General Discussion

My main question is, once again directed at the MMORPG "employee". Why the weak-sauce questions? These are all questioned that have been mulled over in other interviews to death. I suppose some of the more difficult questions have been as well, but at least you can stick it to the DDO team again.

I am deeply depressed about the way these sorts of things are handled these days. Why not ask about why they can't commit to completing the "Core" races(since they have been saying they intend to include as much Core content and rules as possible)? Or How long they PLAN(I know some of this is fluid in developement terms.. but still) until I can access content over 10th level? And, why can't they commit to having the "Core" levels (aka 1-20) available as free content instead of a paid expansion(they haven't said they are going to make it an expansion, but they have refused to say they wouldn't either). See, tough questions, some have been answered, some not.

Okay, my rant is done. Sorry.. just felt like I had to vent that.

Glad for any info out there regardless.

Cheers!

only question I need answered are the female toons going to be wearing revealing outfits?

it was a good interview, maybe mmo could have digged a little deeper. I dunno but all good. I'm looking forward to the game. Even without ever having an mmo D&D still has a grand daddy of mmorpg's feel to it.

I am just getting more and more excited about this game. I'm sure it will be everything I hope it is. I can't wait to own it.

I do have a question though. Since the setting will be Eberron, how will they incorporate the "Dragonmarks" into gameplay? Will our characters be able to have them or just NPC's?

I was hyped at this game when it was announced.. then slowly unhyped when i read turbine was choosen.. and the unhype continues with theese interviews.

Nerf core lvls, nerf Core rules, nerf races, nerf classes, nerf everything to a point this will be just another Asherons Calls wearing a diferent suit. Its not only turbine's fault. Wizards of the Coast too and whoever is trying to make some fast bucks with D&D license.

This game is becoming a joke. Sad but true.

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Originally posted by EduardoASG
I was hyped at this game when it was announced.. then slowly unhyped when i read turbine was choosen.. and the unhype continues with theese interviews.
Nerf core lvls, nerf Core rules, nerf races, nerf classes, nerf everything to a point this will be just another Asherons Calls wearing a diferent suit. Its not only turbine's fault. Wizards of the Coast too and whoever is trying to make some fast bucks with D&D license.
This game is becoming a joke. Sad but true.

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Strange I was very excited when I read the stuff from GenCon...and you didn't REALISTICALLY expect EVERYTHING to be in at launch did you? If you put all the stuff in at the beginngin, then all that's left to do for an expansion is either make up stuff, or rehash the old stuff back into a new mix...whee fun...

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Originally posted by hyperionjr
I am just getting more and more excited about this game. I'm sure it will be everything I hope it is. I can't wait to own it.

I do have a question though. Since the setting will be Eberron, how will they incorporate the "Dragonmarks" into gameplay? Will our characters be able to have them or just NPC's?

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Dragonmarks are in for PCs from what I have read...of course the Heir of Syberis PrC might be tough to get if they don't put the "action point" feats in...which is too bad, since I like the heir better as it is...

And hopefully they will have some aberrant marks in as well...

I have to agree with the complaints about the weak questions. This doesn't really appear to be a Q&A in any shape or form, but rather a thinly veiled opportunity for Turbine to plug their game unchallenged. I do understand that perhaps you need to tone it down a bit in order to maintain "corporate relations", but if you can't ask the questions you want to ask, then what is the point of having this feature at all?

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Originally posted by Nai`Neas

Strange I was very excited when I read the stuff from GenCon...and you didn't REALISTICALLY expect EVERYTHING to be in at launch did you? If you put all the stuff in at the beginngin, then all that's left to do for an expansion is either make up stuff, or rehash the old stuff back into a new mix...whee fun...

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You need to break the logic of buying a game, and then paying for expansion 1 then for expansion 2 and so on.. its a nonsence because you not really buying a game, you are buying a improved Beta Version of the game, and then paying for the following development of the game. So in fact the final game will cost you much much more + monthly fees.

Now you can tell me.. well if this is not made, companies wont make profit, so they wont develope this cool game. This isnt true. When you buying a Ford F150 you not getting the truck without weels nor engine, or the truck with weeels but  with a 60hp engine waiting for the development of the next engine version. This works in the rest of the market economy. In fact the only place where you see people paying for the development of a product like this its in game industry from people that want to make fast cash without really working for it.

They can develope expansions with content, improved graphics, more sounds , more monsters, new quests, new adventures, etc etc.. and free. For christ sakes youll be already paying monthly for their game, make them do their work instead of exploiting people. Do you know how much $ a gaming companie makes per month only from players monhly income? Make them stop beeing gready and work for what they receiving.

The reason they not launching the game as they should, its rather simple. They DONT know how to,  they DONT want to loose time in the game more than necessary to sell something and get  fast $. Simple as that. After lvl 10 several chars get some really awesome features in D&D and those would require lots of work and coding wich Turbine is not ready for. Plus you have all thos special quests... more work. Plus races would require much more work, rendering etc etc.. geez so much work. Plus all those nice skills will require a much more complex database structure that really doesnt fit since they want to use what they already have premade. And then you get to play in Eberron, since Wizards of the Coast wants to sell it and noeone wants to buy it lol.

I have played P2p and beta test most of the games on market today and even some that went down for several reasons. The ones i still play and wont tell names, are the ones that still provide content expansions freely.. and i even play one of those for almost 3 years now, together with a player database that is still increasing and now reached 150k accounts. Guess why...