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New LOTRO, But it will be F2P
delete5230
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Not sure if I believe it, what do you think ?
After all this guy just streams the already released Lotro and talks good.
If so it will be F2P, so it will not get any hype from me.
After all this guy just streams the already released Lotro and talks good.
If so it will be F2P, so it will not get any hype from me.
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If the game isn't highly open world, I will lose interest.
You stay sassy!
I will wait judgement. Just not nearly enough info yet. There are some good F2P games out there.
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Thing is that the LOTRO IP is still a decently marketable IP,so i would not doubt we see the last of someone trying to cash in on it.
I initially thought i heard the words AVALON but it is Athlon.A BRAND NEW LOTRO,so yeah,this new BUSINESS partner is simply looking to cash in on the IP.
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Getting too old for this $&17!
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Not to mention the typo in the title
Not simply his personal opinion, most people only know the LotR books, and before the Hobbit movies most never knew the two are connected. As sad as it is, most people don't read anymore. That's why I wrote in the other thread that it is an attempt to climb on to the arriving hype train Amazon will provide with the series.
Hell, even among those who are fans of the IP there's a part unaware of the vast material surrounding the LotR, which is only a very short (but the most detailed) event within the history of the Ages.
I don't see what originated the "good game" part of your response, turtle, since Frodo only said it won't use the years of LotR. But of course using the pre-LotR years has nothing to do with the game's quality. That simply puts them in shady lights, advertising it as a new LotR game.
It is based off the LOTR IP not the LOTRO IP. Settings will be diff etc and the company isn't necessarily a cash grab company. Maybe wait and see.
Ignoring the timelines of the books/movies makes more sense than dragging them on further for no reason.
Actually those were missing not only from my post, but I think overall as well. Nobody said the Estate or MEE doesn't have the control, neither that aiming before LotR is making more sense or not. But it must be fun and fruitful debating with yourself
What was said however in my post: the events outside LotR are much less known to the average Joe.
Also, selling it as LotR is a nice marketing move, but nothing more, and obviously not a correct one - since it is not LotR.
(just a note, an FYI: the IP is Middle-earth, or Tolkien's world/legendarium.
LotR is just a part of that, though the most detailed and most known part. The "LotR IP", if you insist, covers only LotR - obviously. Selling what's not in there, under the title Lord of the Rings, is just a ploy to peak interest.
It's a similar tactic like the re-release of Kull, Solomon Kane, etc. was under the title Conan's brethren. "Howard's other works" or something similar would sound less catchy, and they could sell more by slapping Conan onto the books...
It will be a game on Middle-earth, hopefully based on the lore (unlike those re-skinned assasin's creed clones), but it won't be a LotR game, since it is before the events of LotR.)
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A chance at a new middle earth MMO is better than no chance at all. If it's crap or not exactly what you want from the IP.. no biggie. We can just act like it never happened and move on.