D&D Online - Not Free in Europe

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From GamesIndustry:
While Turbine intends to turn MMORPG Dungeons & Dragons Online into a free-to-play title in the US, there are no current plans to do the same in Europe, according to regional publisher Codemasters.
A digital upgrade for the game titled Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited will go live this summer in North America, allowing new users to play for free and purchase content via micro-transactions.
"To clarify, for the time being, DDO Europe will not be assuming this new business model and the European DDO game service will remain a monthly subscription-based game with all new content created available to all subscribers, as has been the model up until now," said Codemasters in a statement.
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It's a LMOG.

Limited Multiplayer Online Game. Actually most MMO's are LMO's. Same as the LWW. (Local Wide Web).
 
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Hmm, I still think this could be a decent game for cooperative LAN sessions - but it'd have to be free or follow the Guild Wars model.

It's just not the kind of game I feel comfortable paying a monthly subscription for.
 
This just adds to my bitterness regarding companies supporting the U.S. market extraordinarily, but not the European market.
 
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And then there is the bitterness about releasing games in Germany months before an English release.
 
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How about Australia??!!
 
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its well known they drink it counterclockwise and not clockwise like normal people.
 
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The beer we flog overseas, is the stuff no self respecting Aussie would touch!! :) Did you know we actually have a beer here called 'Naked Blonde'. Try ordering that with a straight face in a crowded bar!! :D
 
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LOL ! :D

Sounds great ! :D

Do they have blonde jokes for that beer ? :D
 
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... Just read in the Larian forums the tale (posted by Alamar) of a German buyer of Sacred, who bought "the original English version because the German translation was so terrible" ... :rotfl:
 
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