What kind of people play DDO?

[Uskathoth]

Oddly, enough 99% of the player bas are lft-handed pipe welders from Akron, Ohio. (1)

Curious, isn't it?

(1) For those whose diet is deficient in irony, this is not actually true.

Warning: You are entering a tangent.

Not to pick on Kralgnax (and maybe I'm wrong), but this strikes me more as something other than ironic (flippant, maybe?). Irony, as I understand it, involves either a word that is used so that it has a different meaning than normal or a series of events that have a different outcome than expected. "The safety rails she added to the loft caused her untimely death" or "if love is blind, why is lingerie so popular" are ironic. "Diet deficient in irony" is ironic--I guess all puns are ironic, now that I think about it. Irony, to me, involves some kind of twist of meaning or expectation.

Am I wrong? People refer to all kinds of things as ironic and I often wonder if I am not getting it or if the word is just overused.

[Roguewiz]

Who plays this game? Thats easy. ME! And that's all that counts. =)

Seriously though. I think it comes down to a simple thing, what have most of these players played? If you ask around, most have problably played (or are playing) World of Warcraft; but they are getting tired of it. Inquire further, some of these players are old school Everquest players, who were old school Ultima Online players, who were old school Dungeons and Dragons PnP players. Heck, some are still playing DnD (case in point, me...on occasion)

Basically, the people that play DDO are old school players who've become jaded with the current MMO market and are waiting for their next "gem". For some, that may be the next Blizzard MMO. For others, the next Star Wars. In any case, they're tired of being let down by devlopers. At least Turbine is doing a fine job in keeping us interested.

[kingfisher]

in a hound hard or elite not too long ago, mostly guild with a few pugs spots. 2 of the pugs spoke up and often, and were older guys. plenty of trash talking going on, typical guild crude fun etc. after the run the final pug who had not said a word piped up in a 12 year old boy voice (at the oldest) 'thanks for the quest!' and dropped group. the whole group exploded in laughter cause it was obvious that this kid had just gotten an earful. thing is the kid was pretty good, stayed out of trouble, kept up and knew his role. so you never really know.

[ddaedelus]

prison inmates

Not anymore they don't.

[kingfisher]

Not anymore they don't.

thanks a lot bin ladin

[Bobthesponge]

Nerds!

[LawstCawz]

My old guild had a one armed man.

[Captain_Wizbang]

fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox....love ...

[KKDragonLord]

My bet is on the Geeks, especially the mature ones with established families and jobs.

[Kralgnax]

Warning: You are entering a tangent.

Not to pick on Kralgnax (and maybe I'm wrong), but this strikes me more as something other than ironic (flippant, maybe?). Irony, as I understand it, involves either a word that is used so that it has a different meaning than normal or a series of events that have a different outcome than expected. "The safety rails she added to the loft caused her untimely death" or "if love is blind, why is lingerie so popular" are ironic. "Diet deficient in irony" is ironic--I guess all puns are ironic, now that I think about it. Irony, to me, involves some kind of twist of meaning or expectation.

Am I wrong? People refer to all kinds of things as ironic and I often wonder if I am not getting it or if the word is just overused.

I don't feel picked on, so no worries there.

The statement itself is more sarcastic than ironic, I just like the line "A diet deficient in irony" as a play on words. The whole was a response to what is, really, a fairly silly question.

Cheers.

[Zigana]

Stay at home moms escaping the drudgery of housework and screaming children. Put on the headphones and it all disappears for a while!

[MeliCat]

engineers, managers, IT devs...

[Zenako]

Old farts whose PnP groups can no longer meet more than once a month due to myriad other commitments....

Who grew tired of learning the next new game every few months and ditched that rat race about 4 years ago to stay on the MMO treadmill instead....

People who started playing D&D before they had good dice, hardback books or anything resembling a marketing machine....TSR in the good ole days..

[Kralgnax]

Old farts whose PnP groups can no longer meet more than once a month due to myriad other commitments....

Who grew tired of learning the next new game every few months and ditched that rat race about 4 years ago to stay on the MMO treadmill instead....

People who started playing D&D before they had good dice, hardback books or anything resembling a marketing machine....TSR in the good ole days..

Eldritch wizardry FTW!

[techwench]

agoraphobic-antisocial-hypochondriacs

Hey! Stop talking about me!

[Memnir]

Who plays this game?

People like me!
(be afraid)

[Zenako]

Eldritch wizardry FTW!

With that O so scandalous cover....

When battles were very short and very sweet.... Your 6th level Myrmidon (aka Fighter), got to swing six attacks on the target, while the target swung back its hit dice worth of swings too... (Kinda like the rules for the Board Game Titan a few years later...)

[Ybeniel]

Well, according to the forums, a lot of people that reply to state of the game posts are programmers who have more experience with rolling a game out than Turbine does.

lol +1

[Orry]

High school students with a chronic illness(arthritis) who are waiting for Guild Wars 2 and/or a Shadow Form nerf in Guild Wars.

[EBE]

From my experience you see alot of people who play or played PnP