Cripey wrote on May 4^th, 2022 at 1:00am:


1. Yes
2. Only morons buy boxes at full price

And that will be a mercy to a bunch of computer hardware running itself ragged to keep some terrible programmers employed.

Oracler wrote on May 15^th, 2022 at 7:55pm:



Maybe they are finally realizing that the incentivized the heroic past lives too much. More lives, favor reset, more free points.
If they were smart (and we ALL know they are not) they would have made racials only an option for an epic TR, no favor reset, no free points.

But we know the whole "business" thing isn't their strength either.

noamineo wrote on May 15^th, 2022 at 9:06pm:



They launder money from the Russian criminal world.  They will never run out of money.  Their bullshit player numbers and their bullshit per player money amounts.

It's columbus nova all over, same people, just different company names as they roll their ill gotten profits into mergers and acquisitions.  Now they've been "bought" by eq7 or whatever the fuck that company is named.  But it was bullshit again as the same people have now taken over and "shelled" their criminal asses in a veneer of legitimacy.

On the one hand, I think they're are all evil fucks who should suffer and die.  But on the other, I kinda like playing DDO sometimes.  Plus, I'm not exactly an angel myself, so...  If it keeps the lights on, I don't give a shit about the murder, the drugs, the prostitution, the gambling.

I get my few hours a month of shitty gameplay phoned in by idiot devs who don't even know where the money comes from at the cost of more evil in the world.  Meh, I can live with it.

Oracler wrote on May 16^th, 2022 at 8:36am:


If they're seeing that kind of ROI it seems like they could stand to spend the $60k or so it would cost to hire a competent marketing team(I'm basing that price point on the cost to fire the incompetents and hire smart people at the same rate). Which after a few minor fixes(making the "free quest codes" thing permanent for all new accounts) and then just... some, fucking ANY, kind of effort to help new players "catch up" to existing ones, and the game could easily keep going another 10 years.

Oracler wrote on May 16^th, 2022 at 8:36am:


I struggled with the numbers on that report because so many things don't seem to add up.

Population aside, the non existant QA/CS, Cordo still being the face, the increasingly bad gameplay experience (mismanaged resources? Incompetent or just ignorant programmers), the... ugh just makes me angry typing this.

700k/m net profit and the best advertising they can do is Lynnabel on Strimtom's twitch channel? No chance

More likely all of the money is being flowed upwards to EG7. SSG's work stinks of "The pays the same whether you try or not".

Depends. It's not like they didn't pull the "we can't afford to pay you" bullshit already.
It's not like they treated the initial batch of people with any respect as I recall.
The difference is that if they were still doing so now the people there absolutely deserve it for being incompetent...