Last week, Turbine developers took our own Rob Lashley on a guided tour of the Lord of the Rings Online expansion, Riders of Rohan. We have a write up and a great video to show off the expansion. Check it out!

Riders of Rohan also provides us with the typical MMO expansion staples. The level cap has been increased to 85. We see a continuation of the epic story line where the fellowship has been broken, Sam and Frodo are traveling to Mordor, Merry and Pippin are on the run from orcs, and Gimli, Legolas, and Aragorn are traveling across Rohan.  Turbine has also added over 400 new quests.

Read more of Rob Lashley's Lord of the Rings Online: A Guided Tour of Riders of Rohan.

LOTRO

One of the best hidden MMO gems ever.

Too bad its only a pay-to-win game anymore these days. I played this game since Alpha testing(and SS to prove it) and tried to stick with it through all the changes.

Unfortunately, I cannot support a game that continuously tries to get players to fork over RL money for the sake of a "good game experience" especially during these days given the state of the economy.

Originally posted by MMOGamer71

LOTRO

One of the best hidden MMO gems ever.

Would you care to elaborate?

Originally posted by Czanrei

Too bad its only a pay-to-win game anymore these days. I played this game since Alpha testing(and SS to prove it) and tried to stick with it through all the changes.

Unfortunately, I cannot support a game that continuously tries to get players to fork over RL money for the sake of a "good game experience" especially during these days given the state of the economy.

There is nothing that is pay-to-win in Lotro.  Just saying something silly like that makes one wonder what game you have been playing.

Looking forward to trying this expansion.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by Czanrei

Too bad its only a pay-to-win game anymore these days. I played this game since Alpha testing(and SS to prove it) and tried to stick with it through all the changes.

Unfortunately, I cannot support a game that continuously tries to get players to fork over RL money for the sake of a "good game experience" especially during these days given the state of the economy.

There is nothing that is pay-to-win in Lotro.

PVMP

Originally posted by FrodoFragins

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by Czanrei

Too bad its only a pay-to-win game anymore these days. I played this game since Alpha testing(and SS to prove it) and tried to stick with it through all the changes.

Unfortunately, I cannot support a game that continuously tries to get players to fork over RL money for the sake of a "good game experience" especially during these days given the state of the economy.

There is nothing that is pay-to-win in Lotro.

PVMP

LOL, I forgot that even existed. The percentage of the population that actually plays that is pretty small I think.

Not sure how PvMP is pay to win, seeing as how you have to be a subscriber to even play that element of LOTRO.

Originally posted by Czanrei

Too bad its only a pay-to-win game anymore these days. I played this game since Alpha testing(and SS to prove it) and tried to stick with it through all the changes.

Unfortunately, I cannot support a game that continuously tries to get players to fork over RL money for the sake of a "good game experience" especially during these days given the state of the economy.

It is not only about that.   This game nowadays is like mixture of mall and tolkien world.  Absolutely disgust me and I tried, I've sticked with Lord of the Store for over 7 months after transtion. It was mistake though, it was slowly sucking my once big enjoyment of this game.

Not to tell about game concept shift and introducing idiotic grinds.  Just meh...

Originally posted by Jaedor

Not sure how PvMP is pay to win, seeing as how you have to be a subscriber to even play that element of LOTRO.

 

Are you even playing Lotro?  You don't have to be subscriber to play in Ettenmoors. Monster play is open for free players.

Originally posted by Freezzo

Originally posted by MMOGamer71

LOTRO

One of the best hidden MMO gems ever.

Would you care to elaborate?

No because it comes down to what your opinion of any game is as well as your likes and dislikes.  I like LOTRO and you may not.

The problem isn't the game, it's the developer (Turbine) and publisher (WB).

The biggest problem is that Turbine:

1) Misled customers into thinking Turbine Ppints would buy all content and then after a TP sale informed them that you could only pre-purchase OR purchase the expansion with cash until months after release.

2) Went back on promised free update cycles without an apology/explanation

3) Run their forums like nazis for years.

4) Put up a FAQ for the most recent expansion saying that people preordering the expansion would get the instance cluster for free when it was released.  They then removed this verbage without explanation until people noticed and demanded refunds.

5) Charge ridiculously high prices for expansions with far less end game content than industry standards like Rift and WOW produce.

They have some of the most loyal fans, mainly because they have a monopoly on the Middle Earth MMO scene.  But they continue to pump out smaller and smaller expansions while charging more and more.

store bought morale pots=pay 2 win the question should be show me whats not at this point. Im really starting to believe that sapience and lotro idiot devs are posting on here to hype this garbage lol.

a more accurate description would be the best mmo example of a pay 2 win store. They win that award hands down lol.

as for mounted combat lolz 5 years to get to rohan and there just now showing this? Still find it hard to take this seriously. No new raids or anything just mounted combat lolz 

Originally posted by starwarsnut

store bought morale pots=pay 2 win the question should be show me whats not at this point. Im really starting to believe that sapience and lotro idiot devs are posting on here to hype this garbage lol.

a more accurate description would be the best mmo example of a pay 2 win store. They win that award hands down lol.

as for mounted combat lolz 5 years to get to rohan and there just now showing this? Still find it hard to take this seriously. No new raids or anything just mounted combat lolz 

Wonder what % of people PVP in a non PVP game, pretty low I bet, you seem to be really stretching P2W.  I've been playing for 10 months or so and have yet to do Creeps vs Freeps.

I find it comical to yell P2W in a PVE game because no other game has healing pots right?

Originally posted by MMOGamer71

Originally posted by starwarsnut

store bought morale pots=pay 2 win the question should be show me whats not at this point. Im really starting to believe that sapience and lotro idiot devs are posting on here to hype this garbage lol.

a more accurate description would be the best mmo example of a pay 2 win store. They win that award hands down lol.

as for mounted combat lolz 5 years to get to rohan and there just now showing this? Still find it hard to take this seriously. No new raids or anything just mounted combat lolz 

Wonder what % of people PVP in a non PVP game, pretty low I bet, you seem to be really stretching P2W.  I've been playing for 10 months or so and have yet to do Creeps vs Freeps.

 

I find it comical to yell P2W in a PVE game because no other game has healing pots right?

the difference is youve played only 10 months ive played 4 years since beta 2. When you have the ability to buy pots in the store that stack on top of your regular pots that is pay 2 win go play a free monster player youll notice instantly what im talking about. Youll find out quickly that sapience/patience are liars with there "convience not advantange" bs when your seeing multiple pots going off and your lucky get a kill. 

There's pots in other games the difference is theres no store pots that stack on top of non store pots. I.E pay 2 win.