did the same thing with DDO, we could have an ocfficial Vault server!!! that'd piss off the forum fanbois,