Recent content by Timmer

*waves* If I may interject. I actually find this conversation enlightening and hope none of the participants are taking the other side personally! What I wanted to say is that I think both sides are arguing from the wrong angle. If I may... I am reminded of my favorite card game (The Spoils...

Just to add some more here with this discussion: I, personally, disagree that the less-than-awesome subscriptions are due to releasing too early. All MMOs do (some more than others) and as a whole, I thought DDO was decently 'okay' at release tech-wise (I got in during closed-beta). However...

On a side note: marketshare? Who cares... what matters is: are you making a profit? :) Obviously, they couldn't retrofit 4ed on top of DDO as 1. that would piss off a bunch of players who are playing and 2. that's the same as developing a new game on top of the existing engine and art assets...

Hello all. I just thought I'd add in another take on the HP/health system. The MMO, Lord of the Rings Online, tweaks the interpretation a bit at least for semantics (they didn't want people dying and getting resurrected as, well, not very Lord of the Ringy). So they refer to hp as "Morale". As...