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Why LotRO is going to hurt WoW
Steakpuncher
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Well both these games are very similar in playstyle, requirements and so on. Both big names and both have a chance to be competitive in the market. However, as many people know, you need to have an "edge" in the market to get ahead and LotRO can offer one thing WoW will not, and cannot offer to player EVER.
LotRO give's every 12 year old moron a chance to roleplay as Legolass, and he can even fit into the playstyle of the game. I personally cannot wait for the launch to see the impact on WoW. How will we all survive when all the nightelf (and now Bloodelf) hunters dissapear from our servers.
Id like to send a personal thanks to LotRO online for acting as an idiot sponge for Blizzard.
LotRO give's every 12 year old moron a chance to roleplay as Legolass, and he can even fit into the playstyle of the game. I personally cannot wait for the launch to see the impact on WoW. How will we all survive when all the nightelf (and now Bloodelf) hunters dissapear from our servers.
Id like to send a personal thanks to LotRO online for acting as an idiot sponge for Blizzard.
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I know LotrO doesnt even have PvP but at least it's got that "new game" thing going on for it. and it doesnt completely suck like Vanguard did.
LOTRO has some nice new concepts going for it, is more fun to play and seem to be avoiding the horrid faction grinds of WoW. I also love the deed ssytem, small rewards for doing things like exploreing, questing and gridning mobs.
i just hope all the WoW kids stay in wow
As for me I bid farewell to my WoW account and Hello LOTRO
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I played WoW from Nov 04- Mar 07. I have seen plenty of my friends leave WoW for good.
However, every day there is a noob joining and asking where is Mankrik's wife.
I left WoW for LOTRO like all of my real life friends. We can choose to continue to play LOTRO until something better comes along or go back to WoW. Since Blizzard never deletes the characters it is a no brainer to try something cheaper and new.
I prefer LOTRO.
I do think that WoW's growth will slow after AOC and WAR are released. Still WoW, won't really be hurt, unless by only having 10 million players instead of 12 is being hurt.
If anything, LOTR is going to attract more kids than WoW or EQ. For those bored with WoW already, they have something new to grow quickly bored with, but for the rest of us, it's business as usual.
I don't think we'll be seeing Blizzard getting worried under their huge piles of cash, do you? :P
The only thing LOTR is going to hurt is the other MMOs scraping the bottom of the subscriber barrel.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
LOTRO will hurt WoW, as its among other things fresh compared to WoW, and its the same kind of gameplay so people can jump right in. WoW isnt made to be everchanging or alive, neither is LOTRO. It also from ive seen seems to be of better quality then WoW, and the name and univers itself is also an advantage over WoW.
But I really dont care about WoW nor do I care about LOTRO, peope will play what they find the best and where their friends are playing. But as I play neither im overly to one side.
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No, honestly. I have a 13 year old nephew and when he talks about WoW, it's all about ultimate power. Levels, gold, phat lewt and pwning n00bs with weapons of mass destruction. He thinks Legolas is uber because of what he did in the movies, but he doesn't give a damn about the books, Middle Earth, or even what an Elf is supposed to be like other than a pointy eared human. Heck, I bet he even fast forwards through the non-battle scenes in order to get to "the good stuff".
WoW gives him all what he wants. The chance to play a pointy eared cool looking humanoid armed with a bow of ultimate destruction that can take out crazy looking monsters many times his own size. LoTRO is like a... weak... fart... in comparison. I certainly don't see him or any of his friends for that matter (remember, playing WoW is considered cool among his friends) switching to LoTRO.
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- WoW has a very dynamic flux of joiners and quitters. I AM sure many will leave WoW for LotRO, but just as many will start WoW. There are ARMIES of noobs all across the realms right now, this game is far from vet-status, like other titles (EQ, EQ2, DaoC or EvE). Actually, in my old guild (which I just left), there were almost only newbies with 5 months or less on their backs.
- WoW provides different setting possibilities. It's a comic lore in every way, it delievers a flat ass plot thats surely entertaining, but its comical - which LotRO is just not. Sure, LotRO will attract kids too, but a lot of players, I almost daresay the majority, will come from Tolkien Fans of more serious games.
Bottom line - LotRO won't hurt WoW that much, it will hurt the lowies in the genre a LOT more, like EQ2, EQ or even DAoC, since WoW can afford to lose 2, 3 million subscribers and STILL be a triumphant success...
5 of them plan on staying strictly with WOW and appear to not even be curious to play LoTRO...( I offered to let them try it out)
1 of them (my son) will join me in LotRO on an occasional basis..but he'll still play more WOW. (Probably because I threatened to cancel his account )
His friends are all 13-15, 2 are female and they seem quite happy to stay where they are. LotRO lore isn't nearly as appealing, it was just some overlong movies to most of them.
On the basis of my highly unscientific survey, I predict that LotRO will have the more mature community...
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SO HOW IS LOTR ONLINE ANYWHERE NEW?
LOTR will not hurt WoW in any way... yes its a "New" game but nothing new to discover... u already know the places, so what a boring game it will be...
Because there will be nothing new and exciting... to some, yes WoW is boring, but hey dont just powerlevel to 70 and then grind honor or items... chill with people, level slow, its a MMO not a rat race....
So in my opinion, No WoW will not be scratched!
As i said it before...
you already know what LOTR is and about...
Name me one Famous MMORPG that comes from a Book/Movie/Comic and so forth.....
And no City of Villans/Heros does not count... lol/ because u get new place and such!!!!
I doubt LOTR will make much of a dent to the subscription base of WoW. The game is nicely polished but then again so is WoW. However the combat in LOTR is boring, and so much is missing from the lore and many other things.
The only games I see that may take away from WoW is Warhammer or Age of Conan, and I would give AOC the upper hand out of those 2 because the combat is unique and different.
WoW isnt going anywhere anytime soon, hell if other games are making it on 100k subscriptions then WoW will be around a long time. Those of you who think WoW is just a kiddie game, well thats your opinion and your intitled to it. The game is what you make of it, rush to max lvl and guess what, you will get bored. Play the game to have fun and it will last a long time, In my guild we have members of all ages and some of those are in the 50's.
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LOTRO is still in Beta. If the kids join, it will probably be after it hits retail and shows up in their local game store.
The quality of a game's community can't be properly judged until a few months after the game has actually launched.
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Heh, you made me laugh
True dat. WoW is more what child's like with all that cartoonish graphics and all huge monsters (Gruul the Dragonkiller is a good example of HUUUUGE) you can kill in WoW
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Over and out
It was a joke. If you actually beleive WoW is giong to lose subscribers because of the bility to play legolass then your not very smart, if you thihnk my post was serious, your not smart and dont have a sense of humour. Honestly, try reading the post in context next time. I see what some people mean by "hardcore fanbois" now. Your leaping to the defence of the game over a fictional statement.
From the replies to this post I'd like to at least say, it looks like the active WoW population on this forum at least isn't made up of children, but actually miserable teenagers and killjoys. I posted the same thing in the EU WoW main forum and most people found it quite funny, before the doom and gloom parade came in (much like the posters here) and killed the fun by crying, whinging and flaming untill the point it was removed.
Learn to read the posts please, and try taking thing with a pinch of salt and some humour. If you still think the post was serious then I would suggest avoiding the internet altogether.
It's funny how an (by my impression) utterly sarcastic thread is taken so damn seriously.
Simple, "LOL" would have been plenty but ppl have to get in an uproar.
I mean come on...
Not sure, call me crazy but the OP clearly has sarcasm in his post yet WOW look at the flame fest!
Good show people. Let's keep up the common practice of looking before we leap.
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as said in most posts here, wow will get hurt, but i dont think it is that LoTR takes players from WoW,
its more that WoW is beeing outdated and well...
once you had your char maxed there and grinded the instances there realy isnt anything else to do..
so sure LoTR is going to take some people from WoW,
but its just becouse its new and the people thats leaving WoW would leave at anytime either way..
just so happens they transfer to LoTR for a short time..
over and out
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