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Who Cares Not this guy ^^^ Offline You sir, are a dickbag. Posts: 1951 Joined: Dec 5^th, 2014	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #25 - Feb 13^th, 2016 at 9:20pm	Print Post
	Quote: You really have to question the wisdom of DDO giving it's players a link to site listing all the other fantasy MMOs they could be playing. Best thing they have done for their players in years.

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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #26 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 9:32am	Print Post
	I wonder what it says for the poll that DDO, with a player base a bit over 10k, is leading World of Warcraft, with a player base just under 10m. Warcraft leads in players by a factor of nearly 1000:1 and has 2/3 the votes? So DDO has about 10 employees left, and each can vote once every 8 hours. Assuming they don't get wakeup calls in the middle of the night to vote, that's 20 votes per day by employees, toss in another 40 dedicated fanbois gettign "special consideration" for their votes, and you've got more than 1/2 the votes explained. Sounds about right

	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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Snu Snu Shroud Slacker Offline Drama is boring Posts: 1054 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2012	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #27 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 11:10am	Print Post
	1189. that is actually more than I expected. I don't know the side though. Is it even representative Votecount isn't. so blah
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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 10012 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #28 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 11:18am	Print Post
	Meursault wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 9:32am: So DDO has about 10 employees left, not that many : - Cordovan - Severlin - Kookie Kobold - Vargouille - Coco<whatever> and that's about it. Add maybe a backroom guy too keep things running at night and you have all the Devs for DDO.

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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #29 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 12:11pm	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 11:18am: not that many : - Cordovan - Severlin - Kookie Kobold - Vargouille - Coco<whatever> and that's about it. Add maybe a backroom guy too keep things running at night and you have all the Devs for DDO. I figured the GMs and customer support guys would have to vote too. And SeverancePay has a secretary, right? And don't forget Glib and Fernando, they're still sucking blood from DDO, aren't they?

	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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NoGoodDoc Dragon Raider Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 261 Joined: Jul 10^th, 2013	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #30 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 12:20pm	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 11:18am: not that many : - Cordovan - Severlin - Kookie Kobold - Vargouille - Coco<whatever> and that's about it. Add maybe a backroom guy too keep things running at night and you have all the Devs for DDO. NoWorries Knockback Steelstar


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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #31 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 12:38pm	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 11:18am: not that many : - Cordovan - Severlin - Kookie Kobold - Vargouille - Coco<whatever> and that's about it. Add maybe a backroom guy too keep things running at night and you have all the Devs for DDO. Yeah. That's all they have. Very accurate. Lol.


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Doodle Abbot Raider Offline Shoot first ask questions later! Posts: 991 Location: Purgatory Joined: Jun 16^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #32 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 12:51pm	Print Post
	I voted for Ddo. I hope it sends more players to the game for the remaining time it has left. I've played ten years and really don't have time to play anything else. Maybe Halo and Cod/battlefield some with my military buddies, but that's it. So yeah Ddo, for I don't have another comparison really.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 10012 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #33 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 1:34pm	Print Post
	Asheras wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 12:38pm: Yeah.� That's all they have.� Very accurate.� Lol. Acuracy in The Vault ? that would be new... But I'll agree that I missed a few, so in the end 10 is not that far off.

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Charon Ex Member	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #34 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 2:12pm	Print Post
	Jon Van Caneghem wrote on Feb 11^th, 2016 at 2:09pm: AND OF COURSE I WOULD PREFER TO DIE THAN VOTE FOR THIS GARBAGE DDO GAME


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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #35 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 2:53pm	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 1:34pm: Acuracy in The Vault ? that would be new... But I'll agree that I missed a few, so in the end 10 is not that far off. That'd make for a sustainable business model, if the head count is that low.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 10012 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #36 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 3:02pm	Print Post
	Asheras wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 2:53pm: That'd make for a sustainable business model, if the head count is that low.� don't forget the datacenter cost, the net access cost and a few other opex cost... though most of them are probably shared with all the other online Turbiune Games ( and spread over accordingly ). But yes, with 10 people on DDO and a few more shared from other games, with opex costs shared with the other games the business model can be kept for a long long time before having to cut off people and go to maintenance mode, even with the number of people that play DDO nowadays.

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_ Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 142 Joined: Apr 21^st, 2014	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #37 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 5:11pm	Print Post
	lol ddo has more votes than ESO

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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #38 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 6:02pm	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 3:02pm: don't forget the datacenter cost, the net access cost and a few other opex cost... though most of them are probably shared with all the other online Turbiune Games ( and spread over accordingly ). But yes, with 10 people on DDO and a few more shared from other games, with opex costs shared with the other games the business model can be kept for a long long time before having to cut off people and go to maintenance mode, even with the number of people that play DDO nowadays. Salary is typically 50-60% of your overall expense in a cloud based software venture, like an MMO. If you know the head count it is pretty easy to extrapolate the entire budget.


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wogoflove Korthos Resident Offline Stop Breathing...... Posts: 95 Joined: Jun 23^rd, 2014	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #39 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 6:14pm	Print Post
	what about tolero? is she still alive???


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WonderfulFoppyBint Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Poooop Posts: 5986 Location: stockholm victim of hag master Joined: Oct 23^rd, 2013	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #40 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 6:18pm	Print Post
	killed her... ...fed many

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Zandos Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 145 Joined: Feb 26^th, 2014	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #41 - Feb 14^th, 2016 at 7:08pm	Print Post
	Meursault wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 9:32am: I wonder what it says for the poll that DDO, with a player base a bit over 10k, is leading World of Warcraft, with a player base just under 10m. Warcraft leads in players by a factor of nearly 1000:1 and has 2/3 the votes? Nothing strange, people in WoW are occupied by multiple things to do, and even if they're bored with wow they can play some shitstone from the same launcher as wow, while ddo players have pretty much nothing interesting to do in game, so they must find some activities.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 10012 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #42 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 3:20am	Print Post
	wogoflove wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 6:14pm: what about tolero? is she still alive??? She's more up in the corporate food chain now.

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Snu Snu Shroud Slacker Offline Drama is boring Posts: 1054 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2012	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #43 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 4:13am	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 3:20am: She's more up in the corporate food chain now. Peter principle

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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #44 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 6:03am	Print Post
	_ wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 5:11pm: lol ddo has more votes than ESO And League of Legends. Combined. WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 6:18pm: killed her... ...fed many Zandos wrote on Feb 14^th, 2016 at 7:08pm: Nothing strange, people in WoW are occupied by multiple things to do, and even if they're bored with wow they can play some shitstone from the same launcher as wow, while ddo players have pretty much nothing interesting to do in game, so they must find some activities. LOL, good answer� I'd definitely rather vote in a stupid poll than clean my inventory again.

	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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mystafyi Abbot Raider Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 836 Joined: Nov 10^th, 2010	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #45 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 9:05am	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 3:20am: She's more up in the corporate food chain now. One thing we know for sure... tolero did NOT sleep his way up the ladder.


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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #46 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 10:26am	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 3:20am: She's more up in the corporate food chain now. She works in the store/commerce group with SC_Trader. I would suspect that several of those sorts of folks are shared between DDO and LoTRO. Possibly same with Artwork crew.


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Metal-Beast Abbot Raider Offline \m/ Posts: 767 Joined: Apr 13^th, 2014	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #47 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 11:33pm	Print Post
	It's not surprising DDO is doing so well in that poll. I have gone out and kicked tyres on a bunch of MMOs and even fantasy games that weren't RPG genre really (like whatever Diablo is) and nothing has kept me coming back like DDO. And fuck me, I've tried to quit this shit. It only points to the fact that with this IP and Campaign setting, and the wealth of material in the splat books, that DDO's failure to thrive is purely lack of talent and/or competence on the part of the Turbine staff. The D&D property should be a license to print money, but it isn't. So clearly the blame must lay at the feet of those executing the strategy. Seriously, 10 years in Eberron and no Shifters and just NOW they're rolling out Gnomes (gnasty, gnarly, gnashing gnomes...)? I'm willing to bet just the posters on the Vault with the dev tool kit could build better content and fix more bugs than this Shortbus riding crew could manage. Or has managed. I voted DDO. Fuck it... It can't hurt. tl;Dr: DDO is still better than most MMOs, and that's just fucking sad.

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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 10012 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #48 - Feb 16^th, 2016 at 4:03am	Print Post
	Metal-Beast wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 11:33pm: I'm willing to bet just the posters on the Vault with the dev tool kit could build better content and fix more bugs than this Shortbus riding crew could manage. Or has managed. Some of us did, with less... glance at the several Mb of NWN Code sitting idle in the corner of his HDD archives and with a shorter dev cycle. Now it's true that the NWN server wasn't able to support more than 60ish people connected at the same time before going all wacky, so the there was less areas to explore.

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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: Vote for DDO (Best Online Fantasy Game) Reply #49 - Feb 16^th, 2016 at 7:56am	Print Post
	Metal-Beast wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 11:33pm: It only points to the fact that with this IP and Campaign setting, and the wealth of material in the splat books, that DDO's failure to thrive is purely lack of talent and/or competence on the part of the Turbine staff. The D&D property should be a license to print money, but it isn't. So clearly the blame must lay at the feet of those executing the strategy. QFT. And even now WB could save it if they made a clean sweep of Turdbin management.

	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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