So,

I decide to take a blow from the retail booth for a bit and head up to the exhibit floor to check out the Turbine booth at PAX. (Actually, I wanted to scope out all the 15 year old gals dressed up as anime checks! )

First goal was to see if MadFloyd was available and check out if this guy is for real.  I came at him with the attitude of "hey, I am a 4+ year vet with a dozen+ capped toons and I have been shit on for the last 12 months, what are you going to do to try to keep me as a customer."

I have to hand it to the guy as his reply shows that he truely does care about the game and their customers experience, OR, he should win an oscar for passing on some of the most believable BS that I have ever heard.  For my 2 cents, I'm gonna go with the first option. 

He went over what he could tell me about upcoming content releases and races (go read about it yourself ya lazy bastards, nothing new for me to report that is not posted elsewhere) and did say that going forward that there should be very little, if any, low level content released thru at least 2011.

He seemed openly very embarrased about some of the content that has been released into the game of late (IQ quests, Epic level dungeons and a few others) as most were flawed to varying degrees. 

He is not a fan of the current loot tables/systems and would like to see them reworked as well as some of the current crafting/upgrade systems currently in use.

It's too bad that he is just one guy because if he was pulling all the strings, this game would have some hope if he could get done what he wants.

Unfortunately, there is a certain Fernando that is positioned higher than him at the company and as long as he is calling the shots, I see very very little chance of this game lasting for "US" as a user group as the answer to my opening question could not have been more polar opposite.  You can read all about it in my upcoming "5 wasted minutes with Fernando" thread.

Later fuckers!

Jax

ss or it never happend 

After watching the interview with Fernando where he went on about how awesome underwater combat was I can see how talking to him might be unexciting.

One of the pics mentioned something about an in game event with the Plane of Night(Pic 33). Any one got word on what that  will be?

kitsune_ko wrote on Sep 6^th, 2010 at 4:03am:


See, I'm just the opposite; I think the half-orcs look good (they look like they'll be bigger than WF ) but the half-elves look kinda...meh, unimpressive.

Is it just me or does it look like they changed the attack animation in some of those videos?

kitsune_ko wrote on Sep 6^th, 2010 at 4:03am:

Yep, those are more like full Orcs. What a shame.
kitsune_ko wrote on Sep 6^th, 2010 at 4:03am:

I can't wait to see how they screw this up. Here is my vote:
As Orc Barbarians rage, they lose STR as they gain HPs. 

The only cool parts to the underwater combat is the fact that the shaugawhatchacallems float when you kill em - and the scenery is absolutely fantastic to look at.

The "combat" itself is just some spell restrictions, ice-games movement mechanics, and a heaping pile of missed opportunity.

I still can't believe they gave out the UA gratis. If anything, they should have rewarded the prepared (I mean hell, they give us ample warning it's going to be underwater), and force those w/o a UA item to run for the Sea Paw stuff so they can breathe.

As I said - bunches and bunches of missed opportunities. And the fact that Fernando seems giddy over the whole thing makes me think that DDO is succeeding despite the idiot-child at the helm.

Memnir wrote on Sep 8^th, 2010 at 12:50pm:

Well said, that pretty much sums up my shock. 

I don't think I've ever seen someone come across as so unqualified.  He's up there with Rock and Czar.

Strakeln wrote on Sep 8^th, 2010 at 8:02pm:


I can't agree with a statement more...he came of like a 12 year old who just pwned in PvP.  It was staggering.  Being excited about your game is one thing but he came of as goofy.  A little professionalism goes a long way...

yeah, the read by a dev is great.. at least saying: hey no comment, but you've been heard