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Quote: Originally Posted by Brunop It would take you 5 minutes to check their website to see over 100+minor patches and 7 major updates. game update 6: end of the year 2008 http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/po...topic_id=38697 free trial - new large zone for starters Character Model Revamp game update 7: may,2009 http://www.vanguardcrafters.com/foru...ad.php?t=29165 200 new quests 1000+ new items 2 new flying mounts New level cap is 55 from...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hajile ...(and I'll try to summarise it as best as I can understand it here) "Lifetime accounts = fewer subscriptions = game failing = desperation = need to attract WoW players = lore violations" doesn't hold water. It is really hard to keep a legitimate discussion if you didnt even bother to read the original post and keep mentioning something (your fourth post already) that I...

Your money will be better invested buying a cheap crafted weapon at the AH, if you really don't get a decent one through questing. __________________ LOTRO: Warden (Laurelin), Champion (transfered), Loremaster (Snowbourn - retired) WoW: Tank Death Knight and many others. Still waiting for a real successor to UO...

Quote: Originally Posted by Beleg Of Doriath There already is a WoW, and Turbine cannot hope to compete with it by becoming like it. They may be able to compete with it, however, by striving to be different from it. Which is exactly what they were doing pre-MoM. I can't help but wonder how it all went wrong. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall during the meetings in which it was all discussed. __________________...

Quote: Originally Posted by Korrigan It's not an assumption, honvik, I know you don't like to hear that and that's why you try pretend it's only an opinion, but that the game population didn't progress since release is a fact anyone who is not biased and blindly admiring Turbine/CM can deduce with simply logic. So if the population doesn't progress, which would be hinted through (now, after 3+ years) full servers...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hajile We can eliminate any "chasing the almighty dollar" explanations as we have had repeated statements from the developers that the game is doing well and growing in popularity, albeit not spectacularly or in a particularly headline-grabbing way. These are the only concrete bits of information we have ever had regarding the status of the game's health. Everything else we have heard is...

Quote: Originally Posted by Brunop I can see Lotro IS turning into a monthly subscribtion game with a lifetime offer, paid expansions and no free content updates. I think the game will go the same way DDO has done, go free to play, with subscription offer and rmt shop. It's very succesfull for DDO (at least they say it is) __________________ Playing LoTR & Atlantica Online

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Quote: Originally Posted by Radhruin Pingu said background , not landscape. It's not just whether it looks the part (and Moria's inconsistent in that in any case) but whether it acts the part. And in most cases I fell it does as much as it ever did. Certainly the LM lore breaks impact me more than the RK and I rarely see goats outside of moria. While population is not booming i'm not sure its dwidling, it appears to be...

Quote: Originally Posted by Spearo And in most cases I fell it does as much as it ever did. As it ever did? If so, I'd have to wonder where you're looking. At launch things were noticeably less flashy, the LM included. But going back to what I was talking about, which is where the backdrop itself doesn't look or act the part, there seems to me to be a trend over time for more places to be exaggeratedly fantastic (i.e....