Petition for a paid expansion

[baddax]

Title says it all...
A simple signed or not signed with a list of things you feal would be worth a 1 time paid expansion of DDO.
Feal free to list any and all things you feal would be worth paying for in a paid expansion to DDO....

Starting the list.....
guild housing
half orcs
half elves
druids
expanded crafting

[Ladius]

/signed

All of the things you listed are things I would pay for. One I would like to add above those is quite a bit more content as well. I love this game and want to see it get better and if that would require paying for an expansion then so be it.

[branmakmuffin]

/not signed, for all the reasons put forth by me and others.

Would those signing also be willing to pay a higher monthly fee, I wonder (some would, some wouldn't, I'm sure)?

Edit: I should have written "as an alternative to paying for expansions" not "also."

[deathtouch]

/not signed.

[toughguyjoe]

i'm going to disegard the OPs instructions and simply speak my mind.

I would not be against a paid expansion depending on what is contained within. Guild housing? I could really care less. Half-Elf? also something i personally care not about. Half-Orc? i would love to see half-orcs. Expanded crafting? Absolutely.

Heres the crux of the buscuit though....Content. We need a serious content upgrade in this game so that newer players and older players alike simply have a more rich game to immerse themselves in. If a paid expansion promised(AND DELIVERED) Good crafting, alot of new Content and Races/classes that weren't just rehash of old things....then i would give it my thumbs up.

[Ladius]

Would those signing also be willing to pay a higher monthly fee

yes I would because as it is now what I AM paying for is stale material and mods that take forever. I would gladly pay a higher monthly rate for regular monthly or even bimonthly new content releases.

[baddax]

Unfortunately before posting this thread i missed That thread.
However after a quick review of the other thread i would say most posters were in favor of an expansion.

[baddax]

i'm going to disegard the OPs instructions and simply speak my mind.

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Lol, nothing like completely disregarding the original post. Having said that good post and i couldnt agree with you more.

[natakeu]

A expansion to this game has been listed at gamestop and has been delayed for the past two years. Do you really think this is going to do anything? I agree I would have loved to have seen a expansion ages ago, but I have my doubts. Listening to DDO cast has been the only way I have been able to get the pulse on the game from the dev's when they do speak.

[baddax]

A expansion to this game has been listed at gamestop and has been delayed for the past two years. Do you really think this is going to do anything? I agree I would have loved to have seen a expansion ages ago, but I have my doubts. Listening to DDO cast has been the only way I have been able to get the pulse on the game from the dev's when they do speak.

Im not sure how this relates to the topic of a paid exapnsion.

Sounds like you are saying "yes, but it should have been done along time ago and it probably wont happen now."?

Also the more i listen to things like DDO cast and the forums the more i realize the Dev's appear out of touch with their players base, the Real pulse of DDO.

[Ghoste]

Title says it all...
A simple signed or not signed with a list of things you feal would be worth a 1 time paid expansion of DDO.
Feal free to list any and all things you feal would be worth paying for in a paid expansion to DDO....

Starting the list.....
guild housing
half orcs
half elves
druids
expanded crafting

Agree or disagree with the concept of paid expansion, I would never pay for any of the things you have listed. Even if given for free, I wouldn't use most of what you have listed. Might dabble a bit with a druid, but that's about it.

Gonna have to come up with a lot better than that to get me interested in paying for it.

*Edit*
Figure I should at least give some feedback on what I would like to see, be it normal content, or paid expansion.
-Top of my list: warforged scout.
-Artificers are also big on my list.
-Would also like to see a well designed juggernaut path.
-After those 3, lot's of new quests.

[Godzbane]

/signed

I would like to see an expansion for anywhere around $30-50 reason being: the games that are on shelves gain attention. They would re-release the first edition and more people would see and be interested. they would have to do more content too, and upgrades to keep up with the new playerbase.

I would like to see PvP seige style if guild housing is made.
I would like to see more worlds, or themes I.E Ravenloft would be fun to journey too. imagine getting vampirism and then you are olnly allowed to play on a second server that is constant night. then you would have vampiric wars clan vs clan.
I would like to see crafting on a grander scale.
I would loe to see Half-orc, half-elves, and the rest of the classes that DnD has to offer.

If they came out with an expansion that brought the level up to 30, had 300 new quests, all the DnD races and classes included, and the aforementioned above I would gladly pay $30-$50 for that. It wouldnt adjust the monthly premium either. Just the increase of new players and old players would cover the needed costs to stay appealing.

BANE

[Jay203]

Agree or disagree with the concept of paid expansion, I would never pay for any of the things you have listed. Even if given for free, I wouldn't use most of what you have listed. Might dabble a bit with a druid, but that's about it.

Gonna have to come up with a lot better than that to get me interested in paying for it.

*Edit*
Figure I should at least give some feedback on what I would like to see, be it normal content, or paid expansion.
-Top of my list: warforged scout.
-Artificers are also big on my list.
-Would also like to see a well designed juggernaut path.
-After those 3, lot's of new quests.

Ghoste just wants wf related stuff xD
how'bout paid extra skins?


anywho, i don't like the idea of having huge extras as paid expension, you really don't want to discourage peopl from playing this game by telling them they're missing HUGE chunks of game by not paying for expension
i do agree on little petty stuff like more armor and character skins though

[WorldTraveler]

Signed. The fact that the original game advertised free content updates had absolutely no impact on my buying it. Paying for expansions is THE
normal MMO business model and likely the reason so many others have left DDO in the dust in terms of content release life cycle (meaning steady as
opposed to slowing and trickling all but to a stop). I would gladly have paid for a mod like the gianthold one in size and content expansions. I
would've laughed in their faces at the notion of paying a thing for some of the most recent mods. But with money to drive them, there wouldn't
have been any 4 quest 1 raid mods. In short, that decision a long time ago to advertise free expansions was one of the terrible decisions among
the many problems that neutered this wonderful game. It was likely meant to try and snag lots of people, but the results are and have been
a proof positive of the old saying, "You get what you pay for."

As for what: mainly new content throughout ALL level ranges. Lowbie and mid level raids, new loot, new monsters, etc. You know, basically the
level of expansion you can only realistically expect from a paid for expansion.

[daniel7]

When I paid $50 or so for the game I got a lot for my money. I would pay around $50 if I was going to get that same amount of new material.

[baddax]

If their was a paid expansion this would be an incentive for turbine to spend money on game developement. Lets face it when i paid my initial 40-50$ investment 3 years ago i feal i got my monies worth. Now i feal the $15 a month is a service fee. Like turbines says it has free updates which is an investment on turbines part. So really theres not much incentive for turbine to spend money with minimal return, new players is means extra money but they are not the ones pushing for the expansions anyways.

Basicly im saying that i feal i got my initial 50$ investment back from turbine (over the course my my last 3 years playing) and that i would not have a problem spending another $50 to get an update that is will power this game for another 3 years.

[JakLee7]

Basicly im saying that i feal i got my initial 50$ investment back from turbine (over the course my my last 3 years playing) and that i would not have a problem spending another $50 to get an update that is will power this game for another 3 years.

*SIC*

I agree with Baddax - I would happily pay $50 for the RIGHT content. And that is the real kicker. Everyone here would pay something for more content. The question is how much? I look at this and think if Turbine released a paid expansion with 2 new races (not the free ones promised, but really how hard is it to paint a dwarf grey & call him duergar?), 2 new classes (even Kate mentioned Favored soul, dang it you can take the sorc approach to a cleric & tada and warlock even might work with a minimal approach), add 1 high level new area with approximately 15 quests in the 15 to 20 range, 15 new quests in the 1 to 14 range, 1 new raid, and a bunch of new weapons, armour, items, and add 1 more thing only available in the "new area" (like spears, or halberds, or whips) and I think we would have a very viable and popular "expansion".

But what would that cost to develop? If you purchase that do you also have to purchase the standard game (personally I think you should be able to get the "standard" game free with it, that way you have it on the shelf looking to bring in more peeps)? How do you advertise it (people keep mentioning some sort of problem with Atari preventing ads or something)?

I personally would like to see alot more added to this game. I would like to keep playing this for 10 years. But without more character slots, without more content, with our more FUN this game will slowly hemmorage players until it is no longer profitable and die. An expansion is just the gamble to take that can make this game the comeback kid in MMO's - forget mod 10 - make it DDO's first expansion!

[Lucian_Navarro]

How about getting what we paid for?

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Title says it all...
A simple signed or not signed with a list of things you feal would be worth a 1 time paid expansion of DDO.
Feal free to list any and all things you feal would be worth paying for in a paid expansion to DDO....

Starting the list.....
guild housing
half orcs
half elves
druids
expanded crafting

/not signed for:

guild housing
expanded crafting (unless it follows D&D crafting rules, maybe craft point option)

/signed IF the price is right for more quests, more races, more spells, more feats, more classes

[Morkuegard]

I guess that even many listed many different things, what we all want is variation and creativity, eh? Nothing better than a whole new quest wich isn't just recycling old content, with whole new loot and whole new gaming experience.
In my opininon thats what makes a good game (or in this case, expansion), since, as we have more variation, we have more quests to do and more ways of enjoying this game without getting tired of playing it.