Mostly, you get called a sock when you suck up to another acct that is spouting crap.

I've been called worser things.

Snu Snu wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 10:18am:




Technomage wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 12:10pm:

Kylo covered it.


5 Foot Step wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 1:46pm:

Tranquil isn't me.  this is the sole ID i have ever used on these forums.  i thought it was implicit, but i will make it explicit...  i do not work for Turbine, SSG, or any company related to these entities, nor have i ever.  the closest to sharing information with someone on the inside boils down to my interactions with Alywen over at the tamer LOTRO version of DDO's Vault.

was nice when... i think it was yobai? consolidated the key info here in another thread.

i also do not pretend to work inside the bubble, which if i am honest...  Tranquil has an element of.  could just be in the reading, but i am not entirely convinced.  i think some of you may have granted full credentials prematurely.


Bishop wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 2:19pm:

for a non-faggot, you do seem to expect a lot of hand-holding...  not a service i will provide, however.  get used to the confusion.  at least that part will be familiar.


hyplo wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 3:16pm:

interesting information...


hyplo wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 3:16pm:

Mordor indeed did not have near the drawing power of any previous expansion.  Helms Deep was the one that caused the HUGE loss with regard to players.

what is a real mystery, is how well Lotros "fire sale" did compared to DDO's, which we know sold 1000 units @ $299.99 USD (plus the opened it up again i heard... ?)  Lotros had no target, just a time window of availability.  Daybreak canned Octothorpe mid point of that.

LOTROS playerbase attrition has been very minor the past 3 years. what they actually spend however...  my anecdotal evidence is based off in-game players & there are some spenders.  just how big, i could not say.  it would be interesting to hear your source for numbers if you have one.

if it were not for all the public info so far about Amazon Prime developing products to compete with Netflix; i would say that Althion game is one huge troll...  there is sufficient evidence production of the series is in development for a pre-Lotro series that follows a Young Aragorn.

whether they attempt as much tits & ass as Game of Thrones, or go a more tame teen friendly route like a Shannara Chronicles...  i do not hold out much hope for either.

the MMO game from Althion?  so far not even concept art exists.  but if production is happening to launch in tandem with the series, i believe that target date is:
THE YEAR 2021...(hopefully)
while the current Lotro game could reduce servers and survive well past that date...  i do not have any confidence there is an actual plan too. 

hyplo wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 3:16pm:

EVC wrote on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 3:51am:


Tranquil was Grand.

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EVC wrote on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 11:37pm:

That doesn't even begin to do the guy justice. He is the best socker I have ever seen in my life. He was Russian bots before Russians were troll farming. His spiritual energy was such that even after he choned his accounts he could still return and post on them. He will go down in the annals of the Vault as a living meme.

EVC wrote on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 11:37pm:

I think there might have been some new textures for DDO when the Ravenloft expansion released last year. Though the past 4 years at DDO have all been copy pasted parts of other quests thrown into every new quest and raid. They even did the same with monsters ( such a ghetto company when you think about it ). Sev also gave an interview about Sharn expansion outside of a Denny's at 2 in the morning. Low budget doesn't even describe it. It's just pure ghetto.

EVC wrote on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 11:37pm:


So is Gregor!

I think I read somewhere that Sev is off in Florence with some chick named Wanda, but don't quote me on that, I am tired.  I am weary.

EVC wrote on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 3:51am:



Cannot resist.

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 17^th, 2019 at 2:43am:

i see.  that sheds new light (info) on this thread:
http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1438759474/11
perhaps not so much granting full credentials as going along for the ride...   

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 17^th, 2019 at 2:43am:

not that surprising really.

last area added to Lotro was Grey Mountains & Iron Hills.  copy pasta the Dwarven assets from Mines of Moria (11/18/08) change some color palettes & copy pasta resized Smaug bones everywhere.  & they gave the Dwarves abandoned or stolen weapons of the Easterlings (in game for years now.)  most of the new assets made by the artists are maybe 10% - 20%... rest is repurposed from previous older content.

in spite of all that they managed to do a good job of Laketown... *shrug*


Starkjade wrote on Feb 17^th, 2019 at 10:08am:

too late.  i quoted you.  for all it would matter, Severlin might as well be somewhere else.

BTW, does everyone here notice when they mention the producers letter, they avoid mentioning Severlin...  at all.

it is said the Devil is in the details, or missing details in this case.


hyplo wrote on Feb 17^th, 2019 at 11:59pm:

Dan Oullette AKA: Fantus (Lotro) --->  IC_Fantus (Infinite Crisis until Nov. 2014) ---> (in between) ---> 3 other jobs Aug. 2015 - Feb. 2018. ---> rehired by SSG Feb 2018.

(DDO) FANTS wasn't pulled off Lotro.  but it does appear he has been working for SSG.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-ouellette-380b483/

it also does seem they picked up a handful of employees back in first quarter 2018.  most were former Turbine who got the boot when Warner shuttered Turbines first mobile game, "Batman: Arkham Underworld" at the end of 2017

SSG Red Panda came from that...  https://twitter.com/OrangePeelPanda

if everything i have been looking at recently is up to date; Standing Stone games has at best 40 employees, but after December 2018 & the cuts Daybreak made i think it may be closer to the lower end of 20.

i have confirmed more than Octothorpe was let go anyway.

with regard to Severlin, no confirmation.  just seems 50/50 odds one way or the other.

Cordo said in one of his lifestreams not that long ago, maybe January, that SSG has around 100 employees.
I know he can tell somebody anything but I am inclined to believe him on this. I am pretty sure LotR gets more of the cut than DDO but still.
So you are basing this whole discussion on assumptions. Fruitless, imo.

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He said "definitely less than 100 employees."

My understanding is that there are 20-50 people with a handful of other support mooks from daybreak. I could be wrong.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 18^th, 2019 at 3:32pm:

yeah permanent full time Vs. temporary internships, or 3rd party support through vendors & or Daybreak support is a fuzzy number.

but since my last info dig, i was surprised at the new hires in the 1st quarter of 2018. with the exception of Red Panda, whose name i recognized from the Batman: Arkham Underworld forums, i sort of assumed they were just pushing more employees to post.

they likely did push past 40 full time permanent last year, but with the December cuts, pretty sure it is below that, for regulars anyway.

Asheras wrote on Feb 18^th, 2019 at 5:15pm:

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So we still have no idea whether SSG would do it or not.