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From what I've seen of it, it just looks like a multiplayer dungeon crawler rather than a MMO with a persistent world

January is gonna end because yall figure out what MMO to play

yes, it's closer to gw1
the free quest thing is live again btw
https://www.ddo.com/news/ddo-free-dungeoncrawl-2024

It's pretty good. Each "quest" is its own dungeon, most of them are fully narrated by a DM. There's even a few narrated by Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson.

I thought the DM narration was neat and added a lot to the ambiance.
If I rated each quest on a 1-5 scale, I wouldn't place any of them below 3/5. And there's well over a hundred of these quests.

I'd play DDO with you guys fyi

DDO is having a Hardcore event for the next 3 weeks, could be fun to see how far people can get. I would play on any regular server as well, re-downloaded and started looking at my old characters today.

https://www.ddoaudit.com/servers

Here is a graph of game activity. Hardcore (server) currently has the most players but it has free transfers even for characters that die.

I'll install it and give it a look over.

hardcore is great if you like losing your character to lag
no, you will not avoid the lag, it's on their side. It's not frequent, but it doesn't need to be frequent to get you killed once.

I made a character on the Hardcore server.

Harmonius - Dragonborn Paladin

send me a friend request or post character names

I made a quick test character to run through the tutorial and see how I liked it. Doesn't seem too bad so far. I'll make a real character tomorrow and post the name here/add people.

DDO monetization is pretty despicable from what I've seen: they sell expansions, VIP, and has plenty microtransactions on top of it all.

Been playing Fractured online here and there. It's far from perfect, but you can get some hours of enjoyment out of it.

we need a healer in fractured, first to apply gets 15gp per week