General Discussion

Jaix, I am just curious, please tell me have you reached the cap in the game? Do you already have all the class items? Was it fun getting them?

I have almost everything I wanted and all that is left doing is grinding. And no, for me it wasn't fun doing the Rift over and over again, after the n-th time it was just grind. The only battles that are fun and challenging are the Balrog and Thrang.

I like Helegrod more simply because it is more fun raiding with more people - first because you can vary more with the classes and second - because the more people the merrier it is. But they are not adding something similar, no more raid instances. I have gone through the content more than once and as good as the story is and as immersive the world is, it's getting boring at some point. Repetition is the mother of boredom.

Originally posted by jaix

I've noticed  that people seem to get a lot more upset when something they think should be implemented isn't included in this game. I'm beginning to think that it's because the devs actually LISTEN to people as opposed to the typical, "This is our vision and this is where we're going to take it. You don't like it - find another game".  Rather than acknowledging the fact that they're listening to you and being grateful, you demand more and throw a tantrum when the next update doesn't include exactly what you wanted. This isn't a choir, the player-base isn't all singing the same song. They try to cater a bit to the players who play this game for RP and because it's Middle-Earth - the ones who if they didn't play this game probably wouldn't play anything else, and you get bent out of shape. Give them some time. It's not their job to cater to YOUR every whim. They have to make it fun for everyone. If you're really after raids that much, WoW has a ton of them. Just head over there, I'm sure they'll be implementing some cool new features soon. Of course you'll have to buy another expansion just to get them, but hey, you'll get your raids.

I agree Turbine is prolly the only company around that does listen to there player base (except for AC2) anyway look at when they nerfed classes early in game release players spoke up and Turbine delivered, i actually sent in a suggestion to add Barber shops and houses to give the game a lil Sandbox kinda feel which again they have delivered (not saying that they listened to my suggestion in particular) but they are listening to what we want and are delivering, Tell me if they delivered everything that we all asked for what would be next? Nothing there would be nothing to look forward to because we would already have it. I think that the stuff that they have been doing is just putting the icing on the cake , watch when Book 13 and the First Expansion comes ( BIG ANNOUNCEMENT any 1 ??) the game will open up and we will also have all these little bits and pieces to make it that much better. Turbine as much as people hate them are doing a bloody ggod job with this game and no1 I SAY NO 1 can take that away from them.

Maybe I'm just being a butt-in-ski seeing as i don't play  LOTRO, but regarding why so many people choose humans, usually the biggest benefit to the most popular class determines which race is the most popular. Actual appearance is second. Also in most games hybridized characters are very popular and humans tend to have middle of the road stats to start with making developing a few of them evenly easier.

charlizd , by your logic they should listen to the people who asks for decent PVP and they dont.
Btw your suggestion or whoever asked for barber shops and houses was complete waste of time. And now when its done nobody use it and its empty all the time. Same thing with system that was intended to help us make fellowship or join one and from my experience its rarely used and this tell us a lot about community in LOTRO.
Its hard to make some bonds with other ppl cos there is actually no need for that.

Originally posted by vipjerry

charlizd , by your logic they should listen to the people who asks for decent PVP and they dont.

Not a relevant point.

They're not going to listen to people who want them to change the fundamental design of the game. Nor should they. LoTRO is not a PvP game. It's a PvE game. Creep/Freep play is a limited, restricted side activity; not the main focus.

Amazing that people are still trying to argue that point against Turbine/LoTRO after all this time.

Can i please have a link to this statement where Turbine said It's strictly PvE game.