Here they go

Crash86

Raist was in beta.  Nice guy, excellent poster, great ideas, a little to strict in his interpretation of the 3.5 ruleset for my taste, but a huge fanboy of this game.

http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32447

You can see for yourselves how well his goodbye is taken.

Scaris

What in the hell did they lock the topic for? That is completely uncalled for, it was a civil thread.

Elnator

People get that kind of rabid when they know a game is in trouble but don't want to admit it.  Every person who leaves increases the chance of the game closing. And they know it... so they get mad.

DDO is not in a healthy state for an MMO this young.  If it had cruised at 100k+ subs for a while it could reasonably expect to coast along forever at 30k subs or whatever and still make a profit.  But this thing is already hemorhaging players and hasn't recouped it's development costs.

They (the folks bashing raist) know it but don't want to admit it.

Drgonzothx

Wow that was a pretty sad display in that post.  Its an entire microcosm of whats wrong with ddo.  Kudos to the guest though, he made some excellent points.

Jd1680a

there are some game forums that dont really care about good bye threads.  they rather not care to see someone saying goodbye.  too me thats kind of sad, since some people are more community minded then others.  living the community is often worth saying good bye.

if turbine does lock the thread is pretty poor on their part.

Rayx0r

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Originally posted by Crash86

Raist was in beta.  Nice guy, excellent poster, great ideas, a little to strict in his interpretation of the 3.5 ruleset for my taste, but a huge fanboy of this game.
http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32447
You can see for yourselves how well his goodbye is taken.

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I remember him in the alpha/closed beta.  I wouldnt have called him a huge fanboy, although he was passionate about the development.  he was often times very critical of the game...and I sat on the same fence as he did.

the fact that so many people responded shows what an effect he had on the community

CaptainRPG

The reason those posters were negative towards him was because his post proved what we and other "bashers" have been saying is true...DDO is losing players and it growing vastly unpopular. And these open-deporter posts are only discouraging new players and friends of that poster from continuing that game.

Kudos to go guy who realized the OP of the topic loved DDO because he wouldn't make a open-deporter post if he didn't. In no way or no how, was the OP making the post to gain attention. He made the post to announce his disappointment in the game and how it was handled terribly by Turbine. Yet, the other posters knew the affect would cause other players to leave too, which is why they treated his post like a joke. They only do this to discourage other players from thinking about leaving. You're label a noob for leaving a mmorpg before it gets it's updated new installments or leave before reaching the end.

majoch

I reall love Guest00912's reply to mr. Scooter ( heheh what a cute name , kind of like Corky, or Tater).

How can yo be having fun when he detracted from it? Or was that just noise coming from your posterior? I find it unimaginable that anyone's in game fun can be ruined by someone's forum post. Therefore I conclude it is the posterior-audial theory at work here.

Kien

That guy's in my guild (OTG). He posted a good-bye on the private guild forums too. OTG used to be THE guild on Gallandra.

Lots of folk from OTG are leaving and posting 'good-bye' messages. To be a member of OTG you have to be something like 25+ years old, so I'd say this is more evidence that Turbine is losing its core of mature players.

Kien

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Originally posted by Jd1680a

there are some game forums that dont really care about good bye threads.  they rather not care to see someone saying goodbye.  too me thats kind of sad, since some people are more community minded then others.  living the community is often worth saying good bye.
if turbine does lock the thread is pretty poor on their part.

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I know from personal experience that Turbine usually deletes good-bye threads, so I'd say locking is an improvement.

Elnator

Turbine locks and/or deletes goodbye threads because they know just as well as anyone else that 1 person leaving will generally cause someone else to leave who knew that person.

It's silly, and it's pointless.  But thats why they do it.  They started the practice back when AC plumetted from 130k players to like 70k players in a couple months time.  And AC2 they just continued the practice. 

No big surprise that they're doing it in DDO too.  Not that it'll save the game.  DDO is a flawed game.  They could probably market it if it were free to play but with a monthly fee it's days are numbered.

Scaris

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Originally posted by Jd1680a
there are some game forums that dont really care about good bye threads.  they rather not care to see someone saying goodbye.  too me thats kind of sad, since some people are more community minded then others.  living the community is often worth saying good bye.
if turbine does lock the thread is pretty poor on their part.

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It was already locked before you posted this...