Originally posted by lordpenquin

Originally posted by wh00ch

This is a sad day for me. I have been a LotRO player from the days right after closed beta and have had a lifetime membership since that time. The fact that I am LIMITED to 500 points per month is TOTAL BS! I paid my rather large fee up front and expected that to be sufficient.

I would rather have a COMPLETE refund and give Turbine/Warner Brothers a big one-fingered wave good-bye ..i.

 

Keep in mind that when the game switches over to free to play, you might have as much at 4,500 points on day one.

Founder lifetime members get 1,500 points.

You get 500 points per anniversary of the game, so if you were there since day one, you get another 1,500.

You also get 500 a month until they launch the free to play, which is about three months or more so that's another 1,500.

then you get the first month, so that would be a total of 5000 turbine points in your wallet. 

How much $ would you have to spend to get that much?

If it's pricing is anything like the DDO store, then it could save you upwards of $50.

http://yfrog.com/ccddostorej

Turbine devs have already stated that it will not be "free to play, pay to win" model. Most of the items will be cosmetic and convenience items.

Various mount skins, wardrobe skins, +10-20% or more XP potions, run speed potions, maybe even some port scrolls.

Just look at the DDO store, and that is exactly what the LOTRO store will be modeled after they have said. Also stated, a dev said this plain and simple:

"The purchase of items in the LOTRO Store is entirely optional. While items in the Store are designed to immediately enhance your in-game experience, premium loot and rare gear are the rewards of adventure and are only obtainable through gameplay."

This means that raid gear, and any type of gear with stats that will give you a major advantage will only be obtainable through actually doing the content. Hope this helps answer some questions and silences the doom-and-gloomers.

I played WAR for about a month when it came out then dropped it.

Since then, my Visa had expired and I acquired a new one. Thank God too, or else I'd probably have been in the same boat as the rest of the guys.

Was recently thinking about resubbing and trying out the game.

Now I'm most definitely never going to.

They do have a MMO called Phantasy Star Universe. Like a sequel or something I guess.

http://phantasystaruniverse.com/
 

Pretty decent. A lot like PSO.

Originally posted by Echobe

How's the population size?
What's your opinion of the community?
What are some of the features that stand out for you?
What does this MMO do that other's do not? Or is there plenty of cookie cutting going on?
Is this another all combat, all the time kind of MMO, as WoW and many others mainly are?

1. The population is ok. It depends on which server you select, mainly. Brandywine is the most populous server, while I think Windfola is one of the smallest servers. Vilya being above Windfola, and the others are moderate.  I personally like Windfola the best.

2. The community is absolutely fantastic. People help eachother all the time, the guilds ("kinships") are very helpful, just an overall friendly community. I've heard horror stories about open chat in other MMOs, LOTRO's is fairly tame.

3. The Cosmetic system. Legendary Weapon system.

4. This MMO adheres to Tolkien's LOTR lore. This is  a large factor for me in that when seeing certain places, NPCs, etc., I become very excited :)

5. No, this MMO is not all combat all the time. In fact, you could spend days crafting, doing silly (and fun!) quests, events, things like that. There's a line of quests called the "Chicken Quests" that you take control of a chicken and your objective is to make it from point A to point B without dying! Definitely a chore going from The Shire to Rivendell as a Lv.1 chicken!

Plenty of other things to do than combat!

Hope this helps! Also see my user gallery for LOTRO pictures that may interest you!

Could someone send a key to Silvashadows@msn.com ?

I tried this game way back in the day when it first came out, and was wondering how it is now? I remember walking around as a dwarf...so fun. ^__^

Doing the drums is always the fun part of The Beast.

http://de.youtube.com/profile?user=Argosax&view=videos

There ya go. All the cutscenes in LOTRO thus far.

I'd say try Lord of the rings online.

http://www.lotro.com

They just had an expansion come out, the Mines of Moria. Not too late to start either, they added in 2 new classes as well. If you're into RP, PVE, and grouping, LOTRO is all about that. Little to no PVP, and the PVP it does have is just kind of a side game, really.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Argosax&view=videos

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v255/ShadowSephiroth/Games%202/

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v255/ShadowSephiroth/Games/

Indeed, always willing to help.

Theograd, Windfola server.

Originally posted by Mastermartz

Thanks for the posts guys! And i truly love the game, just finished the begginer zone yesterday. I'm on the brandywine server is that a good one?

Yeah, Brandy seems to be ok. Lots of people to do stuff with. I went with Windfola, great people there. If you have any questions, please, let me know!

Also, if you need help in quests and finding stuff, MEHQ will help greatly.

http://mehq.net/dynmap/

Some more helpful links:

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Mechanics:Fellowships

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Mechanics:Damage_Types

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Mechanics:Fellowship_Maneuvers

Also, for some 'end game' video footage:

http://www.trucidolotro.com  the video on our splash screen is a pretty neat peek into "end game".

Heck yes. I love me some LOTRO.