Patience Grasshopper...patience...

Unfortunately too many of you are right. Turbine (under Warner Bros.) is in greed mode and will destroy what once was a good game. By that time I will be gone and playing something else. They are turning it into a cheap tacky Asian game.

Did you finish all the quests in Starkmoor? Then head to the bogs...if you finished all the quests there should be guidence to the next area (also do the epic quests).

"The avatars for korean games/Asian Games, regardless of what "angle" they run at or how they are dressed, are always better."

This is it in a nutshell. Turbine just needs to hire some Korean animators and get it right. Their character animations have always sucked. The one thing I can say about Korean games is that the animations are always beautiful....not so for American games. Maybe someday someone will combine the better American gameplay with the superior Korean animations....we can only hope.

Originally posted by Unlight

Originally posted by ComfyChair

Originally posted by Valua

Originally posted by star

He's true though. Anyone that's played at cons will confirm that 1000 times over.

 

CAN'T WAIT FOR MONDAY.

 

People confirmed the hype for Age of Conan, The Old Republic, Warhammer, Aion etc, and look at them now.

 

In other words, I'm not holding my breath for any MMO anymore, I'll try them myself before jumping on the, often wrong, hype bandwagon.

That's the thing, desperate fanboys will defend anything. Does anyone remember how the ToR morons were talking about how 'awesome' PvP was at the conventions? Until it releases of course and everyone saw what big fat liars they were.

But there's plenty of gameplay (albeit with terrible players) of gw2 to get a good feel for what's going on. I personally very much enjoyed my experience, but because of said 'brave face's' put on by rabid fanboys of previous games it doesn't mean anything any more.

But GW2 does live up to the hype :p You'll find that for yourself soon enough.

The major difference is that the video that was being released wasn't backing up the claims.  It was clear for all to see what was actually happening in the game, even if many refused to acknowledge it, and apparently still do.  It's much harder to resist GW2's hype because not only ArenaNet been very good about providing detailed information about what their up to, there has been a ton of video to back up the gushing fans.  We don't have to take anyone's word for anything.  We can see it for ourselves.

I almost feel pity for the trolls and the naysayers.  They've got their work cut out for them because the closer we get to release, the less ammunition they have to work with.  Oh well.  I'm sure they're not done trying to convince us that two plus two equals seven and the moon is made from swiss cheese.  Have to admire their stubborness, at least.

We all know that 2 plus 2 equals five (not seven). I wish I worked for MMORPG this weekend....

I work for MMORPG...really....no really I do...can I borrow a press pass for one weekend..please?

Sometimes you don't even need a new PC. Upgrading your grphics card will give you a huge performance boost. SSD's are another way to speed up game performance although I found a cheaper way. I bought a very fast usb drive and loaded my mmo on it and got much faster load times. Also, if your computer is that old it helps to re-format the drive and start over (to delete all the crude that has slowed your computer down). GW2 has no sub fees and most likely will be the best mmo released this year.

Hopeful

The wording suggests that they will offer more than just cosmetic items in the CS. It basically makes the game FTP and not a pay once and play. The pressure to do this most likely came from NCSoft because they need the cash flow.

Motorcycles and groundhogs with machine guns....

There was no scheduled downtime for the game tonight...

Anyone know why LOTRO servers and forum are all down?

Because they never made any money at all. The game has been in beta for 2 years. It was as far as the Moria patch, but did not include anything newer.

Yep have fun ganking in a game I will never play (never play Korean games again).

Lord of the Rings Online has the most mature players of any MMO I have ever played. Usually very helpful and friendly. I am on Elendilmer which is a 24 hour server (USA and those lovable Aussie's). One of the best servers of any game anywhere on the planet (and yes I might be a little biased).

There are several girls/women on our server on Lord of the Rings Online. The storyline is the best in any MMO and the community is as well.

Originally posted by cyress8

Bah, no early sneak peek for North/South Americas. Gotta wait till the 10th. :(

Really? Then why bother posting the sneak peek info on this site?

I am pretty much done with Korean games. They really do not translate well to the west.

This was posted on the LOTRO forums and pretty much sums it up:

The player's condolence statement is as follows (the one who made these screenshots):

Every night, I wished not to go offline of LOTRO, I always held on to my body strain, I just want, to see this earth one more time, there is nothing more important, because, Middle earth, you are going to leave me……..

I wasn’t so sad when I broke up with my lover years ago, because I believed I could find a better companion. However, LOTRO is shutting down, where else could I find this land?

Bree’s rising kitchen smoke, Shire’s blue sky and white cloud, Thorin’s majesty and grandeur, Celondim’s mysterious blue, Lone-lands’ campfire and endless desert, north downs’ undulating hills, Evendim’s ruins, Forochel’s piercing snow and ice, we walked these paths, we laughed and joyed, but now, on the bumping back of my ride, I fall into silence. I devoted too much of my love to this earth, I vainly wish, this is not the last trip……

Many friends, we may even not have a chance to say good bye…….

Once, we laughed and cursed under the bright moon and stars,
Once, we charged towards enemies on the boundless Ettenmoors,
Once, we merrily conversed among thousands of mountains and valleys,
Once, we madly rode when the sky was twisted by storms of yellow sand,

Thank you, for letting me have a dream that couldn’t be more real, I love you, but I will never be able to see you again…..

Several years from now, if someone mentions middle earth in front of me, maybe I’ll only indifferently smile, but he will not see that, even after years, when I look back at this memory, my heart will always be deeply stirred…..

You see some of these games do affect us deeply and for all the complaining we (I) have done the devs did an incredible job of bringing middle earth to life and we are grateful for that. I would have posted on the LOTRO forums in this thread, but I never do anymore since the time their forum server was hacked and game passwords were stolen.

I suspect that eventually a great game will show up with some new and refreshing creativity (that works) and it may even catch us off guard (as in we did not see it coming).