Originally posted by SKIPADI

Originally posted by Daedalus732

Originally posted by SKIPADI

Thank you for your politely written post.

I am curious however as to what you wanted the content of LOTRO to be.  Your post primarily lists specific things you didn't care for, but gives no  concrete suggestions as to what would have pleased you.

While I enjoy the game as it is, there are several things I would have liked to see at launch.

-- Fishing

-- Player housing

-- More choices for character customization at character creation

-- Removal of the 'Grape' masquerading as 'Indigo' color

 

What did you want?

That's a good point. I would have liked all of those things you listed, but mainly I suppose with LOTR being such a popular franchise, I really hoped Turbine would use their already guaranteed huge player base to take a few chances, such as a different take on the combat system, a crafting system that would be almost a game in of itself, and a departure from trying to make me, as an individual, feel like I'm somehow important to the quest to destroy the One Ring.

Mounts before level 35 would have been nice too. But that's not a deal-breaking issue of course.

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If I read you correctly, it sounds like you were looking for more of a 'sand box' type experience and less of a 'story driven' experience.  I too would like to see greater freedom to, if you will, write your own story.  I also believe that with some imaginative development that the 'sand box' and the 'grand story' can thrive side by side.

I agree that a basic mount at level 10 would have been nice, but would have made the game world feel smaller than it already is.  I think that once we get a couple of commercial expansions Turbine may be able to improve that situation.

On your note about Turbine being able to take chances, I don't think they really felt like they could.  Whatever their individual merits, AC2 was a complete failure and DnDO has been a poor performer.  I think Turbine believed they had to play it safe, particularly given the popularity of the LOTR IP.