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Lord of the Rings Online: The Prince of Rohan Preview
SBFord
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Lord of the Rings Online players have been enjoying the Rise of Isengard expansion for a couple of months. With the recent Prince of Rohan update, players continue the epic storyline. We have a preview of some of the content players will encounter in Prince of Rohan. Read on and then leave us a comment or two.
With Rise of Isengard still fresh on the shelves, you might expect the folks behind the Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) to be quiet for at least a few months in the wake of such an anticipated expansion pack. Quite the opposite, it seems—LotRO Update 5, which is due to release in December, has kept the Turbine team hard at work with some fantastic new features, an impressive new raid, and another chapter in the epic saga that is their Lord of the Rings story. We had an opportunity to hop into the game for a preview of what’s to come, and enjoyed a guided tour of some of the biggest changes coming to LotRO with Update 5.
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all i can say is...less than 2 weeks left..
may the rest be praised in History, for i sure won't be there to see it;
amen
You will be back come January.
Really? This game sucks and Im not having fun? Im going to unsub right now. Thanks for the tip.
Turbine said all along the Isengard was coming in two parts.
It amazes me how you're surprised they have added this content so soon when it really should have been part of the underwhelming xpac.
This! You said it pretty much!
Isengard is going into the Turbine history books as the most underwhelming expac ever released!
Even Mirkwood brought much much more to the table than Isengard and this update5 combined!
Worst of all is, that they dare to charge FULL price for it.
This is fine for players that have avatars at the cap, but it has really very little for the vast majority of active players. Thankfully Turbine has not made this game like Wow where you can level an avatar in a matter of weeks to end game.
Yes, this was planned all along. Not all along, actually, only when they realized they would not be able to deliver this with RoI.
Which is sad, really. I care about this game, and I'll keep coming back to experience the books. But with Turbine being this slow to provide new content and the new kid on the block, I (and many others, I think) will be playing LOTRO less and less.
After rage quitting a month before it went F2P I have recently hung my head and went back to the game. I had purchased MOM and Mirkwood so im what they call a "premium" member. Started out with over 3000 Turbine points (not sure why unless it was for past deeds) and have spent 695 on the Endwaith quest pack and upped my bank space an AH slots. Now we come to ROI. To me, $30 isnt a lot to pay for this considering the monthly fee is not mandatory (which some of the nay sayers seem to forget). The points you get for deeds is negligable but what I have left will open two lower areas for alts and what I do earn from deeds will most likely get me a third when the time comes. I would ask if $30 is too much? Considering people, myself included, have paid $40 for an xpac and another $15 to play it, in P2P games, I dont think its out of line.
Really? This game sucks and Im not having fun? Im going to unsub right now. Thanks for the tip.
horse riding fighting could have saved it.. but they didnt manag to come up with it.. again.. so much for rohan theme.
I love Lotro and was with it since alpha testing until RoI decided to dumb everything down. When Turbine decided to upgrade their character models to something more in this century and fix crafting then I might give it another chance. Until then, I am looking forward to Dec. 15.
i was very critical of isengard..it lacked anything that you could relate to mmo.with update 5 it should bring it back on par..still a great game..and the best looking mmo out there apart from conan minus the bugs and constant lagfest u get in conan that is.
I lost all interest in this game. I use to be a huge fan, always loved the atmosphere in the game. Had huge amount of fun. But the latest expansion Rise of Rohan (I'll just use the title that fit the expansion) was so bad and i felt they stole my money and even sat laughing at me.
The game is deserted now, i logged in today to give my items to guild members. 2 of which was online, use to be 30+. I check the LFG channel, 86 online. This was at prime hour 20:00 Europe.
Pissing all over your fans, does not serve the greater good. hope Turbine learned that atleast.
This game had lots of potential. I don't know why they've been skimping on expansion content, from the very beginning. Maybe because as successful as it was, it needed to be significantly more successful to be profitable, due to the cut they have to give Tolkein Inc?
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
Actually, I preferred this one to Mirkwood, in the most general terms.
But in specific terms, Mirkwood was DONE when it launched and they took folk's money.
I'm a big fan of LotRO, but the Epic story ending at 71-ish level was a lame sammich. Particularly bad for folks who didn't buy the Xpac. They haven't seen a content update in 9 months and they still won't see one, this time around.
Turbine killed LOTRO by pandering to the most casual of casuals and letting some of the best character progression things (if there has even been any for TWO years now) only be sold in the turbiune shop.
I quit a couple months after SoM and I can go back and my character is STILL basically as top tier as they come. There is no character progression in this game anymore and while some people hate the carrot on a stick approach. If there sint something cool and interesting to look forward too then there is no point anymore.
Turbine is absolutely god awful at itemization as well. The worst in the business.
Let's get this straight: there are plenty of people still happily playing and enjoying LotRO. The bitter former players are just very, very vocal, especially on mmorpg.com.
The upside to instance finder is LOTRO has ingame voice. The ingame voice sucks but is effective.
RoI is the last bit of money I will ever be giving Turbine.
I started playing the game about six months out from launch, and had a wonderful time. Then MoM launched and it became my primary MMO. Moria was amazing - pretty much everything I wanted in an expansion, except for the LI system (which was a massive grind that wasn't really what many players wanted).
Then came Mirkwood. Mirkwood was...lacking. While I enjoyed it to an extent, there was just something lacking about it. Compared to Moria, Mirkwood was tiny - Turbine did call it a 'mini-expansion', but it honestly wasn't an expansion at all, but rather a glorified book update.
Then came RoI. Never have I felt less excited about going to a new region in the game. Seriously Turbine? Another round of this duvodiad nonsense? A storyline that literally tells you "Go goof off here, you can start this next part whenever you get bored. Which will probably be pretty soon." Even free use of private instances couldn't add excitement to it. The phasing system was a waste of time - shuffling NPCs and placables is useless if you don't fix the atmosphere as well.
And that's probably my biggest problem with the game now. SoA and MoM were both dripping with atmosphere and detail. Even Mirkwood did in some points. But it's something that seems completely missing in RoI.
Goodbye Turbine. You were great once, but you've since moved into the gPotato/Nexus stage of development - forget the fans, they're just cash dispensers, after all.
After the first paragraph of text, there is the word "advertisement" with the arrows pointing down to an obvious advertisment.
This is confusing as it may lead people to think that the advertisment you are refering to is the obvious one instead of this puff piece written about LOTRO.
Solution) Remove the obvious advertisment and move the text "advertisement" to be above the first paragraph of text.
They promissed to fix wardens in this patch, but in the end they did not.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
ROI was the most boring unfun MMO experiance I have had. I always loved lotro but now it is just a stream of solo quests (4 group quests in the whole exp. including no new instances). The crafting was completly trivialized (this has been since MoM). I was maxed out on crafting by the time I hit lvl 70, and that is without grinding for one second, I would just gather ore as i quested. It was near impossible to die, there are no elites walking around, just terrible
You lie. RoI is much bigger than Mirkwood, two times minimum. U5 consist of instance cluster like in SoM but with bigger raid and Draigoch raid too.
So full RoI (U4 + U5) is much bigger than SoM
And you are liar too. There is absolutely nothing of "best character progression things " in store.
Yes SERIOUSLY. You are in Dunland now man! Do you mention that?
So much whiny rubbish here and too much lying. Haters are so pityful