Middle Earth Is Getting Bigger
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They've offered a free trial for well over a year now. 10 days is a pretty good length for a trial. And yes, you get to keep your existing characters if you upgrade your trial account.Nurb said:
That's the thing... it was really immediate and rewarding for the first hour or so, but how's an MMO ever going to sustain that for weeks and months?Abedeus said:
Someone should just continuously say "merge servers" to him and see if the twitches turn into a dance of some kind.whaleswiththumbs said:
The important question: When will middle earth get big enough to the point where we have to call it upper earth?
You see, on Yggdrasil, Earth was in the middle of the trunk, between nifilhiem, helheim, and the rest of the lower worlds and....oh nevermind. It doesn't.suicidal pencil said:
Yeah I stopped playing like a month ago so i could try world of warcraft. and i have to say LOTRO is just another knock off of WoW. but in a different world.DRADIS C0ntact said:
Internet Digital Dance of Doom Death and Destruction begins.
But really, I am [sup]happy for them[/sup]now.
But really, I am [sup]happy for them[/sup]now.
I'm glad someone has the balls to stand up to WoW, and the abilities and gameplay to pull it off.
Though, I haven't actually played it, I just think WoW is overrated and it irritates me how nothing else comes close.
Though, I haven't actually played it, I just think WoW is overrated and it irritates me how nothing else comes close.
Why not just say that Blizzard is Unicron. It's better than the multiple voltron analogy and simpler. We're all nerds here, if we get Vontron, we'll get Unicron. >
For those non-nerds Unicron is the transforming planet (who is actually sort of the devil in the "lore") from Transformers The Movie.
It's much larger than a multiple Voltron assembly.
The multiple Voltron assembly would most accuratly be SoE's lineup of properties you can play under one membership fee (Everquest, SWG, etc...) which is what it did to compete.
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For those non-nerds Unicron is the transforming planet (who is actually sort of the devil in the "lore") from Transformers The Movie.
It's much larger than a multiple Voltron assembly.
The multiple Voltron assembly would most accuratly be SoE's lineup of properties you can play under one membership fee (Everquest, SWG, etc...) which is what it did to compete.
>>>----Therumancer--->
You actually can play these in the PvMP area known as Ettenmoors. I know several people who do nothing but play monsters. With the quests and pvp aspect of the area it is quite fun.hippykiller said:
I have to say this quote is probably one of the funniest things I hear all the time. Games being knock offs of WoW. Blizzard rarely has it own thoughts when it comes to WoW. I can point out hundreds of features in WoW that started in Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron's Call 1 & 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of the Rings Online, and even Warhammer.hippykiller said:
What Blizzard does tend to do is enhance these features to add more pizazz. Prime example is WoW's achievement system. This was in many games before WoW such as LOTRO deeds system or Warhammer's (can't remember name of it), or heck lets even point out the Xbox achievement system. They took the best, in my opinion, of all the previous games or game systems and combined it. Is this bad? No, but not a pioneer in the field of MMO's by any means.
Because the game is supposed to emulate the heroic style of Tolkien's writing.hippykiller said:
Also, if they were to make evil races playable, they would have to remove the entire "Dread" function from the game, because "Dread" I.E., being around Naz'gul, would INCREASE your hope, considering they were on your side.
It's against the spirit of the game and the mechanics. That's why.
So I guess they're not going free with micropayments any time soon?
Last time I gave LOTRO a spin, I liked the environments, but it played too much like another EverQuest clone to give this MMORPG burnout hope.
Last time I gave LOTRO a spin, I liked the environments, but it played too much like another EverQuest clone to give this MMORPG burnout hope.
I don't get it. How come the only game to stand up to a fantasy-themed MMORPG is a fantasy-themed MMORPG? Does everyone like tolkienesque/dungeonanddragonish fantasy better than everything else, except me?