I disagree. Old expansions should be available for DDO points thus free when you earn it. I have a fully free account as well as an account that I buy all of the expansions with when they come out. My free account within 2 years owns almost all of the content (pretty much available in DDO Points) a pay account can buy the content for DDO points within a year of the expansions?)
what perfoprmance issues? :D i literally run potato, wich is taking its lastt breaths with R9 270x from 2013-2015... i was super surprised how i can run this at 120 fps with high/veryhigh detail settings, and even cities dont crawl my fps down.. like they always did with mmos i recently started playing.. i like the visual art style of this game, somehow has aged really well, has somekind of "old golden age" charm to it, hard to explain,... not sure if the game itself is any good tho, im playing human barbarian.. 5h in , im still level2... i actually tilted the fck out , how much time i spent in korthos to be completionist with quests... and the Explorer quest bugged, cant finish it ;S all the tasks done, and not finishing... also my more concerns is how predatory the shop feels... so much walking in this game, and free to play players probably aint getting even mount any time soon? also why the fck content is behind paywalls like wtf.. possiby the most expensive mmo i have ever seen... on top of that, u still habve monthly sub? and they sell expansions for 99$ .. and cheaper ones for a game wich is from 2006... 1000% guarantede your not getting content for 99$ ffs...
@@Microphunktv-jb3kjYou have 5 hours and think you can talk about the performance? How about jumping sections being basically impossible sometimes due to the ridiculous lag? Has nothing to do with the performance on your end, the servers are hot garbage.
As a casual player, my biggest problem with ddo is that I often feel useless when playing in a party with other players. The power difference between the haves and have nots is too big. Looking at your damage numbers in this video, you deal about 10 times as much damage as my characters do. I don't have the best builds or the best gear, but the difference is just too big to have fun in a party.
Thanks for collecting your thoughts and submitting a video on this Strim. I think every player can resonate with each of these problems you've brought up, and I'd love for you to build on this and do an interview with some SSG staff later this year to let them discuss how they are going to address these problems in the future. Thanks!
The TR Cache system is a problem especially for people who have lots of raid and BtC gear. It takes me several hours to just throw my stuff in my shared storage and distribute it across my bank toons and just taking stuff out of the TR cache. I often will delay my True TR for days or even over a week just because I don't want to deal with the chore of organizing gear across toons and waiting for the TR cache stuff to move to my inventory.
One problem I have with platinum & it’s usage is resetting enhancement trees. Could just be me, but especially at higher levels I feel like I’m totally draining my plat to change 1 or 2 things. Even worse if there are multiple trees you want to change
Simple question: does spending money to reset reaper or enhancements make the game better? no. If don´t add a thing to the game, take it off. Just like chains that need quests in order or quests in huge slayer area without teleporter. Such simple moves that would improve playability as a whole.
@@rodolfoboimarinho6504 I agree. A big issue with the reaper respec cost is that it only hurts the people who have less or a moderate amount of rxp when its beneficial to move points around during leveling. When you have alot or max reaper points you never need to reset.
Probably no one will see this but yea Iv been playing for 10 years now, and I have literally never hit the plat cap. Why? Resetting trees. I have a small group (3 others usually) I play with, they're all plat capped. They each gave me 1mil, so they could continue gaining money. About 3 or 4 weeks later, they said "We're all plat capped again. You had 3 mil like we each had 3 mil so you're plat capped by now too?" My answer? "Nah Im down to 2 mil out of the 3 you guys combined gave me." In the 3 weeks it took for each of them to make 1 mil, with me running along side them I made about -1mil. I will admit this is a combination of 1: As I said, resetting trees. "Im going to take this cool thing!" *Tests it in slayer area* ...It doesnt work. *Resets tree* I'll take this other cool thing! *Test* ...doesn't work either. Cool cool cool. and 2: Running around with a full inventory. I do about 85% of my game time with 5 inventory spaces or less open to take loot which I can then sell to make positive plat value. So maybe that's on me.
this is your best video ever. i like alot of your content but this one kinda nails how we're all feeling. i hope the devs engage with this seriously and don't give us the (very) old "its too hard". these fixes would bring this game forward and give it some serious contender status with the other mmo games out there. absolutely love this one @strimtom. great job man!
We recently learned that DDO does have a combat state determination, which is basically when you hear different combat music. I'd love to see more done with this system, especially for self healing.
In gw2 we can have an 80v80v80 3 way fight with settings turned up with little to no lag, but DDO can't handle the physics checks of 10-12 mobs chasing one character, so instead of fixing it they penalize players for pulling that many mobs. 😣😣😣 What's worse is when you point this out on their forums, there are a handful of DDO-can-do-no-wrong blind defending paladins who will defend the situation telling you to stop playing if you don't like it.
Not your normal video Scrimtom, but things that need to be said. 👍 I like the gambling for items concept. Why do I see Jeets being the weapon vendor and Youlthoon being the clothing vendor…
All about the $. We asked for better potions - got store potions. We asked for lower raid timers for old raids - bypass timers. The game is designed to nickle and dime constantly. They care little about basic functions like lag and customer service. Inventory management is depressing. The new player experience and marketing is atrocious. VIP gets screwed constantly from frequent expansions. They spend half of their development time on whales. They change the meta with large changes they know will unbalance things to get people to TR. Now they are making past life bonuses have a greater value by lowering gear at end game. $$$$. DDO is a classic example of 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I left over a month ago and so did many I knew from Hardcore. I got 15 years of games I have passed over I am going to catch up on for awhile.
I concur.... DDO turned to GreedDO and I am not sure if that will ever re-balance itself..... costs more than the game to buy 1x bag or some XP pots to level from 20-30 after reincarnating, not sure where the economy of scale comes in.
Great video dude. Hope they watch this one and listen to some of this. I've been super fortunate with not getting much lag in this game. (Shadowfell/Stormhorns stuff is the worst for me) but obviously one of the biggest problem for everyone. Personally, storage is my biggest issue. It's making it hard for me to TR and play the game. Spell Point potions used to be a pretty solid plat sink, and an important part of the economy and valuable for trades, but I hardly ever see them in the game anymore. I also miss named loot being unbound, really killed a large portion of the auction house and again was something good to spend plat on if you had bad luck finding it in a chest. I think they make too much money on chest rerolls now.
Imagine for me, I'm from Brazil, the conversion rate is 1 dollar to 5 reais (our currency), so 15 dollars sub equals to ~ 75 reais, also pay for everything you said... Made me run away from the game. FFXIV have local subscription prices, and I pay 30 reais/month, half of the DDO price + 1 expansion every year and a half... So yeah, totally agree with you about the revamp they need to do.
This could be a solution to the platinum cap. A npc that sells and buys "platinum bars" for 1 million platinum. A platinum bar could be an ingredient or collectible, which can easily be stored in a bag.
Congrats for the video. Just hope sometime, someday any developer listen to the players and do something about the elephant in the room. Love DDO but they need to clean the house and do 2 or 3 expansions fixing issues. One thing that is as important is a good working support not people that close 3 or 4 tickets instead of solving the first one. Even the preset options for windows 10 and preset classes that never worked but would greatly help new players.
Good video! A lot of these are good points. Definitely i feel like the first point is the biggest issue for me. Internet/server lag is something that can never be truly fixed in an MMO, but its insane how different it is between DDO and other games. And just basic issues with the game engine - hit detection, the weird jumping and climbing stutters - all of it just makes what would make an incredibly enjoyable game very frustrating at times. I would be very happy if the next update wasn’t even a content update, but just a huge overhaul of the game engine to fix these issues
Thank you for this video, I really enjoyed it. I'm not really a fan of watching streams in general as I find them too slow and prefer watching things on 2x speed.
Being able to increase base Armor AC or weapon dmg / weapon die using a Smith would be a good plat sink. Adding +1 thru +5 (and beyond!) to armor would be great for tank builds. Adding +1 thru +5 and beyond to Weapons also useful to bring melee back in line with casters. I think you should also be able to craft bags or at least be able to upgrade, I resent paying $40 for a bag when you have several different types.
Great video with brilliant insights and ideas. Except the gambling (just personal preference), I agree with all your ideas. Thank you for sharing! For the “#3 DDO doesn't have good solo challenge,” I’d like to say comparing with the relatively routine dungeons, the Challenges (in House Cannith) are more interesting for repetitive run, especially “when you wake in 3 in the morning and cannot go to sleep.” However, they are quite solo unfriendly (it would be much better to adjust time limit by group size). Besides, I think another problem is “chance to spawn” of Rare/Random Encounters. For many Wilderness Adventure Areas, I had completed the Slayer and Explorer, but had to enter/finish/reset again and again (averagely 7 times; for some Wilderness over 20 times but still no show, I have already given up) for the last one or two Rare/Random Encounters. It quickly turned my (and my character’s) role from a serious adventurer/inquisitor in a fantastic world to a bored gambler before a slot machine. A potential solution might be changing the algorithm of chance to spawn from completely random to basing on current completed encounters. It means when a character enters a Wilderness for the first time, every Encounter is completely random, but after any one Encounter being completed, the chance for all uncompleted Encounters would be increased, and so on. Let’s say there are total 20 Encounters with 10% chance of spawn for each, after 10 Encounters being completed, the chance for the uncompleted 10 would increase to (20 * 10% / 10 =) 20%; if 18 Encounters are completed, the chance for the last two would be (20 * 10% / 2 =) 100%. This will save players who want to complete their Rare/Random Encounters and/or Monster Manual and help them (and me) focus on role playing.
This year I invested almost 90 hours in one month with DDO including a monthly subscription. As mentioned, I faced a lot of blocked content behind the pay wall. If all content were available for 50 dollars I would take it, or alternatively 90% from the old content as long as you have a sup as well. If you look at games like Guild Wars 2, you can get all three addons there for $49 including tons of free content from time to time.
Platinum usage discussion: Add a nominal platinum cost to upgrading end game gear. eg. anything that requires being combined with threads of fate also costs 100k platinum to upgrade.
I agree with you on plat cap and the need for better storage. Basically, I'm a hoarder. While I started out with multiple characters, I've ended up with 1 playable character and the rest are mules. I am not sure how much time SSG would want to put into providing a comprehensive inventory/storage system such as you described, but they could easily make bags, named armor bags, named weapon bags, etc. I was so thankful they did the cakes/cookies bag and freed up more than 1 page inventory on that mule. I am now facing deciding which named items, that aren't btc or bta, to sell off because I'm out of room again. I'd rather play more than spend time managing my inventories. So, good job with all your the issues (and solutions) you listed and I hope they listen to at least part, if not all, of your vid. >^*^
For your random item, you basically described the sands antique trader. For solo dungeons, you basically described a different version of the challenges. I would love both of those!
Omg the named items tabs would be awesome. I'm sitting on a few items because I "will TR into a class which will use that named item and I don't wanna farm for it" and my TR cache is 70% items from Feywild, Ravenloft, Sharn, etc for other classes. I never knew I needed that.
The last change they did regarding currency was make everything 10x more expensive. Things that used to cost 100 gold now cost 100 plat, but also did this without increasing the cap.
LOVE the Collections Tab for gear idea..... and for a "single centralized currency" you could even have it cost a certain amount of plat based on the minimum level (maybe like 1000pp x ML) in order to have plat mean something too!
The sudden freezes, and DDO completely freezing where you have to kill the process. That last one happens to me five times a day. It's just horrible. I hope they fix that soon!
The platinum cap is 2^32nd. That's 2 times the typical 32-bit cap of 2^31 - 1 (2,147,483,647). This is what makes it hard to change: it's already as big as the bits will allow in the current 32 bit system. As for a plat sink, I'd really like the ability to spend plat on common collectables so I don't have to go farm them by hand anymore. This will make cannith crafting (an already end-game loot sink in terms of generating crafting essence) more viable to actually make gear worth using to fill slots for multiple builds. As for expansions, a thing that Everquest 2 (an equally old game) does is if you buy the most recent expansion you get all the other expansions for free. No sub required. It lets new players get caught up without having to drop $300 on black friday just for the expansions.
I have 10 character slots that are used only as mules, 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and so on. Also, one for pots, one for tomes and one for cosmetics. I'm still short on space.
One thing that keeps me from playing that there is barely anything exclusive to endgame. No random maps, no delve type stuff, no rifts, no dailies, no weeklies, no nothing.
28:42 I like the idea of the collection. However I think something needs to be done about feeding items for sentience. We wouldn't want an endless sentient xp loop. Not a super challenging problem. Obviously items pulled from the collection wouldn't count. But I think removing the cost of feeding your item because you can just get another copy is a problem. The solution may lie in fixing sentient xp, but it's still an issue
my solution for solo reaper. make it so when you’re in a reaper quest alone the healing penalty only applies if you’re in combat (say in combat means you’ve taken damage/saved/been missed in the last 5-10 sec). that way you can heal yourself in between fights quickly and not waste your time.
Eso has the sticker book style system. You get the item, lock it to your character or account, can remake it at a transmute station for transmute crystals( the cost goes down for each item in the set you get) and based on traits you know for crafting you can choose those traits when making the item. Best part, if your character is below Cao level, you can make most items at lower levels to add sets to your leveling experience you'd normally have issues obtaining. This was feared it'd kill the markets, it actually helped to increase sells on certain items because now people could justify buying the items for the sticker book as an investment for future characters instead of looking at a mother's sorrow inferno staff and going that's alot of gold for something...
Consider this regarding expansions: At a certain point the model that SSG is using is actually segregating the player base. Its the same problem CoD players faced when map packs came out for that series. Especially for a small (player count) game like DDO it is imperative for the maximum number of player be able to group with one another. Unlock all content for VIP up to the latest expo or two (keep the collector edition goodie bundles as whale bait). This approach would lose SSG very little since we have proof that most ddo players are dolphins or whales, they will buy the big ultimate editions and spend tons in the store. But to attract new players (so you can eventually stop relying on individual players payings tons) you need to make the game a more worthwhile investment. As it stands the game appears to the uninitiated as kind of p2w that nickel and dimes you.
A single inventory would really help, then I'd not have repeat items eating up space. It would also be nice it they stay closer to actual D&D with the enchancements.
I watched it today and I think you nailed many of the problems DDo have. Still, I think that there should be more simplistic ways to lower the insane farming of exp needed for epic levels (i know, i was there when the cap was 24, I could have leveled epic past lives then, but I was alone. my bad. Another thing is, now that finally that Severlin is gone, and we have Tolero (wich I honestly think is WAY more prepared and possibily she could do a LOT of good to the game) you should be our herald and tell our problems, so they are more aware of it. Sorry for necroing the post, but I had to. Sorry also for my terrible english :) Cheers!
Penalties should increase the higher you go into Reaper mode, so at R1, there would be no penalties. R10.. may as well be naked and using your fists. As far as the economy.. yea, there needs to be a a huge plat sink in the game and, I would add, reduce the actual currency rewards significantly (a few gold for most quests, maybe a plat or 2 for extremely long sagas) as well as reducing the costs for everything across the board. As a new player, I looked into buying gear, supplies, anything and there is literally nothing on either auction house. Edit: As far as cosmetic gear, it shouldn't be a physical item you equip. You're idea about the cosmetic tab is good, but instead of giving you an item, it just uses that skin for the slot. Then, you would have three cosmetic tabs - Found equipment, purchased sets, and individually purchased items (for example, you could purchase a specific cloak or wings, or a specific helmet skin. Of course, sets would be more expensive than individual items).
Platinum... great idea on the cap and ML potion vendors. Not inspired by the idea of gambling away plat for a randomly-generated item... I can't see that being fun, worthwhile and it would be really frustrating. Unbound Cannith Crafting items could be the way to go by having a mechanism to allow players to request items from crafters [players with necessary cc levels] in exchange for plat. This ofc comes back to your original, and extremely valid, point about plat usefulness and cap quantity. You are correct that a complete overhaul would be required [increasing both cap and adding purchaseable items] but these would be simple to design and implement.
love the ideas. When it comes to farming specific gear and being able to run a quest and loot a chest till ransack multiple times...yes, we have ALL been there. I think WoW has an elegant solution to that. All the named set gear can be bought from a specific special vendor, and it can only be bought with specific currency that you get from running the quests/raids in which you would have gotten that gear from in the first place. Say a specific piece of gear has a 10% chance to drop...averaged out that means that most players will get that specific piece of gear around the 9th to 11th time they loot that chest. So, buying that item would cost you 10 of whatever the currency is you are using and acquiring 10 of that currency would take you as long to acquire as it would to loot that chest 10 times. This way, you are guaranteed to get that piece of gear at the very least, at the time that the drop rate would suggest you should get it. I know there are some players out there (like me for instance) that are ALWAYS on the far upper end of drop rates. For me, over the course of the past 20 years playing MMO's and other online games with drop rates for gear and stuff (and really anything)... if something has a 50% chance to drop/succeed/whatever then my average would be 30-40%. At one point about a decade ago, after being really tired of always having bad luck with my "rolls" I graphed this out. And while I do sometimes get things very quick and very easy...over the long haul my average was a LOT worse than the drop rate. Imagine a piece of gear that has a 10% drop rate but it takes you 18-25 attempts to get it? That's why when WoW introduced this new system I was ecstatic! No longer would I be subject to the gods of the dice (who always seemed to hate me). Another thing I'd like to see improved in the game is the crafting...for me, specifically the Cannith Crafting. I've only been back to this game for about 9 months now after nearly a 9 year break from the game. So I'm not familiar with any of the other crafting really ...well some, so some minor extant... so I don't really know the other crafting system (well I know greensteel, and have half a dozen greensteel items between my 2 main characters...all of which I created over 9 years ago). I would like to see the crafting system improved to make it viable above level 20. One way that might help... how about if you have your crafting at or near max level you can add 1 effect to an item without first having to "disjunct" it. So that if you have a nice item that you really like because it has nice stats, but maybe is missing something you might like on it, you could simply add that 1 effect to the item. Maybe you still have to "prepare" the item for this without "disjuncting" it. This would also allow for a little more diversity in gear that people would wear I would think, if they were able to customize their gear to more suit them!
I love the storage idea. Storage is my biggest complaint in the game. I don't see it ever happening however. I have resigned myself to the fact that storage will never be updated at this point.
-Haven't experienced too much lag since I started playing this month, but I have been soloing the entire time. I do get D'C'd due to lag once a day like clockwork at 1am though haha. -Today I learned cure serious are the best potions you can buy. sadness -As a solo player I would love some more solo challenges. grouping is...very sparse as a first lifer on hard/elite
I absolutely agree with most if not all your points. there are so many irritants that makes loving this game hard. (expecially monetisation) im sure if most of these things were to be fixed a lot of new players would give this game a serious try. (also do you have a list of your eso addons? your ui is really nice.)
i.imgur.com/lporyVw.png This is my list so far. AUI does a lot of heavy lifting and is very easy to customize. Important note, you will need to library addons for all of these, so make sure you get them (they will tell you when they don't work which ones you need).
Let. Us. Reroll. Chests. With. Plat. Seriously, just let us. It's bad enough there's a WEEKLY cap on how many times we can get a chest from a quest, it's bad enough that some gear is locked behind an absurdly low drop rate and you might do the quest 80 times just to not get the item you need, but rerolling being tied behind Astral Shards is just dumb. Just let us pump our plat into it. It's a great plat sink, especially for those who are particularly unlucky.
Best way to increase the platinum value is to deflate the economy pricing and lower the amount of it earned. For example Instead of 400 base plat to respec your character, how about 400 gold and make that the base cost while decreasing the amount of platinum earned overall. This would take an enormous amount of effort on the developers part. Because each item would have to be retuned individually. But would be a much more simple coding fix. As you are changing a formula for calculating value ( on items) rather than changing or adding new components to the game. The tedious part for a devloper would be each vendor item price would have to be manually adjusted to a new base value.
Yes, this is the issue. Engines that old weren't designed with the direction hardware has gone in the past 15 years. A lot of issues is simply because the engine is not fundamentally able to run well on modern hardware. You can keep patching each individual instance of this, but that leads to it's own problems where the game running smoothly is concerned. They are going to eventually have to break down and do a complete reworking for SSG Game engine 2.0.
You mean the complete lack of development of the game engine (and i know this predates SSG and yes i know the game engine was never perfect to begin with). Take OSRS, that game engine is older than DDO, literally 20+ years old. The server lag used to be terrible around 2014/2015 to the point it was unplayable. The developers understood there was no future for the game in this state, the code was ancient and a pain in the ass to work with but they slogged through and now there is no issues with connection or lag. SSG are purposefully downgrading servers to save $$$ while simultaniously posting record profits.
@@LCDqBqA Well, to be completely fair to the game devs, it would be stupidly hard to either one, move everything to a new engine, or two develop a new one. But i get your point.
Great idea with the using platinum for random items and potions. For item clutter I feel like they just need to add a list view at your bank that includes all your characters' inventories/banks and has a decent search functionality.
Often times performance is sited as some sort of reason to not do this kind of thing, but after getting the information once, you could store and search the info client side, and only check with the server when the user tries to bring the item into their inventory. Better performance and resolves nearly all their inventory issues without too many changes.
Aside from that, the reincarnation cache should go and bound to character items should still be able to be stored on other character (even if still usage restricted).
Superb video, you made so many excellent points based on comparative analysis with other MMOs that I'm impressed, not your usual content in this channel. I truly wish that many of your proposals were taken seriously. I personally think that DDO is broken and outdated beyond repair, I cannot understand why, otherwise, so many wrong things like inventory, performance, etc. that affect the player experience so much, have not been already addressed by SSG after so many years. The only logical conclusion is that it's not profitable for them to address all these issues, so they're just milking the whales until the game finally dies. Don't have high hopes, but this type of video is certainly a step closer towards a solution, and really appreciate you taking the time to summarize in such a good way many of the game long-standing problems. Bravo!!! 👏👏👏
Making the mini-map relatively large slows my game down significantly even though it runs flawlessly most of the rest of the time. I have no idea why the map would even impact this. Regarding soloing: I thought I mostly solo'd so two lives ago, I made a spreadsheet to actually track it and found that 85.65% of the quests that I ran were done solo (mostly on reaper). A lot of what I didn't solo were raids or other quests that required more than one person or things I didn't flag for and redboxed for quick XP (i.e. Bloody Crypt). Most of these quests were ran in reaper mode. It would be awesome if they would implement your suggestion on reducing the self-healing penalty in reaper mode.
Best thing that can happen to DDO is if somehow someway a company clones the questing style of DDO and brings a MMO to market that is very close to what ddo is. DDO is unique in the sense it has the most enjoyable leveling experience of any MMO. the game feels like a legit single/multiplayer RPG of the 90s the game is devoid of fetch quests like every other MMO. Major issue though is its old, has massive server issues, the payment model is from the dark ages and the game gets almost zero marketing. My hope is some day a group of well connected and funded developer see the potential of a modern version of DDO doesnt have to be dungeons and dragons either just Fully voice narrated quests with traps secrets doors etc, fully instanced with choice of multiple difficulty levels that can be run with friends or by yourself just with modern graphics better animations and improved gameplay with servers that can actually run the game. If only ESO had a questing setup like DDO and did not have garbage combat :(. every dungeon in ESO so linear and boring
Granted I do not play as much as as you do but I don't see the lag issue as being as great a problem as you do. I do wish DDO would I open up more to allow individual creativity more room fore expression.
You can buy all of the content with DDO points and I have bought them all on a free account with in a 2 year period. It is not easy but very doable. With a subscription you get DDO Points every month, use that to buy that content, really easy.
Problem #6... fix all the bugs found in the Enhancement Trees. Some of these have existed for years, and it makes this aspect of the game sloppy at best. There are not so many but it always pains me to think about the [Warlock] Soul Eater capstone, [Bard] Swashbuckler Blow By Blow, Vistani Knife Fighter Whirling Blades.
I used to play DnD pen&paper years back. I tried DDO back in 2009, and decided to play it again because of nostalgia. Missed the dungeoncrawl coupon, just by a week.. :/ I could spend money on this game (I already bought a shared 30slot bank tab), but I won't. The content is ridiculously expensive for a laggy 2009s mmo.
Better cosmetics, more character customization, personal habitats like keeps, cabins and apartments that you can personalize with trophies and commendations, PVP.
Good video. I agree with everything you said however this makes me not wanna play Reaper mode or raids. I mostly solo and enjoy it solo, although I am a newer player. I just wanna play it more on the casual side of things. Can this game be enjoyed without raiding or reaping?
Problem 6, summoned minions needs to be revamped, as they have been far outstripped over time by power creep. Problem 7, charms need to be revamped in reaper, as the reduction in charm time, makes the mobs insanely useless, as they do not kill each other fast enough. No reason for a lowered charm duration.
I think they went a little over board on stats in the wrong place. I think they should have stuck with a formula +1 enhancement per level/2 and +2 at 30 and +2 on raid items and left insight at 7. That would be something like +5 of what we have now. It'll all be back to were it was in a year, probably.
Totally in on the storage thing. When I saw the new expansion packages for ultimate fan bundle, I almost rolled my eyes. Yes the cosmetics are cool. But my first thought was actually "man, where am I gonna fit this? most of my shared bank is already full of this stuff."
It's funny you mention PoE, because imo DDO does a lot better re lag and maybe some of the other stuff. If you aren't deleting the entire screen in maps, enemies stacking up will cause you to lock up the game with many builds. One of my builds in Ultimatum turned out to be completely unplayable because it would lock the screen every time I did an Ultimatum or anything else that spawned more than a pack or two of enemies at a time. The gold cap problem could also be solved by reducing both gold income and gold costs at cap. That's basically the "Stat Squish" but for gold. The plat cap isn't a problem at lower levels; make the way that gold costs scale with level 'flatter' and it can be not a problem at higher levels as well.
PoE is funny. I have a monster PC so I have yet to find a build that slows me down. PoE is a lot more demanding than DDO in terms of hardware, but my point was that really good hardware will in most cases let you play PoE extremely smoothly. DDO still stutters and lags out, regardless of hardware.
There are still bugs from 8+ years ago, like climbing on a ladder and a newer one I think where favoured weapons dont work (longbow). Ideally they really need a team of real modders, not the ppl that just collect the money and keep the world but upgrade the engine and bring things upto date. The switching from fullscreen to windowed where my pc restarts is the most annoying one for me, I have to play in windowed mode where the game is very dark even with max bloom etc. Still a quicky fun game but grr sometimes =)
Soloing in reaper mode, just have a hire :) I think that DDO needs more Solo adventures and should be at least 2 or 3 per level. Second and third have 2 each and there is the 1st level entry quest and I think one at 18th did I miss any? I would pay for some solo quest for testing characters.
It's hard to start on ddo but once you do or if you play with patience it's basically cheap. I've been playing 11 years and I have almost everything, never been vip only got menace and shadowfell when they were 5 dollars a few years back. I am sitting on 6k-7k ddo points
Valheim has the same performance issue. FPS tanks if you build to much in the game. It astounds me that they will push new expansions that will guarantee it will be laggy and bugged without addressing serious issues the game has already first. I needed an edit. Talking about loot, I store them in bank toons. As for drop rate, I just soloed all 17 Sharn quests on R1 and not one single names drop. I really don't need anything from there, I just found it odd no one single drop.
I started DDO like a week ago. I guess you guys heard that a thousand times but the main problem is first foremost the graphics. I cannot convince any of my friends to play with me because its just too old. Too add something in context to performance. ESO has major performance and lags issues. PVP is almost unplayable at peak times, because of bad servers. The rest of the game does pretty well with lag. I also didnt experience any lag in DDO yet but i play mostly solo.
I think it is not possible to get any extra from the game engine DDO runs on atm. Rebuilding game on a new engine will cost huge ammount of money, which we, the community are not be able to provide. And I don't believe that any investor will be interested in this kind of specific game these days.
@@okamihikuro1401 Hard to tell really. Maybe im a rare case but i started DDO because i wanted to have a MMO with more depth with skills and general gameplay. But i dont know about the younger audience. Maybe it would actually fruit, maybe not.
How about an option to customize your hirelings (could be just available spells/skills in the hot bar) for plat. Call it advanced hirelings or whatever, make it 10x more expensive, drain some platinum from the system
You forgot to mention one of the biggest issues-- the reincarnation process needing to be streamlined. This should be done without messing with your UI / ability bars or inventory. It should be as quick and painless as a respec. And you should be able to create and save custom 'paths' that you can simply apply to select all the feats/stats/skills you want as you level your character up.
I'd be happy just for champs to be a difficulty setting on it's own. I have a truckload of remnants that are pretty much just hogging the bank. I like reaper, but champs sh*t me.
for the platinum cap they could again chhange/add a new currency maybe a special gem that could represent 100k plat or more. i have been on ddo since founding and i agree with your arguments, i died 4 times in hardcore due to lag which made me not wish to play hc
Add a tithing system give plat to the gods for a chance of intervention of some sort. Stay in the dood graces of their gods and maybe a 1 turns into a 20 or a auto recovery once when down.
Farming a piece of gear? Hit that quest 1/day., with every toon that you have that can run that particular quest .. you will get it, eventually. Now, if I can finally get Pinion ....
I now play DDO solo 95% of the time, mostly because I get a lot less lag and performance issues when playing solo. Because I play solo and because I, more often than not, have relatively short play windows I rarely play in reaper mode because they take too long when self healing.
lot of imprecisions. Old expansions and saltmarsh (and feywild) give you epic destinies. You also get shared bank with VIP (a little, but still enough). Etc
For the expansions, they should do what Guild Wars 2 did; Base game was free, Expansion 1 was 40e, expansion 2 was 40e. Expansion 1 hit ~5 years old => now you only have to buy expansion 2 and you get expansion 1 for free
I’m a truck driver, taking the winter off, so I’m back to ddo. I think they fixed some of these issues in i51. So now my biggest complaint Style!!! My favorite game was City of Heroes, they cancelled the game. So I finally settled on DDO. Yes, I want a versatile skill set, just as important, I want to look good when I adventure. For some odd reason they have found a way to make every armor set horribly unattractive. Why do I have a backpack on my robe? Or my plate Mail has weird straps, or this odd multi leveled texturing., or I have bellbottom pants. Why can’t I just put on a normal set of armor? I have found a few decent looks, however, it’s far from satisfactory. This shouldn’t be so complicated, it’s like they went out of the way to make this game a fashion disaster
I set up a account just this week. I know the log in is case sensitive so I purposely made my user name and password all lower case followed by a couple numbers. Not a problem for a couple days. Today I can’t log on getting an error saying check my username or password and it’s case sensitive. However I had logged on several times just yesterday with no problems. Also it seems my username now comes up in all caps and even typing over it in lower case doesn’t help as it automatically changes back to all caps. Have any ideas?
Yeah, I really agree about the old expansions being more open to VIPs. After an expansion is a year or so old it should be included with VIP.
I disagree. Old expansions should be available for DDO points thus free when you earn it. I have a fully free account as well as an account that I buy all of the expansions with when they come out. My free account within 2 years owns almost all of the content (pretty much available in DDO Points) a pay account can buy the content for DDO points within a year of the expansions?)
what perfoprmance issues? :D
i literally run potato, wich is taking its lastt breaths with R9 270x from 2013-2015...
i was super surprised how i can run this at 120 fps with high/veryhigh detail settings, and even cities dont crawl my fps down.. like they always did with mmos
i recently started playing.. i like the visual art style of this game, somehow has aged really well, has somekind of "old golden age" charm to it, hard to explain,...
not sure if the game itself is any good tho, im playing human barbarian.. 5h in , im still level2... i actually tilted the fck out , how much time i spent in korthos to be completionist with quests... and the Explorer quest bugged, cant finish it ;S
all the tasks done, and not finishing... also my more concerns is how predatory the shop feels... so much walking in this game, and free to play players probably aint getting even mount any time soon? also why the fck content is behind paywalls like wtf.. possiby the most expensive mmo i have ever seen... on top of that, u still habve monthly sub?
and they sell expansions for 99$ .. and cheaper ones for a game wich is from 2006... 1000% guarantede your not getting content for 99$ ffs...
@@Microphunktv-jb3kjYou have 5 hours and think you can talk about the performance? How about jumping sections being basically impossible sometimes due to the ridiculous lag? Has nothing to do with the performance on your end, the servers are hot garbage.
As a casual player, my biggest problem with ddo is that I often feel useless when playing in a party with other players. The power difference between the haves and have nots is too big. Looking at your damage numbers in this video, you deal about 10 times as much damage as my characters do. I don't have the best builds or the best gear, but the difference is just too big to have fun in a party.
Thanks for collecting your thoughts and submitting a video on this Strim. I think every player can resonate with each of these problems you've brought up, and I'd love for you to build on this and do an interview with some SSG staff later this year to let them discuss how they are going to address these problems in the future. Thanks!
That's the ideal plan!
Yes and yes (and yes). As a new to DDO player the only excuse for spending as much as I did for all-access in 2020 was a year-long lockdown…
It's mostly a free game they still have to make ongoing income.
The gear collection imprint system could also add more uses for platinum, i.e. you can get a copy of an item from your collection for x amount of plat
Honestly, that would be perfect. It is something I didn't know I wanted, but now I can't stop thinking about how nice that would be.
I feel like a system like this would kill two birds with one stone. Would be great to have.
The TR Cache system is a problem especially for people who have lots of raid and BtC gear. It takes me several hours to just throw my stuff in my shared storage and distribute it across my bank toons and just taking stuff out of the TR cache. I often will delay my True TR for days or even over a week just because I don't want to deal with the chore of organizing gear across toons and waiting for the TR cache stuff to move to my inventory.
i have 3 bank character, and there is no search option in tr cache wich sucks aswell
One problem I have with platinum & it’s usage is resetting enhancement trees. Could just be me, but especially at higher levels I feel like I’m totally draining my plat to change 1 or 2 things. Even worse if there are multiple trees you want to change
The reaper trees love being reset. It makes them rich.
@@Strimtom feed the reapers!
Simple question: does spending money to reset reaper or enhancements make the game better? no.
If don´t add a thing to the game, take it off. Just like chains that need quests in order or quests in huge slayer area without teleporter. Such simple moves that would improve playability as a whole.
@@rodolfoboimarinho6504 I agree. A big issue with the reaper respec cost is that it only hurts the people who have less or a moderate amount of rxp when its beneficial to move points around during leveling. When you have alot or max reaper points you never need to reset.
Probably no one will see this but yea
Iv been playing for 10 years now, and I have literally never hit the plat cap.
Why?
Resetting trees.
I have a small group (3 others usually) I play with, they're all plat capped. They each gave me 1mil, so they could continue gaining money. About 3 or 4 weeks later, they said "We're all plat capped again. You had 3 mil like we each had 3 mil so you're plat capped by now too?"
My answer? "Nah Im down to 2 mil out of the 3 you guys combined gave me." In the 3 weeks it took for each of them to make 1 mil, with me running along side them I made about -1mil.
I will admit this is a combination of 1: As I said, resetting trees. "Im going to take this cool thing!" *Tests it in slayer area* ...It doesnt work. *Resets tree* I'll take this other cool thing! *Test* ...doesn't work either. Cool cool cool.
and 2: Running around with a full inventory. I do about 85% of my game time with 5 inventory spaces or less open to take loot which I can then sell to make positive plat value. So maybe that's on me.
this is your best video ever. i like alot of your content but this one kinda nails how we're all feeling. i hope the devs engage with this seriously and don't give us the (very) old "its too hard". these fixes would bring this game forward and give it some serious contender status with the other mmo games out there. absolutely love this one @strimtom. great job man!
RE: Reaper healing penalty: Only apply the self heal penalty when you're in combat. Or, have the penalty scale based on Dungeon alert.
We recently learned that DDO does have a combat state determination, which is basically when you hear different combat music. I'd love to see more done with this system, especially for self healing.
or make it a debuff aura on every reaper monster wich would also be applied if a monster hits you from distance
In gw2 we can have an 80v80v80 3 way fight with settings turned up with little to no lag, but DDO can't handle the physics checks of 10-12 mobs chasing one character, so instead of fixing it they penalize players for pulling that many mobs. 😣😣😣
What's worse is when you point this out on their forums, there are a handful of DDO-can-do-no-wrong blind defending paladins who will defend the situation telling you to stop playing if you don't like it.
Not your normal video Scrimtom, but things that need to be said. 👍 I like the gambling for items concept. Why do I see Jeets being the weapon vendor and Youlthoon being the clothing vendor…
All about the $. We asked for better potions - got store potions. We asked for lower raid timers for old raids - bypass timers. The game is designed to nickle and dime constantly. They care little about basic functions like lag and customer service. Inventory management is depressing. The new player experience and marketing is atrocious. VIP gets screwed constantly from frequent expansions. They spend half of their development time on whales. They change the meta with large changes they know will unbalance things to get people to TR. Now they are making past life bonuses have a greater value by lowering gear at end game. $$$$. DDO is a classic example of 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I left over a month ago and so did many I knew from Hardcore. I got 15 years of games I have passed over I am going to catch up on for awhile.
I concur.... DDO turned to GreedDO and I am not sure if that will ever re-balance itself..... costs more than the game to buy 1x bag or some XP pots to level from 20-30 after reincarnating, not sure where the economy of scale comes in.
Great video dude. Hope they watch this one and listen to some of this. I've been super fortunate with not getting much lag in this game. (Shadowfell/Stormhorns stuff is the worst for me) but obviously one of the biggest problem for everyone. Personally, storage is my biggest issue. It's making it hard for me to TR and play the game. Spell Point potions used to be a pretty solid plat sink, and an important part of the economy and valuable for trades, but I hardly ever see them in the game anymore. I also miss named loot being unbound, really killed a large portion of the auction house and again was something good to spend plat on if you had bad luck finding it in a chest. I think they make too much money on chest rerolls now.
Imagine for me, I'm from Brazil, the conversion rate is 1 dollar to 5 reais (our currency), so 15 dollars sub equals to ~ 75 reais, also pay for everything you said... Made me run away from the game. FFXIV have local subscription prices, and I pay 30 reais/month, half of the DDO price + 1 expansion every year and a half... So yeah, totally agree with you about the revamp they need to do.
YES! THANK YOU STRIMTOM! im not playing the game right now because solo healing on r10 is taking soooo long.
This could be a solution to the platinum cap. A npc that sells and buys "platinum bars" for 1 million platinum. A platinum bar could be an ingredient or collectible, which can easily be stored in a bag.
Congrats for the video. Just hope sometime, someday any developer listen to the players and do something about the elephant in the room. Love DDO but they need to clean the house and do 2 or 3 expansions fixing issues.
One thing that is as important is a good working support not people that close 3 or 4 tickets instead of solving the first one. Even the preset options for windows 10 and preset classes that never worked but would greatly help new players.
Support is an issue. I know they are currently hiring, so hopefully they can get more customer service and clean up the pipeline.
Good video! A lot of these are good points. Definitely i feel like the first point is the biggest issue for me. Internet/server lag is something that can never be truly fixed in an MMO, but its insane how different it is between DDO and other games. And just basic issues with the game engine - hit detection, the weird jumping and climbing stutters - all of it just makes what would make an incredibly enjoyable game very frustrating at times. I would be very happy if the next update wasn’t even a content update, but just a huge overhaul of the game engine to fix these issues
Thank you for this video, I really enjoyed it. I'm not really a fan of watching streams in general as I find them too slow and prefer watching things on 2x speed.
That's why I wanted to put out a video like this. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Being able to increase base Armor AC or weapon dmg / weapon die using a Smith would be a good plat sink. Adding +1 thru +5 (and beyond!) to armor would be great for tank builds. Adding +1 thru +5 and beyond to Weapons also useful to bring melee back in line with casters. I think you should also be able to craft bags or at least be able to upgrade, I resent paying $40 for a bag when you have several different types.
Great video with brilliant insights and ideas. Except the gambling (just personal preference), I agree with all your ideas. Thank you for sharing!
For the “#3 DDO doesn't have good solo challenge,” I’d like to say comparing with the relatively routine dungeons, the Challenges (in House Cannith) are more interesting for repetitive run, especially “when you wake in 3 in the morning and cannot go to sleep.” However, they are quite solo unfriendly (it would be much better to adjust time limit by group size).
Besides, I think another problem is “chance to spawn” of Rare/Random Encounters. For many Wilderness Adventure Areas, I had completed the Slayer and Explorer, but had to enter/finish/reset again and again (averagely 7 times; for some Wilderness over 20 times but still no show, I have already given up) for the last one or two Rare/Random Encounters. It quickly turned my (and my character’s) role from a serious adventurer/inquisitor in a fantastic world to a bored gambler before a slot machine.
A potential solution might be changing the algorithm of chance to spawn from completely random to basing on current completed encounters. It means when a character enters a Wilderness for the first time, every Encounter is completely random, but after any one Encounter being completed, the chance for all uncompleted Encounters would be increased, and so on.
Let’s say there are total 20 Encounters with 10% chance of spawn for each, after 10 Encounters being completed, the chance for the uncompleted 10 would increase to (20 * 10% / 10 =) 20%; if 18 Encounters are completed, the chance for the last two would be (20 * 10% / 2 =) 100%. This will save players who want to complete their Rare/Random Encounters and/or Monster Manual and help them (and me) focus on role playing.
Good Points. Thank you Strimtom. I hope they are able to work on this stuff.
This year I invested almost 90 hours in one month with DDO including a monthly subscription. As mentioned, I faced a lot of blocked content behind the pay wall. If all content were available for 50 dollars I would take it, or alternatively 90% from the old content as long as you have a sup as well. If you look at games like Guild Wars 2, you can get all three addons there for $49 including tons of free content from time to time.
Platinum usage discussion: Add a nominal platinum cost to upgrading end game gear. eg. anything that requires being combined with threads of fate also costs 100k platinum to upgrade.
I agree with you on plat cap and the need for better storage. Basically, I'm a hoarder. While I started out with multiple characters, I've ended up with 1 playable character and the rest are mules. I am not sure how much time SSG would want to put into providing a comprehensive inventory/storage system such as you described, but they could easily make bags, named armor bags, named weapon bags, etc. I was so thankful they did the cakes/cookies bag and freed up more than 1 page inventory on that mule. I am now facing deciding which named items, that aren't btc or bta, to sell off because I'm out of room again. I'd rather play more than spend time managing my inventories. So, good job with all your the issues (and solutions) you listed and I hope they listen to at least part, if not all, of your vid. >^*^
For your random item, you basically described the sands antique trader. For solo dungeons, you basically described a different version of the challenges. I would love both of those!
Omg the named items tabs would be awesome. I'm sitting on a few items because I "will TR into a class which will use that named item and I don't wanna farm for it" and my TR cache is 70% items from Feywild, Ravenloft, Sharn, etc for other classes. I never knew I needed that.
Thanks for this video. You covered many topics and were spot on every time.
The last change they did regarding currency was make everything 10x more expensive. Things that used to cost 100 gold now cost 100 plat, but also did this without increasing the cap.
LOVE the Collections Tab for gear idea..... and for a "single centralized currency" you could even have it cost a certain amount of plat based on the minimum level (maybe like 1000pp x ML) in order to have plat mean something too!
The sudden freezes, and DDO completely freezing where you have to kill the process. That last one happens to me five times a day. It's just horrible. I hope they fix that soon!
The platinum cap is 2^32nd. That's 2 times the typical 32-bit cap of 2^31 - 1 (2,147,483,647). This is what makes it hard to change: it's already as big as the bits will allow in the current 32 bit system. As for a plat sink, I'd really like the ability to spend plat on common collectables so I don't have to go farm them by hand anymore. This will make cannith crafting (an already end-game loot sink in terms of generating crafting essence) more viable to actually make gear worth using to fill slots for multiple builds.
As for expansions, a thing that Everquest 2 (an equally old game) does is if you buy the most recent expansion you get all the other expansions for free. No sub required. It lets new players get caught up without having to drop $300 on black friday just for the expansions.
I have 10 character slots that are used only as mules, 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and so on. Also, one for pots, one for tomes and one for cosmetics. I'm still short on space.
One thing that keeps me from playing that there is barely anything exclusive to endgame. No random maps, no delve type stuff, no rifts, no dailies, no weeklies, no nothing.
I agree, we do need nephalem rifts in DDO. Good suggestion.
so much YES to the named item tab... yet I would extend that to organize your bank, too
28:42 I like the idea of the collection. However I think something needs to be done about feeding items for sentience. We wouldn't want an endless sentient xp loop. Not a super challenging problem. Obviously items pulled from the collection wouldn't count. But I think removing the cost of feeding your item because you can just get another copy is a problem. The solution may lie in fixing sentient xp, but it's still an issue
my solution for solo reaper. make it so when you’re in a reaper quest alone the healing penalty only applies if you’re in combat (say in combat means you’ve taken damage/saved/been missed in the last 5-10 sec). that way you can heal yourself in between fights quickly and not waste your time.
1. Stuck on Loading screen (aaaaaargh!) Great video as usual :)
Eso has the sticker book style system.
You get the item, lock it to your character or account, can remake it at a transmute station for transmute crystals( the cost goes down for each item in the set you get) and based on traits you know for crafting you can choose those traits when making the item.
Best part, if your character is below Cao level, you can make most items at lower levels to add sets to your leveling experience you'd normally have issues obtaining.
This was feared it'd kill the markets, it actually helped to increase sells on certain items because now people could justify buying the items for the sticker book as an investment for future characters instead of looking at a mother's sorrow inferno staff and going that's alot of gold for something...
Consider this regarding expansions: At a certain point the model that SSG is using is actually segregating the player base. Its the same problem CoD players faced when map packs came out for that series. Especially for a small (player count) game like DDO it is imperative for the maximum number of player be able to group with one another. Unlock all content for VIP up to the latest expo or two (keep the collector edition goodie bundles as whale bait). This approach would lose SSG very little since we have proof that most ddo players are dolphins or whales, they will buy the big ultimate editions and spend tons in the store. But to attract new players (so you can eventually stop relying on individual players payings tons) you need to make the game a more worthwhile investment. As it stands the game appears to the uninitiated as kind of p2w that nickel and dimes you.
A single inventory would really help, then I'd not have repeat items eating up space.
It would also be nice it they stay closer to actual D&D with the enchancements.
I watched it today and I think you nailed many of the problems DDo have.
Still, I think that there should be more simplistic ways to lower the insane farming of exp needed for epic levels (i know, i was there when the cap was 24, I could have leveled epic past lives then, but I was alone. my bad.
Another thing is, now that finally that Severlin is gone, and we have Tolero (wich I honestly think is WAY more prepared and possibily she could do a LOT of good to the game) you should be our herald and tell our problems, so they are more aware of it.
Sorry for necroing the post, but I had to.
Sorry also for my terrible english :)
Cheers!
Penalties should increase the higher you go into Reaper mode, so at R1, there would be no penalties. R10.. may as well be naked and using your fists. As far as the economy.. yea, there needs to be a a huge plat sink in the game and, I would add, reduce the actual currency rewards significantly (a few gold for most quests, maybe a plat or 2 for extremely long sagas) as well as reducing the costs for everything across the board. As a new player, I looked into buying gear, supplies, anything and there is literally nothing on either auction house.
Edit: As far as cosmetic gear, it shouldn't be a physical item you equip. You're idea about the cosmetic tab is good, but instead of giving you an item, it just uses that skin for the slot. Then, you would have three cosmetic tabs - Found equipment, purchased sets, and individually purchased items (for example, you could purchase a specific cloak or wings, or a specific helmet skin. Of course, sets would be more expensive than individual items).
Platinum... great idea on the cap and ML potion vendors. Not inspired by the idea of gambling away plat for a randomly-generated item... I can't see that being fun, worthwhile and it would be really frustrating. Unbound Cannith Crafting items could be the way to go by having a mechanism to allow players to request items from crafters [players with necessary cc levels] in exchange for plat. This ofc comes back to your original, and extremely valid, point about plat usefulness and cap quantity. You are correct that a complete overhaul would be required [increasing both cap and adding purchaseable items] but these would be simple to design and implement.
love the ideas.
When it comes to farming specific gear and being able to run a quest and loot a chest till ransack multiple times...yes, we have ALL been there. I think WoW has an elegant solution to that. All the named set gear can be bought from a specific special vendor, and it can only be bought with specific currency that you get from running the quests/raids in which you would have gotten that gear from in the first place. Say a specific piece of gear has a 10% chance to drop...averaged out that means that most players will get that specific piece of gear around the 9th to 11th time they loot that chest. So, buying that item would cost you 10 of whatever the currency is you are using and acquiring 10 of that currency would take you as long to acquire as it would to loot that chest 10 times.
This way, you are guaranteed to get that piece of gear at the very least, at the time that the drop rate would suggest you should get it. I know there are some players out there (like me for instance) that are ALWAYS on the far upper end of drop rates. For me, over the course of the past 20 years playing MMO's and other online games with drop rates for gear and stuff (and really anything)... if something has a 50% chance to drop/succeed/whatever then my average would be 30-40%.
At one point about a decade ago, after being really tired of always having bad luck with my "rolls" I graphed this out. And while I do sometimes get things very quick and very easy...over the long haul my average was a LOT worse than the drop rate. Imagine a piece of gear that has a 10% drop rate but it takes you 18-25 attempts to get it? That's why when WoW introduced this new system I was ecstatic! No longer would I be subject to the gods of the dice (who always seemed to hate me).
Another thing I'd like to see improved in the game is the crafting...for me, specifically the Cannith Crafting. I've only been back to this game for about 9 months now after nearly a 9 year break from the game. So I'm not familiar with any of the other crafting really ...well some, so some minor extant... so I don't really know the other crafting system (well I know greensteel, and have half a dozen greensteel items between my 2 main characters...all of which I created over 9 years ago). I would like to see the crafting system improved to make it viable above level 20.
One way that might help... how about if you have your crafting at or near max level you can add 1 effect to an item without first having to "disjunct" it. So that if you have a nice item that you really like because it has nice stats, but maybe is missing something you might like on it, you could simply add that 1 effect to the item. Maybe you still have to "prepare" the item for this without "disjuncting" it. This would also allow for a little more diversity in gear that people would wear I would think, if they were able to customize their gear to more suit them!
I love the storage idea. Storage is my biggest complaint in the game. I don't see it ever happening however. I have resigned myself to the fact that storage will never be updated at this point.
-Haven't experienced too much lag since I started playing this month, but I have been soloing the entire time. I do get D'C'd due to lag once a day like clockwork at 1am though haha.
-Today I learned cure serious are the best potions you can buy. sadness
-As a solo player I would love some more solo challenges. grouping is...very sparse as a first lifer on hard/elite
I absolutely agree with most if not all your points. there are so many irritants that makes loving this game hard. (expecially monetisation) im sure if most of these things were to be fixed a lot of new players would give this game a serious try.
(also do you have a list of your eso addons? your ui is really nice.)
i.imgur.com/lporyVw.png
This is my list so far. AUI does a lot of heavy lifting and is very easy to customize.
Important note, you will need to library addons for all of these, so make sure you get them (they will tell you when they don't work which ones you need).
@@Strimtom Thank you so much!
Let. Us. Reroll. Chests. With. Plat. Seriously, just let us. It's bad enough there's a WEEKLY cap on how many times we can get a chest from a quest, it's bad enough that some gear is locked behind an absurdly low drop rate and you might do the quest 80 times just to not get the item you need, but rerolling being tied behind Astral Shards is just dumb. Just let us pump our plat into it. It's a great plat sink, especially for those who are particularly unlucky.
Really liked the collection tab idea.
Best way to increase the platinum value is to deflate the economy pricing and lower the amount of it earned. For example Instead of 400 base plat to respec your character, how about 400 gold and make that the base cost while decreasing the amount of platinum earned overall. This would take an enormous amount of effort on the developers part. Because each item would have to be retuned individually. But would be a much more simple coding fix. As you are changing a formula for calculating value ( on items) rather than changing or adding new components to the game. The tedious part for a devloper would be each vendor item price would have to be manually adjusted to a new base value.
I think the largest cause of the performance issue could be due to the engine it was built in.
Yes, this is the issue. Engines that old weren't designed with the direction hardware has gone in the past 15 years. A lot of issues is simply because the engine is not fundamentally able to run well on modern hardware. You can keep patching each individual instance of this, but that leads to it's own problems where the game running smoothly is concerned. They are going to eventually have to break down and do a complete reworking for SSG Game engine 2.0.
You mean the complete lack of development of the game engine (and i know this predates SSG and yes i know the game engine was never perfect to begin with). Take OSRS, that game engine is older than DDO, literally 20+ years old. The server lag used to be terrible around 2014/2015 to the point it was unplayable. The developers understood there was no future for the game in this state, the code was ancient and a pain in the ass to work with but they slogged through and now there is no issues with connection or lag. SSG are purposefully downgrading servers to save $$$ while simultaniously posting record profits.
@@ASolzhenitsyn Exactly my thoughts.
@@LCDqBqA Well, to be completely fair to the game devs, it would be stupidly hard to either one, move everything to a new engine, or two develop a new one. But i get your point.
@@maehhhr definitely not easy, necessary though.
1) Great video. Fantastic.
2) That shirt at 3:05 to 4:40 is heckin on fleek.
Great idea with the using platinum for random items and potions.
For item clutter I feel like they just need to add a list view at your bank that includes all your characters' inventories/banks and has a decent search functionality.
Often times performance is sited as some sort of reason to not do this kind of thing, but after getting the information once, you could store and search the info client side, and only check with the server when the user tries to bring the item into their inventory. Better performance and resolves nearly all their inventory issues without too many changes.
Aside from that, the reincarnation cache should go and bound to character items should still be able to be stored on other character (even if still usage restricted).
Superb video, you made so many excellent points based on comparative analysis with other MMOs that I'm impressed, not your usual content in this channel. I truly wish that many of your proposals were taken seriously. I personally think that DDO is broken and outdated beyond repair, I cannot understand why, otherwise, so many wrong things like inventory, performance, etc. that affect the player experience so much, have not been already addressed by SSG after so many years. The only logical conclusion is that it's not profitable for them to address all these issues, so they're just milking the whales until the game finally dies. Don't have high hopes, but this type of video is certainly a step closer towards a solution, and really appreciate you taking the time to summarize in such a good way many of the game long-standing problems. Bravo!!! 👏👏👏
On issue #4, acquiring the item you are looking for, id like to see them bring back the quest chain rewards having a list of named item drops.
Making the mini-map relatively large slows my game down significantly even though it runs flawlessly most of the rest of the time. I have no idea why the map would even impact this.
Regarding soloing: I thought I mostly solo'd so two lives ago, I made a spreadsheet to actually track it and found that 85.65% of the quests that I ran were done solo (mostly on reaper). A lot of what I didn't solo were raids or other quests that required more than one person or things I didn't flag for and redboxed for quick XP (i.e. Bloody Crypt). Most of these quests were ran in reaper mode. It would be awesome if they would implement your suggestion on reducing the self-healing penalty in reaper mode.
Best thing that can happen to DDO is if somehow someway a company clones the questing style of DDO and brings a MMO to market that is very close to what ddo is. DDO is unique in the sense it has the most enjoyable leveling experience of any MMO. the game feels like a legit single/multiplayer RPG of the 90s the game is devoid of fetch quests like every other MMO. Major issue though is its old, has massive server issues, the payment model is from the dark ages and the game gets almost zero marketing.
My hope is some day a group of well connected and funded developer see the potential of a modern version of DDO doesnt have to be dungeons and dragons either just Fully voice narrated quests with traps secrets doors etc, fully instanced with choice of multiple difficulty levels that can be run with friends or by yourself just with modern graphics better animations and improved gameplay with servers that can actually run the game. If only ESO had a questing setup like DDO and did not have garbage combat :(. every dungeon in ESO so linear and boring
Granted I do not play as much as as you do but I don't see the lag issue as being as great a problem as you do. I do wish DDO would I open up more to allow individual creativity more room fore expression.
You can buy all of the content with DDO points and I have bought them all on a free account with in a 2 year period. It is not easy but very doable. With a subscription you get DDO Points every month, use that to buy that content, really easy.
Problem #6... fix all the bugs found in the Enhancement Trees. Some of these have existed for years, and it makes this aspect of the game sloppy at best. There are not so many but it always pains me to think about the [Warlock] Soul Eater capstone, [Bard] Swashbuckler Blow By Blow, Vistani Knife Fighter Whirling Blades.
I used to play DnD pen&paper years back. I tried DDO back in 2009, and decided to play it again because of nostalgia. Missed the dungeoncrawl coupon, just by a week.. :/ I could spend money on this game (I already bought a shared 30slot bank tab), but I won't. The content is ridiculously expensive for a laggy 2009s mmo.
Better cosmetics, more character customization, personal habitats like keeps, cabins and apartments that you can personalize with trophies and commendations, PVP.
Good video. I agree with everything you said however this makes me not wanna play Reaper mode or raids. I mostly solo and enjoy it solo, although I am a newer player. I just wanna play it more on the casual side of things. Can this game be enjoyed without raiding or reaping?
I’ve been playing for a few years, only grouped once. So yes 😃
Problem 6, summoned minions needs to be revamped, as they have been far outstripped over time by power creep. Problem 7, charms need to be revamped in reaper, as the reduction in charm time, makes the mobs insanely useless, as they do not kill each other fast enough. No reason for a lowered charm duration.
I think they went a little over board on stats in the wrong place. I think they should have stuck with a formula +1 enhancement per level/2 and +2 at 30 and +2 on raid items and left insight at 7. That would be something like +5 of what we have now. It'll all be back to were it was in a year, probably.
Totally in on the storage thing. When I saw the new expansion packages for ultimate fan bundle, I almost rolled my eyes. Yes the cosmetics are cool. But my first thought was actually "man, where am I gonna fit this? most of my shared bank is already full of this stuff."
I believe this stuff won't go into your inventory, but there will be a saltmarsh vendor who will give you the stuff if you own the expansion.
Wow. These changes would actually...make the game soooooooooooo much more fun. Enjoyment would be up soooooooooooo high. I 💯 support this
It's funny you mention PoE, because imo DDO does a lot better re lag and maybe some of the other stuff. If you aren't deleting the entire screen in maps, enemies stacking up will cause you to lock up the game with many builds. One of my builds in Ultimatum turned out to be completely unplayable because it would lock the screen every time I did an Ultimatum or anything else that spawned more than a pack or two of enemies at a time.
The gold cap problem could also be solved by reducing both gold income and gold costs at cap. That's basically the "Stat Squish" but for gold. The plat cap isn't a problem at lower levels; make the way that gold costs scale with level 'flatter' and it can be not a problem at higher levels as well.
PoE is funny. I have a monster PC so I have yet to find a build that slows me down. PoE is a lot more demanding than DDO in terms of hardware, but my point was that really good hardware will in most cases let you play PoE extremely smoothly. DDO still stutters and lags out, regardless of hardware.
There are still bugs from 8+ years ago, like climbing on a ladder and a newer one I think where favoured weapons dont work (longbow). Ideally they really need a team of real modders, not the ppl that just collect the money and keep the world but upgrade the engine and bring things upto date. The switching from fullscreen to windowed where my pc restarts is the most annoying one for me, I have to play in windowed mode where the game is very dark even with max bloom etc. Still a quicky fun game but grr sometimes =)
Soloing in reaper mode, just have a hire :) I think that DDO needs more Solo adventures and should be at least 2 or 3 per level. Second and third have 2 each and there is the 1st level entry quest and I think one at 18th did I miss any? I would pay for some solo quest for testing characters.
"Saltmarsh is going to be a mini expansion and probably cost like 20$" of you sweet summer child. XD
Substitute plat for cannith ingredients?
It's hard to start on ddo but once you do or if you play with patience it's basically cheap. I've been playing 11 years and I have almost everything, never been vip only got menace and shadowfell when they were 5 dollars a few years back. I am sitting on 6k-7k ddo points
33:02 it may cut don on AS sales, but then they could start selling the tradable things to get the replica gear, which could bring in something
Valheim has the same performance issue. FPS tanks if you build to much in the game. It astounds me that they will push new expansions that will guarantee it will be laggy and bugged without addressing serious issues the game has already first. I needed an edit. Talking about loot, I store them in bank toons. As for drop rate, I just soloed all 17 Sharn quests on R1 and not one single names drop. I really don't need anything from there, I just found it odd no one single drop.
I play nearly 100% solo and i thank you for bringing up the point about solo challenges
they need to add like a buy order in ah/asah. you set ur buy price for a specific item and ppl can sell it to you
I started DDO like a week ago. I guess you guys heard that a thousand times but the main problem is first foremost the graphics. I cannot convince any of my friends to play with me because its just too old. Too add something in context to performance. ESO has major performance and lags issues. PVP is almost unplayable at peak times, because of bad servers. The rest of the game does pretty well with lag. I also didnt experience any lag in DDO yet but i play mostly solo.
I will admit I didn't include cyrodil lag since it is very specific to that area and the rest of the game performs significantly better than cyrodil.
I think it is not possible to get any extra from the game engine DDO runs on atm. Rebuilding game on a new engine will cost huge ammount of money, which we, the community are not be able to provide. And I don't believe that any investor will be interested in this kind of specific game these days.
@@okamihikuro1401 Hard to tell really. Maybe im a rare case but i started DDO because i wanted to have a MMO with more depth with skills and general gameplay. But i dont know about the younger audience. Maybe it would actually fruit, maybe not.
How about an option to customize your hirelings (could be just available spells/skills in the hot bar) for plat. Call it advanced hirelings or whatever, make it 10x more expensive, drain some platinum from the system
You forgot to mention one of the biggest issues-- the reincarnation process needing to be streamlined. This should be done without messing with your UI / ability bars or inventory. It should be as quick and painless as a respec.
And you should be able to create and save custom 'paths' that you can simply apply to select all the feats/stats/skills you want as you level your character up.
You can save your ui layout and reload it. You can save many custom ui layouts and load the ones you want
I tend to solo ddo alot after work ,so i hope someones listening to your ideas at ddo
SPACE! I want a wardrobe tab in my bank. Something that only hold cosmetics!
love the collections system +1 to that. Inventory management is a big pain in the ass on ddo
*I need GunMage now!*
If we can have robot dogs and flying ships we can gave guns!
No Artie don't count! It could be an enhancement tree.
I'd be happy just for champs to be a difficulty setting on it's own. I have a truckload of remnants that are pretty much just hogging the bank. I like reaper, but champs sh*t me.
for the platinum cap they could again chhange/add a new currency maybe a special gem that could represent 100k plat or more. i have been on ddo since founding and i agree with your arguments, i died 4 times in hardcore due to lag which made me not wish to play hc
You could also use platinum for those collection items. as a platinum sink
amazing video man
Add a tithing system give plat to the gods for a chance of intervention of some sort. Stay in the dood graces of their gods and maybe a 1 turns into a 20 or a auto recovery once when down.
do you recall the old dungeon Hack dungeons and dragons game from the 1990s? maybe something like that for solo
Farming a piece of gear? Hit that quest 1/day., with every toon that you have that can run that particular quest .. you will get it, eventually. Now, if I can finally get Pinion ....
I now play DDO solo 95% of the time, mostly because I get a lot less lag and performance issues when playing solo. Because I play solo and because I, more often than not, have relatively short play windows I rarely play in reaper mode because they take too long when self healing.
Absolutely agree on both your recommendations for making plat more valuable.
lot of imprecisions. Old expansions and saltmarsh (and feywild) give you epic destinies. You also get shared bank with VIP (a little, but still enough). Etc
Random Item gen even exists in the sands for ancient tokens
For the expansions, they should do what Guild Wars 2 did; Base game was free, Expansion 1 was 40e, expansion 2 was 40e. Expansion 1 hit ~5 years old => now you only have to buy expansion 2 and you get expansion 1 for free
I’m a truck driver, taking the winter off, so I’m back to ddo. I think they fixed some of these issues in i51. So now my biggest complaint
Style!!!
My favorite game was City of Heroes, they cancelled the game. So I finally settled on DDO. Yes, I want a versatile skill set, just as important, I want to look good when I adventure. For some odd reason they have found a way to make every armor set horribly unattractive. Why do I have a backpack on my robe? Or my plate Mail has weird straps, or this odd multi leveled texturing., or I have bellbottom pants. Why can’t I just put on a normal set of armor? I have found a few decent looks, however, it’s far from satisfactory. This shouldn’t be so complicated, it’s like they went out of the way to make this game a fashion disaster
I set up a account just this week. I know the log in is case sensitive so I purposely made my user name and password all lower case followed by a couple numbers. Not a problem for a couple days. Today I can’t log on getting an error saying check my username or password and it’s case sensitive. However I had logged on several times just yesterday with no problems. Also it seems my username now comes up in all caps and even typing over it in lower case doesn’t help as it automatically changes back to all caps. Have any ideas?
Allow plat purchase of cannith crafting collectibles from the npcs you trade them in with.