DDO Producer's Letter!

[jalont]

Overall, the letter is not just "pretty 'meh'", it's completely underwhelming. Nothing in Update 29 is anything to brag about. Where's the over-arching vision for the direction of the game? Where's the enthusiasm for his work? That letter could read as being more perfunctory and "I wrote this because my boss told me to" than it currently does. This is not an encouraging letter. It makes me happy I am looking for a different game to play. (Of course, whether I find one that's worth playing is an open question.)

LOL this entire thread should be stickied and referred to whenever the devs finally decide to stop engaging on the forums. The producer's letter went over what to expect in the next quarter. Anything you were expecting beyond that is just crazy. It doesn't exude enough enthusiasm for you? Really, ***.

[PsychoBlonde]

Excited about gnomes, but.....


Very disappointed no mention of unarmed fix coming in Update 30.


This is not a MINOR issue in the game, its huge. =(

I don't recall them ever saying that the unarmed fix was scheduled for Update 30. Just that it's coming Soon.

Handwraps, while not delightful, are at least functioning the way they are. Crafting is not and has to be fixed ASAP.

I was hoping for some teases on upcoming content, tho.

[JP457]

You mean like the murderous light crossbow that I pulled last night? How exactly does one assassinate with a crossbow in this game? And then there's armor with Keen. Another busted system.

[Wizza]

Nice letter...said noone. I think we all lived the 2015 year with DDO. How about posting actual upcoming quests and updates?

This letter can be shortened to "2015 was great. 2016 will have gnomes that look SCARY (seriously, whats that face?)"

[QuantumFX]

Developers,

Could you *PLEASE* make sure this gnomish hairstyle is available:



Thanks.

[slarden]

Thank you for the great year and the gnome pics.

I am extremely excited about Cannith crafting more than even gnomes.

Augments can use a refresh. We are getting +15 on random items and the highest augment dropping is +8. For insightful it's +7 on GS, +6 on random loot and +2 for augments.

You also need more augments: spell pen, healing amp, riposte to name a few.

[FAQ]

- A greatly improved random loot system?

Please tell me Sev's kidding? This is absolutely full of bugs! Makes many items of named loot utterly worthless and how exactly am I supposed to fit in all these Insightful bonuses while maintaining the absolute requirements like Heavy Fort {Don't get me started on the new Fortification numbers in low level random loot - That's the one specific are where named loot is unequivocally better than RNG!} and Resistance!

Yes, I almost spit my beverage into my screen when I read "A greatly improved random loot system". For me, the best thing you can say about it is that's it's new. Burn it to the ground for all I care. I still love DDO, but U29 was just a train wreck for me...

[Mryal]

Interesting, i really like the gnome.And a new iconic is great.
Deep Gnome will probably be the first +2 Wisdom race.If so, please dont make the same mistake as Sun Elf and release a Deep Gnome Artificer, use Druid, cleric or even monk for Deep Gnome Iconic.

[Memnir]

Click here for the latest Producer's Letter from Severlin!

[knightgf]

Looking at this letter, some of it is ok, but I gotta say the new loot system is definitely not where it should be due to all the bugs. Was Servlin not aware we had to do a hotfix, a emergency downtime AND disable cannith crafting to fix up some of the fatal flaws with this system? Also, gnomes look like a joke. They're just halflings with a beard! I guess the beard is to try and fool us into thinking they look different from halflings but I guess they could not make them slightly smaller or rounder to make them more gnomish. All I can say is I will not waste TP on gnomes because I don't even want to try them.

[Zigiltarg]

Svirfneblin!

[geoffhanna]

What if you gave us a whole year's worth of Producer Letter and then updated it every quarter?

[G_Lich]

IDGAF until there are new AND merged servers.

[fourrumtest]

weaksauce

[Qezuzu]

u29 would have been fine if you waited till after holidays before launching. Game was basically down for an entire weekend between the rollback and the Riposte bug (which not only lagged out the world to all hell, but prevented some players including me from logging in at all).

Besides that it was pretty good. Lootgen overhaul was good despite the minor bugs. Keen on armor? Okay whatever, there are a lot of sexy, valuable items floating around now.

Leg. Tempest's Spine is prob my favorite raid now.

LGS equipment could really use a buff though. Add some tier3 effects.

[relenttless]

LOL this entire thread should be stickied and referred to whenever the devs finally decide to stop engaging on the forums. The producer's letter went over what to expect in the next quarter. Anything you were expecting beyond that is just crazy. It doesn't exude enough enthusiasm for you? Really, ***.

A few hints of what will happen later in the year would have been nice. This first quarter thing smacks of "I have no idea" for the rest of the year.

[axel15810]

Devs, I hope you all slow things down a bit and focus on quality over quantity this year. You did have a very ambitious schedule in 2015, I think it was too ambitious for the dev resources available and it showed. Most of the new 2015 content way too many corners were cut. Short quests with little depth in most packs,no new adventure areas, a temple with little in it but mob after mob, short raids. I could go on.

And we still have so many bugs and still bad lag issues. Defiler comes to mind, it is still having lag issues. And the new raids in U29 are still having lag issues. Random loot is a mess. I'd be fine with less updates and more quality this year, even if you need to charge more to compensate for extra manhours put into it.

Or convince the higherups to spend more money on DDO to hire more devs...which would obviously be the best solution.

Event looks cool. Gnomes look too human/halfling to me, I'm hoping there's a variety of nose and face options and that it's all not just a rehash of halfling or human facial appearances.

[silinteresting]

a new iconic woot woot, more tr's to do thankyou.
any reason for me to tr is all good. please be wisdom
based though.

your friend sil

[Qezuzu]

Also, just gonna agree that this letter is really lacking. It'd be nice to have a slightly clearer picture of where the year is headed... we already knew gnomes are coming with strong possibility of iconic version, and that something would happen in relation to 10th anniversary.

[The_Human_Cypher]

What if you gave us a whole year's worth of Producer Letter and then updated it every quarter?

Good idea. The quarterly Producer's Letters should tease content for the coming 12 months or so and then flesh out what is approaching as we draw closer.