DDO must be doing very well at this point

[lyrecono]

Month or so ago Lynn actually said that DDO is doing well, and I don't think that there were enough changes since then to change that.

And I think there will be lots of chuckles in SSG offices once SSG team starts reading answers in this thread. XD XD

What devs say and what devs mean are 2 different things.

I haven been raising heffle on the forum about the lack of dps for 2hf and the utter mess melee is in for a long whille now, it took m a year to admit ranged builds were overpreforming compared to melee, something they could have found out by making an endgame reaper farm toon and trying to join those.
Would have cost them an hour tops.

Once the hardcore racket collapses, we'll be back to squire one

[Strider1963]

Why do I think this?

Because the Negative Nellies are dominating the forums just like in very successful MMO's. Most people are having a ton of fun and playing the game and a small subset of people who will never be happy for long are *****ing up a storm about anything they can think of to try to make the game look bad.

That's pure World of Warcraft territory.

There are always those people like this who I like to call "company men". No matter what the company does, they give a 2 thumbs up! Reminds me of those 3 monkeys, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil :-)

[Kinerd]

I suggest that SSGs actions will have the outcome of winnowing the DDO population until it consists of nothing but whales.

When HC sales drop, they can hold a 'membership drive' where whales can purchase more subscriptions, similar to PBS but with fewer people participating.

If they play it right, maybe a Bezos or a Sultan of Brunei will become their sponsor, and eventually, sole DDO player. And then, DDO will make history as the first 1 person MMO.

Massively Monogenic Online game

[Chai]

Most people are having a ton of fun

Example 1: pre-attrition
50K players
25K are satisfied
25K are not satisfied
50% satisfaction rate

Example 2: post-attrition
30K players
25K satisfied
5K not satisfied
Apply the marketing double-speak: Satisfaction has increased to 83.3% - they must be doing very well at this point.

Since the increase in satisfaction its only a small subset who complain.

[Chai]

Month or so ago Lynn actually said that DDO is doing well, and I don't think that there were enough changes since then to change that.

And I think there will be lots of chuckles in SSG offices once SSG team starts reading answers in this thread. XD XD

"Doing well" is marketing speak, and it doesn't say anything specific. In my life Ive been in multiple meetings where executives claim to the stake holders that the company is "doing well" shortly after laying off 75% of the workforce.

What the players call doing well and what the employees call doing well are two different things. I see alot more posts by players regarding head count retention for instance.

Why is this important to understand?

Because the current monetizing model is not tethered to headcount in a linear fashion.

Financially they can be DoingWell™ while headcount continues to attrite. To the majority of players (not the payers, the PLAYERS) grouping issues continue to increase as headcount shrinks and the player base is divided up even more with level cap increases and HC seasons. But hey, if this causes the market audience (the big spenders) to overspend to "win" the HC "competition" as well as spend to lessen the grind in whatever new grind system is shoe horned into the new levels, then that can be spun as DoingWell™

[Weemadarthur]

Took a longer break, what did I miss?
Is ranger OP now?

Lol depends, with a good build and top end gear its now almost possible to get on the kill scoreboard with a bow ranger. My ranger shocked all my guildies last night by actually scoring more kills than my hire! Therefore bow rangers were obviously over buffed with the ranged pass and need nerfing lol.

[Valerianus]

Example 1: pre-attrition
50K players
25K are satisfied
25K are not satisfied
50% satisfaction rate

Example 2: post-attrition
30K players
25K satisfied
5K not satisfied
Apply the marketing double-speak: Satisfaction has increased to 83.3% - they must be doing very well at this point.

Since the increase in satisfaction its only a small subset who complain.

this, 100% agree.

and a "vocal minority" of pesky complainers is born.