Read more about the year ahead in a new Producer's Letter!

[FaceDancer]

Looking forward to new servers! Fingers crossed that they will get all of the transfer stuff riddled out as that is the REAL challenge and the one thing that I think most players are going to be apprehensive about. Will be very curious to see how this plays out...

 

[ACJ97F]

Full expansion this time

Since it's getting a revisit, just wonder after eight years if they will actually fix the U37 filigree set bonuses that have never worked.

 

[Shear-buckler]

EU servers has a lot of potential!

So does the new race, please just don't make the main feature self healing (life leech) that does gets gutten by reaper difficulty scaling.

 

[Zaszgul]

Has it been established how many servers are being created? How long until the 32-bit servers are shuttered?

If the total number of servers will be decreasing (which should be the case, we need some consolidation of the playerbase) then please consider granting free character slots based on account status, so that this positive event is not soured by people being forced to abandon (too) many characters. I suggest:
1 Free character slot per server added to F2P accounts
1 or 2 additional free character slots per server added to Premium accounts (for 2-3 total free slots)
1, 2 or 3 additional free character slots per server added to VIP accounts (for 3-6 total free slots)

 

[I dont Like gimps]

German or Austrian Deutsch? Wifey is of Austrian descent, so she know Austrian. She also prefers elf druids.

I hope not Im appaled enuf by the bavarians tell your wife "schleich dich "

 

[Cheeps]

in 5e they're humanoid with +2 to one stat of your choosing and +1 to another stat, get climbing abilities are considered undead and their weapon of choice is their fangs. Will be interesting if DDO goes 3.5 or 5e on this one.

Yeah, but in 5e the orcs are mexican and the drow are purple people eaters.

 

[Fulchrum]

Dang, I actually have a Dhampir character, but he's a Drow... I wish race templates were possible, maybe as a universal tree or a racial tree that can be swapped in during character creation. Otherwise, looking forward to Lamordia.

 

[Scarlett]

So no hardcore server again?
And if you transfer to 64 bit servers, what if you're a guild leader, does the guild and guild level transfer over too?

 

[Zavina]

@Tolero

One of the questions my guild members will no doubt ask, is what will the impact be on players who are ftp or premium. Will they be able to transfer, or is it open to anyone?

 

[Galinar]

I started looking up 3.5e Dhampir race:

• They are long lived
• They have slender builds and pointed ears
• They have magical abilities
• They have a DEX bonus and CON penalty

I think we're getting another elf...

What an utter disappointment.

 

[Zavina]

So no hardcore server again?
And if you transfer to 64 bit servers, what if you're a guild leader, does the guild and guild level transfer over too?

probably something similar to LoTRO, they give the guild leader a token that has the GL on it and can be respawned elsewhere

 

[waxinglyrical]

I like the Euro-DDO servers plural bit ...

Perhaps we'll get the Galic shrug server, the English cup of tea server and the ruthlessly efficient German server.

 

[I dont Like gimps]

Perhaps we'll get the Galic shrug server, the English cup of tea server and the ruthlessly efficient German server.

yeah wayfinder is incredibly efficient

 

[Vox]

I hope not Im appaled enuf by the bavarians tell your wife "schleich dich "

Leddrrhosen for all!

 

[KylerrTheMajty]

Read the letter on DDO.com.

Less and less every year...


adding PAX East Community Event to producent letter is like showing middle finger to players... ( plug the hole in letter)

 

[Loromir]

I like what is planned, specially 64 bits servers. My only concern is that its seems to be a lack of quest content, I wonder if a legendary update of an old quest pack could be added, any of the old Xoriat quest pack could be very fun and could be also an update into the extreme difficulty dungeons you guys did with the introduction of cursed decks.

If they can roll out 64 bit servers successfully, then I have no problem with the limited content.

 

[mikarddo]

Q4 looks very empty if those kind of events do not interest you. In particular I have zero interest in cosmetics. Please add a few new quests in Q4 too. Both to flesh out Q4 and because the full year is very light on quests added.

64 bit Euro server is much appreciated. Hopefully raid nights can be more about who joins and less about what kind of lag we encounter.

 

[rabidfox]

I wonder if we'll get a raid with the expansion or not.

 

[Dom]

I wonder if we'll get a raid with the expansion or not.

One could hope... for TWO raids with the expansion. Bring back the ravenloft and sharn days.

 

[Garix]

Very interested about the Euro servers. Will wait for more info about whether it'll include Guild transfer before getting too hopeful about it though....