Curse

Studio Ghibli · Mar 24, 2006, 01:41 AM // 01:41

Howdy,

I'm an employee at a popular consumer electronics store. While working last Wednesday, I ran into a customer who had a copy of Turbine's Dungeons and Dragons Online in his hands.

My first reaction was surprise--wow! Someone's actually buying it!

After I overcame that, I asked him, Üh, have you.. tried the beta?

He replied that he hadn't, and then asked why.

To which I went into a long explanation as to how I had tried the beta and how, during beta, there are problems that exist because it's a beta or because of bad thinking/coding, and I went on explaining how me and my friends realized there were a lot of the latter and..

I felt bad for disuading him from trying it. Maybe he might like it, I thought, so I reminded him of this. At this point though, my warning had already found him.

Thanks, he said. And he put it back.

We then started discussing possible alternatives.

Guild Wars? He said he was looking into that.

City of Heroes/Villains? Not his thing, he admitted. Not mine either, really. I play it for my friends, though.

EVE Online? He hadn't heard of it, so I suggested he try it.

Dungeon Siege? BEST DUNGEON CRAWLER EVAR.

Just wanted to share the love.. for Guild Wars, and how far-reaching my dissapointment with DDO goes.

Shoitaan · Mar 24, 2006, 03:02 AM // 03:02

DDO I played for I participated in the headstart event as a demo, never picked up/payed off the game afterwards XD

The dungeons are freaking awesome, but no PVP and being forced to group with people.. people who are mostly beta testers so they rush through the dungeon at whirlwind speed.. plus the attrocious loading times (which I think exists because my comp is average nowadays and the game propably needs top end).. well it all adds up to being pretty irritating.

You should have asked the guy if he was gonna play it with friends, because then I guess it would be worthwhile.