I have been playing Turbine games from the beginning - off and on through out the years. The steep fee for this expansion could be a way to raise some new capital after their break from WB. Though, it could also be a quick cash grab before closing the game.
Remember the Asheron's Call 2 expansion? Release and cancel.
I'll probably get this at some point after reviews of Mordor come out. I've got stacks of currency saved up for just such a thing. Unfortunately, I don't play LOTRO regularly and will only pony up the real world dollars for games I'm involved in actively, like Diablo 3.
Keep in mind that it's now a game published by DBG. In the pas SOE allowed you to use your SOE points to buy EQ expansions and that was canceled to fork out more money from their players. It would not surprise me if DBG/SSG will do the same with this expansion...
I know this is a popular assumption, that DBG has replaced WB in the LOTRO universe. But until I see the actual agreement between DBG and SSG showing that DBG owns a piece of LOTRO/DDO and is entitled to make certain decisions, I'm not biting. We all know how ineffectual publishers are with developers (Trion/AA, for example), where the publisher makes requests of the dev, and maybe it gets done and maybe it doesn't. Yet, here we are assuming just the opposite with SSG/DBG.
We're six months out from SSG's creation and neither LOTRO nor DDO appear on the Daybreak site under "Games" and there are no news articles, press or twitter related to either game. This doesn't look to me like these games are in the Daybreak stable.
So whatever it is that Daybreak is doing for LOTRO, it's doing it very, very quietly.
Time to man up and realize that the decisions being made are all on SSG.
Read the new EULA and there it clearly states that DBG and you are involved as parties...
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Remember the Asheron's Call 2 expansion? Release and cancel.