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D&D Online, alive or dead?
MightyUnclean
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Is Dungeons & Dragons Online still undergoing development and frequent updates? Is there a large (and hopefully friendly) player base? I saw an article that they're offering a 2-year sub deal, so I guess they plan to be around for at least that long.
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It does depend a bit on class and build. When you create a character it'll show right when you pick a class how soloable it is. And then within the class you can generally go 3 ways some of which are better at solo, AoE, heal etc....
With reference to the above poster lvl 1 through 10 there's a good number of free dungeons, get's slimmer the higher you go.
Yes it's F2p, but the best way to look at it is planning on throwing $20 at it from time to time to purchase some extra adventure packs to add to the number of free dungeons.
To your OP question; Yes DDO still going, in fact they just released another free dungeon (lvl 15) just this past week. The last big expansion was this time last year. Since then there's been 3? new dungeons released.
Population will vary depending on server and the time you play. Best bet unless you know of a guild you'll be joining is to create on the default server that shows when you create.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
Me,i got bored in the first hour,it is not even close enough to removing me from better options to play this.
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I'm glad I've eventually tried it again because I'm having a great time. I know it's old.. but it feels fresh to play something that isn't holding your hand and dumbed down to the point where a five year old could play it.
I think it's very underrated with the RPG crowd.
The population seems fine. It's not absolutely loaded with people but it's by no means dead.
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There is an expansion coming out for it called Sharn so I assume it's still getting decent updates , lotro also seems to be getting reasonable updates since Standing Stone took over . I have often thought about giving DDO a try again myself given I used to play the pen and paper game with friends back in the mid 1990's.
I tried to go back a few months ago but it really has aged horribly imho.
It just feels very old and somehow less polished than it did on release.
I don't know how to explain it.
The feature i loved back then was how they had integrated voice into the game and it lead to some funny situations where some people clearly had no clue it was on and said some seriously inappropriate shit.
I remember it must have been a few days after launch and one dude was on voice, but his mic was effed beyond belief and every-time he spoke it sounded like the space shuttle launching. Another teammate chimes and in a heavy southern accent says " Dammit man , you playing this game off the top of a tractor trailer barreling down the highway? Its damned awful on my ears..."
I am laughing even thinking about that shit now.
It was amazing in its day.
But when i went back it felt like a shell of what it was. I played for about 2 months but knew the magic was gone for me.
Definitely not enough players around and like i said the game felt like it aged very badly.
I mean, the Shroud wouldn't have been hailed the best raid in the game up to date if there weren't people (PUGs and all that) around at the time to run it, right?