LOTRO available Friday

[DarkSign]

All hail The Codex!

 

[Dementia Praecox]

What? It is a word.

 

[Elwro]

Won't touch this. The idea of a monthly fee still appalls me, and I'll only reconsider this opinion when Warhammer Online is released. Mainly due to nostalgia. Who knows, it might turn out to be shitty, but I'll try to play during some open weekends or sth.

 

[DarkSign]

I'll be playing it simply because a bunch of old Meridian59, UO and EQ1 friends of mine have gotten back in touch.

I hate the fact that there are only 4 races and no dark races available. Some LOTR geek can make fun of me for that if they want but I'm having a hard time getting pumped other than friendship.

Do have to give them credit on the classes - while they fill all the necessary roles, they're more mixes of the standard 4 (tank, mage, cleric, rogue) than straight ripoffs.

 

[obediah]

Won't touch this. The idea of a monthly fee still appalls me, and I'll only reconsider this opinion when Warhammer Online is released. Mainly due to nostalgia. Who knows, it might turn out to be shitty, but I'll try to play during some open weekends or sth.

I Know, it will be shitty. I'm in the same boat though that I'll buy it for nostalgia. I buy every WHFRP book (game/source books, not novels) for the same reason.

 

[Elwro]

You buy the new ones too? I mean, the edition that has the bestiary stripped out and made a standalone book out of it? Are there any good changes in the rules, or some worthy source material, or is the new line of WFRP products as shitty as it seemed to me when I glossed over it in a gaming store last year?

 

[Astromarine]

I never owned or played the first edition stuff, so I can't compare it to you, but I do own a lot of the new books. They are fraught with awesome.

 

[Zomg]

I wish new art designs that try to get away from New Zealand + cheeseball Hollywood would start showing up in LotR licensed stuff, because if someone doesn't start diluting that shit soon the books are going to be poisoned for young nerds forever.

 

[cutterjohn]

Won't touch this. The idea of a monthly fee still appalls me, and I'll only reconsider this opinion when Warhammer Online is released. Mainly due to nostalgia. Who knows, it might turn out to be shitty, but I'll try to play during some open weekends or sth.

According to a post on usenet csipgr if you pre-order you can get a lifetime sub for $200 or a permanent $10/m subscription rate or something else. They called it the "founders" club.

Supposedly from other posts in the newsgroup it's pretty fun and is generating a surprising number of posts for an MMO...

$200 is a little steep for me ATM, and I'm with you as far as monthly fees, especially since I usually can't play the MMORPGs often enough to justify forking over a monthly fee for what essentially amounts to character parking. (Which is why the only MMORPG I bother with now is Minions of Mirth, no monthly fee...)

 

[Fez]

$200 isn't that bad considering what some folks will spend on these games. Like their money, dignity and self-respect.

You'd better hurry boys and girls if you want an EPIC mount too. Urgh.

 

[United Nations]

^Woman has some serious issues. Nevertheless, she would have to pay ME $5,000 in real world money before I would do anything with that ugly mug of hers.

 

[Sovy Kurosei]

http://www.ige.com/wowus/gold/laughings ... us_en.html

Five thousand gold is worth about $700.

 

[Fez]

Can you get any lower than whoring yourself for WoW items? For $700 you could get a lot better hooker than that. There's any number of ways to have a lot more fun for $700 than a night with her. It was probably some WoW nerd's dream come true though. His one chance to pop that cherry of his, though sadly with a rank internet whore. It is either that or he beats off to her elf avatar doing a dance for fake money.

She's into 'role-playing' boys and she has her own costume. Don't all rush at once to drop that $700.

 

[sabishii]

I'll be playing it simply because a bunch of old Meridian59, UO and EQ1 friends of mine have gotten back in touch.

I hate the fact that there are only 4 races and no dark races available. Some LOTR geek can make fun of me for that if they want but I'm having a hard time getting pumped other than friendship.

Do have to give them credit on the classes - while they fill all the necessary roles, they're more mixes of the standard 4 (tank, mage, cleric, rogue) than straight ripoffs.

You can play the dark races once you get to level 10, I think. From what I've played of the open beta, I like that there's a lot of non-combat content, and that a lot, if not all, of the setting is reproduced within the game. My friend, who's more into the technical game balance side of things, said he read that the balance seems to be quite good and all the classes are useful in their own right. However, I'm not going to be playing this unless some friends decide to play.

 

[Lurkar]

I can't imagine playing an MMO based on LotR. Level one elves shouldn't exist in that world, much less ones who go off to kill level one wolves for a few copper.

Plus, I can't imagine how horiffic the naming issues will be.

 

[Fez]

What's the bets on how fast all the original names from LOTR will be taken? I think it'll be about ten minutes into being open before you are seeing "xGANNDALLF_PIMPAHx" and equally retarded names running around. That and elven names with lots of apostrophes dotted around to make it look exotic.

I can't wait to see the wise wizards or noble elves rushing around shouting "BUFF PLZ" or leaving their character doing a grinding dance to earn extra virtual dollars.

 

[SlyDrak]

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[fizzelopeguss]

I've not seen that many retarded names yet.

 

[Country_Gravy]

My ingame name in the open beta is Chodesmoker.

Eat that, bitches

 

[Fez]

You do us proud, Country_Gravy.

 

[United Nations]

My feelings on LOTRO, copied+pasted from another forum:

LOTRO is merely a WoW clone that copies its predecessor in the worst way possible The gameplay is nearly identical to WoW, and is even subpar in some cases. Nevermind the fact that the LOTR franchise has already been milked dry through a diabolical marketing scheme that put Aragorn keychains in every gas station across America, but now the Tolkien estate seeks to ride in the coattails of a game that owes its very existance to LOTR in the first place.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

It's only a wow clone in that it's a polished title.

 

[sabishii]

My feelings on LOTRO, copied+pasted from another forum:

LOTRO is merely a WoW clone that copies its predecessor in the worst way possible The gameplay is nearly identical to WoW, and is even subpar in some cases. Nevermind the fact that the LOTR franchise has already been milked dry through a diabolical marketing scheme that put Aragorn keychains in every gas station across America, but now the Tolkien estate seeks to ride in the coattails of a game that owes its very existance to LOTR in the first place.

Please. If anything, I felt that LOTRO felt very like a LOTR MUD I once played, except it's now in 3D.

 

[Jack_Deth]

They've recycled Dungeons & Dragons Online to make this game, exact same engine. Play the DDO trial and you will see it is exactly the same except for some dumbing down of the rule system. It is exactly like Dungeons & Dragons Online exept DDO's quests were better.

 

[RK47]

Can you get any lower than whoring yourself for WoW items? For $700 you could get a lot better hooker than that. There's any number of ways to have a lot more fun for $700 than a night with her. It was probably some WoW nerd's dream come true though. His one chance to pop that cherry of his, though sadly with a rank internet whore. It is either that or he beats off to her elf avatar doing a dance for fake money.

She's into 'role-playing' boys and she has her own costume. Don't all rush at once to drop that $700.

yep that's what i thought really. it aint worth the dough. for that much i can do it around ummm 70 times maybe in some countries. 50 times with costumes.

 

[DarkSign]

Not terrible, but not inspiring. Wow-clone comments are pretty much true.
Unless my friends decide to stay in the game, I'll not preorder.

 

[Elwro]

Heh, unrelated news.

Codemasters decided to switch processing of the Polish edition of LOTRO from their English studio to their German studio. CDProjekt has been the Polish distributor of Codemasters for quite a long time. And now, the Germans decided to dump LOTRO straight into Polish stores, without telling CDProjekt a thing :D.
(CDP's CEO talks about it in this post.) This might lead to some broken contracts...

I'd expect Poles to pull something like that, but the Germans?