Only 2 years

[Deusxmachina]

It's also fairly hollow after a while...it only takes a few months of steady play (not rabid 20-hours-a-day, just evenings after work...) to go through almost all the quests and see everything at least a couple times. At this point it starts becoming a bit stale for many people.

I don't know what magic game people are looking for. My friend hit 60 in a couple months in WoW with only evening play after work and with a two-year-old hanging off him. A hardcore friend of mine went from 60 to 70 in a week.

Most of the quests in there are ****. A decent fight in DDO would be considered a quest there. The handful of instances worth a **** people run over and over just like they do here. DDO is actually a fairly big place if the instances could all be laid end-to-end.

I could give examples of other games, but eh. I'm sure you guys get the idea.

[VirieSquichie]

For the umpteenth time, there are not "tons and tons" of resources to draw from. Turbine doesn't "own" DDO; They are only licensing the electronic rights for D&D ver. 3.5, and apparently have them until 2017. Other entities license the rights to older content, and "Turbine" would most likely be sued if they infringed on those rights.

Umm...have you actually looked at the WotC materials? Not only the three core 3.5 edition books, but the other 3.5-era add-on products?

Assuming, and it's a fairly safe assumption, that Turbine isn't limited to just the three core books, there are stacks of campaign-setting-neutral material out there for every edition of AD&D. Yes, some of it is owned by other parties but much of it is owned by WotC & Co. If their website wasn't redirecting anything vaguely D&D-related to that annoying countdown page I'd list out some of it, but I'm too lazy to look elsewhere at the moment.