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Lepidus 6/14/06 3:14:29 PM
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Garrett Fuller chats with the folks at Turbine Entertainment about solo content in Dungeons & Dragons Online. This week, they added this new experience to the early part of the game in a much-publicized update.
You can read more here. |
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Xenduli 6/14/06 6:07:13 PM
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It must be really frustrating for Turbine and D&D fans, I mean how can anyone say that World of Warcraft isn't having an influence on other games. Not just in terms of subscriber figures, but what players are demanding now. I think that Turbine have already produced a game that just isn't instantly recognised as a D&D game, they are stepping further away by adding PvP. I'm equally surprised about the lack of comments this news item has received. |
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Anofalye 6/14/06 7:13:39 PM
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The enemy is so dumb! They believe that WE are the enemy! - A famous orc commander. |
PvP? I am happy to not have been holding to the game. I know if I would be staff, they would have to fire me before putting any PvP in a franchise like D&D. Solo content respect the D&D computer games legacy and the fact some peoples play solo stuff with the books. |
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Umbrood 6/15/06 5:34:14 AM
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The lack of comments on this clearly shows the state of the game, hardly anyone cares anymore. It all sounds like nice features even the PvP if done rigth, ie. arena combat, wich totally fits in DnD. But you never get a second chance to a first impression, even if they could add all that rigth now I still do not think they will ever be able to make this game the success a DnD MMO deserves to be. If I could I would drag turbine to Haag on charges of crimes against humanity, at the very least crimes against our cultural heritage. |
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| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts. |
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Drkreaper 6/15/06 9:50:49 AM
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I am still playing ddo but only with a Sunday static group of guild members ..with the solo option will be messing around with different builds . ddo had such promise but turbine messed up ..all the things they are doing now should have been included in the original release .... why they didnt put in crafting ...is totally beyond me in pnp we were always going to armor smiths & sutch they make a group oriented game with no guild halls & a bad UI I am hoping that ddo will at least work its way into being a quality nitch game like eve ..which I play currently. I know this turbines failure with DDO doesn`t bode well for LoR online..... players are getting burnt with the unfinished money grab that so many game Dev seem to be doing |
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Shoal 6/15/06 10:57:01 AM
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ROFLMAO! Gee, how can they make DDO something other than the complete failure that it is? "Well, let's make DDO more like WoW!!! What a great idea! Why did we not think of that before!" Like, before you released this smoke'n load that is DDO? What a waste this game is. They will attract no new players with this; the word is already out on DDO. They will turn off all their current rabid FanBoi players who do not want Solo, Crafts, PvP, or any of the other stuff that DDO stated was 'beneath' it when it was released. Quite frankly, this looks like a complete 180 degree reversal of the DDO philosophy and a capitualtion to the Facts of Life as taught by Blizzard. Can you all say 'SWG' and 'CU' and 'NGE'? Somebody shovel some dirt onto this pile of Cat Poop and be done with it. |
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Banjoko 6/15/06 12:55:56 PM
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"All hail, King of the losers!" |
Whoa, let's not compare it to SWG yet. IN SWG they changed the core gameplay and removed it completely, in this they're just adding new features, not removing that core of the game. So fanboys will still be able to raid dungeons in groups as the main focus of gameplay, they don't have to do any of the other stuff in there. I don't play DDO, but reading this made me a little interested, I'm gonna go check out their forums and see what players of the game think about it. |
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Adela 6/15/06 1:25:00 PM
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I have to agree with the post above mine. The addition of solo content has me sufficiently interested in this game that I might try the 7 day demo this weekend.
Frankly, i don't see how including mainstream game features is going to detract from the core group-centric gameplay already featured. |
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reavo 6/15/06 2:34:42 PM
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Loquendum Ut Vulgus, Sentiendum Ut Sapientes |
If the WoW effect has you frustrated now, just wait. I don't think it's going to get any better. Now investors are going to wonder why games aren't reaching the WoW level of subscribers. And so it's just going to be one game after another trying to compete with those numbers. Instead of trying to make good new games the marketing is going to be the biggest priority. I feel my hobby just taken turn for the worse. And it sucks too, because the only thing left to do is go retro. There's nothing fun to look forward to anymore. But even the older games are changing now in ways that are looking more and more World of Warcraft-y. I feel like a relic from an empire of fun and innovation. |
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nakuma 6/15/06 10:57:52 PM
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But PvP? They would really have only 1 option to implement PvP in a D&D franchise I would work on, it would be to fire me. PvP will bring many NEW issues that have nothing to do with D&D and everything to do with PvP, which are all killing motivations for any PvE achiever. No, I would never have been able to accept such thing. I am happy to see that the Turbines staff is a lot more flexible than I am on this issue. They will need this flexibility.