I promised myself I was going to put more effort into my art. Like, shades, and possibly even highlights. Flat colours make me throw up a bit in my mouth, especially when they’re MY flat colours.
Then I got saddled with a giant, slobbering mutt, work suddenly demanded time and my schedule started being “wake up – walk the dog – get to work – get home – walk dog – eat dinner while checking out what happened on the internet – draw comic – walk dog – sleep.” EVERY DAY.
However, there’s a light in the tunnel – next week I’m back to my “only working three days a week”-schedule – as opposed to the current six-days-one. Of course, considering I have SC2 waiting for me, I’m not sure there’ll be much difference except you can erase “get to work” and type in “crush Mitsune with my beloved zerglings”.
Uhm, yeah, I…am rambling.* Look, a comic! About DDO! Which I admittedly never played, but I heard enough, really. I love dungeons, and dragons for that matter, as much as the next gamer-girl, but there are limits.
Considering my temper I’d just have done exactly what happened in this comic ANYWAY, and there has to be a limit to how many “Yep. This really happens in our house”-comics we can do. Right?
*This is fine. I realized a long time ago that Mitsune is the writer of the two of us. Go look at his blog instead, and stop laughing at mine.
haha x)
just looked into this comic, seems nice enough
keep up the good work and I think this’ll be a big hit on the internets
Thank you! It’s always fun to hear that people like it <3
LOL! I know the feeling of this comic! I played a little of Grand Fantasia and Allods; and both require you to buy tons of crap to really make it through the later levels. Like, either charge a subscription and make it an awesomely polished game (wow) or make it actually free and stop nickel and dime-ing us!
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Allods? Right, now I’m pretty sure you’re just making up random games here. However, I agree with your thoughts here. I don’t mind paying a monthly subscription if everything’s awesome and shiny, at all.
Actually, yes, there is such a game as Allods. I never played it, but I’ve listened to the moans of those who did. Apparently everything that could possibly be wrong with the microtransaction model, Allods implemented. I want to say it was Russian, but that might be the wrong company of origin.
If you’re going to make fun of our game, you should at least get some of the facts straight. You also don’t touch on the fact that you can unlock races and classes by just playing the game normally.
BTW, good job not being prepared and running out w/o pots. If it DDO that deserves ridicule or the player?
Enjoy paying for your game while I play mine for free.
Hi Walt!
First of all: there are unfortunately limits to how much info you can put into a four-panel comic. I know Mits at least wishes we could have more words, but there’s the issue of space, after all. Which means that when we touch upon a game, we touch upon a certain aspect of it, and you are quite correct in that we might not get all the facts in every time, like races and classes being unlocked by normal gameplay.
However, this is a comic and not a review – we aim to entertain people, first and foremost, and while it’s unfortunate that we in doing so have offended you, that was not our intent. People have different tastes and opinions, after all.
In the matter of making fun of your game – if you read any of the other comics, you’ll find that we poke fun of everything – including ourselves, as well as the various other games we play – and not just DDO. There’s no specific DDO-hate out here, just a normal gaming-focused comic that, as comics often do, tend to use hyperbole. We do that in every situation, and if you stick around for the sunday-updates, you’ll see us do it to WoW time and again.
(Also, on the note of not being prepared: I stated quite clearly in my blog that I never tried the game, which means that this comic is all fictional, and thus simply a possible scenario that could occur.)
To wrap this up: I play plenty of games, several are for free, and some I pay a monthly fee for. I assure you I enjoy each and every one of them regardless of the money involved
I didn’t read your blog, I read this. It’s incendiary and on the border of libel. When you run a site that has more than ten regular visitors as I’m sure this one does, you have a responsibility to the reader. What you’re doing is teaching them that, despite the obvious parody, this site contains untrue information. If I were a regular visitor, this would make me consider not to return.
Trolls in comics. What a concept.
You’ll forgive us if we do not respond to further posts by you. Your outrage is entirely misplaced, especially when you yourself recognize that this is a work of parody and intentional exaggeration for comedic effect.
If you’re offended by this because you greatly care about DDO, then I suggest you grow thicker skin or simply move on. If all it takes for you to call us trolls, if you truly get fired up by us mocking an aspect of a game in this fashion, then there is nothing I can say to make it better, but we certainly will not take down or edit this comic.
You also confess to not reading the attached (ideally attached, or intended to be attached, mind – we have some troubles with the website atm, which we are working to fix) blog post, yet spout vitriol all the same. Do you see no wrong with refusing to collect information to get perspective on this?
Regardless, I’m sorry, but your comments are tantamount to trolling, or, at the very least, way out of line. People who cannot stomach this kind of stuff, considering we make fun of everything – including ourselves – are probably not our target audience.
In other words, we’re sorry you don’t find us funny, and hope you find a more suitable webcomic.
As a DDO player myself, I felt the last panel took any sting out of the first ones really. Thirty minute logout timer kinda emphasizes that it’s parody. (at least I hope there aren’t games out there with logout timers) Although I can somewhat see where someone who only saw this one comic might get the wrong impression, I appreciated the hyperbole.
The irony is there’s apparently a little bug that cropped up recently which caused some people in the newbie area to get spammed by frequent ddo store popups. I had it pop up on me once on my latest alt last Sunday. Haven’t seen it any other time. But I know at least one person in my guild had it happen several times to their new alt.
Also, please refrain from namecalling when commenting here. There really is no need for such a thing.
Just to be clear, I’m not mad at you. My problem with this comic isn’t that you didn’t include enough facts. It is the misrepresentation of game-play experience. I’m an alt-oholic. As such I spend a lot of time in the noob area. One of the most common noob questions is “How do I access the DDO store in-game?” I’ve known several people who’ve commented that they didn’t feel the need for the store until they were level 8-10. (In WoW terms that’s approx. level 40 or so.) Even then it was for convenience sake, not necessity. So while I don’t like that this may cause a few to bypass a very worthy game, if you hadn’t done it at all, I would not have found your web-comic which I enjoyed and bookmarked after looking around.
I don’t think it would be possible to be both funny (or attempt at being funny, rather, since it’s clear atleast some did not appreciate this strip) and review the game, all in four panels. That’s why I also wrote a blogpost where I gave my honest opinion of the game (though with the troubles we have with our blog/comic interaction atm, it isn’t linked to the comic strip atm.)
That said, I understand why people feeling loyal to DDO will worry that other people – who’ve never played the game – will get the wrong idea from this strip. I don’t quite know what to say to that, except that I could perhaps have been more clear in the blogpost.
For what it’s worth, we’re sorry if people are offended, but we also hope people will understand the necessity of sharpening barbs a bit for effect. If people avoid trying DDO as a result, then that’s a failure on my part. If anything, I’d encourage people to give it a try – and I thought I did so. I know for a fact atleast one friend did so based on the link to Total Biscuit’s excellent video review.
That aside, thank you for reading, and we hope you do enjoy your stay!
So, i see some people are upset at this, but from my experience with DDO this is unfortunately true. i got the game ground through 5 levels and then stopped, its annoying to find groups without buying anything and although you could get in game rewards, the limitations on money for free accounts and the requirement that you have to run the same 2-3 dungeons over and over again to level made me tire of it rather quickly.
and then theres the bit that if you die halfway through a dungeon, you lose all your xp that you might have gotten.
ya i have a ddfo accunt but i only get on it a few times the ddo stor pisses me off