Bishop wrote on Jul 31
st, 2019 at 3:56am:
Well said. Year after year I'm amused by how posters want to claim the sky is falling, only to return and claim it again after the sky is still there.
Wait and see people, it might be great, SSG must be doing something right because you are all still playing.
Don't forget to wipe your chin when you're done.
Correlation does not imply causation. Some of us play in spite of what SSG changes most of the time, not because of. Personally, I'd be just fine and actually prefer that they leave the reaper mechanics as is. It may not be perfect, but it's workable and I'm okay with it as is. If I weren't, I wouldn't still be playing DDO. Clearly some portion of the other players agree since we've been running high skull reapers for over a year and enjoying the challenge.
One day, SSG will cross some line that we're not willing to continuing playing DDO in spite of, then we won't be playing and they'll still be wondering why they lost a bunch of players.
Sure, they make some good changes and occasionally release some quality content like Ravenloft. But they also do some idiotic shit like this:
- Gutting their customer service levels to the point it's mostly non-existent
- Taking months to restore players who lost everything on their toon due to well known TR bugs that they neglected to fix for years
- The Henshin nerf
- The proposed EiN nerf while allowing all other forms of comparable or better instakills to remain as-is.
- Nerfed evo warlocks into uselessness beyond EE, etc.
The list could go on and on, so yeah, there's a solid history of Turbine/SSG striking out more than they get on base.
It might be great? LOL. Sure, anything is possible but their batting average is shitty and you're bad at evaluating odds.
It might also be bad and odds favor this outcome given the information we already have and their past track record.
In the end though, it doesn't matter because the current SSG leadership has proven time and again is that they love themselves their echo chamber (aka mobo fanboi and paladin club) and will generally ignore any feedback that does not agree with their unimpeachable knowledge of how to play the game, no matter how well the counterpoints are made.
One or two of the devs have even publicly admitted that they put players on a personal ignore list if they don't like their posts. In other words, they have admitted to sticking their head in the sand and ignoring customer feedback that doesn't agree with their preconceived notions of things.