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LOTRO Monetization 'will definitely not change significantly before Gundabad', But Change Is Coming
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LOTRO Monetization 'will definitely not change significantly before Gundabad', But Change Is Coming | MMORPG.com
It looks like Lord of the Rings Online's monetization will not change in a significant manner before the Gundabad expansion due sometime later this year.
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When I last played the game doing so for "free" required lengthy and laborious collection of currency by multiple characters on multiple servers to earn sufficient to open the game at no financial cost, and a great deal of content has been released since. It is absurd model when compared to many of those offered by their competitors these days.
So, they would do well to change it to be more competitive with alternatives. It would likely generate more revenue in the end rather than less. If they didn't expect that likely so they wouldn't be considering changing the model to begin with.
What you need isn't the determining factor. Rather, it is what the provider of the game feels is needed and that is change.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
IIRC the game was almost dead before it went f2p...DDO too....f2p probably saved both games more than anything.
I get it you need money to keep the game going and pay your devs, but there are less scammy ways to monetize the game.
It's like the took the worst ideas from Bioware and PWI and stuffed them in the game.
I have no clue what you are going on about.....but at the very link you posted there is a "LOTRO expansion trove" for $60 that includes six expansions from release to Mordor which will get you content to level 115. Your issue is the link you have to click? Where does this $300 come from? I'm confused....
Greed of the expansions bundles? ROFL. How dare they charge for content?!?! OMG!!!!!
Y'all cheap as hell. That's all there is to it. $10 per expansion pack up up to level 115. If you can't handle that you should spend less time gaming and more time earning money.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
I would not pay for VIP more than once for the benefits. I would gladly spend $60 for the Expansion Trove, in fact I have already done that, I still haven't paid for VIP for the benefits.
$60 is not that much money unless your paycheck equates to $59.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
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It was pretty likely they spent all of their lifetime sub money by the end of Moria as well.
Whenever I sub for one month to SWTOR I get ALL of the expansion content up to that point forever after. The only complicated thing with SWTOR is figuring out what you get at preferred status versus pure F2P or subbed. And that's just reading a chart.
Even greedy blizzard gives you all older expansions free with your sub. But it is sub mandatory.
"every LOTRO streamer I've seen that defends the LOTRO shop lives in a vacuum. They have no concept of what the competition offers."
What the competition offers/does has nothing to do with LOTRO. Just like every other popular IP MMO the people play it because of the IP. If one IP offers a better deal then good for them and having all those extra MMO options is a good thing.
Both Blizz & EA are multi-billion dollar companies that can afford to give better deals while SSG/Daybreak are small potatoes now in the big scene. I'd even go as far as saying when compared to the big companies with their vast riches SSG can basically be categorized in 2021 as an indie dev studio along with every other studio under DGB like Darkpaw etc.
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We will hold off until we make the sales then BAM we will hit you hard because we already got you invested.They will try some lame play with words to try and fool or con people into their stupid gimmicks.
Old content is not any concern because old vets already have it.The reason you offer old content for free is to entice NEW players.
It is simple economics,old content AND your new content has NO VALUE if you can't get the NEW player to buy in.
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I was bored with LoTRO within 3 months...Best $250 I ever saved......j/k