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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5550405" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'm having fun with it.  It's got some quirks, like how everything outside the towns is instanced. . .including the wilderness, but it's far better than the reports I heard when it first came out.When DDO first came out I kept hearing about how it was designed for parties only, and not for soloing.  Now it's very soloist friendly, at least at the levels I am playing it at.As a free game, it's quite fun.  The amount of free content apparently drops off around 9th or 10th level, but by then you've got a lot out of the game for free, and you could still play for free if you scrounged around for the few free quests available or create a new character.Some of the fun is that the game is pretty faithful to the 3.5 ruleset (even in character creation: you normally make 28 point characters but you can buy as a premium option the ability to make 32 point characters).  They've made some adjustments to the needs of MMO's, like bonus HP at 1st level, and using a spell point based system (Sorcerers and Favored Souls get more points but fewer spells they can always use, Wizards and Clerics get fewer points and lots of spells but can only prepare a few).  They do go to significant effort to use the official 3.5 era artwork for creatures, which means that Mind Flayers, Kobolds, Dragons, Sahaguin ect all look like they do in the MM.  I don't know if I'd be a regular subscriber to the game at $15/month.  If I was going to pay I would probably get back into WoW, but for free with maybe paying a little here or there as I go if I want access to higher-level dungeons or extra character creation options it's worth it.</blockquote>

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