Quote:True. I think they know that the lag issues drove a lot of people away after the data center move. They're doing damage control on the servers to try to stop the bleeding. It's better a bit now, but hopefully they keep going. Even predata center move, the server wasn't great so hopefully the dart board method can improve things farther.
I broke down after seeing a long time guildie I hadn't seen in 4 years log in and I decided to go the quick and easy Steam route to say hello and see what the latest hub bub was. I will confess that lag had significantly improved after u31 but the worst of DDO shouldn't be considered it's newest default spec. Previous issues were still prevalent. Spells and clickies going off in combat taking resources and putting you on timer with no effect.
Lag like during the data center move was gone but latency spikes and client side DC's so bad it reset routers were rampant and could hit anyone at anytime. One of the most interesting stories was a good player came from I believe Cannith to a much more populated server. They said they were able to find a group better than ever while I was noticing the problem they were faced with that prompted their server move. There were less than 100 players on the who board during peak times. Long time players were either not logging in but every other week or had completely left the game. If one of the current theories I've heard was to shit on the game so much it staggers a decline in population so it can justify certain actions down the line, Turbine had certainly accomplished their mission.
I've also noticed that random gen loot has become an integral part of the mad dash for power creep. DC based toons are in a desperate search for that one piece with +16's or +7 or +3 insightfuls because the mobs as I've said before aren't too powerful, they're just cheap and going with the flow of powercreep is just a way to keep up without going under.
Just from a longview observation it seems like the saboteurs at Turbine are incrementally acclimating players for a less involved DDO. The biggest sign for this was taking away phone support which was the only way most people could get anything account side facilitated with any success. Now that fair and objective customer support has been extinguished and put in the hands of the same people that close tickets and ignore bug reports, who the in their right mind would spend money on DDO and expect a good gaming experience?
My time back was very short lived. My friend that came back left a few days back in. What made me turn away again was no one to game with, or parties of people running the same mindless monotonous daily quests for their xp grind, the lack of available gear to complete one of my builds and that was in part due to the lack of items in any of the auction houses because no one is playing anymore. When you only got in your level range less than one page of clothing and maybe 2 pages of jewelry and that's not in specific item categories, that is a sign you're living in a soon to be ghost town. The damage has been done. And given what I've seen especially with the way Turbine deals with it's customers, I'm not seeing how it could recover to even limp along.
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