you ever getting the feeling turbine is trolling you?  just a thought...

totally wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 11:51am:


I want to believe it will be the last gasp before maintenance mode.

Like a big, "Fuck you, let this kick your ass for a while with no hope of better gear ever."

Asheras wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 12:12pm:


I enjoyed that time, too, and was just getting good at it (and had even managed to solo a few of the easier ones) when MotU dropped.

totally wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 12:18pm:


That model is fine, they just need to jack the numbers up for mortal fear. 

DoRayEgon wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 1:34pm:


ouch!

Eh, I like having new content to run, even if it isn't as good as a lot of the older stuff. If there had been no content since 2012, the game would be actually dead by now, as opposed to effectively dead as it is at the moment ;P

kum-gulp wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 9:37am:


There has been some post MoTU content that I enjoy.  I like High Road, eGH, HH, ToEE, Thunderholme, eOrchard, for example.  I not a fan of Wheelon, Stormhorns or Druid's Curse.  I'm meh on new Amrath, Gatekeepers, and the small stuff like Study in Sable and Mask of Deception. 

Of course, if you back out the recycled content of eGH and eOrchard, that doesn't leave a lot of victories in there.

Asheras wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 9:56am:

Yes it was a bit unfair and sweeping I guess. You're right, neither eGH or eOrchard I remember buying so either didn't need to or felt the content was good enough. A few outside of those seemed ok from what I played on Lama (or saw on youtube) but not enough to get new TP and get them. It's a shame as the content used to be as good a thing to entice people with as the character creation and neither, imo, are what they were.

Not that I expect a game to be exactly what I want for all 9 years of its life, just a shame where it's been of late.

Revaulting wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 1:56am:


Correct.

Flav wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 4:16pm:


Without having any idea what the revenue the game looks like, Maintenance mode predictions tend reveal more about the person making the prediction than the actual state of the game.  People who are upset with the game or feeling jaded tend to see the glass half empty.  People who are enjoying the game tend to see the glass half full.   

totally wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 6:34am:

You've got a point. I still play Rogue every now & then, HOMM 1 & 2, and Civ2. I guess I prefer my games dead.

Asheras wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 12:12pm:


This.

I never enjoyed DDO as much as that magical time before MotU.

I had many happy memories of Epic runs through Sentinels, the deep satisfaction of assembling a Shard-Seal-Scroll item (even if it was Tenplar's Bulwark) and the wondrous non-caring about XP or BB because you were already at cap, and everyone was in the same boat.

Shroud runs every ten minutes (just swap to an alt and run it again!) and MA/ LoB runs that weren't ridiculously short-manned.

People actually ran ToD sometimes, with a full raid party.

Epic VoN wasn't a Milk Run. eADQ required more than 3 people to complete. One token per quest per day kept people cycling through the content, without it being a pointless grind. It honestly seemed faster TRing then than after the whole "token fragment drop" nonsense they implemented later.

Seems almost like a Tale of Innocence Lost, really...