Is it still as linear as it was during launch? Do I still need to complete X and Y before Z opens up? Same for the zones. Is it still A to B and then on to C? What if I don't like C, but absolutely love D?
I never understood how recent MMOs have come to accept such blatant disregard for player freedom in what should be a persistent and massive universe/world.
That's what I love about LotRO. There's a multitude of zones for each and every lvl range. That's what I dislike in any and every MMO since Rift. Holding my hand? Insulting, but fine. Tugging me on a leash? Well now, good thing they had that 7 day trial a friend gave me. 40€ to spend on LotRO subscriptions instead.
I prefer to play my games through Steam, even though I've already played Wildstar and will not return I believe Steam will definitely give it some more numbers, which we already know that's why they are doing it.
I guess the content we'll see in Drop 7 was already halfway done and didn't get finished in time for release. I really doubt the current team made all that from scratch.
Carbine said that the class restrictions to certain races are in place because they couldn't get all needed animations done (in ~9 years?). So, since they don't even have all the animations for the existing races together, we won't likely see a totally new race.
As to the classes, there were three or four more classes originally planned (Elementalist, Charmer, Something Reaver and another unnamed class), but they got cut,renamed or merged into the classes we've got now.
If the game would ever see an xpack, Carbine could dig one of those out.
I think people are just wasting their time with this game. Just a matter of time before they pull the plug on this game considering past history of the publisher.
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I never understood how recent MMOs have come to accept such blatant disregard for player freedom in what should be a persistent and massive universe/world.
That's what I love about LotRO. There's a multitude of zones for each and every lvl range. That's what I dislike in any and every MMO since Rift. Holding my hand? Insulting, but fine. Tugging me on a leash? Well now, good thing they had that 7 day trial a friend gave me. 40€ to spend on LotRO subscriptions instead.
I really doubt the current team made all that from scratch.
Carbine said that the class restrictions to certain races are in place because they couldn't get all needed animations done (in ~9 years?). So, since they don't even have all the animations for the existing races together, we won't likely see a totally new race.
As to the classes, there were three or four more classes originally planned (Elementalist, Charmer, Something Reaver and another unnamed class), but they got cut,renamed or merged into the classes we've got now.
If the game would ever see an xpack, Carbine could dig one of those out.