Another exciting interview with David Eckelberry. Man is this guy popular or what?.

This
rather interesting site
has a handy interview that explains more into DDO:

First of all, thank you for agreeing to do this interview. Can you please
tell us a little bit about Turbine Games, and what, in your opinion, differentiates
it from other game developers?

Turbine has a history of developing online games from the beginning of the
MMO explosion in the 1990s, from the days of Asheron's Call to today, with
the imminent release of Dungeons & Dragons Online and the currently-in-development
project for Lord of the Rings Online. Turbine is also the largest independent
game developer -- a fact that shouldn't be so surprising considering the enormous
amount of work that goes into making online rpgs.

Don't you think that we're on the verge of entering another MMO games overflow?
How many more games do you think that the market can sustain before it implodes?

Not really. The only major subscription MMO released since the since the
end of 2004 was City of Villains, and it's not even a fantasy game.

I think some players will always feel that there's a game overflow, but that's
just because they're good games out there these days. No one, not even the
unemployed college student, can play them all. At the same time, no entertainment
industry ever lost its way by providing good choices to the customer. As new
games continue to grow the MMO marketplace, it will have room for more games,
not fewer.

Do free games such as 'Guild Wars' threaten the current economic model of
the MMO games? Are the advantages that the monthly-payment games present enough
to overcome the low cost of games such as 'Guild Wars'?

I don't think that they do. While I watch the Guild Wars experiment with
interest, the fact is that the thing that MMO players want most is a steady
in-flow of lots of high quality content. In other words, they continue to
play because of new dungeons, monsters.

No really, you should read it. It gave me a better understanding of DDO.

Take
a look.


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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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