Today Turbine passed down two important slices of DDO news: that the NDA for DDO Unlimited is lifted (giving everyone read-only access to the beta forums) and that the launch date for DDO’s new version is August 4th. Note that if you’re not a subscriber at the time (a “VIP”) you’ll have to wait until the 6th to check it out.
I’m watching all of this in fascination because we’ve really never seen something like this happen before — a big-bucks MMO that was faltering in the subscription department rework itself into a blend of subscription and free-to-play microtransaction options. If nothing else, Turbine’s certainly reaped a fair share of lazy summer press by doing all of this — who really thought that DDO would be big news in 2009? And the fact that they’re getting this version out of the door in early August means that summer-starved MMO…
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