PAX East Rollcall: Are You Going?

[Tolero]

Are you headed to PAX East? Let us know when to expect you!

[Cam_Neely]

Just noticed the put up the Schedule, which I was waiting for. Gotta comb though it and see what day I'm thinking.
http://east.paxsite.com/schedule.php

I'm taking in Turbine/DDO will be around?

*EDIT*
Nevermind, seems like turbine has its own keynote and is on some of the panels

[Alexandryte]

Hells ya. Ill be back again for the 3 days. Hopefully I wont be stuck running to all the awesome panels again like last year....theres just too many good ones.


Speaking of which....the Turbine panel seems to be awfully early (considering how tiring each day can be). Will U9 be addressed then and other sneak peaks (druids mayhaps) or is this intended as a discussion on other topics like Turbine as a company now? The description didn't really glean much information.


If its just pertaining the F2P model I'm curious why you guys are separate from another panel which has F2P in its name.

(PS Save me a shirt pretty please ^_^)

[rest]

No.

[Tolero]

Speaking of which....the Turbine panel seems to be awfully early (considering how tiring each day can be). Will U9 be addressed then and other sneak peaks (druids mayhaps) or is this intended as a discussion on other topics like Turbine as a company now? The description didn't really glean much information.

Well I can definitely reiterate that there won't be druids in U9, but historically coming to the booth is the best way to see Fernando and Madfloyd showing off the next update. So if you're coming to the show, stop by the booth!

[Alexandryte]

Well I can definitely reiterate that there won't be druids in U9, but historically coming to the booth is the best way to see Fernando and Madfloyd showing off the next update. So if you're coming to the show, stop by the booth!

Will your hat of awesomness from last year be returning?

[Tolero]

Will your hat of awesomness from last year be returning?

But of course! With the pirate event there's just no reason NOT to wear it.

[Cam_Neely]

Will your hat of awesomness from last year be returning?

Screenshot or it didn't happen!

[Alexandryte]

Screenshot or it didn't happen!

Tolero has the picture....buried somewhere...

I had forgotten my camera last year.

[Alexandryte]

Speak of the devil....my ticket just arrived ^_^

[kroogan]

Too bad you aren't on the west coast

[DasLurch]

Looks like you won't be coming to GenCon then huh? Just speculating because of this appearance and Pax (west? I don't seem to remember Turbine not being at that one.), that you'll just be flying over everyone in the middle. I'd say come to someplace in the middle again this year if ya can swing it. We mid-wesrtern folk are nice most of the time. :)

[Eladiun]

Yep, GF and I will be there on Saturday.

[Coldin]

Well I can definitely reiterate that there won't be druids in U9

Aww... :(

[Sirea]

I'd love to go, looks like there's a lot of good panels about the ins and outs of the industry, and being a Comp. Sci. major I'd love to look into the gaming industry for possible career paths.

[Alexandryte]

I'd love to go, looks like there's a lot of good panels about the ins and outs of the industry, and being a Comp. Sci. major I'd love to look into the gaming industry for possible career paths.

Aye there are.

From one CS major to another: Do it! Even if you can only come for one day.


[Sidenote: The panels on the industry that I attend I will be recording (audio only). However, I lack the necessary knowledge to effectively/efficiently clean up the feed to production quality (aka I'm no audio engineer). If theres someone or some people in the community that would be willing to clean up the audio Id gladly post the stuff I got. (Still have stuff from last year too if anyone is interested)]

[clkpacker]

I'd love to go, looks like there's a lot of good panels about the ins and outs of the industry, and being a Comp. Sci. major I'd love to look into the gaming industry for possible career paths.Same. It's too far to drive from where I am though, and I do not fly if I can at all avoid it. But there are so many panels that look awesome--they wouldn't happen to be filmed, would they?

[Torin17]

Me and my boys will be there on Saturday.

Will there be any other Platinum Knights there?

Happy 5th Birthday DDO! :)

Torin

[Githzerai]

Looking forward to meeting some of you :)

[k1ngp1n]

Looking forward to meeting some of you :)

Be very afraid.

[Steiner-Davion]

I will definitely be there on Friday representing DDOCast, and will do my best to be there on Saturday and Sunday as well.

[knightgf]

Nope. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14)

[cdbd3rd]

Are you headed to PAX East? Let us know when to expect you!

CD no go PAX. :(

Looking forward to the same question for Gen-Con.
Make it so, T.

:cool:

[Zoetic]

I'll be there again this year for all three days, and look forward to chatting with you all some more in person!

[Memnir]

Nope.
Going to Hawaii next week, for a week, so another vacation to Boston just ain't in the cards.



Hope to see y'all in Seattle for PAX Prime this year, though. We hated to miss last year - but some familial health problems made going economically unfeasible. With any luck, we will snag some 3-Day passes when they go on sale - and even though we live only a few miles out of town, we're thinking of making hotel reservations downtown for a nice staycation. :)

[EazyWeazy]

My Saturday passes just showed up in the mail. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you folks and hearing the Turbine keynote. :)

[Karasendreth]

is there some reason druids will not be in update 9? Honestly i think all the players would much rather have them then anything else you might be working on turbine. Druids are one of the base classes, in my opinion (and most people i have spoken to say this as well) they should have come out before favored souls, and truly it isnt that hard to add them, the only thing you have to do is write code for the character shape to take on the shape of animals alreadys existing in game, and take on their stats as well, example: wildshape for a meduim size wolf would be for a black wolf CR 5 or 6. then for dire wolf just take the stats for a CR 10 or 13 wolf or so. for the bear you might need a new model but no big deal. for elementals its even easier, you have tons of elemental models to pick from.no harder then half of the updates you have done, certainly no harder then making a new adventure pack with new types of mobs. a new spelllist true, but even then half the spells are wiz/cleric list anyway, maybe like 10 new spells. as for balancing, its already done, druids cannot wear ANY type of metal armor, in the later levels that may not be so big a deal, (dragontouched and such) but at early levels that is a HUGE setback in AC. plus the fact they cannot use many weapons (greatswords, greataxes, longswords) also another setback to anyone hoping to play a dps/caster class. the druid may have abilities in many different places but she is not even close to as good as a toon speced for that area. wont be NEARLY as good at healing as a cleric for example, maybe a bit better then a paladin . im thinkng 50/50 between. doesnt have songs like the bard.wildshape may keep up in DPS for a few levels, but even a dire bear simply cannot match a raging 2 hand barbarian with greensteel. which is another big thing, in wild shape a druid CANNOT use weapons, so for you people whining about wild shape being DPS. wont happen, they dont have those nice disruption/flaming/shocking/vertigo/stunning/+5 weapons that you get

[Alexandryte]

is there some reason druids will not be in update 9? Honestly i think all the players would much rather have them then anything else you might be working on turbine. Druids are one of the base classes, in my opinion (and most people i have spoken to say this as well) they should have come out before favored souls, and truly it isnt that hard to add them, the only thing you have to do is write code for the character shape to take on the shape of animals alreadys existing in game, and take on their stats as well, example: wildshape for a meduim size wolf would be for a black wolf CR 5 or 6. then for dire wolf just take the stats for a CR 10 or 13 wolf or so. for the bear you might need a new model but no big deal. for elementals its even easier, you have tons of elemental models to pick from.no harder then half of the updates you have done, certainly no harder then making a new adventure pack with new types of mobs. a new spelllist true, but even then half the spells are wiz/cleric list anyway, maybe like 10 new spells. as for balancing, its already done, druids cannot wear ANY type of metal armor, in the later levels that may not be so big a deal, (dragontouched and such) but at early levels that is a HUGE setback in AC. plus the fact they cannot use many weapons (greatswords, greataxes, longswords) also another setback to anyone hoping to play a dps/caster class. the druid may have abilities in many different places but she is not even close to as good as a toon speced for that area. wont be NEARLY as good at healing as a cleric for example, maybe a bit better then a paladin . im thinkng 50/50 between. doesnt have songs like the bard.wildshape may keep up in DPS for a few levels, but even a dire bear simply cannot match a raging 2 hand barbarian with greensteel. which is another big thing, in wild shape a druid CANNOT use weapons, so for you people whining about wild shape being DPS. wont happen, they dont have those nice disruption/flaming/shocking/vertigo/stunning/+5 weapons that you get


Two things :

1. Please consider formatting large amounts of text into neat paragraphs. It makes it 4x more likely someone might actually read it.

2. Everything is always easier when you yourself aren't doing the work. Try creating a small game with either the myriad of tools out there or in a programming language proper. You will find things to be a lot clearer. Magnify that by several magnitudes. Thats what it means to work on a larger scale project.

That said...if you truly feel so strongly about such...make your voice heard in person at PAX. Turbine is one of the many developers that will be present. Who knows....you might have some fun in the process. ^_^

[Grieve]

I'll be there all 3 days looking forward to checking out a bunch of the panels and stopping by a number of the booths.

[ArkoHighStar]

is there some reason druids will not be in update 9? Honestly i think all the players would much rather have them then anything else you might be working on turbine. Druids are one of the base classes, in my opinion (and most people i have spoken to say this as well) they should have come out before favored souls, and truly it isnt that hard to add them, the only thing you have to do is write code for the character shape to take on the shape of animals alreadys existing in game, and take on their stats as well, example: wildshape for a meduim size wolf would be for a black wolf CR 5 or 6. then for dire wolf just take the stats for a CR 10 or 13 wolf or so. for the bear you might need a new model but no big deal. for elementals its even easier, you have tons of elemental models to pick from.no harder then half of the updates you have done, certainly no harder then making a new adventure pack with new types of mobs. a new spelllist true, but even then half the spells are wiz/cleric list anyway, maybe like 10 new spells. as for balancing, its already done, druids cannot wear ANY type of metal armor, in the later levels that may not be so big a deal, (dragontouched and such) but at early levels that is a HUGE setback in AC. plus the fact they cannot use many weapons (greatswords, greataxes, longswords) also another setback to anyone hoping to play a dps/caster class. the druid may have abilities in many different places but she is not even close to as good as a toon speced for that area. wont be NEARLY as good at healing as a cleric for example, maybe a bit better then a paladin . im thinkng 50/50 between. doesnt have songs like the bard.wildshape may keep up in DPS for a few levels, but even a dire bear simply cannot match a raging 2 hand barbarian with greensteel. which is another big thing, in wild shape a druid CANNOT use weapons, so for you people whining about wild shape being DPS. wont happen, they dont have those nice disruption/flaming/shocking/vertigo/stunning/+5 weapons that you get

(combat): you have been killed by wall of text

[Vellrad]

I wanted to go, but the guy in embassy said, that they're not giving me visa because I want to go on some PAX...