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DDO is great
Jd1680a
Member Posts: 398
too many negatives about this game. it seems all the people who dont like this game are people who are loners and only care about themselves. well this game isnt for you if you plan to solo, after you leave the first area in stormreach, you have to group with someone.
finding a group isnt hard. because everyone needs to group you could expect getting a group with 10 or minutes after you put your lfg flag up.
i play a barbarian and its really fun running around killing monsters with my sword. you could actually control your switch unlike a few other games ive got, that does auto attack for you.
there is no competition for loot. everyone could click on a chest but two or three pieces of loot will be just for you. there is no crafting in ddo, thats fine. most of the times you could get stuff you could actually use. there is no competition for player made items so all the loot you could get from chests are pretty good.
graphics are pretty good. i dont see anything wrong with them. i play alot of games so i dont really see any difference. ok FEAR does have better graphics, but this is a mmo. generally mmo graphics are subpar from single player game graphics.
lag isnt that bad, only in town where its pretty bad for me. in the instances i hardly get any lag. this game does have a pretty high system requirement, so anyone that is at the requirement will be having lag.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
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Not really.In short i am known on this site for my love of grouping.
But ,there need to be options in a mmorpg.Thats where DDO drops the ball.You wait at an inn get a group go to a dungeon and repeat and rinse.
People like options thats why you see ppl talking a lot about crafting,a good landscape to explore,nice wilderness,raids of 20+ people,harvesting ,housing etc.Thats what makes a mmorpg fun having options.
I have a right to criticize with people who have a different view then mine. almost all posts i have seen so far have been only negative to DDO. nobody is listening to this post is because its something that is actually positive and its not what they want to hear because they are looking for something bad about DDO.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
I love DDO, other people hate it, fair enough, to each their own...
The system requirements are not that bad, I play on my underclocked laptop with AMD64 3000+ CPU (underclocked to 800MHz for heat issues), 512mb of RAM and a 64mb NVIDIA Go GFX card. Game works very well on lowest settings, just after an hour the memory is full and the game starts using the windows scratch disc, so I have to restart or deal with long loading times, but in general, it is very playable on this laptop.
DDO is great in terms of covering a single aspect of D&D. DDO does a really good job of replicating the Wednesday Night Four-Six Buddies Gathered around the Ping Pong Table eating Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and doing the Dungeon Crawl once a week aspect of D&D.
However, that was not the only aspect of D&D and DDO managed to miss absolutely every other aspect. Therefore, people who never wanted to do the once a week on Wednesday deal in the first place and every person who loved all the other aspects
Captain John Matin
Royal Red
Exactly, Turbine managed to take a concept of a quest driven game and turn questing into a grind. The game feels VERY imcomplete.
- Scaris
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I have a right to criticize with people who have a different view then mine. almost all posts i have seen so far have been only negative to DDO. nobody is listening to this post is because its something that is actually positive and its not what they want to hear because they are looking for something bad about DDO.
I never said you do not have the right to criticize anyone... But if you start out putting someone down, you can't expect them to listen to what you have to say.
There are good things about DDO that is for sure... But there are also a lot of bad things about DDO. And that seems to be what you do not want to hear.
Say whay you want, as long as you stay withint the rules of this forum...
Please don't tell me that you can use the MMORPG.COM DDO forums as a sort of measurement for that, that would be ridiculous. All the haters are posting here, because they don't have a subscription to the official DDO forums (anymore). If you take a look at the official forum, you will find a majority of the posters loving the game.
Really, now?
The "I'm quitting this game because <insert reason here>" posts are a very odd way of showing it. Although those have seemed to dwindle lately as those folks have actually .. y'know ... quit playing.
Here's a better way to tell how much everyone is loving the game:
http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19540
Since this thread was started on 3/29, you can count on one hand the number of times a server listed had a snapshot if more than 1000 players. And those times were before the first month was over.
I don't have a problem with someone liking the game, Gevrik. However, I do have a problem with people trying to blow sunshine up people's cabooses about how the game is the best thing since sliced bread. It's not.
Really, now?
The "I'm quitting this game because <insert reason here>" posts are a very odd way of showing it.
Maybe it's just me, but of the 50+ posts on the first two pages of the general forum, there isn't one "I quit" post. Not on the US forums, and not on the EU forums. Maybe you're so delusional that you see them everywhere?
Really, now?
The "I'm quitting this game because <insert reason here>" posts are a very odd way of showing it.
Maybe it's just me, but of the 50+ posts on the first two pages of the general forum, there isn't one "I quit" post. Not on the US forums, and not on the EU forums. Maybe you're so delusional that you see them everywhere?
Go to the new "Trial" forum. That's where they are now. The folks who posted these posts last month in the General forum actually quit, so you won't find them there. Go back a few pages to a time when the people who quit had accounts. You'll see what I mean.
And the trial folks won't be buying, so they'll never post in General.
Although those have seemed to dwindle lately as those folks have actually .. y'know ... quit playing.
Here's a better way to tell how much everyone is loving the game:
http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19540
Since this thread was started on 3/29, you can count on one hand the number of times a server listed had a snapshot if more than 1000 players. And those times were before the first month was over.
I don't have a problem with someone liking the game, Gevrik. However, I do have a problem with people trying to blow sunshine up people's cabooses about how the game is the best thing since sliced bread. It's not.
ROFL, General Forum has 4 pages of threads that had activity today! Yeah you're right, the game must have no players left at all! LOOOOOOL
You crack me up.
I don't have a problem with people not liking the game, but I have a problem with people who try to paint everything black, when they really have no idea about what is going on in the real world.
This game is the best MMORPG since M59, that is a fact, at least for me.
Really, now?
The "I'm quitting this game because <insert reason here>" posts are a very odd way of showing it.
Maybe it's just me, but of the 50+ posts on the first two pages of the general forum, there isn't one "I quit" post. Not on the US forums, and not on the EU forums. Maybe you're so delusional that you see them everywhere?
Go to the new "Trial" forum. That's where they are now. The folks who posted these posts last month in the General forum actually quit, so you won't find them there. Go back a few pages to a time when the people who quit had accounts. You'll see what I mean.
And the trial folks won't be buying, so they'll never post in General.
Who in the world cares about trialists who just want to play a free game for 7 days? Where jesus and his children can post if they create a hotmail address. It's the same like here on MMORPG.COM, only the haters post there, while the general forum has 4 pages of activity today from loads of people who love the game, which was my point in this thread. You're mutating it, trying to bend it to something that wasn't said, but not with me, Watson.
You go and check out the general forum, you know, the one with all the subscribers who love the game!
Good amount of people to play with on one server, if you ask me.
Quality players over quantity of players any day for me!
Didn't like WoW, and that has millions of players, again, to each their own, my opinion stands, and you're not gonna change that!
What are you trying to prove here anyway? That you have too much time on your hands, so you post about a game that you don't even like? Hate much? And before you say you want to let people know how bad the game is... one post is enough of that, you don't have to do it in every post that is opened here. Let people have their own opinions, just like you have your opinion.
And I'm posting here at the moment, because my comp is downloading the DV module for the European server, was released today and my internet connection is sucky so it takes a looong time to download it, once it's done patching, I'll be playing again.
Had Turbine done something like what ArenaNet has done with GW where there was no monthly fee but future modules where sold seperate then I would think DDO would be considered a good game - but at $15 a month it is small, shallow, and devoid of most elements that are mainstays in modern MMOs.
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The moderators delete the "I quit" posts when they find them.
When I decided to quit - during the First Great Exodus - I went to the DDO boards to make a post explaining my reasons for quitting. Someone had already started an "I quit" thread, so I tried to attach my post to it. Before I could do so the thread was deleted.
I started my own thread, and within five minutes the post was deleted.
I watched the boards for a while afterwards. "I quit" posts were sprouting up like mushrooms, only to be deleted within a few minutes.
Good amount of people to play with on one server, if you ask me.
Quality players over quantity of players any day for me!
Unfortunately for you, it's quantity that keeps the servers open. Without a quantity of players, a game folds.
I agree with Crash. This is the same viewpoint people had when AC2 was on its way to the MMO graveyard. People who said, "I'm glad we're weeding out all those people who don't want to play." The thing is, your little handful of friends isn't capable of paying the bills for a large corporation who spend millions of invested money and lisencing on this project. Like it or not there was a mass exodus from DDO and the blood keeps spilling out of the wound. This is quite evident when you consider the number of posts on the forum for one. It used to be that you would be licky if your thread was put back 10 pages or more in one day. Now a new post pops up in a much lesser frequency.
And as someone already stated here, the forums are quieter than they have been, as most people have already quit or cancelled their accounts. But there are still numerous people complaining and threatening to leave. Sure, the forums aren't spammed with countless "I quit" posts as they were over the last month and a half, but again, those people already quit. And when you look at the stats posted on the forum for server population, you will see that even before the exodus the servers rarely exceeded 1000 players at peak times. And many of them were barely 200 or less during off-peak. Split that amongst different levels and you're sickly thin for players. And that again was a month ago... Try checking that now.
The elitist asses over at DDO and here on the forums need to realize the game wasn't built for a small group of people to tinker around in. You can't just say "screw you, good riddance" to everyone with a problem over the game. The game NEEDS players to survive! But if you want to stay on the sunking ship that is DDO, and follow it's captain (Turbine) into yet another iceberg (as the one of AC2), then by all means drown in the frigid waters... As for me, I jumped ship with the smarter folk and have never looked back. My only hope is to keep people from getting on board only to die horrible deaths and the hands of a mad captain.
...And so ends my metaphoric craziness...
I have a right to criticize with people who have a different view then mine. almost all posts i have seen so far have been only negative to DDO. nobody is listening to this post is because its something that is actually positive and its not what they want to hear because they are looking for something bad about DDO.
No. No one's listening dip wad because you belittled ANY ONE who doesnt like the game. So anyone who doesnt like the game in your opinion is a loser. Wow great way to get people to listen to your point of view.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
Uhm when you said this smart boy....
[quote] it seems all the people who dont like this game are people who are loners and only care about themselves. [/quote]
Uhm when you said this smart boy....
[quote] it seems all the people who dont like this game are people who are loners and only care about themselves. [/quote]
loners are people who only like to solo and dont really care for grouping. i have seen them in mmog, and they arent that great of people to play with.
still i never called anyone a loser.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
Oh so much hate on here, padawans, the emperor would be proud of you all!