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The World of middle earth
Squal'Zell
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i know the first expansion of LOTRO will come out soonish and it will be the mines of moria... but... i was wondering if they have said anything (or hinted) about making all of middle earth? (or at least the world from the "Lord of the rings" trilogy and "the hobbit "
so far (seing that i am a new player) i see the world of eriador is big, but not impressive yet. (when speaking of its size, the art is incredible, specially if played at Dx10) , and if they implement Rohan, Gondor,Mordor, Rhovanion,Forodwaith, i think they would be on top when it comes to world.
so does any one have some news or hints about it?
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I'd assume thats the aim - aslong as theres a good playerbase financially supporting them!
According to what Jeffrey Steefel revealed at the recent Mines of Moria presentation, Turbine plans to add a new "volume" each year. The expansion "The Mines of Moria" and all the following content updates (patches) will signal the end of Tolkien's first book - The Fellowship of the Ring - and set the tone for the second book - The Two Towers - which should allow players to visit Rohan, the Dead Marshes etc. What happens after that is unsure until now, however, Turbine plans to gradually fill out the entirety of Middle-earth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online:_Mines_of_Moria
I dont have a cuote but I know they've said they intende to do the whole Middle-earth in time... and since they have rights to the license to 2014 (with extension 2017) they will have plenty of time to do it all
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd
I've expressed my views on this for awhile now, so i'll just keep it short this time.
I think Turbine should've opened up all the famous places that are known, like rohan, gondor, mordor, etc.... instead of restricting us to eriador only. I can understand why they restricted us though, they wanted us to go through the story in a linear fashion.
Sorry observer but I beleive if they had done this we would have had an epic fail on the same scale of AOC. What we got was a highly polished game that is very playable with abunch of content in this small area of ME. This only enhances the things they can do in the future.
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For me, I am really excited to see how much the dev team has progressed. I hope they try and push the envelope a bit and expaned the game in all area's to give the veteran player a whole new feel. The one thing that will really disappoint me is if the game is just a continuation of the current 1-50 game. 50-60 should start to feel more dangerous and challenging as we get further from Bree and the Shire.
You have to remember The Original "Middle Earth Online" had 16 classes and you could write books in game of your ventures.
Alot has changed friend.
LOTRO and MEO are two different games, sadly LOTRO is what went live.
-Jive
Sorry observer but I beleive if they had done this we would have had an epic fail on the same scale of AOC. What we got was a highly polished game that is very playable with abunch of content in this small area of ME. This only enhances the things they can do in the future.
Yeah, possibly. Especially with all the zoning between the lands, but swift travel could help that.
My only fear is that by the time we get to see lothlorien, mirkwood, helm's deep, etc.... there won't be that many people playing, especially when the newer MMOs come out.
You have to remember The Original "Middle Earth Online" had 16 classes and you could write books in game of your ventures.
Alot has changed friend.
LOTRO and MEO are two different games, sadly LOTRO is what went live.
-Jive
MEO could've been great, but at least Turbine got LOTR out the door and in a playable state. :P
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If you have the game and zoom out of your world map, you can see all the lands that will be added in with expansions/updates. As Solareus said, they plan on taking us to Mt Doom. What will happen after a kinship finally destroys the ring?
But yeah thats years away. Now is the time to buy the lifetime membership
You have to remember The Original "Middle Earth Online" had 16 classes and you could write books in game of your ventures.
Alot has changed friend.
LOTRO and MEO are two different games, sadly LOTRO is what went live.
-Jive
Agreed. An sandbox Middle-earth set in the Fourth Age would have been amazing and probably even more ambitious than LotRO. That said, I'm still quite happy with the game.
They're planning on one "full" expansion per year so if this next one is Eregion/Moria/Lorien then we can assume the next will be Rohan/Isengard/Helmsdeep and hopefully the next will be Gondor/Pelennor/Osgiliath and then finally Mordor. Mordor would be really cool because it will take place after the Battle at Morannon so basically Mordor will be wide open with Orcs and Trolls confused after the fall of Sauron.
If that's the case then we're looking at 2011.
It's fun to think about but a long ways away.
Yeah MEO was going to rock, sadly Turbine got the IP and decided to create WoW with less content and prettier graphics.
*puts on fanboy shield*
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hehe the funny thing is that then Funcom did the exact same thing with another famous fantasy IP
and yea, MEO sounds like a great idea... but it would be an awfull game that no one would want to play in my opinion... but who knows? the best games are always thoose that never gets released...
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd
something i just though of.
the world is huge right now...and its only going to get bigger.
google a map of middle earth and see how friggen tiny the area we are currently in...now look at all the areas that they will no doubt add (Rohan, Isenguard, Gondor and Mordor). its gonna increase by well over 20x its size right now.
take the population of your server (how many people do you normally see when your out leveling?) then divide that by the increase in the size of the world (20x (roughly)if they add in all these lands) and its going to be low no matter what.
i think they need to really think hard about how they are going about this and really (and i mean really) think hard about every land they add in.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Maybe they will start to merge the servers when the world is getting to big... In the end maybe everyone will be in the same world like in EVE... that would be amazing
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd