General Discussion

MMORPG.com Community Manager Richard Cox writes this preview article, giving you and overview of the interview and letting you know what to expect when the GenCon video hits the site! In our first preview article, Cox talks about the team's interview with Turbine about Module 8 in DDO

The first interview of the day is with Kate Paiz, the Senior Producer for Dungeon & Dragons Online: Stormreach at Turbine. We filmed the interview as well, so this will pretty much just be an overview of what you can expect when you watch the video.

Primarily the interview was about what players can expect in Module 8. Mod 8 is centered around improving the new player experience. Turbine has revamped the early/starter parts of the game to include character creation, to make the game more accessible to new players. This includes people who are starting to play the game because friends of theirs are already playing as well as those completely new to the title. The changes are also geared toward helping to break those new players who aren't familiar with the D&D rules into the game more slowly than previously. Turbine had discovered that the game could be a little daunting for those who aren't familiar with the existing D&D rules.

Read it all here.

I can't read it all "here" there is no link.

Where is the video mentioned in the story?

OMG

DDO: Guild Wars 1.5...

AWESOME...

I may actually load this up!

"Guild Wars 1.5"

That is so spot on it's hilarious.  While DDO offers quite a different world from Guild Wars the addition of henchmen sure makes that title reasonably close with all the related issues of playing a single person game that GW can and most often does offer.

it's not Guildwars you fools, it's Dungeons and Dragons!  Henchmen/Hirelings were in the core rules and just becuase they''re recently being implemented does *not* means it's like another game that allows you to chose a pet. 

Dungeons & Dragons Online is vastly superior to Guildwars.  The difference is DDO had a terrible launch that lacked polish and requires a monthly subscription.  Obviously, guildwars has garnered the success mearely due to it's streamlined mechanics, polish, and the fact that it's FREE to play other then paying for the initial license. 

If you like dynamics and not artificial choices then DDO is a better choice for you. 

p.s. I'm not saying Guildwars sucks - it's actually a great game!

Definetly going to resubscribe due to henchman addition.

Originally posted by Kollaps

Definetly going to resubscribe due to henchman addition.

Quite frankly, I might as well!

Originally posted by mindspat

 

Dungeons & Dragons Online is vastly superior to Guildwars. 

p.s. I'm not saying Guildwars sucks - it's actually a great game!

You were on a roll, then you said this. The game is lackluster, does not have the best animations, models, UI, etc.

DDO is an OK game. This is the reason it does not sell. You do one thing and only one thing. Crawl dungeons. They have added extra features, and the outside stuff has been a good move.

But, Guild Wars is FAR superior to DDO. In visual quality, in gameplay, in sales.

But..I am not saying DDO sucks!

Sounds interesting. I may resubscribe. May main probelm with DDO was the lack of population, which lead me to doing nothing. I'm glad they realize this is a serious problem.