I tried the free preview of the game (which lasted a whole weekend) but it never lasted past the update screen before crashing. (My system is in great shape and beyond capable of running it, by the way, with parts made by mainstream manufacturers, and I have a broadband connection - so it was the game, not anything on my end.) I spent the weekend begging Turbine for advice on what I might do to actually play the game, on their site's forum, but got no replies. When the free weekend ended with out even getting to see a pixel of the game, I complained - while remaining civil - but got flamed from all sides and my topic was pulled from the board. Friendly community. =P That weekend was all the impression I needed to give me a sour enough distaste for DDO that I'll be hesitant to even give another free preview a try. You'd think I was playing an early beta version, as bad as it was, not the last preview before release. That doesn't bode well for the early days of this MMORPG. To those of you who plan on buying into it anyway: good luck. Cross your fingers when you get to the update screen. The screenshots are beautiful, though; too bad I wasn't allowed to see anything like them in motion. Maybe in a year or two I'll be willing to risk looking into DDO again, when/if they've managed to iron out some of the more basic bugs in the game. Meanwhile, I'll be playing Neverwinter Nights & NWN2 online (and not having to pay a monthly fee to do it.) Imagine how much better this game would be had it been made by Bioware....
I tried the free preview of the game (which lasted a whole weekend) but it never lasted past the update screen before crashing. (My system is in great shape and beyond capable of running it, by the way, with parts made by mainstream manufacturers, and I have a broadband connection - so it was the game, not anything on my end. ) I spent the weekend begging Turbine for advice on what I might do to actually play the game, on their site's forum, but got no replies. When the free weekend ended with out even getting to see a pixel of the game, I complained - while remaining civil - but got flamed from all sides and my topic was pulled from the board. Friendly community. =P That weekend was all the impression I needed to give me a sour enough distaste for DDO that I'll be hesitant to even give another free preview a try. You'd think I was playing an early beta version, as bad as it was, not the last preview before release. That doesn't bode well for the early days of this MMORPG. To those of you who plan on buying into it anyway: good luck. Cross your fingers when you get to the update screen. The screenshots are beautiful, though; too bad I wasn't allowed to see anything like them in motion. Maybe in a year or two I'll be willing to risk looking into DDO again, when/if they've managed to iron out some of the more basic bugs in the game. Meanwhile, I'll be playing Neverwinter Nights & NWN2 online (and not having to pay a monthly fee to do it. ) Imagine how much better this game would be had it been made by Bioware....