Dungeons and Dragons Online Alpha Registration

Evil Avatar (and everyone else) picked up on the registration announcement for the Dungeons and Dragons Online Alpha phase of testing. From the article: "The world of Eberron awaits your arrival, as you embark on the great adventures that Dungeons & Dragons is known for. Register through the members only area today -- and prepare to master this unique new online campaign world!" If any Turbine folks are reading Slash today, I'd just like to mention how much I like your logo. :)

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Too late to join for most:

[ghmh]

"Please Note: At this time, Alpha signup is reserved for registered DDO forum members only. Non-forum members who attempt to sign up during this exclusive signup period will be disqualified from participating in the Alpha."

Re:Too late to join for most:

[ghmh]

Hate to reply to my own post, but talk about confusing, the paragraph following changes things...

"Alpha signup is reserved for registered DDO forum members only. Non-forum members who attempt to sign up during this exclusive signup period will be disqualified from participating in the Alpha.

So if you are an adventure seeking registered community member, sign up now for your chance to get into the DDO Alpha! If you aren't a DDO message board member yet, no worries! You can join by clicking here and then immediately sign up for your chance to be in the Alpha. The official Alpha start date will be announced soon. We will be inviting players into the Alpha on a regular basis once it begins."

Re:Is anyone really wanting another game from Turb

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

You are for the most part correct, with one minor discrepancy.

Turbine was the developer and Microsoft was the publisher. Microsoft provided the servers, Microsoft provided the bandwidth, Microsoft provided the in-game and out-of-game technical support. Microsoft handled the billing. Microsoft provided the login servers (via Passport - Ick!).

The people at Turbine have on numerous occassions stated that they wanted to put an end to most of the 'cheating' and 'hacking', even going so far as to writing the code to do so, only to be told "No" by Microsoft. Microsoft did not want to piss off it's customers (as hard as that is to believe) and Microsoft basically ran Asheron's Call into the ground until they didn't see any future profits.

At that point the gang at Turbine bought back the rights to the AC franchise, bought the servers and moved them to their own location, transitioned the billing away from Microsoft and put all new rules and code in place to put a stop to the 'cheating' and 'hacking'.

Bottom line: Turbine does not approve of any cheating or hacking and it's really unfair to them that their first big game got such a bad reputation for them.

I have started and stopped playing Asheron's Call (not AC2!) at least 3 times to play other MMORPGs and will probably start again on time #4 when the new expansion pack is released in May. I get lured away by flashy, newer games, but I keep coming back to it. It has the best, most detailed and most player-involved background and history of any on-line game world I've ever played (and believe me, I've played *all* the popular MMORPGs).

Re:Real-time combat

[Metapsyborg]

Yes, that's true. They had a demo at Gencon '04 that I saw. Definetly NOT turn based.

Re:I cast... MAGIC MISSILE

[Pluvius]

Here it is without that 8BT crap added to it. And here is the second part. Both of them are by the Dead Alewives, a comedy troupe that did skits for Dr. Demento a while back.

Rob