Today we have a special additional episode for you with Jerry Snook from DDOCast podcast. We ask him questions about his experience with DDO going free to play and what us in the LOTRO world may expect with this upcoming change.
We ask questions about the DDO Shop, frequency of updates they now experience and how he felt the community has changed since going free to play. Jerry also discusses some changes to the game that has happened to the game to make it more friendly to these newer players who are not familiar with Dungeon & Dragons.
June 9, 2010 at 2:20 am
Great interview! I didn’t realize that DDO received content updates roughly every four to five weeks!!!! If F2P means content updates every four to five weeks for LOTRO I think a lot more people will jump on the bandwagon.
June 9, 2010 at 8:24 am
weird… I can’t hear the interviewee… I listened to the one off the show notes but not the iTunes one, should I listen to that one?
June 9, 2010 at 8:25 am
oops I’m very sorry I didn’t read the last sentence of the notes… >.<
June 9, 2010 at 8:39 am
Audio problems have been corrected so feel free to jump in and listen. The audio problem was just near the beginning so if you notice issues just re-download from iTunes. If you have any problems please email us and we’ll be happy to help!
June 9, 2010 at 5:33 pm
What a great interview! Some really good feedback about what free to play means to an MMO. Basically, more players and quicker content refreshes. More players means some more tourists, more immigrants, and a few jerks.
–Harperella
June 10, 2010 at 4:58 am
Aren’t we getting this to some extant already? I’ve seen a lot more people using the Advice channel to learn about the game, people who are subbing for a short while for something new to do, and then there’s GLFF.
June 10, 2010 at 11:05 am
What a nice guy, great interview, interesting conversation. I had commented on the F2P comparison table thread, but here would have been better having listened.
I am wondering seeing as it looks like you can roam in the SoA world freely as a F2P (‘World Access’- free), if when you reach say the lone lands, or north downs or somewhere, whether you can enter, kill stuff and roam as a F2P, but would need to spend money ( to open up the quests etc on the NPCS? I think this seems fairly feasible.
June 10, 2010 at 11:33 am
I believe that is how it would work. We’ll see though!
June 10, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Thanks for having me on, it was a lot of fun!
June 11, 2010 at 1:24 am
Facinating podcast!
One of my faves, very insightful, what a great idea.
Part b will wait till tomorrow night!
June 11, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I just thought of something, in leiu of the DDO discussion,
DDO sells like 420 turbine points for $6.50.
But VIP’s and Premium’s(?) get 500 points free each month.
that’s like Turbine paying me $6.50 to play the game! :p
July 14, 2010 at 6:22 am
Excellent episode! It actually got me into trying out DDO and listening to the DDOCast podcast.