It doesn`t matter where you started from.

Its like these guys Graduating from Uni thinking they can immediately go fix a robot or make a Donut/Boobies powered car.

Steelstar started his career from QA,people saw potential in him and after 8 months he got promoted to Dev status and he gave us some the best mechanisms in the game and Enlightened Spirit.

PlumeDeSoleil FOTS etc while he went apeshit brought us  Divine Crusader and some other nice things.

Varg gave us Colors/Colours of the Queen and Tainted Scholar

It seems there are issues among the oldest Devs blocking Varg atm

Tolero,Jerry and KK are opposed while WB guys are browsing both forums and with the feedback we give they think Varg is the best choice but some Turdbine family drama would prolly cause an Infinite Crisis among them that might lead to more Feather of Sun moments.

So much drama...

Hiding wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 11:57pm:


Did that already as a teenager for 4 years on a sailboat. Got the t-shirt, moving onto more mundane yet malicious adventures

Turd_Ferguson wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 1:05am:


You're pardoned.

I do also suspect that most of Cordovan knee jerk reactions we see is because he has been handled a set of retarded rules to follow and been ordered to follow them to the letter and to not deviate from them. If he gets somebody that is more open and that review these rules to make them more open I'm almost convinced that he would adapt and become easier to deal with.

Bacardi wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 8:35am:


KK is too junior, and from QA... Just the fact it's QA makes him irrelevant as a potential producer...( from the point of view of those in power ).

Personally I'm still chocking over Varg Tough Choice, so my vote would go for Steel. ( well my vote would go for KK, but as I typed, the PHB probably dismiss him because of QA )

Bacardi wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 8:35am:



you forgot Majmal!  he gave us the greatest contribution of all time!  under his leadership QA ushered in DUPEAPALOOZA!

So...https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/462611-Rumor/page3

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That is a awful lot of effort dancing around without just flat out saying "Severlin is not leaving" and putting a end to it.

Additionally there is a fair bit of butthurt tone in that damage control post, so can we call this a step towards confirming Sev_Pay is on his way out?  I'm certainly leaning that way.

Fucking Jerry, so in over his head.

Hag Master wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 2:22pm:


Meh.  I wouldn't expect him to comment on Sev's job one way or the other.  It's not a matter for discussion on the forums.  Not to mention, it would give some acknowledgement to the methodology of the OP.  I'm surprised he didn't just close the thread and be done with it.  But, I guess he wanted to throw in his 2 cents about how ridiculous the OP statement was from a credibility standpoint. 

palmer01 wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 8:39pm:


At this point you'd be better off buying the IP and starting a new game from scratch.

Revaulting wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 6:21pm:

LOL, this exactly.

Imagine how he must feel when he has to shut down these rumor threads, and then learns a month or two later that they were true. It must feel like everybody but him knew, and nobody cared enough about him to give him a hint. He had to hear it 4th hand from people he hates.

I wouldn't be surprised if he left the thread up a bit to see if he could learn any more details 

Bacardi wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 8:35am:


This is the hardest part of trying to work this out from the outside.
Some of the team could be good.  As Meursalt said, under the right leadership and mentoring they could thrive if they're passionate.

We know the atmosphere at Turdbine is not great, and some of the leadership have been less than inspiring and you've F_ernando pissing in someone's ear - all that is hardly a recipe for success.

The DDO team needs a Producer who is not part of the team.  I would go so far as to say, someone who is not technically hands on.  Someone with some business/marketing cred supported by managing software projects.  If you've got a competent technical team, you can get your head out of the day-to-day and focus on the tactical and strategic issues.  That sort of Producer might start to see some of the train wrecks plaguing previous producers.

The orgn also needs a good flush, put in place a mgmt team with business experience, marketing experience and software development experience (non-Turdbine experience) and then resource the products appropriately and see what happens. None of this bottom of the cost curve BS - which works in manufacturing (for awhile at least, until you are technologically superseded) but not in software development if you plan to last more than a year or two.

However, I suspect a technical review of DDO might show it is going to be a problem to continue development.  Things are degenerating as they code on top of sloppy code.  Things are a real mess behind the scenes.

The unprofessional anecdotal comments being left by the devs in the DDO client code show that even the developers don't know what the hell things do and just avoid touching stuff.  That to me is pretty damning.

If they were to be pragmatic, a decision needs to be taken soon - either send DDO to maintenance mode or start developing DDO2 with the same starting functionality on a fresh code base.  But start to look at modern development tools to enable faster and more QC content development (look at customer made content too if that opens up any business opportunities).

DDO without most of the major bugs, backed by a refreshed look and a PLAN, could still be a money making venture.  Their is a lot of ground they can still cover between now and the likely lvl 30 end game.  But the negative attitude towards customers and customer service is like a virus in Turdbine, it needs to be found and removed too.  Otherwise, all those pissed off and disgruntled customers will not come back.

DropBear wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 9:41pm:


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Couldn't resist. Sorry...

ThereIsNoSpoon wrote on Jul 9^th, 2015 at 1:16pm:


This is how I read it, as well. He came off like a dick in that post, in my opinion. Not that I'm surprised. My 6 year old nephew is capable of more professionalism than Jerry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

ThereIsNoSpoon wrote on Jul 9^th, 2015 at 1:16pm:



just adds more Jerrygrist for the Jerrymill when Sev does leave.

Jerry is an idiot.