This is a good D&D game but my problem lies with the company itself. A huge ammount of content is locked behind the VIP paywall standard 15 dollers a month for a grossly outdated game...seems like too much already. BUT THATS NOT ALL. The greedy fools have locked even more intresting content behind ANOTHER PAYWALL. VIP or not you must pay even more money to explore this additional content...This has disillusioned me to the game and put a bad taste in my mouth. I am already paying too much for a VIP account to an outdated game forcing players to pay even more is infuriating. I am ready for a new BETTER D&D online to be released and will no longer throw money at a company that has no concept of what a VIP access should entail...Your subscriptions are useless by level 16+ Booo, shame on you.

One of the best MMOs out there.
A rich community and endless content keep this game running.

Even tho the grafics are ancient (of course the game is more than 15 years old) it's an epic game. Huge variety of enhancing your character. True D&D game. Based on the 3rd edition ruleset (the best in my opinion) with a huge gama of items to personalize your character.
It's free to play with limitations but you can unlock those limitations with playing.
Even the farming is fun, unlike many other games. Not repetitive.

Best played with 2-4 friends and go slowly to enjoy all the quests!

Dated in terms of visuals by 2014 standards, let alone 2024, but still one of the best MMOs I've ever played in terms of longevity. Based on D&D 3.5 edition, the game is structured in terms of modules (usually around 4-6 quests) and expansions (15-20 quests), each being a campaign like how one might play tabletop D&D.

Boasts the most impressive variety of builds in any MMORPG I've ever played: 12 free classes and 3 more that can be unlocked/bought, up to three different classes you can multiclass in the same life up to level 20 (e.g. 12 Wizard, 2 Rogue, 6 Fighter), at least three or four wildly different enhancement trees each with multiple distinct ways of playing each tree PER CLASS, unlockable universal enhancement trees that can be mixed and matched with any class, and more.

The selling point here is the Reincarnation system, which allows players to remake their character upon reaching level 20 (or 30), providing small but permanent "Past Life" bonuses to the character based on your dominant class or race. This encourages sticking with one character and trying out various builds. Playing on and off for nearly ten years in an extremely casual manner, my main character has accumulated dozens of Past Lives without playing the same build twice.

For example, my past three pure Wizard lives have been a fireball-slinging nuker, an instant-death-casting/crowd-controlling Lich, and a longsword-wielding Eldritch Knight Wraith.

The monetisation scheme seems daunting at first, but the game gives out redemption codes that allow players to unlock every non-expansion content for free during anniversary celebrations. Playing the game itself and completing quests for the first time every life grants favor (usually 9-12 per quest), and every 100 favor earns the player 25 DDO points (paid currency). With the aforementioned redemption codes, a player can have enough content to easily level to cap without repeating a single quest in the same life, earning 300-400 DDO points while doing so.

Earlier expansions (Menace of the Underdark, Shadowfell Conspiracy, Mists of Ravenloft, and Masterminds of Sharn) usually can be bought in the DDO store for 99 DDO points during the anniversary events.

Honorable mention for being the only MMO (and, as far as I can recall, the only video game) where the settings/options menu has a SEARCH BAR.

TLDR: D&D 3.5 edition-based MMO that has unparalleled character building options that has withstood the test of time.

The only MMO to solve the problem of leveling almost 20 years ago, and it's still being updated.

DDO is good and best mmo ever, way better tahn war of LAMEcraft!
and it also never ever lags at all. nope, not ever!

It's unreasonable expensive, it's inexplicable dense, it's horribly explained, it has a lot of lag at the worst possible times. And it's unlike any other MMO out there with their theme park brain off nonsense and after 16 years I still keep coming back to it.

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by far, one of the best games for both d&d fanatics and people who like fantasy in general. easy to customize, good graphics.

Great game even in 2024.
The soundtrack is out of this world!
Devs haven't given up on it.
8/10