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What happened to the game!?

KingMazerKingMazer Member Posts: 9
in Lord of the Rings Online

What happened to everything that made this game unique?!

"MMORPG.com: The offline advancement system, has it been scrapped totally, or is it still being tweaked?
Jeffrey Steefel: It’s been scrapped. In practice, we felt we could accomplish much of the goals of the system through other means."

WTF.......... Wasn't that one of the main features of the game!?!? I was actually looking forward to that...

"Jeffrey Steefel: The Lord of the Rings is a much more broadly recognized name that we believe will help us create an even larger community of Tolkien fans online."

Wait, wouldn't all "Tolkien" fans know what Middle Earth is? I mean Turbine's basically saying "this is just a mirror of the books/movies." The title "Middle Earth Online" meant that we (players) would be playing in the world that Tolkien created, not just the section of history that he wrote in the LotR series. The game just seems so confined with the new title.

~Mazer
Hardcore Tolkien fan

"People who think they know everything annoy those of us who do."

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Comments

  • cromulentcromulent Member Posts: 20

    I can understand your complaints but they also have financial issues to contend with. Casual fans are most familiar with the time of the Books and that gives them the most chance to be financially successful. Also they only have the rights to the stuff in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, not stuff like unfinished tales and the Silmarillion. I agree though, it would be cool if they had first, second and third age servers and some race/faction based pvp servers.

  • DarktaniaDarktania Member Posts: 805


    Originally posted by KingMazer

    What happened to everything that made this game unique?!
    "MMORPG.com: The offline advancement system, has it been scrapped totally, or is it still being tweaked?
    Jeffrey Steefel: It’s been scrapped. In practice, we felt we could accomplish much of the goals of the system through other means."
    WTF.......... Wasn't that one of the main features of the game!?!? I was actually looking forward to that...
    "Jeffrey Steefel: The Lord of the Rings is a much more broadly recognized name that we believe will help us create an even larger community of Tolkien fans online."
    Wait, wouldn't all "Tolkien" fans know what Middle Earth is? I mean Turbine's basically saying "this is just a mirror of the books/movies." The title "Middle Earth Online" meant that we (players) would be playing in the world that Tolkien created, not just the section of history that he wrote in the LotR series. The game just seems so confined with the new title.
    ~Mazer
    Hardcore Tolkien fan

      I can tell by your expression that you've been away for a while and just came back to check on things. Yeah I know how you feel. I mean I was following MEO a while back and then I disappeared for most of the year. Well when I came back I noticed that it was now LOTRO. But regardless of the name the game has to be set at one single point in the history of Middle Earth anyway. I'm not sure what spot on the timeline the game was originally going to be set in but I'm sure it would've been the same as it is now.

       Though I cant say I'm disappointed. Judging by the developers notes they're doing some pretty innovative stuff there.

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  • SlagggSlaggg Member Posts: 221
    Indeed.  I wouldn't be too down about it Mazer.  The game really has taken a turn for the better.  Previously, under the direction of Vivendi, Turbine's creative reach was pretty limited.  Now, they've got the license all to themselves and are making some great strides.  Innovation is on the horizon.

    "First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me...Blow."--Ash, "Army of Darkness"

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