Grand wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 5:49pm:


 

Lhynn wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 5:43pm:


80% of ddo player are girls its practically a dress up simulator with optional experience points at this point

it allows fat girls to look like hourglasses AND talk about it in large groups of people- something they would otherwise never be able to do.

theyre really girls.

Lhynn wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 3:27pm:


instead of working- they never intended to take care of the kids. thats what school and tv are for

Megatron!

I was still happy with the quests, just pissed at the fucking bugs topped with the lag.  A few items I was working toward I found out was broken because an effect was still fucking with boss aggro. 

I also wasn't happy when I found out pots broke my cleric's spell power, I was a haste pot addict and every time I drank one, if I didn't reset my gear, I lost healing power.  Found out when I was running Inferno for the 'ith time.  I was wondering why my TR in cleric wasn't very effective when I had all best twink and greensteal for the level and class and she barely touched the stuff in Necro.  After someone said something about pots and bug, I tested and sure enough, that is why I wasn't just steamrolling that area like I should have been able.  This is around when they changed things over to spell power and tried to fix the pots that gave spell power and in typical Tard-bine fasion, they fucked things up all over. 

I went over to my rogue at that point and found out improved deception was grabbing aggro of bosses, got the conjoined abashie (can't remember that raid.)  I wanted that ring from the houses(can't remember that house,) but if I wore that ring, I'd still have to take it off in raids and it just wasn't worth working toward or any rogue item that had that effect because I'd still have to carry a separate set of gear for raids and I just didn't want to do that.

So, I went over to my wiz, didn't have to drink pots since I had haste, and occasionally raided with my cleric but got fed up dealing with the counter when using light and heal spells to get the nuke from reaching 10.  Not sure if it ever got fixed but if you waited too long before casting a light spell, the counter wouldn't go up and if you had less than 5, you couldn't flush it and had to wait for that thing to go down and I just got sick of it.

I quit.  I'm not interested in dealing with that level of fuck-upitry anymore.  I did have an itch to check things out last year some time, then I read about the bugs and came to my senses.

Grand wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2016 at 8:44pm:

Sounds a lot like my last couple months. Took me a while to realize I was logging in out of a weird sense of obligation.

After my main hit completionist, I found I had to "make my own fun" in DDO.

Most of which was in TRing alts and experimenting with flavour builds.

My guildee went and started an new guild on another server just for a change of pace and to not group with the same people over and over again.

Since there's no end game to speak of, once you have all the good toys and ship amenities, there's not much to work towards.

It's tough to avoid ennui at his point unless the newly minted Standing Stone Games can start producing a high(er) volume of content.

Asheras wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2017 at 9:04am:



This^

My problem is that I also dislike running sub-par toons (ego) so some times I play just to get gear and mats even though it's not fun and this can make me lose perspective. The irony be that if someone came back in the last year all the gear they pulled would catch them up, past lives etc.. is another story of course.

I'm glad I took a break though, I played a ton of Mechwarrior online and Overwatch and had a blast, I sucked and I still had a BLAST.  The holiday rewards/freebies that MWO gave out were amazing, so much stuff. I got the equivalent of a months VIP, and about $35 worth of purchasable rewards and piles of unique and in-game exclusive stuff without spending a dime on the game.

Turbine/SSG could learn a lesson from PGI,  for starters you got 1 week of VIP time for free, and then had the opportunity to pull a random item 150 times! 25 for each match mode. Like festival cookies gave out stuff that was actually decent.

I love DDO, but I may try to make this as long of a break as I can so I can avoid permanent burnout.    

Good post.

I'd liked to add that Turbine was aware of this and was actively trying to mitigate the impact in several ways.

1) The huge powercreep in the gear dropped in those few quests and the grindable and craftable options they put out to make the players so happy with new shiny stuff so as to distract from the lack of new content.

2) Rehashing those old raids with juice to keep the hard-core players happy in the absence of new content. The sheer laziness of the Tempest and HoX rehash was pretty breath taking.

My developing opinion after watching all this unfold for the last year is that the relative success they have had in quieting the complaints with those two tactics has quite likely been fueling the renewed drive for Reaper. I'd even go as far to say that SSG with it's much smaller team and resources is going to be counting on being able to rehash old content with Reaper to distract the player base and pay the bills.

Grand wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2017 at 9:32am:


I gotta say, I can't see a downside to this.  It sounds like a good idea to me.  Why not hand out a free 1 week VIP to each new account?  As long as the game time only applies to new accounts, is someone going to keep creating a new account every week and startiing over for free ViP?  I'm not sure there is an exploit there.  Maybe in multi-boxing content for loot pulls?  I dunno. 

Or, what about between Dec 24th and January 2nd (or whenever) everyone is ViP for a week.  Would that be a problem?  Seems like a great way to get new and returning players to spend time in game. 

Anyways, they should definitely think outside the box a bit.

Asheras wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2017 at 2:07pm:


They would have to refigure how the game flags you as free vs premium...and that sounds like work.