ESO appears to have "traditional MMO" leveling so how will exploration work out? In Skyrim I can pretty much wander everywhere and find relevant "content" to do. In ESO are we limited to level-bracketed zones where once we out-level an area it becom…
Losing interest already if it's third-person only but I'll keep my eye on GAs development.
What exactly is "persistent" about it? 10v10 (so far) instanced battles on large urban environments sounds like Frontlines: Fuel of War maps but with fewer p…
I haven't been reading beta info because I'd rather discover it for real while playing, but:
Eregion is southeast of the Trollshaws, and the Trollshaws map does show a big "to Eregion" on it. Riding into Giant Valley, there's a path that dead-ends …
At the risk of shameless self-promotion, I wrote a somewhat more in-depth article of my Preview Night experience last week if that would provide any additional information for you...
I've only used a level 6 hireling so far, the first Preview Night. They control with their own hotbar. 6 standard controls to tell them to follow, stay, passive, active, etc. then the last (up to) 4 slots on the hotbar will be class-specific skills.…
They're only similar in the sense that both are designed for groups not soloing (DDO does have a solo difficulty on some quests, and in GW you have to work up to a specific build to solo certain zones or certain mobs) and both use towns as public lo…
LOTRO does have a slower combat pace (ie. a slightly longer "combat round") than some other games, namely WoW which is one of the faster ones. AoC also has very fast rounds.
The other thing that throws people with LOTRO is that it will queue skills…
Ah, good points, and I'm sure my sentiments of community are tainted because I participate in our server's global LFF and OOC user channels. The normal channels are limited to your current zone, and places like the Lone Lands have always been fairly…
The event in that article (I was there too) was just all of us who gathered in Rivendell to countdown the final ring lore collections. Dancing, spell-casting, music-playing and aoe emoting galore, but the only "thing" that happened was a world broad…
#1: Steefel does not say he thinks LOTRO will overcome WoW. What he said was that WoW is the only MMO to date to achieve critical mass. MMO's are social games, and within the context of sociodynamics critical mass means sufficient momentum is achiev…
Originally posted by Angelbound
I want to try playing a creep but I cannot stand playing evil sides partly because of the community the other reason is lore, usually there are evil quests which my tastes very much differ.
What about the community? …
Here's a quote on PvMP from Jeffrey Steefel in an interview posted today on EuroGamer:
Eurogamer: Is Monster Play the limit of what you're going to do with PVP, and playing the dark side?Jeffrey Steefel: What you see in Monster Play is the tip o…
I can easily foresee opening some high-level zones for creeps, but not the Eriador zones we currently play in. That won't make sense for the timeline of the game within Eriador. But later on, after some expansions when the Fellowship is closer to Mo…
Congrats Bill and all of Sublime! That's friggin awesome!
I'm still terribly interested in doing PD. I think I've decided to take the plunge once Module 8 goes live. Now I'm just deciding between Sublime since you guys are on my home server, or jum…
The channel commands are:
/joinchannel
/leavechannel
/listchannels
To talk into a user channel, use /# where # is which channel number you want, shown to you by /listchannels
If GLFF is the only user channel you've joined, then it's /1
You c…
Character slots could go either way. When DDO released the Monk class, they didn't give an extra slot. But I do recall reading a MoM interview where one of the devs mentioned something to the effect that it would suck if we got two new classes and n…
Also don't set yourself anonymous. There's little reason to these days, the spam filter catches most of the spam tells. I see (at least on my server) a LOT of people flat out won't invite anonymous people to their groups.
Also see if your server ha…
A lot of us wish they would, but sadly I don't see it happening.
I'm still ticked that WAR isn't offering a lifetime either. But then EA is behind it all...