Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Lord of the Rings Beta
Rensho
Member Posts: 14
don't know if anyone else knows,didnt see a topic,so here it is: http://lotro.turbine.com/betasignup
now go sign up!
-Ren
Comments
Regards,
SpiritCrawler
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don''t." -Blaise Pascal
ah,I barely ever even look at the main page
hope turbine doesnt screw this game like DDO...that game made me want to shoot myself in the face while having my foot chewed off by a ravaged badger
I signed up too, hope I get in.
Tormented echoes of a fallen Eden
I longed for her beauty
Yet from dust, she returned
The dream, an enigma.... silent
Dinos, you say that like it is a bad thing
Official Forum post
PvP, LOTRO, and You
wanted to write a post to help answer some of the questions you all
have regarding the decision and our direction with PvP. While we are
not ready to talk about the system yet (that will come in time) we’d
like to address some of the concerns we’ve seen posted so far and help
give you some idea of what kind of feedback we are looking for at this
time. Some of this may have already been stated, but it’s probably a
good idea to have it all in one place.
What if I don't want to participate in PvP? No
matter how PvP is manifested in LOTRO, you will not get attacked by
another player without your consent. PvP does not mean getting “ganked”
– that won’t happen in LOTRO. If you don't like PvP, you don’t have to
participate if you don’t want to. Ever.
Is LOTRO going to change because of PvP? We
haven’t made any changes to our core designs (combat, questing,
crafting, kinships, etc.) to accommodate PvP nor do we anticipate doing
so. While there will probably be some balance changes for some of the
class skills, the core game will not change. If you've been excited
about LOTRO before we announced PvP there is no reason for that
interest or excitement to diminish. In fact, everything we are
discussing is always in the context of what will work best for this
game, and for Middle-earth. The fact is, lots of things will cause us
to change details within the game during development, Beta, and even
after launch - with or without PvP. Which leads us to …
Didn't you say there wasn't going to be PvP? Yes
we did. For a time we stated we had no plans to put in traditional
forms of PvP. Our perspective has changed over time, and for many good
reasons that we'll be discussing when we talk more about PvP. Change is
a reality when dealing with a development project like LOTRO. In the
past months we’ve been talking a lot more about LOTRO and in the coming
months we’ll be releasing even more information. The more we
communicate with you all, the more risk we take that something we
communicated might change and that some of you may get upset about
that. We would rather communicate than keep you all in the dark. I can
guarantee you that as we get feedback during Beta that other things
will change too. That’s the reality of these kinds of games and
honestly, flexibility in design is a good thing.
Why did you add PvP? PvP
creates an interesting gameplay dynamic that we believe will not only
help LOTRO to be more successful, but will also add to the immersion of
the game for those who enjoy PvP. For those who don’t, we’re going to
make sure they don’t have to participate. Right now we’re finalizing
how PvP will work and once we are comfortable with the design and
feasibility of the plan, we will post it and ask for your feedback.
Bear in mind that this system leverages the game we have already built,
and is by no means a last-minute "add-on".
So what now? The
PvP forum was created so players can tell us what they’d like to see
regarding PvP in LOTRO. While everyone is entitled to their opinion
about whether PvP is fun or not, the feedback that is most useful and
that we are most looking for is:
- Given that we are implementing PvP, how would you like to see it happen?
- What are the aspects of PvP that you’d like to see and what aspects would you prefer we didn’t do and why?
- Any other ideas or thoughts you may have how PvP should work in LOTRO in your opinion.
- Etc.
Weunderstand that some of the confusion and frustration you all are
expressing is caused largely because we haven’t released much
information yet on how PvP will work. For that, we apologize. Hopefully
we’ll be able to post some more detailed aspects of the design in the
coming weeks and months. But in the meantime, if you want to give us
feedback about how you’d like to see PvP implemented, now is the time
to do it.
We’re going to be cleaning up
the PvP forum a little as there are a lot of threads that are talking
about the same thing. We know this is a controversial topic and we look
forward to hearing your feedback.
Thanks in advance for your patience everyone. We appreciate it a lot.
__________________
-Jonathan "Calandryll" Hanna
Director of Community Relations
Turbine, Inc.
One player's great game is another players derisive snort!
http://www.darthmyr.com for free guild forums