Lord of the Rings Online

Anyone else have this issue?

Well they NEED the customers because LOTRO was in free fall these last months.

In April they reached the lowest MMO marketshare since launch (0.9% marketshare).

Meaning 230 K subs or less. Worldwide that is. Their max was 1.3% (Oct last year).

In Belgium it's being sold new at 7 Euro a piece.

Played it for 3 months. It's about the maximum my skin could sustain.

ok... thats nice son but it doesn't help me in the slightest. Why are you in the LOTRO forums if you're obviously so against it?

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Well they NEED the customers because LOTRO was in free fall these last months.

In April they reached the lowest MMO marketshare since launch (0.9% marketshare).

Meaning 230 K subs or less. Worldwide that is. Their max was 1.3% (Oct last year).

In Belgium it's being sold new at 7 Euro a piece.

Played it for 3 months. It's about the maximum my skin could sustain.

That "educated guess" site, MMORPGCHART.com?

You might as well post "the sky is falling" along with it.

Yeah seriuosly where are you getting your info. And freefall is not even close. Actually it's quite the opposite.

OP They are having the welcome back weekend so things are rather heavy on the servers. Especially the heavy pop ones. It should put you in a queue to log in though.

Originally posted by fatpanda

Anyone else have this issue?

Sorry fatpanda, I haven't.  I updated the client (was like 1 patch file) and signed in.  Then was a subscription page, I clicked "Next" (it was clickable now and this was last night) then it proceeded as it should.

Good luck

I figured at least 1 person outta post something regarding the OT. 

I replied to the OP.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/online-subscriptions-exceed-1-billion-a-year-says-npd

Also you might wanna refer to this article and then tell me that LOTRO is freefalling. If you are going to refer to mmogchart than this article means that LOTRO has over 500k subs, not the 150 that mmogchart stats.

Originally posted by jarish

I replied to the OP.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/online-subscriptions-exceed-1-billion-a-year-says-npd

Also you might wanna refer to this article and then tell me that LOTRO is freefalling. If you are going to refer to mmogchart than this article means that LOTRO has over 500k subs, not the 150 that mmogchart stats.

Means nothing, until Turbine releases numbers... everything is an estimation.

Well...the NPD can be believed far more than mmogchart.com

Not really... they probably used the Boston Globe article as a reference... which stated Lotro has 800,000+ subs, However, the way the Boston Globe determined that number was from Turbines statement of "Having 4,000,000 characters created".

Regardless of what source you choose to believe, until Turbine comes out with official numbers... it's silly to believe any of them.