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    Default 5 to 6 months without updates

    So since it was stated in the Gamebanshee interview http://www.gamebanshee.com/interview...interview.html that Update 13 will be the Last Update until the expatiation this summer. It will be interesting how players will deal with 6 months of no updates. I guess 6 months of farming lord of the Blades is in the future for people, I was kind of hoping for some tier 3 enhancements for Ninja spy and others. But now it looks like we will have to wait till mid to end of summer for any hope of those )

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    Quote Originally Posted by thandros View Post
    So since it was stated in the Gamebanshee interview http://www.gamebanshee.com/interview...interview.html that Update 13 will be the Last Update until the expatiation this summer. It will be interesting how players will deal with 6 months of no updates. I guess 6 months of farming lord of the Blades is in the future for people, I was kind of hoping for some tier 3 enhancements for Ninja spy and others. But now it looks like we will have to wait till mid to end of summer for any hope of those )
    We shook out a lot of weak sisters a few years back with over a year of no updates, then brought the numbers up tenfold (at least) with f2p.

    I'm guessing the same will happen this time except we won't lose so many, since we have a light at the end of the tunnel to look forward to, and the "drought" won't be nearly as long.
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    Exclamation Ddddddoooooooommmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ohh no what will we do?? I will do as I am doing.. Playing the game with 8 servers 10 toon spots on each I think I will make it through..

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    im actually glad there will be a "break". for awhile i thought i was catching up with everybody else with my epic gear, but im at a standstill again. envenomed cloak shards and seals elude me. been so busy doing epic quests for tokens and pieces, i havent even been able to do more than a few MAs and a few LOBs.

    i think with what we will be getting between now and this summer, druids, epic quests and cool raid boss, enhancement changes, new level 16 quests, level cap raise and other things, will be enough to keep people happy until then. some of it is what people have been asking for for years so the wait will be worth it for them.

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    Playtesting on Lammania if MadFloyd is right about pushing content out in a legitimately beta stage for real testing.

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    At least the period of no updates won't be vast and mysterious this time.

    I personally don't mind the lack of new content for a while as long as I know there is something good coming in the end.
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    Considering the expansion is all epic, it makes great time knowing for planning out TRs or not TRing and get gear hunting in expectation of what is to come.

    Or, you take a break for a few months and then come back if you can't suffer an attention span that long. Seriously, I've been playing for years here. Taking breaks IS a good thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Missing_Minds View Post
    Or, you take a break for a few months and then come back if you can't suffer an attention span that long. Seriously, I've been playing for years here. Taking breaks IS a good thing.
    I regularly rotate between this game and EVE. I just came back and things are fresh and funky here. Now I know, I have 6 months to TR into my third and final life for my main (maybe) and get ready for the new expansion. Good times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StelionisIgnigenae View Post
    I regularly rotate between this game and EVE. I just came back and things are fresh and funky here. Now I know, I have 6 months to TR into my third and final life for my main (maybe) and get ready for the new expansion. Good times.
    As well as there is an update somewhere around Feb more than likely. Sounds like good rotation times to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thandros View Post
    So since it was stated in the Gamebanshee interview http://www.gamebanshee.com/interview...interview.html that Update 13 will be the Last Update until the expatiation this summer. It will be interesting how players will deal with 6 months of no updates. I guess 6 months of farming lord of the Blades is in the future for people, I was kind of hoping for some tier 3 enhancements for Ninja spy and others. But now it looks like we will have to wait till mid to end of summer for any hope of those )
    Ok lets do some math. He said update 13 would be coming out in the Spring around DDO's birthday (early March). Being that the summer starts in June that would be only 3 months from update 13 for the expansion pack if it launches early summer. even if it takes until August thats 5 months.

    For it to take 6 months that woyuld mean a Fall release. So your version of math is off a bit.
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    I personally think that 5 or 6 months with no updates is a good thing. If the dev's spend some of that time fixing many of the bugs and the lag beast, then it will be great. I'd prefer a huge expansion once or twice a year that has been throughly tested in the development phase and released without exploits and items that do what it says on the tin.
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    Maybe we'll get some bug fixes instead.
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    I'm very disappointed about these 6 monthes hole about updates and I don't like the Expansion way to work cause:
    In this manner instead to give us normal updates every 2-3 monthes as they should they concentrate all in a major expansion in which:
    We'll have all pre that was supposed to be in game since the introduction of them with lvl20 cap in autumn 2009...
    We'll have a new class studied since 2009 (probably before) and had to be lunched in sping 2011 but we know what happened...
    So at the end we'll have nothing more than a normal update but they will take 6 monthes to work "well" in the hope we'll not have some big bugs and others problems we had "recently" and with the trick of the so called "Expansion" instead of "Update" they have the marketing excuse to sell it on vips that were intended to have all new content free...

    I'm happy that Turbine at the end come out from the nest to announce something, but sincerely I'm not jumping on my chair for what seems big but is not so much...

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    "Maybe we'll get some bug fixes instead. "


    Next week apparently

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    Quote Originally Posted by shores11 View Post
    Ok lets do some math. He said update 13 would be coming out in the Spring around DDO's birthday (early March). Being that the summer starts in June that would be only 3 months from update 13 for the expansion pack if it launches early summer. even if it takes until August thats 5 months.

    For it to take 6 months that woyuld mean a Fall release. So your version of math is off a bit.

    They are saying mid August for the expansion. So, even if it stays on schedule, we are looking at end Feb / beg March to Mid August which is just about 5- 6 months depending upon exactly when 13 hits and when the expansion actually goes live. So his version of Math, the one we all use regularly, is correct.

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    While there may not be any new content, I would expect a few of the following to make appearances while we wait:

    The Cove
    Festivus in Summer
    Risia Ice Games
    Mabar
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    Quote Originally Posted by shores11 View Post
    Ok lets do some math. He said update 13 would be coming out in the Spring around DDO's birthday (early March). Being that the summer starts in June that would be only 3 months from update 13 for the expansion pack if it launches early summer. even if it takes until August thats 5 months.

    For it to take 6 months that woyuld mean a Fall release. So your version of math is off a bit.
    hmmm... i never read anything that said "spring". ive read mid to late february for u13 and mid to late august for the expansion. 5-6 months is pretty accurate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shyver View Post
    While there may not be any new content, I would expect a few of the following to make appearances while we wait:

    The Cove
    Festivus in Summer
    Risia Ice Games
    Mabar
    i too would love to see:

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    Ok they have said update 13 end of Feb, they hope to have a bug, lag update in a week or so. Plus they have said they hope to have many bug updates every few weeks. The date not official for the expansion is Aug. I do not mind waiting. It would please many if they could fix some of the lag. I play on two systems and know that around 50% of the lag is client side. My 2nd computer is a dual core with integrated video 6gb of ram and lag city. My main system is a quad core with 8gb ram and 1gb video card and not so much lag. I love the game and hope it stays around. I 1st played D&D in 1976 when your race was your class Ungar the Dwarf was my first.

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    just to be contrary...

    U13 is due in February. we don't know WHEN in February. could be the beginning of the month, could be the end of the month.

    Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20, 2012. (per the Farmer's Almanac website)

    so technically it could be as little as 4 months.

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