sure. I'm evil. and a bad DM... oh.. and the Devil as well.

Now, sorry, i have more players to corrupt and worlds to dominate <insert satanic laughter here>. Oh, let's not forget the players that i abuse every day. Ah yes, i love their screams for mercy in the morning... mmmmmmmhh.

Attention:

DDO will be supporting PvP in October

That is all....

Yes, you suck as a DM.. Its not evil, not the devil or anything. heck, they at least have some pride. You are just sad. But I am sure the other 11 year olds think yer great, so its not a problem for you. Just.. To cheat in an RPG... No skill at all, just pathetic. Might as well just give them the loot right away, the turn on the telly.

Cant believe you play hurt and mistreated after such a sad confession. I have heard 4 year olds playing cowboys and indians follow more rules than that.

I DONT THINK ITS AN INSULT TO D&D, WHAT I THINK TURBINE DID WAS CREATE A FOUNDATION FOR AN INCREDIBLE, MMO RPG, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND ARE A HARDCORE  D&D PLAYER THERE IS SO MUCH CONTENT TO BE ADDED WHAT ABOUT THE DARKSUN EDITION OF D&D, THE ORIENTAL EDITION , THIS GAME HAS A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CONTENT TO BE ADDED, AND REALLY HAS SOME FANTASTIC POTENTIAL, I PERSONALLY THINK ALOT OF PLAYERS  OF MMO RPG'S TODAY ARE SO USED TO RUN AND CASH AS IN  BLAZE A QUEST AND GET A FAST REWARD WITHOUT EVEN REALLY HAVING TO THINK, A TRUE D&D PLAYER REALLY COULD DO  ALOT WITH HIS SKILLS, YES IT TAKES TIME, THIS ISN'T YOUR CARE BEAR MMO RPG. I FIRST TRIED THE GAME ON A TRIAL, ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT, THEN  AS I PROGRESSED I REALIZED I HAD CREATED A TYPICAL MMO BARBARIAN, IN D&D YOU GOTTA SET UP A PLAYER'S STATS RIGHT IF YOU WANNA SOLO, I FOUND THAT A BARB SET UP RIGHT COULD SOLO LIKE AN ANIMAL. A ROG/ BAR WAS EVEN BETTER, BUT ONCE AGIAN D&D IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL MMO YOU REALLY GOTTA BE OF ABOVE AVERAGE IQ  TO PLAY SOLO, AS IN WHEN IN D&D DID I EVER JUST RUN DOWN A DARK HALLWAY, HELLO STUPID JUST JUMP OF A DARK CLIFF TOO. YES AS ALWAYS MORE CLASSES WOULD BE NICE AS  WELL AS MANY OTHER OPTIONS, IN TIME I BELIEVE TURBINE WILL TURN THIS INTO A BETTER GAME THAN W.O.W., WHICH I HAVE YET TO PLAY SO NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS FROM ME ON WOW, BUT SERIOUSLY, IN DDO A ROGUE SET UP RIGHT WILL SOLO A LOT AND YES I KNOW THERE ARE SOME OPTIONAL QUESTS YOU'LL LOSE, BUT THATS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, AS FOR PLAYERS I RAN INTO WERE ABSOLUTELY GREAT, GREAT GROUPS SOME REALLY GOOD LEADERS, AS WELL AS I LOVE THE MIC CHAT FOR QUESTS, OVER ALL I FOUND THE PLAYABILITY QUITE FANTASTIC, I REALLY ENJOYED MAKING  LOTSA CHARACTERS AND EXPERIMENTING WITH CROSS CLASSING, IF SOME OF YOU ARE THE HARDCORE D&D PLYAERS YOU SAY YOU ARE THEN LETS HERE SOME OF YOUR BEST SOLO QUESTS, HMM MAYBE ALOT OF YOU ARE  HACKER SLASHER TYPES HMMMM....., SO ALL IN ALL THE GAME IS A TEN TO ME DID I SAY 10... YES A 10... AND THANKYOU, EVERYONE AT TURBINE FOR BRINGING AN AWESOME GAME TO THE PC JUST FOR ME.... PS FOR THOSE DDO PRO'S LET'S DO 2 MAN RUNS ON HARDER MISSIONS AND SEE HOW GOOOD SOME OF YOU REALLY ARE, HUH YOU GOT GAME YOU SAY, DOUBT IT CHECK YOUR MOUTH AT THE DOOR WITH YOUR MOMMY IF YOU DON'T, IF YOU GOT NO GAME IT PROBABLY CAUSE YOUR DADDY WEARS LIPSTICK AND YOUR MOMMA WEARS COMBAT BOOTS,   Lt.Riley  

First, ease up on the Caps Lock there, buddy.

Second: From what I've heard about DDO, they've basically killed the game. I've heard it's terrible, although not too many people were especially keen on providing more information on that. I wholeheartedly agree with the OP, if it's DnD and it doesn't please fans of the friggin' MMO genre, THE MMO GENRE, then you can already begin to call it a disgrace.

DnD to me is all about freedom and socializing. You character looks like whatever you want, and can do whatever you can, and a helluva lot more. The DnDO character customization options looked lacking, and once again, you are bound to bits of programming dictating what you can and cannot do.

Apparently the game is endless dungeons centered around one city. C'mon, people, what makes for especially good DnD is some variety in the encounters! With the MMO you guys completely missed PvP at launch, as well! *sigh* I had been following the game while it was being developed, and while it looked beautiful, I wasn't too impressed by the features. You need encounters of all kinds; you gotta have roleplaying encounters, puzzle encounters, exploration encounters (and not just dungeon exploration, discovering new cities with their own cultures can be equally exciting as well), etc. DDO features little variety.

The game...lets down.

Errr...

 

Peoples are disgressing and forgotting the MAIN point.

 

D&D is a RPG.

 

DDO is an ACTION-MMO with a rpg skin.

 

Nowhere did they ever say so, they advertise as "real D&D", as a mmoRPG.  If the game would have been a RPG rather than an ACTION game, maybe it would have work.

 

When I hear peoples focusing on silly stuff, I think they are missing the point themselves.  D&D is the King of the RPGs.  DDO is an ACTION game.  Nuff said.

 

Nobody should be talking about the fries if they got the wrong meal order at a restaurant.  If you order sea food and they bring a beef-burger, the side fries hardly matter!  It's hardly matter if the burger is actually good or not, the whole point is that you order sea food and they bring something else.  Is it an insult to call it a D&D product?  Nah, however there definitely need to be more information about the fact it ISNT a rpg as someone would expect it to be.  By-products are always welcome, but they have to advertise as by-products, a Star Wars shirt is always welcome, but it isn't a video game nor a movie, but a shirt.  In the case of a video game, it is easy to let's peoples believe it is another genre, and you really shouldn't...it has to be clear that this is an action game, not a rpg.

Is it an insult to call this game D&D. Yes because aspects of DnD in this game are either missing or don't function properly in this MMO. I'll say this once and I'll say again; DnD cannot be cannot be translated into a game because it's game whose world is based on and limited by dice, numbers and imagination. In order to turn DnD into a game everyone would like to play, you would need to take out aspects that make DnD into the great game it is.

And if you did that, the game wouldn't be DnD anymore. DDO is neither a rpg or action game. Action games have no rpg aspect, they are pretty much beat'em or hack n' slash. RPG games give you choices as to how you direct your character's outcome. DDO has neither of these elements, but rather it's a MMORPG clone. It doesn't bring anything new to the gameplay that haven't seen in other MMORPGs and the DnD aspects are lacking in this game. DDO is simply a MMORPG using a famous name to draw in zealot fanboys.

I wouldn't call it an insult to D&D. I would say that the game needs improvements without a doubt. The creators took on a very lofty feat of trying to create a more action oriented MMORPG that was based off Dungeons and Dragons.

I've played quite a few MMORPGs and this one was not one of the best but I feel that as long as Turbine continues to try and improve their game I see nothing wrong with it.

I feel that a lot of the areas of dissatisfaction come from the fact that D&D campaigns can be so varied. Some do have permadeath and PvP. It really is a matter of what type of DM and what type of player you prefer to be. You can't please everyone with such a range of options.

As far as the no freedom, I agree that D&D left me a unsatisfied with my options of how my character could interact with the NPCs. But there is also a limited sort of freedom that comes with any RPG since the idea is that you follow a main story. Certainly there are side things to do but in the end the main story is what moves things forward.

As far as the instanced dungeons, I had no real problems with them. I personally feel that the RPG part comes not just from the game but from the player. If you choose to just run through the dungeon then that is your choice but if you choose to join a group and role play through it then that is also your choice. I think people forget that it's up to them to do a little roleplaying too. The computer can make the look, give the quest, and create the setting but you have to bring your character to life and add that personality. (Also, simply from a game play type of view I personally prefer instanced dungeons since you don't have to compete as much with other players. I find it reduces camping.)

That's just my 2 cents on the matter.

If you want permadeath then when you die. Log out, delete toon and start again.

Roleplaying is all about communal storytelling. Any roleplayer will tell you that. Rules Lawyers however...they're the ones who use the rules to pass off their playstyle as the only one which is ever 'right'.

Personally I'm glad of the rules lawyers. For without them there'd be no yardstick with which to measure good solid roleplay.

 

D&D is a decent game. Sure it needs work. Like better interaction with the environment, the ability to actually have your PC play any role in the world you choose. If a game ac tually gave us the tools for communal storytelling then the niche market would have a place and could simply fade away from the rules lawyers completely.

As long as the DM and players are having fun then all is well. No idiot no matter how bad their english has a right to tell anyone who to play any game. If you think you do you got more issues then what constitues a good game.

The fact of the matter is, DnD is many things, it depends on how you play it. There is no single correct way to play, interpretation is what counts. Bearing that in mind, a real life DnD game could be exactly like DnD Online if the DM did not allow players too much freedom.

I think you're ducking the issue that Turbine deliever bad quality with DDO.

DDO is D&D simply put what I consider D&D is the table , the dice , the paper and pencils and your friends followed by your imagination and a bit of pretending to be that goodly priest or that evil power hungry wizard. A good RPG( ROLE PLAYING GAME ) note the ROLE PLAYING-----pretending , acting being not who you are in real life. Now you cannot get that feeling in a MMO game as they aren't not built that way they are all over glorfied hack and slash period. This my opinion and no ammount of complaining can change that for me when I think of D&D i remember the days sittin in the "game room" with my  chums  somedays that involved total cooperation and somedays there was treachery amongst us at every turn. A Dungeons and Dragons game can never be fully mimiced by any software as the key ingredients are just not there. That being said I like MMOs but will never ever kid myself and think anyone of them is a role playing game as they really are not.