I inserted a smiley face earlier, bitches love smiley faces you know. I don't think it worked.
Look I'm not just another WoW whore. I have played a number of other mmo's before for varying amounts of time, LotrO being one of them.
I found LotrO to be friendly overall but 'inaccessible' to a new player. Yes it's playerbase is mature, but it can also be condescending. I actually witnessed some of these 'mature' players ripping into a new clueless player and obviously a WoW player who was trying out something new, who was comparing LotrO to WoW in some general chat channel, and it wasn't pretty. The game has it's fair share of jerkwads. Seen the same in WAR and all it does is drive off potential new players resulting in an ever shrinking population. I might give it another try now that it's free but I find almost all of these so called great, friendly communities to be so hostile to WoW players it's not funny. Friendly alright, as long as you aren't some *hiss spit* Wowfag.
Anyway, my biggest gripe with LotrO is, like Tobold says, it's virtually identical to WoW in the PVE dept. I can't imagine myself playing two questgrinders at the same time. Maybe if i ragequit WoW I'll turn to this, till then I'm looking for something vastly different to WoW as an 'off time' mmo. Probably gonna be EvE.
sauce - http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/06/...free2play.htmlMy personal problem with Lord of the Rings Online is that it is not sufficiently different from World of Warcraft. That is to say if I want to play a MMO where I level by moving from one quest hub to the next, and fight fantasy monsters by targeting them and using various hotkeys, I usually play World of Warcraft. When I am in one of the phases where I am burned out from World of Warcraft, I generally prefer playing something completely different. For me Lord of the Rings Online is definitely the best MMORPG after World of Warcraft using this type of gameplay, but that puts it in a bad place in my playing schedule.
anyway, my actual point
Yes they're a pain in the ass, but you have to look at it another way. They create a dynamic, an 'us versus them'. Sense of competition. People will remember UO for the PKers. People will remember WoW because of 'bad pugs'. Right now you say you hate them, but you always end up telling stories about them. They create memories. It's like getting stomped by a Fel Reaver. At that point you're like 'faaahk i hate fel reavers stupid Blizzard', a year later you're all like 'I <3 fel reavers why arent there any in Northrend :-('. Or like how you HATED having to cc in BC and now there's no CC and everyones like 'we want cc back'.Munchkins, general pain in ass people.
In the same way you kinda miss those 'bads' and 'jerks' when they arent around to point and laugh at any more. They inject another level of challenge into the game. Hence my 'careful what you wish for' quote.
*edit decided to blog this : http://skurm.wordpress.com/2010/06/0...otro-kill-wow/
Originally Posted by TimstaH
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