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This post has been edited by baharoth: Mar 30 2006, 09:54 PM

/superbump

Im all in for DDO .. I already registered for the forum

Special Bump of the day ~~~

Muchos Gracias, FYI, your account's validated, sorry for the short delay, needed some sleep

this game good or not? better than WOW and GW?

DDO, WOW and GW are totally different, all of are MMORPG and has different concept in game play. DDO uses a different battle system. To me its something different and worth while trying.

hmm.. look promising but how much the game cost?

Most of us buying from the US .. and it cost around RM200+ including shipping cost. If pre-order early, u will be entitle to join the DDO head start, meaning .. u will have a pre-order cdkey and u will be able to play the game on February 24, 2006 b4 the retail launch date. Btw, the retail launch date is February 28, 2006 in the US .. over here .. dunno yet.

oic. you done the buying online before? hmm.. it is quite ok the price if buying online. how long it gonna take till it reach here?

from our retails, should be first week of March, from cdromshop.com you can ask them the email you the Reg-Keys, Head-Start even key and game client can be downloaded online as well

so have to pay or not that time?

Eh? Which time you referring to? If buying from local retail, yes, online, yes, downloading the client, no.

eh... which sites are you buying from? I would most probably be joining you guys in March. Wait for $$$... hehe

We bought it from www.cdromshop.com. Its base in Canada and its the only shop which ships to Malaysia.

kewl. thanks. it was one of my choices too.
Make sure you guys post which server you're goin to so we can hook up.

when can we download the client?

Now @ http://download.turbine.com/ddo/ddo_client_install.exe

that it.. this game free huh???
tell me more.??

O_o NICE gonna register in ur forums! was wondering if there's gonna be any malaysian players for this. So can order the game now? where to pass u the $$? when? I cannot tahan OO must play must play!

Sorry I don't take orders. You can get it at cdromshop.com a canadian store that offers the per-order set out side of US

sigh... should I order it now?

If u wanna get a the head start thingy to be able to play this coming Friday, then by all means u should get it right away.

/bump.....

/kicks it up a notch

so we can play the game now or what?

Only if u pre-order ... then u will be able to play the game "Head Start" event now.

how many of you guys playing this baby? especially those from Malaysia...

Hi, guys! I'm GPE Typher, a Malaysian citizen, and I've recently registered myself with the Death Guard Legion; nice to meet all of ye. I am ready to purchase the game once it arrives, but one question still nags me: does this game really require a monthly subscription fee? And if it does, how much? And how is it done?

Pardon me for asking these questions, but I'm pretty new to the world of MMORPG, so I'm not too familiar with the game system and such . Although I'm an experienced Battlefield 2 player, that game doesn't use a monthly subscription or a similar kind of upkeep; once I purchased that game, I can play it right away (of course not counting the expansion packs and patch downloads), so I'm curious on how an MMORPG like DDO works. Thanks .

Yea .. DDO does have a monthly subsription fee. It will cost around RM40 per month .. much cheaper then WOW . Anyway, the method of payment always has been using credit card, so far .. Turbine has not announce any other method of payment yet, I know most of u guys prefer timecard .. hopefully that payment method will be available soon.

Most MMORPG, once u have the game, u will be able to play it right away and if there's a patch, then u will have to patch it 1st and thn play it. Hopefully there is a free 1st month which u dun have to pay. Not sure about that yet.

whats the spec recommended for this game ? i search thru their official website but no info , either im sleepy or its just not there .

System Reqirements:

Operating System: Windows XP
DirectX 9
P4 1.6 GHz or AMD equivalent with SSE
512 MB RAM
Geforce 2 or equivalent graphics card with 32MB
DVD Drive Required
5GB free disk space required
Internet Connection required

Recommended

Processor: P4 3 GHz or AMD equivalent with SSE
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Video Card: Geforce FX or ATI Radeon 9800 or better with 128MB
Broadband Internet connection

ok thx for the info , seems interesting this game.

/bump.. sure it

post some screenshoot of ur adventures here

hmmmm this game has got me interested. But the fact that theres no timecard sucks ass. Still playing WOW but have reached end game so just waiting on scheduled raids all the time now. Want to pick this up but may not be willing to let go of WOW yet.

Definitely cant be subscribing to two MMORPGS everymonth. Maybe ill just stick to WOW till this game actually comes up with a timecard thingie. then ill try it out. Either way have fun u guys, and save me a space in the guild lol

Hehe .. look at me, im playing 3 MMORPG, GW, WOW and DDO. Yeah, so far there are not timecard for DDO yet, there are only paytoplay (Cash) but only available in the US.

Definately worth checking it out... I might get my friends in as well. We have been playing D&D since it was D&D, 2nd Ed, 3rd/3.5 Ed. Also we were avid RPGers of the Vampire game

So how can we get the boxed set? and is payment via CC possible from our side?

Two ways:

1. Locally at : http://www.gamers.com.my/

2. Or from www.cdromshop.com where they will need to verify your CC via fax.

Method 1 is expecting shipment later next week

Method 2 fast, pay the extra but they can open the box and give you the retail key.

Some of us used Method 2 cause we pre-ordered and had no disruption since the headstart event while others are still waiting for their box

we're on Khyber server by the way..

I have ordered my set... Will update

Hi, repost from other thread

Hi, I'd like to ask about this game

How would DDO compare to let's say WoW in terms of

1.Content
I've heard that the content in DDO is pretty limited in terms of quantity and variety, but what about the quality?
As i found myself pretty uninvolved in alot of the plots in WoW

2.Gameplay
One common thing that appealed to me when reading reviews on this game is the gameplay.
One reviewer said it's more action-based, not so much waiting on a combat cycle,
one said it's open-ended, where u actually need more skill

3.Hours played per sitting
I don't particularly enjoy spending 4-5 hours in molten core or 2-3 hours in scholo,ubrs etc etc..
I see myself as a more casual gamer when it comes to time as i have started working now,
in DDO, do dungeons take this long as well?(as i've heard u need to complete the dungeon to actually achieve something)

Thanks in advance

Let me try address some of your questions

Content

Like Guild Wars most of the quest are instance. That is you go with your group into a dungeon and its just your team and the NPC mobs. Unlike Wow there is a mixture of both. The quest are repeatable going from normal to hard to elite but after a few repeats there is a penalty. Interaction with other players is done at the tavern or in the zone you are in.

Gameplay

Unlike Wow and EQ it is very action based. You have the opportunity to tumble and block your enemies and the target does not have to be auto lock. i.e. you can use the tab to target or you may use your mouth and aim the recticle over the mob much like a FPS or a console game. Its open-ended in the sense as a caster you could bring different spells to different instance which can only be done when in a tavern or at a rest shrine (shrines are located in a dungeon and used to regain health or mana or both, and can only be done once)

Hours played

Depends some quest are long like the Waterworks which is an arc story in itself and leads you to unlock another area. Others can take as long as 10 mins depending how fast you are. Its is very much a casual game but bear in mind the only time consuming part is finding a party as the game encourages group play rather then solo although some classes some people have claimed is solable. That being said the longest I have had to wait for a group has been 5 mins since I was a cleric. Most essential in a group are a rogue, cleric and one type of fighter although I have done it with 3 rogues before one tanking the other 3 backstabbing or sniping. The quest are very intresting and the story is enhanced by the Dungeon Master telling the story as you move along the quest.

And yes to gain the exp. you need to finish the quest, unlike in City of Heroes or Villians you could go in gain exp. then go out. That being said completing the quest is not that long in general (Please note I haven't reach the high end dungeons yet)

There is a built in mic in the game which allows communication via voice rather then typing which does help on ocassions particularly when it gets hot but not necessary. If you don't have a mic you can always listen to the instructions from someone who has a mic

Hope that helps you answer your questions

one question... as a caster (I forgot whether sorceror or wizard), do I need to 'rest a day' before using spells again?

ok.. not one question. so, how many malaysians are playing this game?

Me still playing

DDO Stormreach game release at Gamersdotcom is delayed untill end of March...!

Oh noes! When can I ever join you guys...

like me lo... I just heard from gamers.com the other day.. *sigh*

its available at retail stores in aussie now but me no time to play

/bump!...................

sigh...

Dude, whats there to bump?

Probably some folks and myself are waiting as the shipment got delayed till end of march...

Please post something informative next time, ok?

/bump

I'm sorry Azxel, did I hurt your feelings? oh look I did it again.

Look, /bumping my thread is for ppl to know the existance of my Guild, I'll be doing it 'till I reach an optimum number of players to get things smoothen out. Informative enough? Tell you what, why don't you ask a question then I'll answer informatively, how that? That way we'd be able to get this thread up and alive

Oh here's one back at ya :

LOL.

Still, it IS a bit tad tedious waiting for the game to arrive, although if it was done to do some finetuning to the game programming, I won't mind the delay. Hopefully it won't be like EA's work on Battlefield 2; release the game early, but then compensate for the bugs in the game with a patch fiesta!

I wonder if the Kalashtar race will come out in the released DDO, I've read about it , and it seems to be a real interesting race, but I've yet to see the fighter class (I think)...

Try posting some screenies or share some adventures/stories instead.

Thanks for directing me to this thread azxel.

I am thinking of getting this game too but have to wait until gamers.com.my have it in stock.

till then, i'll be reading up on this game, seems like it's an interesting game to play.

you better preorder now... a lot of us had ours delayed by gamers.com.my till end of the month.

This looks interesting. I think I'll talk to my old AD&D buddies from way back and see if we can get involved on this. Will have to check things out though. Any of you here played Everquest or Ultima Online before? Just curious to know of any similarities/differences, as I was really into UO for 2 years, with a brief spell in EQ. If this game is good, I might try to get my old UO guild mates into this game, and into your guild as well.

To those who bought from cdromshop.com, i got a question.

How long does it take them to email you the cdkey after you have purchased the game?

couple of days usually, good luck!

you guys playing in khyber? im playing with aundair with some frens >.< if you guys havent started playing i'll gladly help when u just joined the game if you happen to play in aundair

which is the server with the best ping?
DDO still not yet arrive...
but thank gawd, I got Oblivion!!!

it's here! I might install it and get in game later (provided I make it to SB in time). There seems to be a lot of mix reviews on this game... I just hope there's enough people to party with.

azxel wanna come join Aundair server with us ? XD you wanty party u got it

Aundair? I don't mind creating a character over there.
How's the server population? Who's "us"?

Expect to see me ingame around 8pm tonight... after picking game up from SB, getting dinner, installing the game, EPP, bathe and fiddling with character screen so you better post your character name so I can find you.

lol im going out soon but post ur nickname in here so i can pm u ingame later. mine is Alkohol. lvl 3 elven ranger

ops... Sorry!!!

I got carried away. Found my Elven Eberron Idol... I mean Bard in a party right after completing the 'Kobolds and evil stuff quest' at the Tavern in StormReach.

I find the game pretty engrossing though I had some problems adjusting with the left mouse button to 'look' and right mouse button to 'whack' setup. The people are quite nice. I mean, you don't really see people going out of their way to help you in other mmorpgs. Here, I had some folks who invited me to their party, run out to the 'port' from 'waterworks' to help me settle my 2nd quest (healing elixir) in the sewers.

The lewt is awesome!! I'm gonna see if I can get in and do the waterworks again for more phat lewt! I think I hit Level 1, Rank 4 by the time I went to bed.

The best thing is that it runs without any lag on my old machine at medium settings. (found some graphical glitches though). I feel that interface wise, it isn't that good.

weeee repeated waterworks twice XD but good exp and item i dont mind so azxel u playing in khyber or aundair? and whats ur char nick? XD

Server, Aundair. Character name, Amdur Carenir. (I think.. tiba tiba forgot).

Mind specifying how old exactly is your machine?
Mine is AMD Duron 1GHz wif 600+ DDRAM and a GeForce FX5200 128MB Graphic Card.
Not sure this is able to support the game or not.

By the way, at the moment, is it the only way to purchase the game is thru online purchase?

Hey!
My machine slightly canggih-fied than yours. 2.5 Ghz AMD Athlon XP, 1.5GB Ram and 256mb GeForce6800GT. I don't think your machine can support... need to check the min requirements.

You can get DDO from www.gamers.com.my (or Software Botique in SS2) as they brought in plenty of stocks.

Yay! I finally got my copy of DDO cant wait to go home to install it.

So which server now? LOL

So far, from what I know SOCKman! & myself (Amdur Carenir) are in Aundair (but I haven't met up with him yet). I got 2 more singaporean friends (from Shadowbane, Horizons, CoH days) in the same server as well but haven't bump into them yet. From what I hear it's less laggy compared to the more populated servers.

I made friends pretty well, login 2nd time, and they invited me to their party again within minutes. People are quite friendly. Remember to turn on your Voice Chat.

Ah community and population are factors for my server choice.

Once i've installed... which is after work I'll post here my IGN.

By the way, what classes are you guys playing?

Overall, I think the DDO community is much better than that you find in WoW or most MMORPGs.

My character is an ex-rock star turned boyband turned fag (that can kick ass) that's gone solo. I sing to inspire people, with my guitar-looking instrument, to do more damage as they battle ugly Kobolds and Spiders in the depth of the sewers. Yes, I am a Bard...

lol azxel maybe we play tonite? tell me a time so we can play together just played sdhan tan kor quest, bloody took 2:30 hours to finish, but fot around 10k exp

Ah a bard ^^ I might roll a sorcerer/wizard or rogue (yes, D&D rogues are more interesting).

If read the box correctly... u cannot grind to lvl up, yes?

grind alone very hard always go in parties

AWW server closed for maintenance

where u get it from?

Wah....some more says old machine
well looking at the requirement i only lackin processor power.
other than that...i still meet it.

This post has been edited by karwaidotnet: Mar 30 2006, 09:23 PM

server down for maintenance... yea... I was half way doing quest and got booted out.

kawaii74, the reason why I'm playing this is because I'm sick of grinding. hehe

Yea, SOCKman!, drop me a msg when you get in. I'm usually on from 8pm onwards. Got my friend to create a guild. kekeke

karwaidotnet, just turn down the settings and I guess it should be fine. it's kinda dark anyway to see any textures or anything.

approaching level 4 edi cant wait to get those elemental weapons >.<

hmmm textures on my pc quite good wor, azxel maybe u need to do some settings on it? o.o

Hey Socky! mind creating your own pro-Aundair server thread?

GO KHYBER!


Kidding mate, how you guys enjoying DDO so far? Any of you hit past 8 yet?

I agree, community here is a whole lot better that WOW cause in WOW, ppl can probably solo most of the time and would most likely hate to share XP on kills. Not here though Great idea from Turbine on this one.. Hmm.. I wonder how Warhammer Online would do it.

Anyway.. just a heads up to those creating in Khyber to give us a beep, we just hit pass 100 members in our guild, mostly M'sian, S'pore, US, Aus players and a very active group of Americans in Japan.

To me, less populated server less chance of ppl wanting to group up with you on certain quests, but since there's no additional servers coming up, think all's gonna be packed up evenly pretty soon. Only down side to a high pop server is that you'd get tons of annoying invites/tells if you forget to remove your LFG/LFM tag

grats Baharoth! Good to hear things going so shiok!

The grouping chances over at the less populated servers arent that bad. When I logon, for sure there's people LFG. Of course, being in a guild, there's no need to be worried about grouping, be it a large or small server.

Socky, I just made level 2 lah... play only a few hours a day. I'm taking my time on this one.

ya group exp is a good point made by turbine
definitely love the community in it too

oh ya if anyone of you were thinking that grinding = kill more monster you are wonrg XD. you get exp by completing quests no matter the amount of monsters u killed during the quest (unless additional objectives shows up)

I think it's more or less like... kill one monster, get 10-20exp, complete one quest, get 1k-2k exp... right?

gah!! whole night couldn't do questing... making me restless

LOL I started my char and then the server goes offline for maintenance

I'm still getting use to the game... but the nice part of being a rogue is all the skills xD
(Not the WoW type - button masher).

Still not used to the actual combat yet... hit and tumble O.o

I've done the tutorials and I'm in Stormgarde now.


After 2 years of WoWing, definately a change of pace and mechanics. I've played and DMed the table-top before so I'd expect the system to be incorporated into this game.

I will probably explore deeper such as partying and the multi-classing system. The raid encounter sounds very interesting.

Oh yeah my IGN is: Chayan Erthrean, Elf Rogue (erm, forgotten surname LOL)

which server kawaii74?
to be honest, I've yet to tumble around during combat... hehe
tumbling bard... now that would be funny.

Oops... forgot to mention what server. Its the same as you guys are on - Aundair

I think I have your char's name ... its on the last 1 or 2 pages. Will PM you in-game

kewl! it's 'Amdur'.
Think you just need to add first name.

meh everyone in my party left american time its morning to them XD

met Azxel edi kawaii74 whats ur ingame nick?

LOL was waiting around with my chars so i can /tell u

I made a wizard last night and i got invited for parties so fast... that i'm now in the 3rd part.

IGN: Tessaril Erthraen, Human Wizard

jus got my copy of D&D...
D&D here i come....

sooo whats ur nick karwai?

hmmm its sunday and everyone is busy playin? o.o

just got back.. played abit.. server goin down for 30mins..

yup but i got some nice equipments today XD

its down? when? u mean now?

hmm...im not sure if i wanna reveal my name here coz by doing so its gonna ruin the roleplaying, if u know what i mean.

so far... I've yet to meet a Role Playing group...

ah what time do u guys play? I was on fri/sat... but didnt see any of ya.

Friday, I think I was on till 2am or so and Saturday, I was on in the morning about 9am till about 2pm, then I had to go out. Didn't play much on Sunday.

eh... must be pretty late on Friday then... was too wonked out after work so I slept early.
Saturday's I'm on 1pm to 6pm... then I will be out.