A letter from our Executive Producer, Fernando Paiz to all DDO players!

Hi Everyone!

On behalf of the DDO Team and everyone at Turbine, we hope you enjoyed a great end of 2011 holiday, and that your 2012 is off to a roaring start! DDO had another great year in 2011, and we want to thank our fans who played throughout the year and helped keep DDO going strong as one of the top F2P MMOs in the world.

We’ve had hundreds of thousands of new players join our free to play service, and DDO had another strong year of growth in 2011. We also welcomed in French and German speaking players to the Turbine service. We released a new crafting system, a new class, a new house ward, and adventure packs that added great gameplay, stories and loot to the high levels of the game! We hope you have all had the chance by now to build an Artificer character, play the new raids and try your hand at mastering the new Challenges. It all adds up to a pretty big year for DDO – but we are resolved to make 2012 even bigger.

As you may be aware, in a few weeks it will be Chinese New Year and 2012 begins the Year of the Dragon! This most popular of Chinese zodiac symbols stands for innovation, persistence, passion and leadership – all attributes that have become part of the story of DDO as well. This year we will have a fitting celebration as we have some huge plans to make this the biggest year ever for DDO!

How will 2012 be bigger than any year since our launch in 2006? The answer is pretty exciting! But I am not able to go into any details here today. Stay tuned and you should see us start rolling out some announcements by the end of the month! Then I will return to share with you more detailed plans for the year during the month of February before our anniversary. Trust me; it will be worth the wait!

In closing, let me once again wish you and your families a very Happy New Year and express our gratitude for being a part of our ongoing success that has helped us keep the game growing. We can’t wait to share more with you soon.

Happy Year of the Dragon!
-Fernando.