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F2P Starts Sept 10th

trancejeremytrancejeremy Member UncommonPosts: 1,222
in Lord of the Rings Online

Or, you have 3 weeks left to enjoy the game without being nickel and dimed to death.

I personally just made it through Moria and now am in Lothlorien. So maybe I'll get to Mirkwood by the time it hits.

And I made alts to run through the instances to see how they originally were meant to me (without the awkward cameos from the characters from the novels that the new instances will have). Fare thee well, Amdir.

Story

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=350730

R.I.P. City of Heroes and my 17 characters there

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  • GTwanderGTwander Member UncommonPosts: 6,035

    WOOT!

    *plays air lute*

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  • GidSlackGidSlack Member Posts: 173

    Thanks for the info.

    Going to tell my guild, hopefully this will be our second game when we are not pvp'ing.

  • thedgethedge Member Posts: 46

    Originally posted by Unreal024
    Will always have fond memories of this game, i'll miss what it was just like I miss Vanilla WoW. I'll give the F2P a go, but unless they have changed things from the way they were while I was briefly trying out the beta, I don't think it will ever be quite as fun as it once was.

    Did they remove all the quests and contnet in the game?

    Seriously, all the drama around f2p is a bit much. Come on, it isn't THAT much of a change for subscribers or the current game. I see it as giving the game more potential down the road. I have only a few minor complaints about it myself and I have been a lifetime member since day one.

    Making out f2p to be end of LOTRO is amusing. Many said the same about DDO a year ago and it seems to be doing just fine. :)

  • GrumpyMel2GrumpyMel2 Member Posts: 1,832

    Originally posted by thedge

     



    Originally posted by Unreal024

    Will always have fond memories of this game, i'll miss what it was just like I miss Vanilla WoW. I'll give the F2P a go, but unless they have changed things from the way they were while I was briefly trying out the beta, I don't think it will ever be quite as fun as it once was.


    Did they remove all the quests and contnet in the game?

    Seriously, all the drama around f2p is a bit much. Come on, it isn't THAT much of a change for subscribers or the current game. I see it as giving the game more potential down the road. I have only a few minor complaints about it myself and I have been a lifetime member since day one.

    Making out f2p to be end of LOTRO is amusing. Many said the same about DDO a year ago and it seems to be doing just fine. :)

    I don't think the posters said it was the end of LOTRO...they said it was the end of LOTRO FOR THEM...as the new model sucks all the fun out of it FOR THEM.... and who is anyone else to tell them they are wrong? It's thier dime and thier personal tastes at question.

    I never played DDO and from what I hear it's doing ok financialy..... but I'm fairly positive that there are some players that stopped enjoying it once it went F2P and quit....at least there are a few that posted here to that effect.

    Further LOTRO is NOT the same sort of game as DDO....just because F2P worked well in DDO doesn't mean it will work equaly as well in LOTRO. Unless conditions are identical repetition of an experiment provides no confidence of identical results.

    Ultimately, I'm VERY disappointed with the direction of the game.... but I'll wait around a bit to see how it shakes out...If it weren't Lord of the Rings, I probably wouldn't even do that.

  • RobsolfRobsolf Member RarePosts: 4,607

    Originally posted by Unreal024

     

    If you want to get technical, yes they did remove most of the SoA quests from the game, unless your willing to pay for them. I bought my boxed copy of LOTRO, twice infact, yet I can't keep all the content i've already payed for. I must pay for it again, or else suffer from levels 20 - 50 till I can enter Moria and continue on to Mirkwood, content that I will keep because i've already payed for it. Gold i've aquired locked away, characters i've created locked away, all unless I want to pay for them.

    Free Turbine points for being a loyal customer just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe i'd get enough points to unlock my gold, characters and quests...maybe not. Letting me keep everything I have as a thank you for being a loyal customer and supporting the game over the last few years would have tasted alot better.

     Sure, I could just keep paying a subscription and everything would stay as it is, i'd even get turbine points monthly. But, why should I? The game and company are changing, in ways I don't agree with, simple as that.

    I don't wish the end of LOTRO, I wish it many more years of success. I hope more people try it and see that it can be more than just another WoW clone if you let it. For me though, it is the end, unless Turbine has changed thier minds about all of this.

    While I appreciate your reasonable tone, I can't for the life of me figure out why you talk as though Turbine has taken something away from you that you had before.  Never in the history of the game have you been able to access the content without paying for it.  Now you can access some of it for free, or pay for a sub just like you did before and get EVERYTHING you had, before.

    On top of it, I just don't get why you think Turbine owes you their service for free, just because you were subbed to them at one time...

  • PhilbyPhilby Member Posts: 849

    Originally posted by trancejeremy

    Or, you have 3 weeks left to enjoy the game without being nickel and dimed to death.

    I personally just made it through Moria and now am in Lothlorien. So maybe I'll get to Mirkwood by the time it hits.

    And I made alts to run through the instances to see how they originally were meant to me (without the awkward cameos from the characters from the novels that the new instances will have). Fare thee well, Amdir.

    Story

    http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=350730

    I enjoyed Lothlorien a lot. Mrikwood is ok at best. I left the game after screens of the cash shop started to surface, You may want to hang out at the Prancing Pony in Bree for a bit because Bree will never be the same again after the freebies move in.

    WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.

  • RobsolfRobsolf Member RarePosts: 4,607

    Originally posted by Unreal024

    Originally posted by Robsolf

    Originally posted by Unreal024

     

     

    While I appreciate your reasonable tone, I can't for the life of me figure out why you talk as though Turbine has taken something away from you that you had before.  Never in the history of the game have you been able to access the content without paying for it.  Now you can access some of it for free, or pay for a sub just like you did before and get EVERYTHING you had, before.

    On top of it, I just don't get why you think Turbine owes you their service for free, just because you were subbed to them at one time...

     Can't argue with any of this, but that's just how I feel. If I get to keep content I payed for when I bought MoM and SoM, why not SoA? Is the fact that I have, at one time payed for all of that content already not enough? Whether or not I had to pay a subscription to access that content is irrelevant now. The rules have changed, now to access that content one only need pay a one time fee, a fee that I feel I have already payed, and that is where Turbine and I differ.

    Well, I wish ya the best of luck!  IMO the argument is kinda like being offered a free sunroof and new tires, and being unhappy that they won't give you the car for free.  Or then arguing that you already paid for the car, but expecting that they also pay for the gas.  Either way, that's not a very viable business model for a company. 

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