Please don't "cutify" DDO...

[LightBear]

Can I get a button that turns off all the other players not in my party? they don't add anything to my game except lag.

I want my "I WIN" button first!

[Socio]

I just want a Shroud Blades pet and one of these



:3

[LightBear]

also read by a dev.

This one is too easy.

Say, isn't talking about exploits prohibited?

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

Good. Make it happen then. I’m currently stuck at level 18 on a paladin incarnation and could *really* use 840,000XP so I could move onto an incarnation that doesn’t suck.

Without the XP/Loot part. Sorry. Guess I just nerfed a feature.

[sirgog]

Any chance we can get little Arraetrikos as a pet after we beat TOD?

That would be amazing. Imagine going back to Shroud with one of them out.

[BruceTheHoon]

Guess I just nerfed a feature.

About time!

[Chai]

Not everybody in real life wears an ugly as sin hat.. or clothes.. or whatever else. Hell, nobody I hang around does. Those that I do see, I only see briefly. I don't have to put up with seeing it for countless hours on end like I do when playing TF2. I also don't have to put up with nonstop trades and chat involving hats and vast hordes of mostly useless weapons and other items.

As for TF2 itself. The game started out as a great concept and very fun. What it has evolved into (or I should say devolved into) is a dress-up game with occasional bouts of gunfire by people that haven't yet realized Team Fortress 2 is no longer a FPS shooter. Seriously, the game's primary function is now to hoard cosmetic items to use as virtual currency for more cosmetic items that fulfill absolutely no function in any other respect. What ever happened to, I don't know, actually shooting things and blowing stuff up? We never got Episode 3 of Half-Life, and no Half-Life 3 so far... and why? Because Valve is making too much freaking money from people buying DIGITAL HATS to be bothered with making actual video games!

So yes.. I am very well into this 'humbug' that you mention.


P.S. I apologize for the semi-off topic-ness, but I couldn't help it.

As a single player with a single opinion, I agree with you. I am a function over fashion person.

However...

As a business, this game doesnt make money off one type of crowd. Turbine needs to cater to those people who want to sit in the pixelated tavern and show off their new puppy in RP just like they have to cater to those of us who want new raid bosses to beat up so we can take their loot. Every single play style is money in the bank for them, and all they need to do is find different ways to leverage game features to cater to those different playstyles.

As for Valve, if they are making that paper selling digital hats, the only misgiving I have about that is that I didnt think of it first, heh.

[Denegrator]

HA! Read by a DEV.

So getting these in.

Cool, replace the hamsters or gerbils you have that run the server wheels with a host of these things and hey presto, lag gone!

[Dragavon]

While these pets in themselves are a nice touch, and does not bother me at all there is one issue that does bother me.

LAG!

And that bothers everyone, all the time.

I wish they had beaten the lag monster before they introduce something like this. Because this will only increase server lag, increase the amount of data sent to and from players, and increase graphics lag in crowded instances.

I think to introduce pets in the current state of the game is the wrong thing to do

[Khimberlhyte]

If the pets make noise now or in the future, can we get a UI option to turn that sound off? It would add as much aural clutter to the game as the pet vitals added to the UI bar a few updates ago. As far as lag goes, I'd like to be able to turn off the ability to even see other people's cosmetic pets as well. Less bandwidth wasted and less junk for my video card to draw.

I fully expect to see a kobold pet - there will be huge demand for them, and money is money. However, if I want to hear kobolds talking, I'll go run the challenges, where I can overload on kobolds. I would be horrified by the prospect of being unable to escape listening to a kobold soundtrack in every quest in the game, as the pet pads along behind another player, repeating their short list of catch-phrases ad nauseum.

I love the kobolds by the way, but all things in moderation.

While you're at it, can we turn off the pewpewpew sound on other people's weapons? It was bad enough when only the odd repeater rogue used those things, but with artificers, it can be overpowering at times.

[toun]

Wow, yes! Maybe headgear called "mufflers" with pink furry bits.

I bought artificer a while back. It is interesting to play but I can't seem to do so for long periods of time because that noise drives me crazy. The pewpewpew, the reloading, the barks, the dog's mechanical springing sounds, and most of all runearm recharging. How am I supposed to enjoy hearing the lament and agony of my enemies?

[Riggs]

Any chance we can get little Arraetrikos as a pet after we beat TOD?

New T-shirt;
"I beat the Tower of Despair on other plane of existence and all I got was this lousy red smurf"

[Claymorep]

Good. Make it happen then. I’m currently stuck at level 18 on a paladin incarnation and could *really* use 840,000XP so I could move onto an incarnation that doesn’t suck.

Infact I hope we can have useless characters as pets. I have a Pally fully epic equipped with 3 lifes under the last that I don't play anymore cause She is useless...

Ps. Thinking to reincarnate in something else now we can mantain tomes (She used 4 +4 and 2 +3)...

[Denegrator]

Infact I hope we can have useless characters as pets.

Gah! Don't say that, it would mean all of my characters would be pets, they're all about as useful as a potent fart in a stiff breeze.

[Taimasan]

This just proves that no matter what it is people will find a way or reason to be irate.

[Silverleafeon]

An artist knows that any picture painted with only dark colors or only light colors will be bland.

Tis in the mixing of light and dark that constrast and composition is born...

[BitkaCK2]

New T-shirt;
"I beat the Tower of Despair on other plane of existence and all I got was this lousy red smurf"

I swear by all that's good and right with the world if I see a pet Smurf I'm calling this guy and evacuating Eberron.


bitkaCK2

[Scraap]

I swear by all that's good and right with the world if I see a pet Smurf I'm calling this guy and evacuating Eberron.
bitkaCK2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svirfneblin

Just sayin.

[BitkaCK2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svirfneblin

Just sayin.

*natch*

Are they blue? Can I kill them... can I.... please can I? I would stab them and slash them and bash them and call them George. Ya gotta let me kill them, ya gotta... you just gotta. If... if you don't let me kill them they'll breed and then there'll be more so... so you gotta kill them. Can I? Please, can I?

Um, err, sorry. Those little blue b-tards just really get under my skin and make me want to strangle small woodland creatures.

bitkaCK2

[ThomasMink]

As a single player with a single opinion, I agree with you. I am a function over fashion person.

However...

As a business, this game doesnt make money off one type of crowd. Turbine needs to cater to those people who want to sit in the pixelated tavern and show off their new puppy in RP just like they have to cater to those of us who want new raid bosses to beat up so we can take their loot. Every single play style is money in the bank for them, and all they need to do is find different ways to leverage game features to cater to those different playstyles.

As for Valve, if they are making that paper selling digital hats, the only misgiving I have about that is that I didnt think of it first, heh.

Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm somewhat supportive of this kind of thing in DDO. Even suggested a mini-gelatinous cube as a pet in a different thread because I'm boring enough to think that would be neat. It would kinda.. sit there.. and maybe wobble.