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So how many left WoW for Lotro?
Unojc
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I am one of them and a lot of people in my short time being on lotro have said they quit wow too. Im not saying lotro is a wow killer, it is not, but a lot of people are coming to it. I left b/c...
I couldnt raid, pvp, or run another heroic instance for badges. I did not want to run daily quests all day, level another alt, or grind rep. Wow has little storyline and the community is plain aweful.
Lotro has an awesome storyline, is pve friendly (which is what I like best), has a community that contributes in a positive, mature way, has better crafting, better economy, player housing and lots of end game that many 50's have not seen yet.
I left wow after 3 years and to be totally honest I dont regret it at all. I thought I would be back for wotlk when it comes out but to be honest, im not real sure ill do that.
just my thoughts on lotro from an ex wow player.
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Lotro has an awesome storyline, is pve friendly (which is what I like best), has a community that contributes in a positive, mature way, has better crafting, better economy, player housing and lots of end game that many 50's have not seen yet.
Hmm, Storyline on teh main quest run, i must agree, was good. Still required you lookign for players to help though.
PvE friendly, ermm isnt this a PvE only game, so i would have expected this to be top anyways.
Crafting, lol it was a joke. It was no where near a good sytstem, it was crap, even the items you made were poor compared to items that dropped (unless things changed in later patch's) i don't know, i never went back.
Carnt comment at all on housing (wasnt there when i was) or the community (changed since i played) which is fair enough.
End game content, am hearing once you cap out its more or less tiem to re-roll another toon and start over, no wonder alot of peeps are leaving.
Now, Warcraft, yep your right about this one, for some unknown bloody reason i have returned to it after quitting the game a few months before TBC was released, came back 3mths ago (and have just paid for a 4th month again), why i don't know. Probably because the friends i have there and that is all. Warcraft doesnt really need another company to come along and kill their game, there doing a very good job at it themselves.
What do i mean by that, well all the game seems to be is grind rep here, rep there grind that rep everywhere. Nothing else in game to do but grind that rep, and at the end of it all, you get nothing. I do however know i wont be staying much longing, its just somewhere to hold up untill W.A.R finally comes out and then i am off. There is no way am i going to be purchasing wotlk, as its only goign to be another rep grind and all known content before it would again, more than likely become obsolete and useless to do, just like TBC did to all previous content. Which is why i aint been fussed to run instances for gear.
BG's before TBC were crap, they are now absolutly pathetic. They have really gone down the swanney here.
Anyways, some people like that sort of thing, some dont and many are just waiting for something new. I do however think alot more will jump onto W.A.R, AoC and some others come their release than originally thought, but some will return to their old game.
I've actually left WoW pretty recently and am giving a couple of free trials a go. I'm considering Lord of the Rings, but I don't know yet, I beta'd for about a couple of weeks, has there been some improvements since release?
I like everything about LOTRO except the classes. The classes in the game just bore me to death because they are all essentially melee fighters. Even the two so called caster classes are melee fighters.
The real question is how many left WoW for LOTRO, then left that after 2 weeks and decided that MMOs are dead right now.
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I played WOW before LOTRO. Basically I just got bored with WOW. There were several things about WOW that encouraged me to leave. The main thing was the end game sucked. Pvp got old, raiding was boring.
I have a level 50 guard in LOTRO and am leveling a burgler. I am sort of feeling bored of mmo's right now, but I'm hoping it will pass. I am waiting for AOC, Warhammer, and Spellborn. Probably will be more of the same though.
I kind of left WoW for LOTRO. I left WoW because I was bored, but I changed to LOTRO instead. But after betaing a bit I got bored and quit the game. I am however considering to try out the game again.
You know I could talk about this mmo is better than that mmo but in all reality we all get bored of whatever game we play for a while. My original post is not to bash wow. It is a good game in its own right. We just all have to find the game we love and enjoy to play. Sometimes we need something fresh and new. Its kind of like a new cd, we play the crap out of it and then get bored after a few weeks. Except mmo's take a bit longer to get bored of.
After 2 years playing wow (hardcore), I tried LOTRO, just because I'm a Tolkien’s fun. I subscribed right after its launch. I was really disappointed by its static/slow combat and its GUI. I tried two different classes: Guardian dwarf and Minstrel elf, unfortunately their gameplay was almost the same. I played less than 20 days, and then turned back to wow.
Me.
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man Honestly I can't find a mmorpg that has some originality anymore. I tried so many different games already nothing seems to be as good as It should be, Maybe my standards are way to high but developers need to move on and stop with the Korean Grind fest formula or the EQ ripoff formula make a mmorpg that takes stealth that takes real thinking to figure out dungeon puzzles not like D&D where the graphics look like a polished off Morrowind but Good graphics and in an open world....Im basically playing Offline console games right now because no mmorpg has anything that I enjoy anymore.
I did. I played LOTRO for a few months, highest char was 44. I really enjoyed the storyline, and the book quests. I have to give credit to the devs for making the game have a real Tolkien feel to it. The shire felt like the shire, etc. The crafting had potential but for the timesinks the items you could craft were underpowered by a lot. Why spend hours gathering mats to make something that is less than my next quest reward?
The thing that turned me off the most about the game, and ultimately forced me to quit, was the insane amount of group-required quests. The world was overflowing with elite mobs in areas where they were totally unnecessary. This made it difficult to even explore or gather mats in many areas because a lot of the elite mobs could not be defeated by a single character.
This forced-grouping mentality is what made me leave Wow, and what the MMO industry by and large needs to get over and done with. I remember many happy moments playing thru the book quests meeting characters like Gandalf and Aragorn and then suddenly my fun storyline is stopped cause I have to find 4 more people to continue. Grrrrr!
If LOTRO ever decides to retool 90-95% of their quests so that I can play through 95% of the game without being forced to group, I'll give it another try.
I did, I went to WoW when it was 3 months old thanks to a then SWG premaban by SOE for alleged forum misuse , 22 months later unbanned . Tried SWG-NGE ( it suxed -ahhDuh) for almost 2 months. So when a equally as well know franchise like Lord of the Rings can out I had to be there when it went live , I did and I still enjoy this game that has since expanded into housing. BTW I am enjoying my $9.99 per month Founders pricing as well.
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I left WoW and ended up back to where I started with Ultima Online.
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Interesting.
I think WoW is a superior game to LotR, and I think EQ 2 is superior to them both combined.
I tend to play Vanguard, though, because it is more challenge, the world feels more real, the community is more mature, and I like the combat.
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I neither play WoW nor eat fast food.
Well I did leave wow for lotr,At level 34 left lotr to shallow for me ended up on vanguard again wasnt so great yet so went back to wow left not long after,Then onto Gods and Hero`s beta testing(I really dont think I have to add anything here) and without a game since maybe try vanguard again though the recent post about them selling items(SOE) that is,Is putting me off a bit now but we will see.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Hasn't SOE been selling items for a long time?
http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/04/soe_note_on_rmt_big.jpg
I finally quit WoW ( for the 4th time ) then jumped around between pretty much all available mmos out there untill I tried beta of Tabula Rasa - and I have never looked back.
I am not saying Tabula Rasa is the answer here, just that it was for me
LotRO definetly appeals to me as well being a PvE player.
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I tried LOTRO didnt leave WoW for LOTRO since I got fed up of wow about 3 months beforehand. From what I have seen LOTR has the following things that are better than wow:
Community, storyling, and instancing in terms of how the world changes with out it feeling over instance like guild wars. Oh and the music system is great in fact its the only reason I didnt quit after the first week and carried on for another 2 weeks that and the community was really good as I mentioned, and the game felt a lot more sociable than wow ever did.
And thats about it, the gameplay it self is even more shallow than WoW, its the same cookie cutter crap that has been done to death the classes are terrible as well, I thought at first it was because I was playing a boring class, but then I leveled all of them to around 20 and it still was dull just too slow, and simplistic. Which is a shame, since the community was much better than any mmo I have been in, and the story lines as well as the over all world looked and felt much more interesting.
Its almost like they tacked the gameplay on to the world since it is so inferior to the alot of the game.
It really pissed me off that the quests were so well written but then it just boiled down to go collect this, go collect that, go kill this, go kill that. in the first area that was fine since they had some really good twists to it like the mail delivery quests were great, especially avoiding those hobit children some of them got quite hard in the end and it actually felt like an accoplishment when I finally finished the damn quests. To bad the game didnt stay that interesting, its like they lost all creativity after they made the shire area.
Oh and I hate forced grouping, I dont hate grouping dont get me wrong, but when you have to stand around like a muppet waiting for people just so you can advance in the game it gets boring fast. Theres not alot you can do if you arent questing after all, theres the very tedious MvP, and then theres the music system which novelty wheres off eventually.
Maybe if you could effectivly level at the same pace soling mobs like you can questing it might of held my interest for longer, I dont like grinding but i dislike standing around waiting to enjoy the game even more which is what the game felt like when I played it.
The trait system was a good idea, but when the mobs are all the same for the most part it feels like a grind especially when you do not get any experience worth noting for killing mobs.
I also liked how money was not easy to get, or keep added a challenge to the game, where you could not just go mindlessly spending not sure if thats changed it would be a shame if it did.
I didnt get to try crafting, but it did look decent. And thats it, the game basically has some really good points that I would love to see in other mmos( world changes, story driven, quests actually worth reading, ignore list not being need because community is nice, music system, great looking and feel to the world etc) but all of it was let down by the core gameplay atleast for me.
I can see why people enjoy it though.
In a way I left WoW for LOTRO. However, I got tired of the grind-fest in LOTRO to get and improve traits. So I left LOTRO and tried out Vanguard again, to give it another shot. Vanguard has improved significantly since release, so I will stick with it.
Condolances to you then with VG.
The only way i will return is if they reset my entire account and i could start afresh AND that the game has officially left beta testing as right now thats all it is, you are paying to beta that unfinished game (as in what it was ment to have at release and the bad bad bugs have more or less ALL been fixed), so far i have heard they have not.
We know #1 will never happen and we know #2 will happen but not this year, and wont be in the 1st few months of 08 either. By which time some of these new ones would have come out, whether or not they suck depends on how well they have been done like all things. The 1st month or 2 will either make or break the game, VG had several mths and more than enough chances.
I read here of about a couple of days free play for VG, but i dont think i can be assed, i aint that desperate. The gesture was a nice thought but just isnt good enough for alot of us who straight out felt ripped off.
I left WoW but not for LOTRO though thats where I have ended up for the time being.
As far as all the crying about forced grouping its only half true. Most quest lines lead to a group quest. In alot of cases you can either find a group or skip them. You can do 20-30 quests within a 5 level range and at the end have 5-10 group quests. Personally I dont think thats terrible. Thats not counting the Epic books (main storyline) which almost always have 2-3 group quests. In most cases these are a blast though and play into the storyline verry well. I would also like to mention that starting in book 12 Angmar is getting a revamp to make it more solo friendly.They are also starting to add more and more solo content. So what if the end of the quest line finishes in a group quest? Through the solo quests you get yellow con rewards for the most part, finishing with a group quest for a purple con reward thats superior to the yellow. I fail to see how they are wrong here? You can have decent gear in solo play or you can group and get better gear, your choice.
The community is still great.
Crafting has gotten much better. As far as thoes who say crafted gear is worse than what you can get from a quest, I dont think you even played the game or tried crafting past the first tier or 2. Crit crafting gear is far superior to everything but raid gear which is about even with crafting. Even then thoes that raid still use some crafted gear over there raid gear.
The one thing I will agree completely on is the classes. Each are alittle diffrent but not nearly enough. They can get downright boring at times.
I also feel the MMORPG genra is dead right now. Hopefully TCoS, WAR, or AoC will help fix this but I'm not getting my hopes up. The genra will be dead overall to me untill some developer is willing to go way out of the norm and try something completely new.
WoW was first so...
When I first got bored with it, I was on such a high from this new MMO thing I was expecting all sorts of glorious adventures everywhere. One of the games I tryed was LOTRO, looked OK, played OK, I like the LOTR lore and all, BUT, what I unfortunatly found out was: If a game has WoW mechanics, grind to lvl, get skills, gather and kill quests... I get bored in couple of hours. Maybe not by the game itself, but by the idea itself, I just couldn't stand the idea of going trough all that leveling in a very similar way to WoW.
I have only one maxed char in WoW and I seriously can't imagine leveling another one, and I have a real hard time understanding people who have more... WTH?!?
Somewhat dieferent games i tryed were EVE and Aotoassault.
Autoassault sounded awesome! Almost like Carmageddon Online, I was like, Hell Yeah, but the unfinishness and lack of polish was just too much for me after WoW.
EVE I tryed, got me a Tristan, made an enemy, almost got to kill him once while I had killing rights and he was in a shutle, but after trying out the missions, fighting and the emptyness of space I loged out with 1 month subscribtion remaining but I just couldn't log back in again. I won some free time in that last contest, so here I am again, playing EVE on MMORPG.com forums, like many others...
So? The point? No point, just me, stuck in a limbo, hooked on this MMO idea, playing WoW on and off, and waiting for something realy fun and alot less work.