People that I knew that have played the game didn't find it that solid, also there "free to Play" model is very restrictive. I can't exactly say Atari is completely at fault. Turbine should have bailed out on the title a long time ago.

Well, I play DDO and I find it awesome, although definitely different from the mainstream MMOs. I wish Atari had nothing to do with it because they really didn't support it, be it through ads, presence at some major gaming events, etc. I hope they lose that one :)

It's disappointing that it had to come to legal blows, but I can't honestly say I blame Atari for intending to jump ship. $30 million in losses, in this case, was not caused by poor distribution or advertising. $30 million in losses was caused by a poorly made game. People were aware of it, but they weren't saying good things about it. Which is a pity, as I love D&D - I just wish that Turbine had captured the sense of fantastical freedom that D&D is supposed to invoke, rather than making it a repetitive, overly restrictive dungeon run.

I am not sure whether Atari accounts for full fraud or not.
But by the sense of game publisher, even you have so many titles of the game in hand, the ethical should come into blood.
Maybe another title's contract with the game developer is more worth and better, so lower or cancel another title will not that much hurt the revenue. Who's know what they're thinking?
By the way, this article just remind me to think hard when doing business with the game publisher.

I played DDO from the day it was released, and although a great game from the start, turbine failed to provide the updates and new content after about a year and a half, players sat by still paying for no content, turbine and atari breached there contract to there gameplayers/payers and allthough they have bought out content with release of it going free to play it is still poor, they have no direction at all and use there LOTRO dev team to create content for ddo i could see the game going down hill, i put some pretty damning info about the game heading in the wrong direction and the devs having no idea with regards to D&d lore and was to suffer infraction points for my thoughts. I love D&d and would love to see a NWNMMO or baldurs gate 3 or even an ice wind dale 3, even in an mmo format forgotten realms worlded mmo would be awsome as i love this theatre over the Eberron, even the old school greyhawk capaign setting would be awsome, Dragonlance even. the only thig that has suffered in this war with turbine and atari is D&d and its players wether tabletoppers, or gamers. ill never play anything turbine labeled again thay have left a bad taste in my mouth so until the witcher 2 comes out ill be searching the net for hopfully some D&d licensed games due for release.