Eladiun wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2013 at 9:29am:


That is totally true. Nevertheless, your hobby is very strange, I repeat.

Eladiun wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2013 at 2:14pm:

What company is administering Turbine's servers?

I knew someone who worked in Turbine's data center, years ago. They were pretty top notch then, actually. Dunno about now, but you never know.

Eladiun wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2013 at 9:35am:


Wow does suck (played for 6 months),  GW sucked (played for a year), EQ sucks (couldn't be bothered to play it), SWTOR sucks... This is what all my friends who went and played it reported back.

The fact that DDO has lasted 7 years (2 of which were spent tied up in a secret law suit resulting in 0 content release) and lasted means they are doing something's right.  LoTRO seems to b plugging along fine as well compared to the Conans, and Warhammers of the MMO world. There is plenty I wish Tirbine would do differently and I bitch about it, but I have to give credit where it's due. The only thing more pathetic than a sycophant fanboi is the hypocrit hater. You come off as a bitter old man sitting on his rocker who hits anyone that gets to close with his cane and thinks the nursing staff is trying to kill him. Take a pill Eladiun... The meds should straighten you out.

Flav wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2013 at 1:34pm:


I have a couple of servers in a similar facility in Waltham.  They likely just rent a cage and keep their equipment there.  The facility provides the large redundant internet pipes, security, multiple redundant power supplies, and high level air quality and climate control.  It's much more cost effective for most companies over building your own high end data center.

JDollar wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2013 at 1:58pm:


Sure, WoW sucks 10 million people are just wrong.

AO  11.  WoW 8   EQ 14   SWG even made 9 years.   AC 11

Longevity, isn't all that impressive.  It doesn't take a whole lot to keep an MMO up and running.

As for LOTRO, the AA number was last reported around 200k-250K which I think would be considered a profound disappointment vs expectations for that IP.  F2P bounced them over 500k but they were unable to retain a majority of those players and fell back to pre-F2P numbers

Age of Conan and Warhammer, they are in the same ballpark as DDO with AA account numbers.

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Fact's are simple. 

- Post $160 million WB buyout none of the four founders of Turbine are still with the company

- Store cash grabs have increased with once unthinkable items now available.

- Quality of the releases has decreased sharply since the buyout

- Layoffs

- Servers now crash regularly. 


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BTW, you want to know a game that tanked but is actually pretty fun.  I've been screwing around in DC Online F2P.  Nothing serious just dicking about a hour here or there and it's a well put together game.  The combat is unique and fun and the world is visual beautiful.  Only played like 10 hours and far from end game but it's a fun little time killer with a lot of different things to do.
It's also 2 years old and I find MMO's really hit their stride at two years.  It's when they finally have enough content and features to satisfy the masses.  The first two years is for die hard fans to stick it out through the growing pains.

Eladiun wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2013 at 2:49pm:


I wish I found you in an MMO.

mystafyi wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2013 at 6:21pm:


So true because the reality is hardware is cheap if the problem could be fixed with hardware it would be fixed already.

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That's the thing...  these aren't little issues I'm not pissed because an ED doesn't work.  These are massive, game breaking, and fun sucking issues.  They ruin the whole experience.  They are also completely unacknowledged by Turbine.  In all the time I have played game quality has never been this bad.   It's disgusting what they have done and how they are handling it. Honestly, over dozens of MMO's over a dozen years I can only think of a few instances where issues were this bad and most of those were fixed within days or weeks and came with massive "We're sorry" free game time.

JDollar wrote on Jan 4^th, 2013 at 12:01pm:


Could be a Khyber thing...it wouldn't be a first but it been going on for months.  I would be just questing and would lock up.  Couple that with gross UMD lag and it was brutal to play.

Eladiun wrote on Jan 4^th, 2013 at 12:05pm:


It happens occasionally on Argo as well. Could just be a population thing at this point.

The UMD/List Redraw thing is stupid and just gets worse every time they add another thing that modifies or adds another list to be drawn.

Eladiun wrote on Jan 4^th, 2013 at 12:05pm:


Quite possible. I've only had that happen maybe once in the last year of daily play on Sarlona, excluding when things were really screwy after the U13 release.

Turbine is unable to recreate this "lag" you speak of. Reinstall your os.