Turbine/SSG has a long history of shooting itself in the foot, because the leadership and to some extent the development team in general doesn't understand the requests or desires of the player base.   

My favorite was Green Steel.   One of the most liked systems introduced to the game.   Player's complained that farming specific ingredients sucked (Shard of Power - Chipmunk Funk).   To be filed under "be careful what you wish for" the improvement was Dragontouched Armor.   I still remember sitting completely dumbstruck when a Developer was explaining that one to me and how it was "mandated" by a Senior Producer who knew exactly how the player base wanted to improve Green Steel.   Green Steel and Dragontouched is the same system at different points - the original design of Dragontouched was more in line with Green Steel but "simplified" as the module got closer to release by replacing farming of ingredients with farming random shards that we had no idea what they were until putting them on the armor.   Rune of Ooze Guard for the WIN!   Yeah that was a great change.   
Even when they understood they had fucked up the system yeah think they'd fix it?   Nah, let the player base be unhappy for three years and then when Dragontouched is almost a completely irrelevant system make some changes, as fixing it would be acknowledging they screwed up in the first place. 

As for the current staffing at SSG here is my question for you.    SSG parted ways with the lead developer of LOTRO, art department, a LOTRO World Builder, and from this thread a couple of other bodies in December.   Why has Daybreak Games advertised / searched for a Lead Developer, new 3d Artists, and a Content Designer for their studio in Needham MA in the past month if laying those people off were simply a cost cutting move?
I mean why hire a HR Coordinator and why hire multiple Customer Service Representative or Game Masters in Needham as well?

EVC wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 12:06pm:


That's 3.  Not five.  You can't count.  Next.

hyplo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 12:27pm:


Reduction in head count by layoff can often lead to voluntary exits by people in roles that were desired to be retained.  That can lead to a job search shortly after layoffs.   Or even recalling a laid off employee, depending on the skill sets and the roles.  Hard to say really when all someone is doing is internet stalking twitter and linkedin, like EVC.   

Asheras wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:28pm:

EVC wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 3:03am:

deal with it. 


hyplo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:30pm:

yeah have been trying to get a cached version, but no luck so far.

hyplo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:30pm:

another umbrella holding company to the rescue...  lets hope all that Columbus Nova/Renova money is cleaned off the books.  as long as there is no audit, i am sure everything will be fine.  regardless, all these shifts help with the bookkeeping.

EVC wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 12:06pm:

Me neither! Thanks. Some people worked in a place!

... Aaaand it's gone.

No big deal though. I'm sure you'll keep paying attention so we don't have to.

https://steamcharts.com/app/206480#All

Asheras wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2019 at 12:17pm:

I hope ddo get the 64 bit client update too :S

Asheras wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2019 at 12:17pm:

Golly.

lol.  You guys take all kinds of “they mention the producers letter without mentioning sev” and “he hasn’t posted since oct 15th” as clear signs and anyone disagreeing is an obtuse fan boy but then his sign off is on the letter and you have to defend your position with they laid him off but they are pretending he is still here by signing the letter with Sev.  (Which is different than your boss having access to an exiting employees login and email to resolve incoming matters.  Your boss doesn’t pretend to be the excited employee.   He/she responds to the third party with “X is no longer with us but I’m handling matters.  Here is my contact info”.   Whatever.   Some of you have crossed the rubicon of common sense. 

Asheras wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2019 at 9:35pm:

The Rubicon, the Euphrates, the Indus, the Volga, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi...I could go on and on.

Why so obsessed? It's dumb. You are dumb. Yes, you.

Why is there an obsession about producers letter? WTF Why are you fucktards obsessing. ? WHY? What is the obsessi

platfarmchink wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2019 at 6:28am:

no obsession here.

when checking both LoTRO & DDO news and see there is a parallel , then checked to see when Sev last popped up on either forum...  quite a while for both.  again, parallel.  recalled Octothorpe from December & at the time, while many wondered if that was it...  everyone left it alone out of courtesy.

second week of February rolls around and i am like...   

after seeing who else left in December, i thought there was a 50/50 chance that may also include Severlin.  time to:

anyway Lotro letter came out Friday & anyone that got the chance to read it see a cause for the lengthy delay?

on other forums it was suggested the may have had it held up in legal so as to not expose themselves to litigation...  though most of the current virtual goods and gaming lawsuits are in the EU & most again are to do with lootboxes...  unless you are Google or Microsoft.  then it is all anti trust stuff.  i see neither in that 2019 letter.  & this should have also been a requirement in the past, so...



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such is the state of the vision @SSG.

SAD.

Skoodge wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2019 at 4:02pm:

at least you have 2 choices currently.  DDO &:
https://steamcharts.com/app/109600#All
the above is kicking both Lotro & DDO combined for player activity.

no clue if it is good, bad, or average game...  but clearly the market has spoken.

maybe in the near future, if Amazon Prime follows through, there will be a second option for Lotro as well.  likely 2 or 3 years away yet though.