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• • Player Housing

  • There is player housing in different started areas where you zone into a neighborhood.  You have to buy one and then it's in that neighborhood instance.  I don't have one yet so I don't know how customizeable they are, but they are on in great locations.  It's cool because you get to know the people in your neighborhood.

  • Posted: 7/23/08 9:00 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Thinking of returning, couple of questions

  • I can't speak for all servers but Brandywine seems to always be populated.  I got on at 6:45 am yesterday and got grouped up with a couple of guys immediately and we knocked out quests for a few hours.  This was the level 10-13 area.  Running around the cities I came across hundreds and hundreds of players.  Seemed more alive then most of the games i've played lately actually (WoW on my old server (everyone is 70), EQ2 (Barren Wasteland), Vanguard(The 2nd most popular, and a great game), Lineage II (Barren Wasteland w/Bots).

  • Posted: 7/22/08 6:51 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • How many hours a day do you play

  • You can get thousands of people in every MMO out there that can fit any generalized stereotype you want to make whatever point you want.

    You will never get enough votes especially on a site as skewed as this to legitimately make whatever point you are trying to make.

    The majority of the MMORPG players that exist now due to WoW and as the genre has grown are not hardcore gamers and probably 80-90% play casually.  The more mainstream games coming out are going to be catered towards the majority which are casual gamers, and hopefully some companies still try to make games to cater to the more hardcore crowd. 

    I am playing Lineage II and LotrO at the same time which are two extremes, but I can tell you I have friends that have 3-4 50's in LotRO and will do nothing but talk about how polished and well made the game is.  They have been playing MMO's since EQ1, and they normally move around a  lot more than they have since they started LotRO.  I can barely ever even get them to play Guild Wars with me anymore. 

  • Posted: 7/20/08 9:34 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Public Announcement.

  • Originally posted by Nubzi
    

    Originally posted by Redline65
    

    IMO the solo content outweighs the grouping content. With the addition of Evendim, Tal Bruinen, north/south high pass, and Forochel it's fairly easy to solo to lvl 50 if you want. To me that would be somewhat boring, but it can be done.

     

    Everything that I have seen up to this point in the game (level 32) I'm running out of solo content left and right.  Finding groups to complete group quests is incredibly hard.  To date the way I finish most of the group quests is by getting help from a 50 in my Kin.

     

    I'm just saying grouping shouldn't be forced upon people inorder to do quests, there should be enough solo content for people to do if they can't find a group, which up to this point there really isn't.

     

    It sounds to me like what you want is a 300-500 hour single player game with a multiplayer ending?  What the hell has WoW done to MMO's...  I pray that people like you just leave the genre so developers stop trying to cater to you and making games so damn easy that a 9 year old can get to the end game without ever grouping up or interacting with other players.

  • Posted: 7/18/08 9:15 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Public Announcement.

  • Originally posted by sinjin
    

    Hi folks,

    It has been a long journey to find an mmo that keeps my attention as of late.   I felt the need to come here and thank this community and turbine for the wonderful job they have done creating this game.

    The girlfriend and I downloaded the 14 day trial, as I was scared to buy two copies as I beta'd this game last year and it was horrible.  Now I installed the high definition version using DX10 on a 64 bit OS and all I can say is wholey fracking crap.  This games graphics and gameplay is amazing.

    This game has come completely 180 from its launch and the features they added are enough to keep the girlfriend and I happy.  So today im going to pickup two copies of the game, my EB Games actually still has a collector's edition on the shelf, im in a small community, thank the lord.

    Anyways we hit lvl 8 lastnight and loved every moment, im a great judge of videogames as that is what I do for a living.  The best part is we are in no way LOTRO fans, of course we saw the movies, but we never read tolkien's books or learned his lore.  This game is great, it is a shame, if more people tried it im sure they would be hooked.  I doubted it from my first impressions a year ago but now have changed my mind.

    Keep on keeping on!

     

    The only two things I find bad is the text used in speech dialogue and on npc and players names, itf you could make that smaller with shadows it would look 1000% better and the game would be complete. The jumping animation should be fixed and look more fluid.

     

    I endorse this message.  Went back and tried it again, and i'm hooked.  I am ridiculously impressed and my situation can be compared almost exactly to sinjin's except that my wife doesn't play games...  She just yells at me when I do, and she hates LOTRO right now which means it must be a pretty damn good game.

  • Posted: 7/18/08 5:10 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online