Ten Ton Hammer gets a first look at Module 7!

[Vordax]

You fail to understand. What we like about DDO is that it's different from other MMOs.

We don't want lame quests where you're getting XP killing mobs. We're proud of not having any "bring me 10 spider hide" quest or any "go give this book to the librerian in the other village". What DDO is attracts or scare some people away. We get to play with those who stay. You'll notice, if you stay long enough on the forums, that we, as community, are really proudof what DDO currently is and try to scare those who aren't happy of it away.

We're not scared of change, we know that change is bad.

That kind of change will, liek you said, attract more player. However, their vision of an MMO isn't the same as ours. They would dislike DDO in its current form, so why try to please them? DDO is unique in that you get XP from completing a dungeon, not grinding a spot for hours. There are many ways to complete a dungeon in DDO, not many way to grind mobs in a MMO. What we don't want to see, is DDO going too close to other MMO. Shortly put, we don't want DDO to sell out to get more players.

DDO getting more players because it becomes a better game? Sure, but these quests don't go in that direction. They attract more people, yeah, but not the kind of player we'd want. Get the players who left for lack of content back. Get ones that left for the lack of new builds to try by adding feats, spells and enhancements. But don't sell out, DDO is fine as it is.

I love my DDO, I don't want to play WoW or LotRO... or I'd be playing WoW or LotRO.

I really like the fact that DDO is different and better than any other MMO also. But I also realize that DDO is a business and businesses need customers (new ones). I really don't want DDO to be like WOW, and it never will be.

They added the slayer/explorer quests and there were some of these same complaints when they were added. But I doubt that many now consider them bad.

Why don't we wait and see how they handle the new quests before we pass judgment on it.

Vordax

[Borror0]

But I also realize that DDO is a business and businesses need customers (new ones).

Yeah, but there is a line to not cross either.

It's like legalisation of pot. Any country would make tons of money out of its legalisation. From taxes, for the salary of those that harvest it, etc. However, if neither Canada nor USA has legalised it it's because they consider it's immoral for them to do so, even though there would be economical advantages to it (without mentioning that could also control its quality and make ure there aren't any junk in it).

Same thing, it'd be nice, economicly for DDO, but are they willing to sell out like that? I hope not.

I hope not, Codog said it once, he's Proud of DDO and so are the other developpers... I just hope that their plan of making it better doesn't include making DDO more LotRO-ish. That would sadden me, and a lot of the current playerbase. It might actually scare more current players than it'd attract new ones...

Why don't we wait and see how they handle the new quests before we pass judgment on it.

Well, we're giving feedback, saying we hate it. So they know. We hate it the way we were explain it. Now, if it's not that way... well we'll see. At worse, we're "forcing" them get out an explanation faster. At leastm they got our feedback.