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Rubbinns The Undeserving Fuckwit Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 10460 Joined: Sep 4^th, 2013	DDO Producer Letter Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:06pm	Print Post
	https://www.ddo.com/en/news/ddo-producers-letter https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/470615-DDO-Producer-s-Letter! Quote: Greetings! I'm Severlin, Executive Producer for Dungeons & Dragons Online, and I'm writing today to update you on our plans for the coming months. One of the first things I wanted to mention was that I want to do these letters more frequently. You've been getting yearly Producer's Letters, but I like to speak more often to the community, so instead of a year-long list, I'd like to give us room to respond to your wants through the year. That means this letter will focus on the quarter ahead, and I will be back this Spring with an update. Looking back on 2015, we gave ourselves an ambitious schedule, and delivered a huge amount of raiding, questing, class work, and more. Here are just some of the things we accomplished: - 4 Raids - 3 Monster Manuals - 11 new quests, including the Temple of Elemental Evil classic dungeon - Rogue, Ranger class updates - New class: Warlock (along with its associated enhancements, spells, etc.) - New seasonal event: The Night Revels - A greatly improved random loot system - Legendary Greensteel - A level cap of 30, along with Legendary and Epic Destiny Feats We also made some quality of life improvements like being able to craft from your shared bank, consume tomes at any level, and shop in an improved DDO Store. The main focus of this quarter will be one of DDO's biggest milestones - our 10th Anniversary! We'll be throwing a big party towards the end of February, with gifts, prizes, events, and surprises. We will debut a free multi-character-level dungeon (similar to the way our Night Revels dungeons work) that will be a tongue-in-cheek story featuring some of DDO's most popular and enduring characters and NPCs. It'll also give you the opportunity to defeat some "devs" in battle. Yes, I plan to try to kill you in-game. Update 30 will also debut the long-anticipated Gnome race, along with the Deep Gnome Iconic! We will debut an updated Cannith Crafting system that ties in nicely with the new randomly-generated loot system that released in Update 29. We're also bringing out the bug zapper in the coming weeks to get rid of some of the things we've been hearing from you about. We'll be previewing much of Update 30 in the coming weeks on Lamannia. As always, we look forward to your feedback.

	Mockduck wrote on Aug 30^th, 2010 at 2:20pm: I don't think naming names would be a good thing for me to do, but I'd pretty much add anyone who's a know-it-all dick on the list.� Even if they are sometimes intelligent with their opinions, the way they state them in long, "i'm a lawyer at trial"-type posts makes me want to punch them in the face.� They act like whiney babies with god complexes and then freak out if someone so much as breathes criticism in their direction.
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Snu Snu Shroud Slacker Offline Drama is boring Posts: 1054 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2012	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #1 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:15pm	Print Post
	A lot of it is debatable. Thx for posting.

	Bored Byond Belief
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GrizzlyBear Korthos Resident Offline duh?! Posts: 43 Joined: Jul 2^nd, 2014	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #2 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:16pm	Print Post
	Tiny gnome, ahn?!


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Artorias Shroud Slacker Offline Posts: 1223 Joined: Mar 21^st, 2015	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #3 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:25pm	Print Post
	Thanks for posting, much appreciated. I'm really unimpressed by Sev's letter. It practically reads like he had to write it because his job forces him to do so. Are they making plans on the fly with each update or they have a long term vision?


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Snu Snu Shroud Slacker Offline Drama is boring Posts: 1054 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2012	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #4 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:32pm	Print Post
	I am actually curious about the bug zapper. When, how and what will they screw up?

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OldCoaly Puppy Farmer Offline Why did you think this time would be different? Posts: 1564 Location: WAAHH!!!Testing stuff is HARD! Joined: Jul 1^st, 2011	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #5 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:39pm	Print Post
	Quote: Yes, I plan to try to kill you in-game. I'll be fine as long as someone is around to cast Raise Dead on my soulstone.

	Groo The Wanderer wrote on Sep 8^th, 2013 at 10:43pm: they will probably congratulate themselves on how long they "kept it going" never able to see that it could have easily managed to keep itself going for far longer if they had just meddled far less drastically and with some semblance of an actual gameplan. Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 1^st, 2014 at 1:11pm: Hearing something has "merit" but we don't have "time" kind of says everything about how Turbine works on things. eighnuss wrote on May 27^th, 2014 at 12:52pm: everyone but turbine knows that we are sad they are destroying our game majmalphunktion wrote on Aug 30^th, 2013 at 12:12am: I don't make the game, I just get tested what they build. Sorry you are not happy. Skoodge wrote on Nov 27^th, 2014 at 6:54am: DDO is easy to summarize - the greatest game to suck the most ass. GooFY wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2015 at 5:36pm: Turbine - So incompetent that we are skeptical when they report their own incompetence. � Meursault wrote on May 11^th, 2015 at 8:10pm: Other companies will settle for shitting out garbage, Turdbin actually prefers to. Especially if they can get us to buy it, that just cracks them up. Meursault wrote on Nov 12^th, 2015 at 2:50pm: Breaking something and putting it back together isn't as good as not breaking it to begin with, it's not even close. palmer01 wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 9:05am: Devs do not care what players want - they already have an agenda and give out token gestures so the paladins can feel worthy. PersonaNonGrata wrote on Oct 4^th, 2016 at 1:24am: The DDO devs aren't motivated by a positive user experience.
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QuantumFX Shroud Slacker Offline Now back to the GOOD part! Posts: 1170 Joined: Nov 15^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #6 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:55pm	Print Post
	I thought the 2015 PC post was more informative: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/470569-2015-Player-Council-Redux Quote: Hey folks, In the same spirit as the thread made for the 2014 Player Council, I am posting this one with a rough outline of the discussions made during the 2015 year. The 2014 PC Redux posted by Hafeal can be found here: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...at-did-they-do At the time of posting this the Official Player Council Discussions and Announcements sub-forum contains 79 threads and the General Discussion and Council Feedback sub-forum contains 359 threads. The General Discussion was mostly PC started threads, suggestions, etc. whereas the Official Discussion were threads started by the Dev team that we responded to. I won't share any material posted by other council members so the General Discussion will just remain a number, The titles of threads from the Official Discussion I will outline to give an idea of the topics discussed and the pacing. February - Champion Changes - Loot Design - Rogue: Thief Acrobat - Balance Changes for U25 - Timed DPS Runs - Monster Manual IV - Rogue: Assassin - Rogue: Mechanic - Mysterious Remnant Rewards I March - U25 Loot Takes I & II - Temple of Elemental Evil - Manyshot and 10k Stars - Crossbow Feedback - "One Bug" Thread - Ranger: Deepwood Stalker April - U26 Items 1st Look and Round II - DDO Store Issues - Warlock: Tainted Scholar May - Warlock: Enlightened Spirit - Warlock: Souleater - NDA Breach June - Enlightened Spirit Survivability - Magical Damage in Epic - Monster Manual V July - Hireling Flags - Monster Manual VI - Early Thoughts: Epic Shroud - Up coming Exp Changes - Random Loot August - Mystic Eidolons - Random Loot: Part Deux - Balance Concerns - Ranger: Tempest - Cannith Crafting Discussion September - New DDO Store Announcement - PC: Lamannia U28 Devils' Gambit Preview - U28 Hireling Changes - Night Revels: Loot - U28 Named Items - Night Revels: Overview - Ranger: Arcane Archer - On Class Balance October - PC Meet Up! ~ Yes a few of us made our way to Turbine HQ and got a tour, meet and talk with the Dev team, play some DDO, get some swag and more... - 10k Stars - U29 Feats & Advancement: Overview - U29 Feats & Advancement: Epic Destiny Feats - Scaling Effects more in Depth - U29 Feats & Advancement: Legendary Feats - U29 Feats & Advancement: Other - Manyshot Update November - Legendary Power - Level Cap Increase - Going to 30! - U29 Items - Part I - Armor - Round I - Legendary Green Steel Overview - U29 Items - Part I - Armor - Round II December - Long & Involved Survey - Hooray! - We're almost done for the year January - PC: Gnome Tree Thoughts - PC: Deep Gnome Iconic Thoughts - Cannith Crafting - Arcane Archer Part II - PC: Arcanotechnician - 2015 Player's Council Final Survey and wrap up Information I hope this gives some idea of the feedback requested and the level of involvement for a member of the PC. I do thank past, present and future members of the PC as they take free time to help give feedback to overall improve the game and move it forward. And I thank the Devs for having this type of preview feedback and listening to the players. This post was more the data, the second post I will share how I feel about the PC and being on the team for 2015. One Final Note: There are some things that the PC are still held to an NDA. So while I, and others would be, happy to discuss some things there are some that we are not yet able to comment on. Please be respectful of this. Looks like Artificer is the next class up for a glacial speed enhancement revamp.


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Grand Ex Member I Love Drama!	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #7 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 5:00pm	Print Post
	Rubbinns wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:06pm: https://www.ddo.com/en/news/ddo-producers-letter https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/470615-DDO-Producer-s-Letter! That's it? Sev really hates writing those things doesn't he? remember how they build up how he was 'working' on his producer letter last summer when he was MIA for weeks and it turned out to be like a page long? granted that was twice as long as this.


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Snu Snu Shroud Slacker Offline Drama is boring Posts: 1054 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2012	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #8 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 5:26pm	Print Post
	Well, it just covers the 1st quarter.

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raybob DQ Assaulter Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 452 Joined: Sep 15^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #9 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 5:30pm	Print Post
	I thought Sev was on the way out. Who is he blowing to keep his job?


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Barkabout Shroud Slacker Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 1032 Joined: Aug 15^th, 2013	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #10 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:18pm	Print Post
	cant wait to make my new middle-aged hipster douche toon!


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 10011 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #11 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:20pm	Print Post
	the beard is ... a killer...

	Yes my avatar is an Hermine eating a Greenland Lemming for brunch.
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rest One Man Wolfpack Offline Posts: 7223 Joined: Aug 13^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #12 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:38pm	Print Post
	I like that the letter isn't a forum post. Now when he edits it, no one will ever know. Well I guess we will since the original text is pasted here. Also it means he doesn't have to bother to respond.


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ILoveExploits Horoluth Raider Offline I Love Exploits! Posts: 2157 Location: piking @ work Joined: Oct 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #13 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:38pm	Print Post
	That thread is pure gold. FatAssJerry will stay up to delete and ban ppl all night.

	Dear players, The D&D rules you were familiar with were too simple to understand, so we're continuing our move away from them to needlessly confusing subsystems that will make your play experience less fun and invalidate old builds and loot. We hope you have fun working out what the fuck MRR, PRR, MP, SP, RP, CL, MCL and all the other bullshit we made up whilst drunk means. Love, People who don't know how to fix their own mistakes cleanly
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Meursault Horoluth Raider Offline I Love Freedom of Speech Posts: 2410 Location: Hartford, CT; USA Joined: Aug 22^nd, 2013 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #14 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 7:17pm	Print Post
	rest wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:38pm: I like that the letter isn't a forum post. Now when he edits it, no one will ever know. Well I guess we will since the original text is pasted here. Also it means he doesn't have to bother to respond. Yeah, this! It reminds me of a great quote from a Total Quality Management guide I read "If the extent of commitment from management is putting up motivational posters and witty slogans, you'd better mount them pretty high up on walls so your employees can't easily reach them with markers" I think this counts as mounting a motivational poster pretty high up a wall.

	Turdbin, keep changing the DDO rules, because McDonalds sold over 200 billion hamburgers by changing the recipe for their Special Sauce every couple of months to keep interest up.
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Meursault Horoluth Raider Offline I Love Freedom of Speech Posts: 2410 Location: Hartford, CT; USA Joined: Aug 22^nd, 2013 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #15 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 7:53pm	Print Post
	OldCoaly wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:39pm: I'll be fine as long as someone is around to cast Raise Dead on my soulstone. That one is as good as 's "take paralyzer off my heavy pick"

	Turdbin, keep changing the DDO rules, because McDonalds sold over 200 billion hamburgers by changing the recipe for their Special Sauce every couple of months to keep interest up.
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Rubbinns The Undeserving Fuckwit Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 10460 Joined: Sep 4^th, 2013	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #16 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 8:59pm	Print Post
	ILoveExploits wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:38pm: That thread is pure gold. FatAssJerry will stay up to delete and ban ppl all night. is great. actually surprised by the amount of people posting there that see it for what it is. Velrad on page 1, called Sev out for his " 4 new raids!!" bullshit. I wouldn't even have credited him DoJ as one. It was borrowed from everything already inside amrath packs. Still feel they should have simply went with the better raid in epic ToD instead of not in the slightest creative, total garbage that is DoJ. these devs have no passion for what they do. all their quest and raid ideas suck donkey dick. look at that shitty xoriat update. the fuk was that. then they continue with it and give us waterworks part 8. Just because the red cube is cool doesnt make it okay.

	Mockduck wrote on Aug 30^th, 2010 at 2:20pm: I don't think naming names would be a good thing for me to do, but I'd pretty much add anyone who's a know-it-all dick on the list.� Even if they are sometimes intelligent with their opinions, the way they state them in long, "i'm a lawyer at trial"-type posts makes me want to punch them in the face.� They act like whiney babies with god complexes and then freak out if someone so much as breathes criticism in their direction.
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Yobai Epic Poster Offline Posts: 4126 Joined: Jul 26^th, 2012	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #17 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 9:03pm	Print Post
	every now and then vellrad stops tripping on his own hemorrhoids long enough to make a semi-valid point.

	Revaulting wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 8:16pm: Have you tried a lower difficulty, such as the official forums?
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[] Madame President Offline Posts: 10532 Joined: Oct 16^th, 2015	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #18 - Jan 15^th, 2016 at 10:57pm	Print Post
	FranOhmsford Sez: - A greatly improved random loot system? Please tell me Sev's kidding? This is absolutely full of bugs! Makes many items of named loot utterly worthless and how exactly am I supposed to fit in all these Insightful bonuses while maintaining the absolute requirements like Heavy Fort {Don't get me started on the new Fortification numbers in low level random loot - That's the one specific are where named loot is unequivocally better than RNG!} and Resistance! Oh and Please tell me that you're not going to release Gnomes looking like that - The Hair and Beard look like cheap costume wigs from a fancy dress shop! And the faces and bodies are way too similar to Halflings {Gnomes should be more like smaller Dwarves!}. DON'T GET HIM STARTED ON THE NEW FORTIFICATION NUMBERS ON LOW LEVEL RANDOM LOOT!
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kum-gulp VoD Slasher Offline I Love Tired Vault Memes! Posts: 1812 Joined: Jul 16^th, 2010	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #19 - Jan 16^th, 2016 at 5:37am	Print Post
	Oh dear, the copy/paste beard on that Halfling is terrible. I would've thought copy pasted Tiefling/Aasimar would've made more money and been less obviously a hack.


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Sim-Sala-Bim Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Wha...? Posts: 5356 Joined: Nov 2^nd, 2013 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #20 - Jan 16^th, 2016 at 5:37am	Print Post



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wogoflove Korthos Resident Offline Stop Breathing...... Posts: 95 Joined: Jun 23^rd, 2014	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #21 - Jan 16^th, 2016 at 6:47am	Print Post
	bug zapper???????


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Asheras Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline This is why we can't have nice things. Posts: 10230 Location: Ohio Joined: Jun 9^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #22 - Jan 16^th, 2016 at 8:37am	Print Post
	So besides the anniversary event, no new content for at least 120 days. Gnomes aren't moving the needle for me.


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Billy the Id Ex Member	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #23 - Jan 16^th, 2016 at 3:41pm	Print Post
	GrizzlyBear wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:16pm: Tiny gnome, ahn?! Those Gnome models make them look to big. Snu Snu wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 4:32pm: I am actually curious about the bug zapper. When, how and what will they screw up? At the risk of sounds noobish, what is the bug zapper?


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Billy the Id Ex Member	Re: DDO Producer Letter Reply #24 - Jan 16^th, 2016 at 3:42pm	Print Post
	rest wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 6:38pm: I like that the letter isn't a forum post. Now when he edits it, no one will ever know. Well I guess we will since the original text is pasted here. Also it means he doesn't have to bother to respond. Well spotted, that is some cynical shit Sev_pay. Asheras wrote on Jan 16^th, 2016 at 8:37am: So besides the anniversary event, no new content for at least 120 days.� Gnomes aren't moving the needle for me.� Oh fuck! you're right. I wonder if I was willfully missing that, 120 days? All that end game work and people will still be sick of sitting at 30 after another couple weeks. Bullshit.
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