Is anyone else playing Lord of the Rings Online? I just bought it last week and got my Guardian to Level 20. I really like the game but I don't have many friends playing it :(
I heard it was basically WoW with a LotR skin on it. Any comments? If it's a bit different I might consider trying it out.
It's kinda combo of WOW and DAOC. After level 20 it's comes into it's own. I will say that overall these games are so similiar it's silly. I played them all and they all have their positive and negatives. I mainly like LOTR over WOW because there is really no PVP except for Monster play and that is silly.
Sorry, but I am a wow fan....but lately, I think WOW is about to bite the dust. 3 short reasons: 1. End-game content requires a lot of time and grinding....this is exactly as it was at lvl 60 (from what I hear). So blizzard essentially lied to us all when it said it "leveled the playing field." total bs. 2. PVP is soooo unbalanced its not funny. 3. People are tired of noobs, jerks, ppl that cant' play right, etc.
But anyway, we're not talking about wow. From what I've seen about LOTR Online, its basicly the same as WOW. I will probably never pick it up because I also hear that LOTR players critize and spam about how WOW sucks. Also, why would I want to regrind.....its just not a fun idea. Oh and paying more $$ a month doesn't make my wallet happy either :laugh:
King Linksr
Quote from: Kinglinksr on August 30, 2007, 12:48:49 AM
Sorry, but I am a wow fan....but lately, I think WOW is about to bite the dust. 3 short reasons: 1. End-game content requires a lot of time and grinding....this is exactly as it was at lvl 60 (from what I hear). So blizzard essentially lied to us all when it said it "leveled the playing field." total bs. 2. PVP is soooo unbalanced its not funny. 3. People are tired of noobs, jerks, ppl that cant' play right, etc.
But anyway, we're not talking about wow. From what I've seen about LOTR Online, its basicly the same as WOW. I will probably never pick it up because I also hear that LOTR players critize and spam about how WOW sucks. Also, why would I want to regrind.....its just not a fun idea. Oh and paying more $$ a month doesn't make my wallet happy either :laugh:
King Linksr
WoW is having the same problems as DAOC had eventually with PvP, which is why it failed.
On LOTR the "grind" is not nearly as bad as it was for WoW,EQI(II),D&D or DAOC. There is virtually little to no down time like other games. People do talk on OOC channels but the topics vary. LOTRO definetly has a much older player base when compared to WoW. When I ask questions I never get smart a@@ answers or anything...
Really? I heard from a friend its all: "Wow sucks." and crud. But then, you would get that topic with every new MMORPG. I could see how past WOW players would want to play LOTR because it wouldn't have all the noobs and jerks that WOW has. Also, they wouldn't have to deal with all the spam and junk that WOW has...
idk, all I do know is that WOW is losing its player base more and more everyday.
BTW, Blackride, how much have you played? Is it that good? In other words, is it all that they "promised"?
King Linksr
Quote from: Kinglinksr on August 30, 2007, 09:48:42 AM
BTW, Blackride, how much have you played? Is it that good? In other words, is it all that they "promised"?
King Linksr
Honestly, The game is just anohter MMORPG. I enjoy it because it's not PvP and it can be at your own pace, meaning you can group if you want or you can solo. The game is HEAVILY quest based which I like since it keeps me involved in the world and not having to always worry about leveling. So overall I would say it's a fun game and its a change due to it being in the LOTR world but don't expect anything ground breaking at all.
I played it for a day but my laptop is just not powerful enough to play it, it was real framey and laggy, so I couldnt deal. I also was pretty shocked at how similar it was to WoW.
Hmm....well, maybe if I get tired of WOW, I'll go to LOTR. It sounds more like what I want out of a game. I like PVP, but since its so unbalanced, it makes it hard and annoying to play sometimes.
All in all, maybe its worthwhile.
Thanks.
King Linksr
Moria Expands Rings Online
Turbine announced that it plans in the fall to release The Mines of Moria, a retail expansion for its massively multiplayer online game The Lord of the Rings Online. Moria will increase the play options and areas in the game, which is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy of books.
Jeffrey Steefel, the game's executive producer, told SCI FI Wire that the expansion will add new classes, raise the level cap, add the ability to create legendary items and enhance the ability to delve into the deeps of the title Mines of Moria. All of this content launches what Turbine considers to be volume two of the game's saga, paving the way for the next six issues of expanded content for the game.
"It's been an amazing first year for The Lord of the Rings Online," Steefel said in an interview. "And it's so exciting to be able to bring players into one of the most iconic fantasy locations ever created. Moria is the perfect passage for players into volume two of The Lord of the Rings Online and promises to be unlike anything they have ever experienced."
Moria, the dwarven city of Khazad-dûm that lies beneath the Misty Mountains, is host to seemingly endless tunnels, goblins galore and enough dungeon-like areas to keep a dwarf sharpening his ax for many hours. Beyond dungeon crawling, players will be able to explore the city of Khazad-dûm itself and even get involved in releasing the monstrous Balrog named Durin's Bane, the very Balrog that battled Gandalf as the Fellowship of the Ring struggled to escape the mines.
The Mines of Moria will increase the level cap to 60, allowing players to further improve their characters. New class options will also be available, which will let players start their adventures anew as Wardens and Rune-keepers.
Fans will be able to pursue an expanded crafting system that will allow them to craft more powerful items, including legendary items such as Bilbo's sword, Sting, which can grow more powerful alongside developing characters. --Kyle Ackerman
Anyone played much of this game? I might give it a go, since you can at least play part of it for free now.
http://www.lotro.com/ (http://www.lotro.com/)
Quote from: Rico on July 28, 2010, 07:10:29 PM
Anyone played much of this game? I might give it a go, since you can at least play part of it for free now.
http://www.lotro.com/ (http://www.lotro.com/)
Yes, I played it a ton. It kinda feels like a dead MMO at this point. There are not exactly a lot of people running around. This can be good or bad depending on how you like to play.
The main story line is cool and has some nice movies to watch. The sub-plots and quests are the typical WoW,EQ,DAOC type quests. The fight system is the same as every other MMO.
I would say if you like LOTR it's worth a try but do not expect a flourishing community.
I amusingly got this game from a friend, but my interest died pretty quickly. As Blackride says, it's dead. They missed it and no one's really willing to go to it. Going free-to-play pretty much admits that you've given up...
King
I have several friends who love playing LOTRO and it sounds far from dead.. actually hearing you guy talk about how dead it is make me want to play it more and more.. not a big fan of crowded MMO's
I'd definitely give it a go if I had more free time! My next major game investment will be Starcraft 2. Blizzard needs more of my money. I worry they may go out of business without it :D
My son Andrew plays every night. He loves it. Nathan plays too.
Quote from: Geekyfanboy on July 29, 2010, 12:08:33 PM
I have several friends who love playing LOTRO and it sounds far from dead.. actually hearing you guy talk about how dead it is make me want to play it more and more.. not a big fan of crowded MMO's
NO worries of it being crowded you can be in the newbie to mid-zones and not see people for hours. Sometimes this is a nice thing like u said. Actually if you are playing with a couple of friends its great. I had no friends playing at the time so it did get a bit lonely.
I am going to load it up now and see how many people are playing.
my name is Dayma online if you want to add me as a friend!
Hmm, maybe we should start a TSF Guild? I'll try and download the client tonight and give it a whirl. Are there servers in this game? If so, list the server you are on and char. name there too.
Quote from: Rico on July 30, 2010, 07:06:57 AM
Hmm, maybe we should start a TSF Guild? I'll try and download the client tonight and give it a whirl. Are there servers in this game? If so, list the server you are on and char. name there too.
I would be up for that!
Let us know, I might rejoin the game if a bunch of the ppl on the forum play it.
King
I bet Andrew would join too.
Downloading the game client now!
Quote from: Rico on July 30, 2010, 01:50:01 PM
Downloading the game client now!
It is downloading like 30gb of updates for mine...
Good grief, that is a huge download...going to have to think about this...
King
Quote from: Kingisaaclinksr on July 30, 2010, 02:35:56 PM
Good grief, that is a huge download...going to have to think about this...
King
Don't you have the game discs still Tim?
Quote from: Rico on July 30, 2010, 02:39:59 PM
Quote from: Kingisaaclinksr on July 30, 2010, 02:35:56 PM
Good grief, that is a huge download...going to have to think about this...
King
Don't you have the game discs still Tim?
*smacks forhead*. Yes, it's right here.
I'm taking stupid pills today apparently. Will install this way, thanks for reminding me.
King
I am on Arkenstone. My guys name is Dayma.
Huh - well that's odd. Spent a few hours getting the game but it seems the "free play" doesn't start until this coming fall. I think you can get a 10 day free pass to play for free on their website. Still might try that soon too. Just not this weekend. Oh, well.
Yeah, saw that Rico, which means I won't be playing until then. Not devoting $15 a month to MMOs right now
I am suprised, there are definetly more people playing on the server I am then there used to be. It's kinda nice. It's got some community but not to loaded where there are people camping everywhere.
BTW the DX10 on this game is decent also.
When it goes free to play I will be coming back to try again.
As I stated in a different post I beta tested this thing hardcore so it burned me out a bit.
If a TSF guild starts up I would be most interested.
Got an email today and it says FREE play is now open and available. Might give it a go this weekend.
Quote from: Rico on September 10, 2010, 05:11:42 PM
Got an email today and it says FREE play is now open and available. Might give it a go this weekend.
Let me know what you think. Going to be interesting to see what happens to the population now.
Tried a little yesterday and the game seems ok and like many MMO's. I did get some odd, occasional freezing of the game a few times. It's like nothing would respond and then it went away after maybe a minute. Kind of weird. Anyone else get this while playing ever?
The EU free to play version has been delayed, however my 14 day trial from a month ago is still active... weird
Got to level 20 with the trial, quite a good game, a little different to WoW, yet the same. Will get back into it again when the EU free-to-play goes live
Rico, no freezing on this end, although random disconnecting or limbo-state gets quite annoying
I never have any issues
Quote from: Lanari on September 12, 2010, 03:46:50 PM
The EU free to play version has been delayed, however my 14 day trial from a month ago is still active... weird
Got to level 20 with the trial, quite a good game, a little different to WoW, yet the same. Will get back into it again when the EU free-to-play goes live
Rico, no freezing on this end, although random disconnecting or limbo-state gets quite annoying
What limbo state do you mean? I talked to my friend who plays and he said the game will pause when loading new areas. And I mean in areas where you don't get the usual zoning in screen. I'm playing in DX10 mode, high graphics, etc. I personally think the server I picked is getting slammed with new players due to the free play. I'm going to give it a few days and then try again.
I've been wanting to download and try this for years now.. and after listening to Rick and Andrew on your latest podcast I did just that.. but man it's a large file over 7 gigs.. and for my horrible internet it would take 41 hours to download.. kind of worried me that my internet would be too slow for play so I stopped the download to investigate more.
Is your connection that slow all the time Kenny? What type of service do you use?
Quote from: Rico on September 12, 2010, 05:59:15 PM
Is your connection that slow all the time Kenny? What type of service do you use?
Here's a recent blog post about my Internet Woes!!!
One thing that has always bothered me about living in the boonies is having limited access to the internet. We currently use the only internet company out here CanyonWave because the relay dish and power source is on our property and because it uses our electricity (which we pay) they give us internet for free. Problem is the internet is a few steps above dial up. We can surf pretty good but trying to watch video like you tube you need to start the video then pause it and wait 10 minutes for it to fully load before you watch. And if the video is streaming, it has to buffer very few minutes which make it very difficult to watch anything.
We recently got a Wii and netflix as I was hoping to be about to stream movie and tv shows from netflix thur our Wii.. well that's not gonna happen as we can start to watch a movie but then 5 minutes into it you get the "retrieving" message and everything pauses for 15 minutes and then you get 5 minutes of video until you get the retrieving message again. So we can't take advantage of that option on our Wii or Blu-Ray player.
Both Harry and I work alot online and need fast internet. We tried to find a DSL provider since we do have a phone line but so far I haven't found a provider who reaches us, which I don't understand as I thought they ran the internet through the phone lines. Our other option was a Satellite which we tried for about four months but with the download/upload restrictions and fluctuating speeds it wasn't worth the $120 a month we were paying. In the end we cancelled the service and was out about $2000 dollars in fees, equipment and charges. It was a costly mistake but we were desperate to have better internet.
So we are stuck with our CaynonWave for now.. I'm always on the search for good reliable internet service. If anyone knows of anything that is fast and reliable please let me know.
Ahh, that explains things. DSL requires things called nodes every so often so if you are too far away from the closest node it won't work. Satellite as you found isn't a good option really. Any 3G in your area? Of course, that's pretty darn slow too. I guess the price you pay for living in the outskirts. Hopefully sometime soon a better alternative will come around.
Limbo state is a term used in WoW when you could walk around the world but not interact with anything. In essence the game is there but you were technically disconnected
In lord of the rings online, a similar thing would happen, except you could see other people. This happened 2-3 times a day and I wouldn't be able to move or cast anything, I could see others do stuff until eventually I would get DC'd.
Right, server issues are a fact of life in MMO's. I also wonder if this is related to the fact that LOTRO went free to play. They must be under a lot more server load then they had been previously.
Issues I've heard of with the game is that you can't solo much. Not sure if that's still the case.
Quote from: Lanari on September 13, 2010, 06:08:12 AM
Limbo state is a term used in WoW when you could walk around the world but not interact with anything. In essence the game is there but you were technically disconnected
In lord of the rings online, a similar thing would happen, except you could see other people. This happened 2-3 times a day and I wouldn't be able to move or cast anything, I could see others do stuff until eventually I would get DC'd.
That is EXACTLY what was happening in LOTR, except I couldn't really move. This NEVER has happened to me in WOW. Again, I think it's the added load of new players. I'll see if it continues, but if it does I won't be trying this game much longer.
Happens in WoW VERY occasionally. I was in a random dungeon group and the whole instance froze for a few minutes.
In wow it used to be a big problem with outdated network card drivers, every time you handed a quest in you would not be able to do anything else. Happened a lot when i used my 3g dongle before i updated its firmware
For LOTRO, it was happening before it went free-to-play, was happening with me, but noone else which was annoying. Possibly with the increased load it could be happening.
Cant suggest anything to cure it though :(
I logged in again today and didn't have an issue. Not sure what's going on for you.
Well I beta tested Lotro then played for a short bit after it come out. I just returned last night as a free player.
I am not overly happy. It seened like every time I wanted to upgrade or add something I had to have points for it. Now I can understand I am a free player so I should get all these things for nothing but what about the players that purchased life memberships? Do they have limited points in game?
If they unlock a new virtue do they have to pay points?
To me the constant popup of the store was a turn off. I am going to give it a little more time but if there are any paying players i would like to hear what you think of the point system and the store.