Originally posted by crunchyblack

From the forums on their own website ive gatherd that the client will be made avaliable for download the day of CB going live, or at least the day before.  They really should open up the client for download a week before CB to avoid a internet traffic jam on downloading the client.  I think that the english version isnt yet translated from german, which was translated from korean...

It is or the beta would be delayed. The majority of the testers are English. The beta upon launch will have both versions. The reason the beta has sucha  date set is so they can get the clients ready.

LOL! Nice one. That is actually kind of funny!

Originally posted by Dradiin

Originally posted by tfox2k1

Happens in all MMOs and tend to happen far less in LOTRO.

 

 

 

No it does not Happen in all MMOs, especially ones that have been out for over a year. Thanks for your optimism but seriously, i can't play, neither can anyone else on my server.

Tell Blizzard that.... Wow has been out for over 4 years and each and every patch has issues excluding the stuff they mess up gameplay wise.

Originally posted by vingvega

Downloaded the free trial, installed, all pumped to play and BAM dead server.  They brought it down I guess....well time to uninstall and go back to War beta.

Give it a chance... It will be worth the few hour wait you might endure. Hopefully you decide to come back again. :)

So is that why they are down right now? I thoguht this was fixed a few days ago after the patch.... Did it hang over?

Originally posted by ghettobooste

Not that big of a deal, but the PvMP in LOTRO is really awesome.  It just needs a few more areas, and a little more love.  I was pretty bummed to see they decided to cancel the new PvMP area for Mines of Moria, which I was really looking forward to.  God, that woulda been awesome...  I mean, it is such a cool aspect to the game.  They could really do so much more with it and it looks like they are shelving those plans for now.  Another case of cutting content to meet a deadline it seems. 

I like the idea of new PvMP areas however, I don't think it was cut for any deadlines... I think it was cut due to most players not caring about that part of the game. I hope it will be added soon after the expansion however.

Originally posted by leowyatt

Originally posted by Quingu

Arkenstone:2410 4:01 P.M.

Brandywine:3470 2:44 P.M.

Elendilmir:3507 3:31 P.M.

Firefoot:2228 2:38 P.M.

Gladden:2610 3:40 P.M.

Landroval:2988 1:50 P.M.

Meneldor:2567 2:48 P.M.

Nimrodel:2431 2:30 P.M.

Silverlode:2846 4:14 P.M.

Vilya:2230 12:46 P.M.

Windfola:2181 12:25 P.M.

 

forums.lotro.com/showthread.php

 

One year after release this game still kicking ass.

this not counting with anonymous  people and monster play. so the numbers should be near 5k people per server.

 

These numbers have absolutely NOTHING to do with server populations.... its really easy to just read the post before you go trotting this stuff all over the place.  These numbers are for the RING LORE SERVER EVENT.  They are the current counts from quest turn ins.

It unlocks the second part of Book 14 and the new area called the ring forges.  Seriously.....

However even with that said it proves people are still around and are enjoying the new content.... So you comment while it may hold truth it also hold the game to what it is... A great game with great content.

Originally posted by justmyself

I think the best games are WoW and Lineage II. Yes, WoW had a paid expansion, but after years of game release, and there's coming out another expansion for WoW, but WoW is a much better game than LOTRO (thats MY opinion!). And lineage II hasn't had any paid expansion since the release, and I think that's why people love L2(except of perfect graphics and gameplay).

Let me step in here and say two things.... You are a grinder and a mindless one. And you cannot speak for the game as you have not even played the game. No one cares what other games you have played when you have not beat let alone played this one. This game is not like any others its actually story driven! Now leave troll you just make yourself more retarded sounding as this pointless thread moves along.

No one that is in a  right state of mind except for asians(Not being racist but that is true read up on it) like L2. And wow has been degrading in quality in Gameplay, PvP is so imbalanced and such a joke these days.... Oooo and PvE? HA! Is that what they call endless grind quests? Don't you think about mouthing me I have tried and played both. I have a 70 on wow and cannot stand peoples attitudes on either faction. Wow, if not for the gold farmers and children would not exist... Only reason its around is so children can run around calling each other nubs, n00b, nerd, noob, etc yelling PWND! all day. Get real and run back to your wow forums..... Don't get me started on how the game looks these days O.o 

I have played wow for 5 count them 5 years... How was it possible? I was in Internal Alpha testing from the beginning. Meaning I have played it longer than anyone on these forums.... Patch after patch more useless, pointless non relative story raids(if you can call it that) are released.... Blizzard aims to not have an IP after this game.... They are killing off all the bosses without any advancement of the story..... 

Hard truth hurts I know but these are the facts.... TBC was a joke yes the new areas are cool but they are still pointless at least with MoM on LOTRO content will be relative.

Wow was good.... It has its point but more then anything they are failing these days....

Hopefully I didn't bruise your pride too much!

Never mind I looked and searched some more and found it

If you press Ctrl + O, you'll get the main options menu. Go to quickslot bars. Then check the boxes "always show bar #" and click however many bars you need to see.

And thank you papadam

I just started playing again with my fiancee and a friend and we are loving it... I am a former beta tester and wow vetern and I am just tired of wow since I have played it since 03 in Alpha testing....

Anyhow is there a way to add or make the other actionbars visible at all times? I am curious that is the only thing nagging at me as I like to organize things.

Thank you for your time....

Neither As i don't think they are on the same box.... I mean no game developer is dumb enough to host 2 servers on the same box...

Originally posted by xluciferx

WOW copied LOTR lore, use google and find out where elfs came from.

And LOTRO copied everyother old myth of Elfs and shit.... get over it Wow revolutionised the UI by actually making it work unlike other games that just slap something together the devs go above and beyond eveything just once again give the consumer what they want hence why they have been so sucessful LOTRO will fail cuz its lack of content which then leads to lack of depth Whereas wow just keeps getting better

Originally posted by devilflames3

well wow graphics aren't that good so...The gfx in Lotro are way more beautiful than wow, and I think it's a big difference between those 2 games. But ur right, mmorpg are pretty similar..

HAHAHA? Really? They are older then LOTRO and still look much cleaner get a decent system and then max the settings and then you will be in awe of wows graphics...... Trust me I know I max the settings and get 45-70 FPS with 55 being AVG

Originally posted by WSIMike

 

Originally posted by Myrick

Originally posted by WSIMike

 

Originally posted by Thillian

 

Originally posted by Viruzzz

Is it just me or does this game look identical to WoW in every aspect (UI placement, skillsetup, everything)

it looks so alike it i can barely spot any differences (except the lotr theme vs warcraft theme)

 

 

Guys you know what is it? This is asheron's call 2 from 2002. Check the minimap location together with health/mana pool. Skill list is on the bottom, to the right are bag icons and to the left options menu.

Looks like as in WoW? Aye cause WoW copied this interface completely. Lord of the Rings is build on the same graphic engine as Asheron's Call 2 so it's obvious they have identical interface. But compare the years they were released AC2 in 2002, WoW in 2004.

The thread should be called wow = ac2 under wow general discussion.

 

Errr.... I'm with  you up until the "Lord of the Rings is build on the same graphic engine as Asheron's Call 2" bit... No they're not. Similarities in an interface, or even a control scheme, is not indicative of "the same engine".  Turbine has used their own custom, in-house engine for all their games since AC1. WoW has used their own. You can make any game's interface look like any other game's interface. With enough customizing of code and what-not, you can make Quake 1's interface look like AC2's or WoW's, etc...

 

Actually Lord of the rings online is on the same gaming engine that AC2 and DDO were built on. Just  tweaked for the needs of this game. Same basic engine though. As for any game looking like any game. DUH.  You use what works. What is change for the sake of change? Omg my his car has a round steering wheel.. I better make mine a triangle or else people will think i am copying!!!!

Can you please point to where it's stated that World of Warcraft uses the AC2 engine, or any other derivative of Turbine's engine tech?

 

That is the first I've heard of any such thing and numerous searches I've done have turned up no such information. It's universally referred to as "The World of Warcraft Engine" in every instance I can find.

The only mention I found mentioning anything of the engine's genesis is from way back in a preview article on GameSpy:
http://archive.gamespy.com/previews/september01/wow/index.shtm

"This is all possible due to the new engine that, although originally being based on the Warcraft III engine, has clearly accelerated far past what Warcraft III is currently capable of in the same way that Half-Life took the Quake engine and expanded it to a whole different level of graphics."

That seems more like they started with the base engine from WCIII and expanded on it.

Aside from that... There are different file system/formats and structure. Different terrain system.  Numerous tell-tale differences.

  READ no one ever said wow was built on AC2 engine they said LOTRO was.... B4 you continue bashing peoples opinions and facts(I beta tested LOTRO and WOW) They are roughly the same ui the game play is more in depth then LOTRO due to the fact blizzard listened to the users unlike Turbine which is why LOTRO has little to no endgame content

Originally posted by Deathpooper

Originally posted by raymerjacque

they are not emulating wow, in fact i don't think there is a mmorpg out there that emulates wow, all mmorpg's are similar, nothing you can do about it, grinding, questing, leveling, gaining skills, these are what makes a mmorpg playable, how else you gonna keep few hundred thousand or million people busy till expansion ?

the difference between the mmorpgs is what makes each one unique.

SWG - housing, great character customisation, housing / cities, entertainers ( unussual class ), AWSOME crafting system etc ..

DDO - ingame voice, excellent skill system, OUT OF THIS WORLD combat system, excellent LFG system etc ..

WoW - easy to play, designed in such a way that 90% of players don't even have ball hairs yet... and unfortunetly they out number the older players by 10 000 to 1 .. thus 6.9 million players are under 14 years old and 100k middle aged players.

Lotro will most likely have grinding, questing, dungeons run etc just like all the others. it is features like MPVP and the ability to form bands ( buy instruments and sit in a group and chill while playing tunes ), HUGE continents to explore, unique monsters from the books, excellent story line and such that will set it apart from others. I just really hope we don't get alot of children spamming the channels with crap ... that killed wow for me ...

anyway, i am open minded and will not put the game down before i have tried it like most idiots do ... i hope they make a success of it.

Where do you get those statistics from?

Originally posted by Lastera

Originally posted by Khalathwyr

Originally posted by Kruniac

 

Originally posted by DaProdigy
Saying the game "sucks" is just a general statement, but the game is not very appealing, and won't be appealing to anyone who's not a diehard LOTR fanatic. Now, just because someone doesn't like it doesn't automatically mean it blows. But just because there are people who will overlook obvious detrimental flaws just for the sake of the license doesn't automatically make it good, either. I wish I could go into specifics, but I can't for obvious reasons. Well, I can.. I just don't care.

I agree completely with, "Maybe they tried it, and it sucked, so they stopped.."

 

Cant play as Uruks. From what I heard, no PvP at all. Hardly anyone will roleplay.

Yeah, it BLOWS.

 

Hmm. Yeah, there isn't PvP. There's PvMP. As far as roleplay, why even bother bringing it up. Back when UO, EQ and AC1 first came out, people RP'ed. Mainly because the percentage of Pencil and Paper gamers was higher then non-dice rolling gamers. Now this genre has become mainstream and is the "cool" thing, so more of those who never actually role-played are funneling in, for better and worse. That said, if you really wanted to RP, there are plenty of folks out there who intend to do just that. RPing just has to mean enough to you to seek out those folks, which isn't hard at all. Google is your friend.

What the hell is PvMP? Is that where the players fight monsters one on one? How's this any different from soloing or PvE in general for that matter? UO, EQ and AC roleplayed for a few reason...MMORPG were exclusive only to a certain market of players and they weren't a large number of mmorpgs out there. Now that all MMORPGs are now mainstream, anybody and everybody will play these games. The ignorance of people astounds me when talk about the old days and comparing to what's happening now. Because the MMORPG in general is mainstream, what type of players a company gets depends on how appeal it is for a general audiences and what new gimmick does it offer. Am I saying LotR won't have roleplaying? Nope, I'm saying the community beta has now won't be the same after launch. If the launch is successful, you'll have more than just roleplaying play LotR and it won't be the same community. If the launch is a failure, you'll have a lot of people telling I told you so. Either way, it's going to turn people off and it's going end up either another WoW or another DDO.