Expansion Packs

[Whiskey1968]

Wondering if someone could enlighten me on what pack/s I need to purchase to have access to all the adventures in Eveningstar, Wheloon, Kings Forest, etc. Is there a pack that covers all of them or are they separate purchases?

Thanks in advance.

[cru121]

If you're shopping in the DDO Market for bucks, I'd recommend to buy Shadowfell standard for $30, plus exclusive MotU standard at half price for $17.5. Optionally exclusive 11k TP for e$60.

If you're shopping in the DDO Store for TP, you simply need to buy Shadowfell pack and MotU pack.

[Whiskey1968]

Thanks again. Already a VIP and wondered why I had no access to some areas. Will just purchase both packs in the near future.

[FuzzyDuck81]

Thanks again. Already a VIP and wondered why I had no access to some areas. Will just purchase both packs in the near future.

If you can handle waiting that long, i'd suggest the black friday sale, they'll probably have something in the region of 50% off.

[unbongwah]

http://ddowiki.com/page/Account_comparisons

There are a few F2P quests within Eveningstar; everything else is P2P. Everybody needs to buy MotU and Shadowfell to access their respective content: MotU gets you access to quests in Kings Forest, the Underdark, and the Demonweb (inc. CitW raid); Shadowfell gets you access to Wheloon and Storm Horns. Druid's Deep, High Road of Shadows, Haunted Halls, and Thunderholme are regular adventure packs; i.e., VIPs can access them for free, everyone else has to buy the packs.

If you can wait a month, Turbine usually does Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales after Thanksgiving. Last year, MotU was 75% off and Shadowfell was 50% off, IIRC, so I presume they'll go on sale again this year.

[Uska]

Thanks again. Already a VIP and wondered why I had no access to some areas. Will just purchase both packs in the near future.

All MMO's charge for expansion packs even to people who subscribe or who have lifetime specials not that we have that one here unless you won one that said I would only call one of the expansions we have gotten an actual expansion

[dunklezhan]

All MMO's charge for expansion packs even to people who subscribe or who have lifetime specials not that we have that one here unless you won one that said I would only call one of the expansions we have gotten an actual expansion

I am afraid I will never agree with the idea that calling Eveningstar, let alone Shadowfell, an expansion was anything other than sophistry to justify charging everyone for it.

They could just as easily have broken it into individual packs over time, and given it to VIPs for free making others pay as they went, rather than more or less forcing everyone to find lots of money at once, much more than normal, for the cash injection. The money gained would have been the same or more (because everyone now at some point has to spend a big chunk in order to keep progressing in the game, which will make some stop playing when they hit that barrier rather than the OP who is up for spending - and good on the OP, I say), and the content would probably have "lasted" longer, buying time to develop new content better than Shadowfell (though Stormhorns? Hat's off, Turbine).

I know its a dead point, but it never sat well with me even as I forked over the cash. Vote with your wallet is pretty meaningless if 'voting no' means not getting to play with your friends.

More usefully: OP - buy eveningstar. Ultimately, like I said, even if it was individual smaller packs you'd basically want all of them, it's good stuff content wise.

[Uska]

I am afraid I will never agree with the idea that calling Eveningstar, let alone Shadowfell, an expansion was anything other than sophistry to justify charging everyone for it.

They could just as easily have broken it into individual packs over time, and given it to VIPs for free making others pay as they went, rather than more or less forcing everyone to find lots of money at once, much more than normal, for the cash injection. The money gained would have been the same or more (because everyone now at some point has to spend a big chunk in order to keep progressing in the game, which will make some stop playing when they hit that barrier rather than the OP who is up for spending - and good on the OP, I say), and the content would probably have "lasted" longer, buying time to develop new content better than Shadowfell (though Stormhorns? Hat's off, Turbine).

I know its a dead point, but it never sat well with me even as I forked over the cash. Vote with your wallet is pretty meaningless if 'voting no' means not getting to play with your friends.

More usefully: OP - buy eveningstar. Ultimately, like I said, even if it was individual smaller packs you'd basically want all of them, it's good stuff content wise.

MOTU dark was an expansion a small one but I would call it one not that I am a fan of it since I absolutely loath the realms and don't really play it much if at all I shouldn't have bought it and gotten ed's and druids only

[Chauncey1]

Ah....nevermind.
I went full derp there for a minute.

You do have to purchase XPacs.

I need moar coffees...

[Whiskey1968]

Thanks for the info...and the tip regarding Black Friday. Will def wait it out until then as my missus will want to purchase it as well.

Thanks again.

[dunklezhan]

MOTU dark was an expansion a small one but I would call it one not that I am a fan of it since I absolutely loath the realms and don't really play it much if at all I shouldn't have bought it and gotten ed's and druids only

I concur in principle but honestly, my problem with the Realms is the lack of imagination it actually takes to decide to put 'everything' in one world. It means 'we can't be bothered to come up with cool flavour ourselves'. FR is just a canvas for writers to paint their fantasy on, whatever it happens to be. Eberron, Dragonlance etc... they all constrain the writer in some way, and that strikes me as more challenging, and certainly more cohesive and therefore, to me, more appealing. I greatly respect the art of "world crafting". Have done ever since I read LOTR for the first time all those years ago.

Anyway, the dichotomy of FR is that it's main plus is exactly the same thing as it's main drawback. So for me, "FR" as a place may be completely lame, but the adventures you have there are no less fun. So, whilst I would MUCH rather have had (and still would rather have) an Eberron endgame, I do still say that Eveningstar is worth the money... which doesn't detract at all from the fact I didn't like the way they sold it in light of the spirit of the 'VIP promise'. It really did feel like a deliberate betrayal. The first sign that they hadn't just stepped on the slippery slope but had got halfway down and instead of still struggling to prevent their further descent instead gave up and decided to shout "Wheeeeeeeee!"

Maybe they have other ways to buy it now. I confess, having bought it all at once, that I no longer look at how they parcel it up :)