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• • Returning to LOTRO..but wondering: can this game last?

  • Originally posted by Theocritus
    

             I view LOTRO as a short term game....What I mean by that is that it is fun but only for a short time.....I would not buy the lifetime membership for this game.......It gets the same ole same ole feel after awhile.....FOr some that may take a couple years but for me it lasted about 2 months before I got really bored and didnt feel like logging in anymore......Its also another in a long line of MMOs that are just too easy (WoW, EQ2, LOTRO, etc).....There is some challenging stuff in the game but overall its MMO lite and appeals more to the casual than the hardcore gamer.....IF youre looking for a game to hold you over for a month or 2 Id recommend it but if youre looking for a long term MMO home I wouldnt recommend LOTRO.

    
     

    I agree with this post.

    LOTRO had a couple of quick "free" add ons, which where a) very necessary, because it was so obvious how little the piece of software was at launch and b) probably where almost ready at launch anyway and held back to achieve just this impression: they dev quick.

    In fact the rhythm between "free" add ons has slowed down remarkable, so has the ammount of content delivered in them.

    Looking at LOTRO today with all the updates it had since release it is almost where i expect a modern MMO to launch at. This means its still not grown up.

    What the past year showed tho is that Turbine is trivialising and more trivialising the little challenging content they ever had (laugh) to make it accessable for the core player base they have left. I think more than 50% of LOTRO players play less than 5 houers per week and thats why only a very few tight knitted kinships have established compared to other games.

    However, this game has a future of course, there will always be Tolkien fans buying it for the title and being entertained by a 3D modell that has the name Gandalf over its head.

    So while the doomsayers are all wrong, the truth is that from a gamers point of view LOTRO was, is and will be BORING.

    Can you say Lord of the boRing Online?

    Snorf

  • Posted: 7/19/08 6:14 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • What is different about LotRo?

  • Originally posted by Tunango
    

    EQ2 has no community, no body wants to help newbs or even talk to you, thats even if you see anyone.

    LOTRO is much better in that department community matters.

    
    I could not disagree more with this.

    LOTRO has the worst community i ever been part of. Bullying everybody out who dares to critisise their precious game.

    Being unfriendly to forreigners or people asking simple questions. Ore Node stealing, named mob rushing, grief and what not.

    And worst of all, everyone is stressing through their SOLO content without looking left or right, no interacting at all - Stuff is sold in the almost automated AH.

    Try to hail someone on the greenpath in /say - even on a RP server you wont get a response for HOUERS, as everyone is just rushing to their next quest marker.

    I usually avoid generalisations - the common believe is that WoW has the worst community /shrug, i did not notice much difference there, it heats up more because it has more PvP batlegrounds, thats all. Go to Etten's in LOTRO and you see the same premature yelling.

    But if someone says LOTRO has a good or better community than EQ2 or any other game is just proof for their arrogance.

  • Posted: 6/12/08 11:53 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • How big is this game, in comparison to other MMO's?

  • The LOTRO land mass is probably a little smaller than that of other MMO's at launch. Also the "fast travel" makes it feel smaller than it is sometimes destroying some of the immersion comming from traveling the wide scenery. On the other hand, after u've traveled a certain route 20 times its annoying too.

    Anyway, if you look at the LOTR map and see what a small puzzle piece is only designed by now - you know how large it will grow over the next years.

    In fact, if you like LOTRO, then land mass size should be your smallest concern.

    Enjoy the game ;)

    Snorf

     

  • Posted: 5/19/08 12:19 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Ac1 could happen again

  • Originally posted by WiccanCircle
    

     

    Originally posted by Psi-Fyre
    

    If some team pulled this off it'll be the next WoW killer.  AC ruled, it just got left behind do to advancements in graphics, not game play or style.

    
    You know, I used to think that.  But I believe we are deluding ourselves.  Take a gander at the other games and the conversations that surround them.  Asheron's Call is what we all love, but I really don't think many of the MMO-children of today want an AC-Style game.

     

    They want max level in a week so that they can do gank sessions without debt.

    Yes but they are learning and looking for more - else LOTRO would have killed WoW already. A good portion of the Community is getting tired of being hand held through content without own choices.

    They want very simple defind roles for each class.

    They want sequential loot, changing colors as it goes up to some epic or something.

    I dont think thats what players want, its all they get, so they consume it.

    Basically they want a Nintendo game with multiple players.

    Yes to solo through it from level 1 to max.

    I kid you not, the more I read these fora the more I realize that I am in a very tiny minority that wants a sandbox style game.  (I believe that most people that beagn their MMORPG gaming in AC also suffer from sandbox cravings, but we are only a few thousand out of the millions)

    The masses do not miss what they do not know. It is amazing how often you read "such things are impossible" when suggesting game changes in modern MMO's while in the old days of AC and EQ it was very well possible. What happened? Technical drawbags? Was my Pentiom III with 350 MHz really so much more powerful than my quad core system with 8 gigabyte ram today??!

    I think Asheron's Call was a once in a gaming lifetime experience.  There is no market for this anymore.

     I think the veterans should not stop pointing out how weak and cheap the modern game mechanics are compared to old days. It is Emberrassing with what shallow thin content poor games the market is flooded. It looks like dev teams have 1 coder for game mechanics 1 for content and 500 for graphics.

     

  • Posted: 5/18/08 3:59 AM
    Asheron's Call
• • Post Level 20 Content

  • Originally posted by Plasuma!!!
    

    *snip*

     ... but the game just seems to lose depth and color at the 20th level, and in fact I find it so plain that I can't even force myself to play.

    *snip*

     ... With LOTRO, the post-level 20 content just seems too thin to even bother sampling; and I actually enjoyed it to begin with.

    
    You uncovered the obvious. This game has almost no depths.

    From my point of view you have 2 chances to "survive" its boredom:

    1) You either ignore the lack of complexity that makes the RPG genre intresting and just live with the little thats there, starvingly waiting for the frequent updates of more thin content.

    2) Or you dive into roleplaying - chit chat with your friends and suck the fun out of the integrated chat windows pushing the LOTRO buttons as a side activity.

    Everything else you will probably run against the same walls left and right again and again and again like you have described leveling all those toons to 20some.

    You may also think about taking LOTRO as your second MMO for casual relaxation and start looking for something more complex to entertain your brain.

    Good luck

    Snorf

  • Posted: 5/17/08 3:55 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online