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Mordor: Iconic Moments, Great Ideas, But a Little Lackluster - Lord of the Rings Online Review - MMO
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Mordor: Iconic Moments, Great Ideas, But a Little Lackluster - Lord of the Rings Online Review - MMORPG.com
The Lord of the Rings Online has a long history of putting players into iconic moments and settings from J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendary legendarium, and this tradition continues with the release of Mordor, the long-running MMORPG’s newest expansion. Taking place following the events of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, LOTRO wastes little time reminding players that indeed, within the Land of Mordor, the Shadows still lie.
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IMO, they should let this quietly die and spend their resources on making DDO the game it should have been.
~~ postlarval ~~
Or leave them both. They don't deserve to hold such names.
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
My only complaint, is the leveling of alts, it is still slower than molasses since they keep raising the level limit.
The expac should be 40 and include all previous expacs.
RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhower
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
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Doesnt matter if you spend money on it or not. It plays like a cheap advert, IMO.
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Really , with all respect to the ones who are still playing: LOTR deserves a LOT better then ...this. They do not keep the game up for the fans. Nope , they do it to milk as much as they can until it's done. The content which they release for LOTRO this days, is pathetic. Release below decent content? Then gtfo and leave this big name alone.
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
I mean, it does sound bad for me, but for those that always justify whatever price tag devs came up with, like they did with D3, it should be almost criminally cheap..
I'll wait to the day's end when the moon is high
And then I'll rise with the tide with a lust for life, I'll
Amass an army, and we'll harness a horde
And then we'll limp across the land until we stand at the shore
$40 is just the "early access" to it, which is stupid, since the expansion was marketed partly by the high elves. Then with launch they turned it nto: no, high elves are not in the bundle, not even in the game till Winter - unless you cough up +$30 to play it right now.
As for the review, it is really good, pretty much summarizes what I think about the expansion
$40 for a cosmetic face on a class sounds horrible. Atleast for $15 you got a completely new class.
1. Content not free for VIPs. Sorry, folks at SSG, these are your most valuable players, do give them content for free (I am f2p).
2. In fact, they just renamed Epic book to - Black book. And told: no-no, it's not epic (even if it has all signs of it), pay for it. Epic quests are too short, absolutely uninspiring.
3. Grind in the name of grind, all loot bound to toon. Commerce just ruined, helping too: if I got nice Warden stuff, I must deconstruct/trash it. Want armour - get ash, want ash - get Invaders items, which drops very rarely and of course, you need almost tens of thousands of them. No, you won;t get ash from any other skirmish/instance.
4. For free players Mordor is nightmare (yes, imagine a player that does not want to thjrow $130 into something unknown). Basically you can use NPC service 9slel/repair), that's all. Everything else is hidden behind paywall. What I would suggest - is to play Mordor as f2p and see restrictions.
Mordo culd have been great. I would imagine tens of quests involving every single hero, lots of cinematics, then travelling all around Middle Earth to see how almost everyone lives or rests in tomb. Now we have few quests - and that's all.
I would give Mordor maximum amount of 6 (or, mfrom f2p perspective, entire 5) out of 10. And really wish they coiuld have done it for ~9/10.
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It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
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Really at this point fans like me are waiting for a more funded and more talented team to take over the resurrection of this IP in all honesty.
I get what you're saying. But the shop icon on every screen . . . that's nothing new. It's been that way since the store launched. It is truly one of the worst things about LOTRO. They completely integrated the game with the store. And, of course, the game is now designed around store contents. Removal scrolls for this and that, solvents for crafting, mithril coins for LI leveling.
If you're going to play LOTRO, you have to learn to ignore these things. Otherwise, you quit, as I did for several years. But regardless of the mistakes the developers have made over the years, which have been legion, the game retains a charm that no other game has, certainly not any of the newer PvP survival sandboxes.
Well, you've got Shadows of Mordor II (Shadows of War) to look forward to. The issue with this IP is that it isn't a single IP. Yeah, Lord of the Rings, how complicated can that be? But no. There are several properties containing Middle Earth lore and the rights to them are owned by different companies with different agendas. At this point, Warner Bros. has rights to the biggest piece of the pie.
And don't forget WB owned LOTRO for years and despite having money to spend, did nothing of merit with it. Instead they starved it. You can bet that if SSG hadn't been formed, LOTRO would be as dead now as Asheron's Call.
Mordor exhibits all the faults LOTRO has always had and all its strengths. Beautiful scenery, open world exploration, gripping epic and half-accomplished goals aggravated by lack of money. It's as though the game itself has struggled for survival under Sauron's dark cloud.