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goldrush76
Member Posts: 12
No matter what I search for, I can't find an official website for this game.
I know it's in development, and still in alpha? I think...... but either way...
all I can find is a tiny page on the developer's site (Turbine) .....
Has anyone found an official site for this game?
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I looked around too. I don't think one has been launched yet.
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there isnt one yet i dont think so anyway you could always try looking through gamespy reviews and previews or googleing more focused searches
Xander
Xander
More info for you.
GameSpy preview
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/dungeons-dragons-online/536083p1.html
A Fansite forum for D&D Online
http://www.dndonlinegames.com/
Gamespot.com Preview
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/ddonline/preview_6073791.html
Game Informer (1up.com) Preview and latest update (8/16).
http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3134031
There's lots of info out there. The game will be out next year, hopefully.
Xander
Xander
Xander
Xander
Xander, I have seen most of that information, and thank you , i am quite proficient with google.com as well... I noted that I had already seen the blurb on the Turbine site, but as all of you have seen, there is no actual official site out there.... yah there is various information and reviews posted around, but no official site.
I have read quite a bit about this game already only because i play magic online,and there handlers WIZARDS OF THE COAST are in a joint effort to make this game happen.I can tell you through my involvement with Wizards,that they are the worst organization i have ever run into in gaming.I will not even give D&D a chance,just because WOTC are involved with this.No matter how many bugs an screwups the alpha/beta tests will have,they will still release the game in a brutal form,only because they will want to get it into the marketplace to make sales.,and rely on the D&D name to sell itself ,not the product.
I would bet my bottom dollar,that they will also try to run the game on a brutal server that wont handle the load.If past holds true ,they will also use only one server without a true backup,as they are a bunch of dummies.Having a localized server in one state,will be fine for a few ,but will cause lag/and lousy gameplay for most others.I'm also betting ,they will try to make this game one of the most expensive to play.
Turbine i believe took over from microsoft Asherons Call,good for them,but i hope this isnt a case of micro wanting out,and paying turbine to handle it so they can wash there hands clean.Turbine will handle this game as well as D&D when it comes out?Wonder how they will devote time to both?
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I have to agree that WotC is the worst group I ever see if I judge by the taint they leave on the outside product they corrupt.
However. Magic the Gathering is nice and a success.
If they can learn to stay out when needed and let the others do what need to be done instead of enforcing their ways and ultimately wasting the product, D&D online MAY be very great! They may also enforce some stuffs and make it very nice, but they need to remain completely detached and away from Magic the Gathering, if they are not, they will do emotional choices related to a game card that have nothing to do with the current product and this will waste everything.
If D&D online is a success, I doubt WotC is matured enought to be the major player in the development, yet, I may be wrong, they may have learn from the past.
Magic is a success. Not everything remotely close to Magic will therefor be a success, and they seem to have a problem understanding that. Most of the stuff close to Tolkien ideas with elfs and the like are failures, and the best success often betray many ideas that Tolkien have!
- "Coercing? No no, I assure you, they are willing to bring my bags and pay public transportation just to help me, it is true!''
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Thanks for chiming in there Wizardry. I would have to whole heardedly agree about WOTC... They are a group of morons. I used to play Magic for a LONG time, and while the game was an overall success, they still didn't exercise much intelligence throughout it's development. LOL. And just knowing their reputation overall does not put good light on the future of D&D online, that is certain....
And so that definately turns my attention to what may come from Neverwinter Nights 2... tho, that isn't due out till 2006 :-/
Has anyone on this topic got reasonable experiecne with the current NWN to reccommend the game without feeling guilty ? lol. I do LOVE D&D , but I originally shy'd away from NWN when it came out because I felt it was a poor implementation of 3rd Ed. when the game was released.
Ultimately I will be playing EQ2 on release, but I definately miss my days of D&D on paper, around a table, but I just don't have time for that anymore (at least for now), and I would love to find a small part of that in Neverwinter Nights (1 or 2) , and well, it would seem that it may not be wise to bank on D&D online.. lol... even if the video does look cool... that doesn't mean jack.
If WOTC isn't enough to hate it.
Turbine are the one that as well are working on MEO (Hrm...They seem to be into big name franchises.) And look what they are doing to that universe. Utter insanity. Tolkien is rolling in his grave.
No telling what they'll do to the D&D universe. And that took its inspiration from Tolkien as well.
It's a shame, they made AC1, Imo the best MMRPG to date. They fired all the original devs. And then made AC2, and are now going to destroy everything else it touches.
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