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Boreing as hell,plain and simple.Ask your self,would you pay for a game then be billed on a monthly basis when all you can do is play with 6 other ppl at a time doing the same things at max lvl over and over again?When people say a game dosent have to compete against another because there so different im dumb founded.Of course it has too your not gonna buy a geo metro that might burst into flames when you can get a ferrari at the same price.

Yes EVERY mmo gets repetive at one point when you run out of content but this thing runs out of content and fun way to fast.If this were 2001-2002 this game might have a chance.We live in the days of blizzard and the 500 million dollar mmo that has added a very good amount of content "no i dont have a wow account anymore"since its launch and a expansion on the horizon.

i like turbine alot and dont regret buying ac2 and playing it a solid 6 months but if this thing launces as is it will bomb just as hard as matirix online.

I am actually kind of disapointed with this interview.  The quesitons asked seemed familiar and so did the responses.  I would have liked to have heard some new information.  All in all the interview and report seems half assed.

- Phaedros

"I asked Ken Troop why, with the similarities in the instancing mechanics between the two, Dungeons and Dragons Online would be charging a monthly fee, while Guild Wars does not. After a moment, this was his reply: “We have a commitment to episodic content and features."

I think Guild Wars adds content and new areas occasionally too. Time will tell if DDO stands out enough to pull players in, that is besides some pnp players, to pay that monthly fee.

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Originally posted by Brynn

"I asked Ken Troop why, with the similarities in the instancing mechanics between the two, Dungeons and Dragons Online would be charging a monthly fee, while Guild Wars does not. After a moment, this was his reply: “We have a commitment to episodic content and features."
I think Guild Wars adds content and new areas occasionally too. Time will tell if DDO stands out enough to pull players in, that is besides some pnp players, to pay that monthly fee.

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It is the same thing NC soft is saying about Guild Wars.

As somebody posted before. Everytime somebody writes about this game, i get more dissapointed.

Only 10 levels
Some classes not implemented
No evil alignment
Instancing only

Now they are hinting that players would be able to DM and create content!

Hey Turbine there is NWN 2 comming out !!! Dont you know that !!

All I am saying is that DDO would have to be pretty much miraculous to offset all this bad qualities

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Originally posted by ciid

Ask your self,would you pay for a game then be billed on a monthly basis when all you can do is play with 6 other ppl at a time doing the same things at max lvl over and over again?

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If you play online games, you are probably doing that already... I for one consider 12€ a month for one online game better than 60€ a week for single player games, and playing with 6 people at a time is a lot better than playing alone, which is what you mostly do in other "online" games like GW. So yes, I most certainly would.

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Originally posted by Rattrap

Hey Turbine there is NWN 2 comming out !!! Dont you know that !!

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Does it allow players to actually upload the new content they have created to official game servers, or is it like NWN 1 where you had to download the modules and just run them on your own machine? Because if it's the latter, it doesn't make any real difference whatsoever. I want to be able to meet people while playing, not to mention the difficulty of actually setting up and running your own game server... argh...

Other than that, I always hated NWN 1 as a game... ugly RTS graphics, laggy as hell, bad controls, no story... it was just boring monster bashing and Dungeon Siege did even that so much better...

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Originally posted by Rattrap 

As somebody posted before. Everytime somebody writes about this game, i get more dissapointed.

Only 10 levels
Some classes not implemented
No evil alignment
Instancing only

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Seems to me that everytime I see someone post outside of the offical boards about DDO they miss the point. It's not trying to be like every other MMO out there and I for one am glad to see that DDO isn't another WoW clone.

- Only 10 levels. DDO does not have only 10 stages of advancement. It has many smaller stages of advancement within each level that let you gain more skills and work on the character stats that you created at the start of the game. Now I don't have to buy a set of full plate mail to get a stupid + to my Agi that makes no sense. The full levels are the landmark advancemeant stages.

- Missing classes. They won't be there from the start no, but all the basic ones are in there and when I read about the work being done for the basic classes I can't wait. At last I can play a rogue that is a vital member of the group, disarming deadly traps (not just traps that puff smoke at you when you open a chest), hiding in shadows ready to support the group I am with.

- No evil alignment. That is a fair point, but it could make it harder for people to form groups and not all players are hardcore roleplayers like me and they don't always care about stuff like this.

- Instancing only. This is the whole point as to why DDO is going to stand out over the WoW clones! Have you read some of the things they are doing with the quests? It's nothing like GW, it will have scripted attacks on your party while you travel by boat to your quest, attacks from bandits on the road etc etc. They are also aiming for better mob AI, say you're trying to steal a item from a group of trolls resting by a fire. If the trolls know you're coming they will be on the look out for you, keeping an eye open and moving around maybe even looking and searching for you. If they don't know you're coming they will be resting by the fire, maybe talking or sleeping with no idea that you're there. Mobs won't just be "linked" anymore, they will come and aid each other if they see or hear something out of the norm. You can shoot arrows into walls to make them head off looking for the noise. In dungeons groups will split up to cover different tasks to aid the group and find each other on the way though the dungeon to join back up again. As for only playing with 6 people most people end up doing that in MMOs anyway and at least this time I'll be in a instance away from "lolz ar u a rollplayaz?" and waiting for a mob to spawn.

Will it be perfect? I doubt it, but I'm so happy that at least a few people are trying to be something other than a WoW clone and then missing the point as to way WoW was such a hit in the first place