I'm playing WoW from the start (Europe) and I was playing LOTR in the beta and 14 day free trial and same goes for EQ2 (free trial).


QUESTING:  WoW  vs LOTRO
From the start, quests are easy to understand at both games but when you leave newbie zone at LOTRO and arive in bigger village you get confused quickly. In the moment, there are A LOT of quest givers all around you wich have quests for proffesions and on difrent ones. It's just too much for the start I say.

In WoW, number of quests increase slowly. There are a lot of chains that has nice storyline and explains you quite well where do you have to go do find / do / kill or whatever.

PROFFESIONS: WoW vs LOTRO
I found both realy great at that point. WoW has who system easier but then again it doesn't have as funny as LOTRO has like Farming (raising a tobaco for smoking and other plants). Even you can be a wood worker, choping down trees and so on. I would say that proffesions are better than in WoW.

RP: WoW vs LOTRO
LOTRO is better than WoW at that point as well in my opinion becouse like I said, you can be farmer, seeding tobaco and be a realy farmer. You can learn to play lute (or what is that type of guitar :P) for other while they are dancing and drinking bear...It's just get realy close to freedom at role-playing.

PVP: WoW
I can't tell you anything about that in LOTRO, but in WoW there is a great system. You can chose to PVP in all zones (if you are on PvP server), attacking cities, villages or killing inocent players questing (I hate that). Send choice that is chosen by many players is, to visit battlegrounds (modes: Capture the flag, Domination and two similar modes) or visitign arenas (2vs2,  3vs3 or 5vs5). For PvPing you get pvp equipment and other stuff.

Time is running out so I can't write more. I hope I helped you a bit

I'm sorry but I think you mentioned all games that are mostly worth of paying... I don't know, I may suggest you Lineage 2 but that's nothing comparing with Conan or WoW  (my opinion however).

If that is no good for you as well then I realy don't know what you want but I wish you luck though

I hope we will see beta in europe becouse game itself looks realy nice and it's something I want to see

I'm looking forward PvE => Questing most of all

Is there beta key giveaway at all? Isn't there a system with beta-keys, where you have to work for community and write on forums / be active?