Your initial post was way too ambitious.

You'd've been better off starting with a knock-knock joke.

Hola Bienvenido

So, basically, you ragejoined?

Yeah, I rage joined. 
I like DDO but don't like the direction Turbine is taking with it.
The quality control is appalling.


PS Arkat. My knock knock jokes suck, or so my kids tell me, so thought it best to avoid them....

DropBear wrote on Oct 12^th, 2013 at 2:40am:


But that is the point!!

You come into the honeypot with a bad knock knock joke, so we can all say you suck and you should DIAF.
But now, what should we do now? Hi Welcome you?
I am so disapointed.

Flav wrote on Oct 12^th, 2013 at 4:41am:


Yeah, I want to like MajMal.  He even had a go at a weekly comms thread, which like most didn't last long.
He sounds like a decent well intentioned (overstressed) guy.

Putting the individuals aside though, there is something seriously FUBAR with the Turbine control procedures when bugs keep being reintroduced to live.
I've heard all the reasons why bugs on Lam make it to live, which I still think is mostly BS, but they should at least be fixed by patch 1?  Drow racial enhancements.....
Also, if they were serious about making the game quality better, the in-game bug reporting tool would work!  How many people can't be bothered to fill out the web form?

And the release notes are a joke, it's like they're written by the tea/coffee lady after doing her rounds of the DDO cubicles. 
I think they rely on the players to complete the release notes for them and do Beta testing (on live).
You can almost imagine the whole DDO team, huddled around a single 15" mono screen on their TRS-80 PC, watching the forums to find out what they actually released into the wild each patch.....  "holy shit Feather, did you really do that to the loot?"  Feather shrugs, closes his WOW client and looks at his last save log for DDO loot....

I do realise that mgmt will force premature release of code just to hit a deadline and tick off that KPI for the year.  Smart KPI's should also be on product quality, customer turnover etc.
I am intrigued who these mgmt types are that continue to make these interesting brand destructive decisions.  In the software industry, it's easy to push beta grade software onto live to keep the revenue stream coming in (sadly almost becoming defacto industry std), but there is a long term cost to doing this.  Many people are wary of pre-buying Turbine releases now and often wait till patch 3 or more for most of the major bugs to get ironed out.

DDO is not your vanilla MMO - it does have some uniqueness that will attract people back, but that goodwill only goes so far.  I see many of the veteran forumites here say they are ex or occasional players now.

Damn soap box came back, sorry about that.

Thanks for the welcome guys.  I promise to do better to lower the bar of expectation in future.

DropBear wrote on Oct 12^th, 2013 at 7:44am:



You have no idea how dumb stupid and idiotic KPIs can be...
I have a reminder every monday about that... in my emails.

Fucking Tickets are open too long... I have no impact on why they are being open to long, the fucking customer is not sending the broken crapware, we sold him, for repair, and as we haven't received the shit, he doesn't want to close the tickets. Add to that Second line ( of supposed support ) that takes 2 weeks to validate a fucking hardware fault that takes me 5 minute fighting with SAP CRM to open the logfiles to notice ( but I can't tell to replace the thing, I'm not allowed, it has to be done by second line )... And a Sales Droid that put his head in the sand when we start talking about end of support dates ( because he wants to keep getting the phat cash from the customer cow ) that puts me in a fucking awkward condition ( No Mr Customer I can't repair your fucking router it is end of support, I know you are not happy, talk to the Sale Ostrich, Have a nice Day Mr Customer )

Trust me, KPIs are just there to make nice pies on overheads, they have no real life meaning and are just an hindrance. The good part is that I can just tell fuck off at all those that comes to me saying that the KPIs are poor... It has zero impact on my paycheck.

Hi welcome!

hi

Silidri wrote on Oct 13^th, 2013 at 2:22am:

DIAF

Consider this : once the lurkers comes out of the woods, we greet them Vault Way.

If they can cope with it and answer in kind we know they will fit well.

If they can't cope with it, it gives them an opportunity to chone before they enter the playground.

DropBear wrote on Oct 11^th, 2013 at 11:11pm:


on your f irst post?

Flav wrote on Oct 13^th, 2013 at 9:20am:


School of tough knocks eh?
Hmmm.....so this is the Vault version of hazing?
I've heard of worse hazing in the girl guides.... 

Aeolwind wrote on Oct 13^th, 2013 at 3:52pm:

And when you're finished sniffing them, can I have them back Aeolwind?