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massively.com - 10/13/2009

Choose my Adventure: Dungeons and Dragons Online

— massively.com — Join me as I brave my way through lands unknown in an adventure dictated entirely by you,... the Massively readers! Vote for everything from game played to character creation to ultimate goal and watch it unfold in a series of journals and ... (more) Choose my Adventure: Dungeons and Dragons Online

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massively.com - 10/20/2009

Switch to free-to-play working very well for DDO

— massively.com — Turbine 's MMO Dungeons and Dragons Online has been around since 2006, but recently enjoyed a sudden... huge spike in players. Thousands more people are playing, including our own Shawn at our readers behest . This skyrocketing popularity probably ... (more) Switch to free-to-play working very well for DDO

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Great move by @turbine - making D&D Online free: http://bit.ly/ZzTQT (just wished they had a native Mac client...) 10/21/2009

@alachia Don't know if you saw DDo is now f2p;gonna have to check it out: http://bit.ly/2edr70 10/20/2009

D&D Online free to play: http://bit.ly/8dUTM 10/20/2009

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Benefits of freedom
Of Teeth and Claws — In what should be seen as good news to MMO players everywhere, Turbine's free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons Online gambit is paying off: ...

Nice things about Turbine making DDO Free to Play
Life is a Mind Bending Puzzle — 1. I love that Turbine didn't let the game die but instead applied creativity and took a risk in turning it into a F2P. 2. I am delighted that the move seems to be working for them.  3. Perhaps the best news of all for customers is that Turbine , just like Valve before them seem to be discovering that reducing the price of games actually makes you more money. Please let more game developers get this message. Quote: ""All aspects of our business are growing. Hundreds of thousands of new players in the world are playing for free, with ...

Free to Play – A terrible name for a great business model
Of Course I'll Play It! — ... I never can tell about these things – whether it’s just that because I’m playing it, I have an increased awareness of news about the game, or whether I just happen to jump in at about the same time as the rest of the world seems to take notice, but it seems there’s been an awful lot of ...

Switch to free-to-play working very well for DDO
Massively — ... Turbine's MMO Dungeons and Dragons Online has been around since 2006, but recently enjoyed a sudden huge spike in players. Thousands more people are playing, including our own Shawn at our readers behest. This skyrocketing popularity ...

Reasons I will not be buying Modern Warfare 2 on the 12th November
Life is a Mind Bending Puzzle — ... and Turbine's experience with DDO unlimited seem to indicate that there is plenty of room to increase revenue by lowering game prices. For digitally distributed games the marginal cost per unit is very low so any increase in revenue has a big impact on bottom line profit. ...