Downtime Notice: Wednesday, August 4th 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have opened!

UPDATE: The downtime has been extended until 4:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) due to additional time needed for the deployment. We will keep you updated.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 4th from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 50: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Release Notes, a FAQ page, the Market page and more will be released on Wednesday morning.

[MistaMagic]

before the downtime or during?

[Anuulified]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 4th from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 50: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Release Notes, a FAQ page, the Market page and more will be released on Wednesday morning.

Yay 500,000 more renown loss coming. Does this update fix my Very Small Guild Renown Decay bug? Or do I have to wait til my guild hits level 1 again before I can advance it?

[MistaMagic]

Yay 500,000 more renown loss coming. Does this update fix my Very Small Guild Renown Decay bug? Or do I have to wait til my guild hits level 1 again before I can advance it?

But an alt in to hold it and come join us

[Yokido]

Thanks for the heads up Cordo! Thanks to the Dev team for putting things on for us!

[DareDelvis]

It seems like an odd marketing-strategy to release a (mini-) expansion with little to no advertising.

Shh, it is all but a secret that it will come out tomorrow (Unless someone has checked the Dev Tracker or the launcher... "unlikely" to attract any new players (consumers) that way).

[mikarddo]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 4th from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 50: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Release Notes, a FAQ page, the Market page and more will be released on Wednesday morning.

I find it very odd that you neither advertise more nor allow a pre-purchase. You are effectively limiting sales in a most puzzling manner which seems like bad business.

[Gniewomir]

I find it very odd that you neither advertise more nor allow a pre-purchase. You are effectively limiting sales in a most puzzling manner which seems like bad business.

I'm not finding it odd at all. Firstly, prepurchase week before release is not really real prepurchase. They would have to do it (imao) at least month earlier. Secondly, in last few years SSG accustomed us to pushing updates no matter they're ready or not and working on them to literally last moment, then "downtime in 12h to release new update" +few hotfixes next day(s). I suspect something like that:

Peorders usually require something to be released earlier than the "main content" itself. Thats how it works in almost all games, thats how it worked in ddo before (like releasing tiefling months before sharn, if i remember correctly feywild preorder was cosmetics + unicorn) and since week ago they still didint knew when saltmarsh will be ready for release (maybe next week, maybe not, idk - Cordovan) i assume there was nothing really ready to release as prepurchase bonus. And lets be honest - for example if they have released cosmetics as prepurchase only bonus, then there would be not much to put into ultimate saltmarsh bundle. Judging from the fact that even saltmarsh price was a huge secret until like week before release (and like i said - for example sharn price was known almost 3+ months earlier) i assume even pricing was a decision made at the very end, so it would be hard to start selling something month before they'll even know when they'll finish it, what will be in bundles, what will be price etc. Bear in mind that releasing feywild raid more than 6 months after releasing feywild made many players pretty disappointed, so they might also try to avoid situation when nothing is ready and they've got no idea what will be ready/done for release, so they didnt wanted to "promise" stuff month earlier without knowledge if the stuff they'll promise will make it to live servers.

Edit: also, prepurchase usually require to provide information when the stuff you paid for will be delivered to you. And like i already said, decision was probably made last week.

[dunklezhan]

I find it very odd that you neither advertise more nor allow a pre-purchase. You are effectively limiting sales in a most puzzling manner which seems like bad business.

I've seen a FB post and a youtube video the algorithm highlighted for me, but it's next to impossible to get details on pricing unless you go watch a video and even then it's only in US dollars. Not even on the 'news' of the website or on DDO market (even as of right now and it's the 4th August now even over in the US). Not seen any actual 'advertising', but this kind of thing is aimed at existing players not new. "Come join DDO, we just released the latest of £200 worth of expansions for our free to play game!" isn't exactly an enticing message.

[Dholgrin]

I find it very odd that you neither advertise more nor allow a pre-purchase. You are effectively limiting sales in a most puzzling manner which seems like bad business.

Say goodbye to advertise, say hello to DBG marketing strategy!

[drathdragon]

I want some candy for this.

bonus xp , buddy bonus, a free stone xp ???? ))))))))))

please please please

[enkka1]

I want some candy for this.

bonus xp , buddy bonus, a free stone xp ???? ))))))))))

please please please

On the other hand be happy there is no reason to buy anything but the cheapest pack because there is just cosmetics and such on 60$ and 100$.
Have to really love cosmetics for that 80$ extra or buy the ultimate collector's edition just for a habit, to support the game ...

[LordDunmore]

Not showing up on the DEV tracker as of when I write this message. The release notes and FAQ are posted here:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...e-notes-posted!

[M0rfeo]

Yay 500,000 more renown loss coming. Does this update fix my Very Small Guild Renown Decay bug? Or do I have to wait til my guild hits level 1 again before I can advance it?

??? Don't understand...

[DoctorOfLiterature]

On the other hand be happy there is no reason to buy anything but the cheapest pack because there is just cosmetics and such on 60$ and 100$.
Have to really love cosmetics for that 80$ extra or buy the ultimate collector's edition just for a habit, to support the game ...

The rogue and the sentient jewel and the hireling folder are all pretty tantalizing so I don't really agree. My question is will the rogue be able to trap effectively? I think the Heroic is lvl 3 so does that mean he is useless by level 5 or 6 or does he level up with you?

[Zarkarion]

The rogue and the sentient jewel and the hireling folder are all pretty tantalizing so I don't really agree. My question is will the rogue be able to trap effectively? I think the Heroic is lvl 3 so does that mean he is useless by level 5 or 6 or does he level up with you?

Oh, if only these permanent hirelings levelled with you, they might actually be worth having then.

[enkka1]

The rogue and the sentient jewel and the hireling folder are all pretty tantalizing so I don't really agree. My question is will the rogue be able to trap effectively? I think the Heroic is lvl 3 so does that mean he is useless by level 5 or 6 or does he level up with you?

Feywild gave us +1 ap in a destiny tree that made me to buy the collectors edition. This is the first time I don't see value in it besides cosmetics (new
sentient jewel can be considered as one too)

[Cordovan]

The downtime has been extended until 4:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) due to additional time needed for the deployment. We will keep you updated.

[Iwant_DiabloThree]

Well....... in just a few minutes the game is reopening
But the market is still not accessible....... got that sinking feeling they mean 2:00 in new zealand...... not EST.

[octoparrott]

UPDATE: The downtime has been extended until 4:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) due to additional time needed for the deployment. We will keep you updated.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 4th from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 50: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Release Notes, a FAQ page, the Market page and more will be released on Wednesday morning.

hey devs,

i know you LOVE dodging proper questions, but why - STILL - after all this time, all these updates, is it the same every.....single.....time

literally every time

and we all know the game will be down again either tonight, tomorrow, or both for a hotfix for oversights

every
single
time