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Market Woes Plague LOTRO Since War of Three Peaks | MMORPG.com
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Market Woes Plague LOTRO Since War of Three Peaks | MMORPG.com
Market purchases in Lord of the Rings Online have been affecting the MMO since the launch of War of Three Peaks.
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bug, chat disappearing, login problems and rubberbanding. I wonder when it will be fixed, if it happens at all. Its been quite a few weeks already.
/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
These server issues have been going on for years now. Especially for us European players it's even worse, ever since they moved the EU servers to the US.
It will never be fixed, since they clearly don't have the capacity/competence in-house anymore.
Hmmm interesting to read things like this. My wife plays pretty much everyday and has for a long long time. Other than the recent server issues she has had no problems to speak of.
/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
/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
The fact that this game is a buggy mess, with problems that have persisted for so long they are game features, and running gag jokes, and this for both LOTRO and DDO, is rather amazing that it is still limping along.
Truth be told, it's gotten worse for DDO over the years, a lot worse. If it was this bad when I started, I never would have played, the thing is, it creeps up on you, slowly, and you find yourself accepting things like the game crashing, purchases not happening, chat not loading, sound failing, getting stuck in the geometry, server instabilities, rollbacks, etc, etc, etc... and we all know that the main reason we put up with it, is because we have years invested into the game.
Pity, there is really nothing that has come out that can take over the mantle. of these games.
I will bet, the Amazon game will be a hollow shell of a game in comparison to LOTRO, just like Neverwinter was little more than a re-skinned asian grinder, and paled ridiculoysly to DDO.
I agree. Over the years I've tried getting into both LOTRO and DDO and there was absolute no problem. Absolutely nothing! It may be because I never played for more than a few hours and then uninstalled after a day or two, but I just don't recall any issues.
I don't know when LOTRO stopped having EU servers, but I tried playing it this March when everything became free and I played for almost 12 hours every day. I managed to experience the issues with LOTRO at their fullest. After a week of heavy playing and reaching level 30, I could not take this torture any longer and stopped for a few days/week and tried to come back, but after killing 1-2 mobs I remembered why I took a break, then I uninstalled, after 1-2 months around May-June I tried to play again, but was met with the same issues and uninstalled yet again. I came back in August to claim some free content and again after killing 1-2 mobs I uninstalled never to return.
It's just that the servers are so laggy - the base combat is also laggy, but when the servers lag too, it's a real pain to try and fight with the game and try to have any enjoyment. My biggest enjoyment was in Vanilla WoW while leveling - the combat feels so fluid and snappy in there, it's just a pleasure to execute your abilities and rotations, because you have full control of the situation, but in LOTRO it feels like RNG.
I think LOTRO won't last long unless some serious work is done on the issues with the game and that doesn't look like it's happening either.
It feels like at any moment, the hamsters are going to quit and the game will just crash and burn.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
While LotRO, has held its own, I don't think it's popularity has every truly soared over the years, perhaps a ways back when they launched F2P, they took an uptick, and I wager they do have a slow influx of new players, or at least people trying the game due to hearing about Amazon's planned MMO, so they googled Lord of the Rings MMO's and LOTRO, came up, so they gave it a try.
But I don't think there is anything truly new, or Modern, or unpredicted happening with their population growth.
If I were to wager a guess, I would say, that the high turnover of developers and, by their own admission, lack of previous developers leaving notes on what some code does, is the problem.
However, and get this, this is what will blow your mind. in DDO, their test server, called Lammy, is far more stable than their live servers, and some of the things that were working fine on Lammy, that players could use and test and play with, suddenly beak or don't work on the live game at all.
So they have to fix the code to import to the live game, and.. not fix it on their test server.
Which tells me that they have two variants of the game and two systems of code they are working with, The Test Game, and the Live Game.