Hi Guys,

I can't post on the DDO Forums so I have to do it in The Vault.

I went to the DDO Forums yesterday and read a few Qwijymart threads. It appears the world is sadder place since Qwijy and Gtar went on a break. Unfortunately for me, it's more than just a break.

DDO grew very stale for me. When I first started playing 3 years ago, there were content releases every few months. The last year and half have been pathetic. Mod 8 for me was a huge failure. DT Armour made everyone look the same and the flagging mechanism was annoying. Add in the lottery that was Sovereign Runes and I had little desire to run the content.

I have every quest on elite on 2 characters and a few short on 3 more. One day I looked into my ingredient bags and found over 30 large scales and over 40 large stones and thought, what's there left to play for? All I was doing was accumulating for the sake of accumulation. Grinding is tolerable if your achieving something but I was grinding for the sake of grinding.

So I took a break and some friends talked me into reactivating my WoW account. I had tried the game and didn't like it. That was before I knew about the add-ons that improve your UI.

So now I'm playing WoW and totally enjoying it. I'm experiencing things we've been wishing we had in DDO but still haven't got.

1) 10 customisable guild ranks.
2) 600 slot guild bank tab
3) searchable AH
4) lots of crappy content

I was prepared to give mod 9 a shot but then they delayed it a further month. I've completely lost faith in Turbine to manage their product properly, and I refuse to put any more time into a game I don't expect to be running in another 2 years.

I'm happy to be proven wrong.

I've already given quite a bit away and over the next couple of weeks, I'll find more people to give stuff to.

Take care everyone. It's been fun while it lasted.

Yabba.

ps. Feel free to copy and paste this onto the DDO Forums.

Take care Yabba was fun poking you in the marketplace by the bank  Oh and I posted the thread up on khyber forums for you

Sad to see ya go, good luck and enjoy wherever you go, WoW and beyond.

R

Very sad to see you go. I will miss you very much. Do me a favor and log into your facebook account once in a while to say hi.

*waves sadly*

Mythe

Hey man, it was fun running with you, and buying stuff from you cheap!
Kept my clerics very happy I can assure you

As I was saying the other night, I've not played WoW myself, but hey, I'm sure 15000 billion subscribers can't be wrong ! lol.
Enjoy your gaming time man.

Yabba wrote on Aug 7^th, 2009 at 1:12am:


Oh that was, well, an interesting run as the guys were playing with some experimental builds. I remember the times we run together before that... anyway http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=2348601&postcount=23

Yabba and I have only run with a handful of times... I always could say I loved running with Yabba. It's not the quantity but the quality which we will stick in my mind.

As for his Gtar, You never really think about it when people are around. While he may have been gone for a while... I always thought he'd be there tomorrow. He was part of Khyber's landscape the past few years and to me was as much a landmark as the marketplace bank. The tent may have blew away but Gtar would weather any storm. I know if I shall be playing DDO a year from now... as I pass the bank or any of his other ole haunts, out of the corner of my eye, the image of Gtar be, and the other a slight tear. Sure I know he's not there but the memory of him lives. We muddle through life lifted on the spirit of those we know and the good times we once had with them.

Best Wishes and Luv,
Missy

I'm sorry to see you go Yabba, always had fun when we did shrouds together.  And you kept me from going totally broke running 4 clerics   Safe travels and if you don't like WOW, come back to us

Saal /Keri

Sorry to see you go bro. You added a little something extra to the game that will be missed.

Hopefully turbine doesn't fuck it with F2P and you'll be back after getting tired of the l33t h@X0rz on WoW

Jaxx wrote on Aug 11^th, 2009 at 5:36pm:


As long as someone else provides him the sausage. I am not into that.

Jaxx wrote on Aug 11^th, 2009 at 5:36pm:


It's not going to happen. He's set on world domination in WOW, and a fair way down the track.

I can see why WOW is holding Gtar's interest. It's not my cup of tea, but there are some things DDO could learn from it. Bind on equip for good loot would be a great start.