Turbine Responds To DDO Community Protest

Zarrot writes "Turbine has listened to the community and backed away from the partnership with SuperRewards that we discussed yesterday. Quoting: 'Based on your feedback, we're stepping away from the "Offer" category for now. We'll keep exploring alternate ways for players who want points to get them. We'll also continue to innovate in pricing and accessibility because that's who we are. As of today, the Offer Wall is coming down. We'll collect all the feedback we've received over the last few days and will use it to guide future decisions.'"

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What a stupid comment

[SmallFurryCreature]

Turbine wants to get cash from its customers. And its primary customers ARE the players.

You are not a google customer just because you use their search or gmail. The advertisers are their customers. YOU are their product. They don't sell search, they sell eyeballs.

Facebook is the same. The people who use facebook are not the people with accounts but the advertisers who try to reach them. Facebook gets its money from advertisers.

And don't like it?

Then don't use it.

It ain't all that hard. If I don't want slashdot to post my comments for everyone to read, then I shouldn't post here. But I am not making Slashdot money. They make money because I and others read this site, post on this site, make it have millions of eyeballs and then the Slashdot editors sell these eyeballs to advertisers. Like MS who advertise their products to me, when I loathe them with everything I got. That tells you everything you need to know about targetted advertising. Why not advertise McD on a PETA site.

Orga seems to want free services for free. Go outside, see the sun? That is free. You pay for everything else.

Re:I was glad to hear this

[rliden]

....and for apologizing to DDO players. That helps immensely.

I'm glad it makes you feel better and it was the right thing to do, but it doesn't make me feel better. They knew what they were getting into when they got greedy. They're sorry it turned out badly and they look bad, but not really really that it was inconvenient for their subscribers.

I enjoy playing DDO, and I hope that the apology will help mitigate the harm to the game caused by this incident, and I also hope that the game population will continue to grow.

I like DDO too and play sometimes. I'm a LotRO subscriber and the deepest harm they've cause is between them and their subscribers. That can't be undone, but time will probably let people forget and forgive if they don't do something stupid in the meantime.

It's not that they did something stupid, but that they got very greedy and chose to disregard the personal information and possible financial safety of their customers to squeeze out more cash. This isn't some unknown company or practice. It is the same gross scam Facebook flash game companies use to screw players. I don't mind RMT, micro-transactions, subscriptions, or other legitimate business models. Keep them fair and legitimate or face the consequences; in this case a loss of trust and maybe a few subs.