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Is LOTRO your game?
dasX82
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If you are loooking for a kill-kill game like Lineage 2 or EQ2 or other like this one, LOTRO isn´t your game,But if you are looking for a game with great graphic, an epic store line a great community and with an excellent role play , without doubt go fast to buy it, becouse LOTRO in your game .You are going to enjoy playing LOTRO.
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I always wondered who could have been the clever person to first use the term "endgame" in an MMO??? Plain stupid.
Regular expansions, and continously developed + expanded world, LOTRO is your game
DB
Denial makes one look a lot dumber than he/she actually is.
I always wondered who could have been the clever person to first use the term "endgame" in an MMO??? Plain stupid.
Regular expansions, and continously developed + expanded world, LOTRO is your game
DB
/agreedWhy would people want an ENGAME experiance in an MMORPG. Surley an MMORPG is a virtual world that is ever changing and expanding.
SWG never had an ENGAME. Well it did kinda. You maxed your skills and lived in the virtual world of star wars. It was the closest thing I've come to experiancing a virtual world where the possibilites were huge. Where my actions made an impact on the server I played. eg Destroying enemy guild bases.
The people that want an ENDGAME truley dont know what an MMORPG should be!
Oh and by the way. Ive played loads off MMORPG's. SWG (Pre-CU) being my favourite. However I enjoy LOTR:O alot. I never liked WoW but for some reason i enjoy LOTR.
I play on Laurilen (not sure about spelling) its an EU Server.
Thank you Bystroem, DonnieBrasco , kascrz , blondeh and OP
I was almost thinking every other gamers then myself needed end-game as where i feel that its the most strange thing ever to have a end game in a mmorpg.(Even a developer blog of one of the i think was dev or lead designer of LotrO spoke about how strange he feels when he read people complaining ort wanting end-game in a mmorpg) But thats what we see here with their sort of counterstrike gamestyle additude trying to play mmorpg and then we get topics like we see on this forum about them not being motivated to log, bored or unable to understand what to do in a mmorpg.
So again thanks for giving me some faith back to see we still have true mmorpg players among us with no desire for end-game
Though i still do not play LotrO since beta its always good to read reply's like the OP got
and i keep track of the games that i know are good and might be considered to be played one day by me. For now Vanguard as a mmorpg is doing it for me arm though been back to SWG aswell as sci-fi still is my main source of intrest overall with games. For now one of the mmorpg i'm sort of looking forward to is Funcoms new project and no it aint AoC as the fantasy/slash genre is kinda for me at its end and i'm desperate in need for something completly refreshing and new and knowing what Funcom does as i still see them as one of the most inovative gamestudio's with a game like AoC and seen what AO was like (the awefull graphics apart as i feel lots of intrested idea's and feature make up a lot of good compared to its graphics in AO).
You are most welcome
There are much more of us "classic", non-power gamers than you'd think - though we are in minority on boards like MMORPG's. never worry though, we are more numerous within the games! BTW at the moment LOTRO is definitely the best MMO to play - maybe soon it will change, but I have voted for the founder 6 month option - as I remain optimistic and keep wishing for even better games. However, if the expansions will keep rolling in and the improvements will continue in the manner of the Evendim update - who knows, maybe I will stick with longer than 6-12 months this time
DB
Denial makes one look a lot dumber than he/she actually is.
In theory yes.
Unfortunately, once you hit 50 in LOTRO there is nothing to do, and no reason to do it even if there was something to do. That would be tolerable if making an alt was really viable - but if you make an alt, 90% of what you do will be the same quests, in the same zones, for the same items.
My main in EQ2 has been max level for over 15 months, yet there are still many zones and encounters, quests, collections, etc etc to do. I doubt if she will get them all done before the next expansion in November.
To be fair towards LOTRO, you need to take into account the lifetime of both games.
In theory yes.
Unfortunately, once you hit 50 in LOTRO there is nothing to do, and no reason to do it even if there was something to do.
My main in EQ2 has been max level for over 15 months, yet there are still many zones and encounters, quests, collections, etc etc to do. I doubt if she will get them all done before the next expansion in November.
again,in 2.5 years unless warhammer,aoc or any future mmos have totally crushed todays game such as lotro,wow etc im sure that this game will have plenty more raiding,quest lines,pvp options and zones than are in the game now.
Its silly to compare eq2 with all its updates,adventure and expansion packs to lotro and its pretty much barren world. I agree with what youre saying,dont get me wrong,lotro doesnt have enough in it at the moment by far (especially with the boar/bird/wolf invasion thats taken over Turbines middle earth) but If the game hasnt done a matrix online in 2 years im sure the world will be full and lots of content added.
Turbine seem to have made the decision that all the best mob types are for high levels,and anyone below that can kill boars and wargs for their pelts,meat,eyeballs,dinner jackets whatever. i personally liked the different types of troll.
Future content of course may be different boars and wolves,perhaps with the odd bird mob or 12 popped nearby for variety
I said this before, but sadly has to repeat again:
To compare an MMO that is out for almost 3 years to a 2 month old MMO in terms of CONTENT VOLUME is anything but fair.
Also, EQ2's expansions were not free when they came out - LOTRO is already better in this sense.
DB
Denial makes one look a lot dumber than he/she actually is.
Yea actually I wanted to respond to the post before yours
DB
Denial makes one look a lot dumber than he/she actually is.
I agree with you, i think lotro is a new game and of course have limited content at this time, and it isn´t want to say end-game.I want to remember more limited was beginning this month and now we can get by FREE update new content, and i think is just the biginning, new areas new enemys and new quests will appear in the future.
In theory yes.
Unfortunately, once you hit 50 in LOTRO there is nothing to do, and no reason to do it even if there was something to do. That would be tolerable if making an alt was really viable - but if you make an alt, 90% of what you do will be the same quests, in the same zones, for the same items.
My main in EQ2 has been max level for over 15 months, yet there are still many zones and encounters, quests, collections, etc etc to do. I doubt if she will get them all done before the next expansion in November.
And how much will your expansion cost you? $30, $40 or $50 this time. EQ2 only had one good expansion the rest were bunk. By the way how many characters can you have in EQ2 now? What is it 6? In LotRO you can have up to 55. How are you able to test all the different class and race combinations in EQ2? Do you make a character and then delete it over and over?
In America I have bad teeth. If I lived in England my teeth would be perfect.
So what IS the story with all you LotRO fanbois...? I mean I played this game for like... a weak, and didn't find anything at all that would make me leave WoW (witch I was hoping realy, since I'm getting sick of it after 2 years...). Same old gameplay, same old classes, same old quests and more polygons.
Is it becouse of the "deeds" and temporary buffs? is it??
I am just not into cartoons and WoW is a cartoon. But I know alot of people like Anime and Manga and thats exactly what it reminds me of and its just not my thing. Also no one here has ever said LotRO is for everyone. So if its not for you then just move along.
P.S. You have pretty good English but weak should be week.
In America I have bad teeth. If I lived in England my teeth would be perfect.
wait...I was!
Gotta say I've been playing mmo's for a long time now, and I tell ya I really wanted to like this game and gave it a hell of a shot. I leveled a hobbit minstrel to 50, then boom nothing to do nothing to see, so I made an alt, then boom been here done this seen that WTF. I gave the game a chance I really did.
It is very similiar to other mmo's out there but heres the thing, in the other mmo's theres accually things to do. I'm not saying its a bad game, it just lacks content the expansion is mediocore at best, and monster play: lets be honest people just plain boring. I will say this however I did enjoy leveling up the first time...
I was just suprised because it was the fastest I've ever gotten bored with an mmo.
In short Turbine, I bid you farwell.
As far as the other person that asked why we like LoTRO over say WoW... Personally I got sick of spending 4+ hours on raids 3 or 4 nights a week, the fact that you where only as good as your gear (And to get the gear you had to do the LONG raids) these things bother me... Make PvP FAIR once you enter PvP your gear is the same as their gear, set stats and all that jive... Then see who is the better PvPer... Make PvP actually take SKILL...
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In theory yes.
Unfortunately, once you hit 50 in LOTRO there is nothing to do, and no reason to do it even if there was something to do. That would be tolerable if making an alt was really viable - but if you make an alt, 90% of what you do will be the same quests, in the same zones, for the same items.
My main in EQ2 has been max level for over 15 months, yet there are still many zones and encounters, quests, collections, etc etc to do. I doubt if she will get them all done before the next expansion in November.
And how much will your expansion cost you? $30, $40 or $50 this time. EQ2 only had one good expansion the rest were bunk. By the way how many characters can you have in EQ2 now? What is it 6? In LotRO you can have up to 55. How are you able to test all the different class and race combinations in EQ2? Do you make a character and then delete it over and over?
Not to knitpick but EQ2 only had ONE expansion. It had a bunch of cheapo adventure packs that added a little bit of content, but they only had one full blown expansion pack
so saying they had only one good expansion pack was actually giving them 100% expansion pack success rate :P
The difference between adventure packs and expansion packs is simple to explain...well if you have a 360 and a copy of oblivion.
Mehunes razor was a small add on for 360 it cost about 10 bucks and added one dungeon it was a huge dungeon though before you complain about price.
Shivering Isles was an entirely new world with new dungeons armor weapons quests etc. it cost about 30 dollars.
there is the difference
which is a grind in and of itself. They deliberately made the game with LONG travel time, and a lot of travel.
So it is just changing one grind for a different one.
I guess I am more of an old school MMORPG player (RPG being the key statement). I spend lots of time in LOTRO not chasing levels or any sort of end -game (because, as stated, an end game makes no sense in an MMO). My main is still quite a ways off from the level cap and I just past 30th even though I have played consistantly. I have been to party's with Kinship, Helped lower level kin complete quests, crafted loads and getting Master X in all catagories. There is lmuch to do without rushing to the level cap. I also disagree that alts are worthless. They have different skill set combos and if you pick a different race there are plently of quests you did not do before.
Heck, I had a blast justrunning to Rivendel just to see it. I fought nothing and gained no experience. I think I started a couple of new deeds along the way. It reminds me of the original EQ where traveling just to see some very cool location was worth doing.
I don't know how others feel but in the case of single player RPGs I am always a little sad when I hit the end-game and am....well, done! With MMOs like LOTRO we can expect more content to continue our journey. The free update offered a lot and if they continue it will be great. I have heard tidbits about Moria and really look forward to something like that.
I do not have that Dialblo-esque rush to the end to see how much cool stuff I can muster up to kill Diablo with (or more recently Titan Quest). MMOs are not for that purpose unless they are some of the korean grind fest games. Some of these are enjoyable in their own way if you ware out to gain levels and amass stuff.
I think Turbine has so much more they can do here with the lore (which is obvious by the unused locations on the map alone) that future content should not be an issue. Especailly if the subscriber base remains strong.
Well, since EQ2 has only HAD one expansion, I am not sure what your point is.
And EQ2 gets free updates once a month, has been doing so since like.. forever.
Major expansion pack coming in Nov will probably be $25 or so. So that averages out to $2 a month per expansion. I can live with that.
And why in the world would any one want more than 2 characters in LOTRO, much less 55. Especially since I am bored to tears on my FIRST character already and she is only 39. And BTW, I have 9 alts in EQ2 ranging from level 14 to 66 besides my main, including 5 tier 7 crafters. and of course you would only need about 3 alts in LOTRO to "test" all the classes, since many are so similar you cannot really tell much difference.