Great but too short
Gameplay is great, fun and exciting.
played neverwinter nights before? this might remind you of it.
Great, mature community
Cons: Not enough content
may feel this game isnt massive enough to be a MMO
The gameplay for DDO is overall really fun. This game is all instanced so you dont compete with other groups. You have your own monsters, your own quest items, and there is no downtime for waiting for names to spawn. Quest action is pretty fast, taking a player maybe two hours to finish up a quest before moving on.
Running through the quest you may encounter a lock door, you need to kill through monsters to get to a key or a switch to open it. This is the great part of the game, because this adds more excitement and giving the game challange to achieve the goal of getting the door open.
Almost all quests have a chest you could get loot from. All items in the chest are assigned to you and only you. You could use the loot or you could sell it to a vendor. Gaining money isnt a problem, you get lots of it quickly.
Game economy is very good. There is no grind at all in this game. All of the loot players sell to a vendor will be resold at a preset price. No over inflated prices and no grind necessary to get the money needed for the items.
Game community is great and mature. Everyone is very helpful. Most will help you without no motivation to benefit him or herself at all. However, some will feel this game isnt massive enough to be considered a mmo. it is debatable whether it is or not. This game is relatively new, so anyone feel this game doesnt offer enough. It would be suggested to wait another six months or longer to wait for more content to arrive.
If you are a hardcore gamer, playing 10 hours a week or more. you will experience about a month worth of total content. There is no pvp, very little soloable content, no crafting, and no explorable zones like you would find in EQ2. The amount of content this game have to offer is probably the biggest down side of this game. Hopefully this will change over time.