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The Lord of the Rings Online's Latest Update Adds Some Much Needed QoL Features
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The Lord of the Rings Online's Latest Update Adds Some Much Needed QoL Features
The Lord of the Rings Online's Update 27.1 brings with it a much needed quality of life feature - assuming you're a VIP subscriber.
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The population is doing quite well for an old niche MMORPG. The game aged just fine, if you are expecting BDO then you will see it with those eyes. The world and the story is still top notch and the community appreciates it because they are not focused on it "not aging well".
That is what most story-based themepark MMOS are. WoW, FFXIV, SWTOR, ESO, all have the same kill X, fetch this, deliver that. Run here and there and everywhere, rinse and repeat. You might as well be complaining about MMO's in general and not just singling out a game you clearly hate.
And wow, three posts in a row mere minutes a part, the hate is strong! I'm sorry if you were one that was expecting Middle Earth Online and got something other than what you wanted, or whatever reason you've decided to single out LOTRO for game mechanics prevalent in this Genre.
I would expect some support from this company..with all these paywalls..
we live in 2020, altho its is very old game.. they could atleast support 4k..
In all honesty, you should really play it for a while and enjoy it in the company of a good guild/kin. Everything you say, or well, a lot of what you say is true. Quests are often unimaginative, most being fetch and retrieve or simple kill quests. But for those of us who bother to read the quest texts, those who take their time to work through quest chains, the quests are actually pretty nice. The mechanic sucks, but the narrative is well done.
Combat is extremely slow and boring. I agree. But I tried the alternatives, being ESO, GW2, even went to PoE ... and despite not liking LotRO combat, I like it more than the frantic 4-5 button-mashing current games provide. I like my tab-targeting, I like my 40 skills spread across my screen.
The only thing I really dislike is the store and the heavy focus on dailies. But then again, we have the community to blame for it. They're asking for extension of events so they have a little more time to complete some more dailies. They're defending the 'convenience' in the store and turn a blind eye to how the game inconveniences us. And the Hobbit presents... they should just get rid of those.
Really, do not buy anything in the store. Not ever. You'll accumulate shop currency through regular play, use that. Don't ever buy extra currency, do not support this vile mechanic.
But all that being said, the game is just really laidback. From the music to the combat, the quest flow, the travelling, ... it all works for the older players among us. I have a fulltime job, international transport of artworks, most of my colleagues being Asians and Americans. I don't get a lot of downtime. Married and 2 children, what little downtime I have is usually spent on them. So with that tiny bit of time remaining, I want to spend it in good company, in a tranquil setting and not pushing 4-5 buttons time and again to ultimately obtain the exact same goal with just fewer skills.
So yes, it's a bad MMO, but the best bad MMO on the market. And quite honestly, I don't know a lot of good MMOs out there.
Bye bye then....I don't think anyone here would miss you.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
I'm going to guess you either haven't played the game in a long time or have never have played it.
Since mid-March all quests, instances and raids THROUGHOUT the game, be it in regions or expansions has been totally FREE TO PLAY. 100% FREE and will stay that way until the end of August.
AND towards the end of last month, SSG put out a coupon code that let's everyone keep ALL regions FREE, and then did a 99 point sale on the first 5 expansion packs (down from the normal 1995 points). The only 2 not on sale were the 2 latest Mordor and Minas Mogul.
Sub model, heavy cash shop, no support, paywalls? Doesn't sound like it to me.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
The regular run of the mill quests are like every other game out there so harping on that is pretty weak. Also those quests AREN'T the story, they're just regional back drops. The way you arm yourself, feed yourself while moving through the world. I'm sorry, but if you broke down your Real Life work into game terms you'd probably find it's fairly close; fetch and carry ... papers, groceries, tools, slay .... contracts, objections to using your products ..... Life really isn't very glamorous be it in game or real life.
The Epic Quest line is the real Story, this is why you're there, chasing, following, paralleling the Fellowship from the books.
And yes, just like every other game out there if all you do is bottom line a quest 'I have to do what?' , they're all boring no matter what game. But if you bother to read the write up's, find out why the NPC wants you to do stuff and fit it into the over all picture it's not so bad. LotRO has some of the best quest write up's out there. So slow down and read them and you might find it's a bit more fun.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
try to read quest's in LOTR online in 4k.. then come back to m8
The engine is ancient and spaghetti at this point. The combat is slow and clunky. There's nothing wrong with old style graphics but these are old by necessity not a design choice and they look the part. And now they can't even keep the servers up because they're running on a skeleton crew.
As for all games in the genre being the same.. pre-wow games were all completely different using different systems and styles. Different ui layouts, controls. post-wow everything tried to use their systems and style. Thankfully, people are starting to pull away from wow/diablo-cloning. LotRO just came out during one of the peaks of wow and it tried to emulate the features.. poorly. I like the game but the influence didn't do it any justice. They could have done better and they still can if they update their engine.