One Shots: Definitely not broccoli

I actually thought the flash add was from a

Wow, that was a great ad. Give the Turbine ad department a pay raise!

It was surely meant to be simple and fun : ). That part I like. But it looks too cheap for such good game as DDO is.

I've recently tested Aion for Polish gamer site. I was really surprised - DDO isn't worse at all. Aion should be free to play, otherwise I'm sure it will be pulled under by any another MMO release pretty easily. DDO has more originality to offer, and Aion isn't a match even for WoW. Comparing those games is pretty much pointless, Blizzard rules their own niche.
Creating more WoW-clones (yes, I call Aion, LotrO and WAR that way for a reason) isn't a good stratedy. No game is able copy whole game approach and make it more fun - once you've played WoW, you don't need to play it again, just in Aion sauce, right?
Not only that. LotrO may be "better game" on higher levels, but first 10 levels of WoW are still teaching how to do it better. Plus, LotrO is a clone, making it less apealing from the start. The same for WAR and Aion. Those games won't see much success, it's just overhyping.

So, the future is originality. DDO is a game of the future even now, when it runs for over 3 years and got a (very sucessful, to remind you) relaunch.

The worst thing Turbine could do is to overlook DDOs potential and market / run it improperly. If they corrected their mistakes (crafting system, poorly looking UI, cheap marketing, too low resources for development), DDO could be the game nr 2 behind the ever-waning, and ever-leading WoW.

DDO is a diamond in the rough. It's too fun and original to waste its possible and likely, big format success. It all goes up since beta.

Look at the Pulse (popularity) charts here:
http://www.tentonhammer.com/ddo

Single announcement, and DDO is back again at its rightful second place behind WoW. And above Aion.