why don't we ever talk about this
>>719856065why don't we ever talk about this
>>719856065I guess the way it went F2P left a really bad taste with everyone who played before. Had a fun time with this while it lasted though, some novel mechanics for an MMO and the way they did the pvp battleground was a funny experiment at the very least, warg packing minstrels was a laugh.
>>719856185Zoom zoom.
>>719856065We have LotRO threads pretty often that reach bump limit
>>719856283PHO came out seven years before Lord of the Rings Online zoomer
>>719856185We talk about this all the time senpai
>>719856065I was thinking of starting thisIs it fun as single player? I love long leveling adventures
>>719858187it is kind of neat to see some of their interpretations of middle earth but it is not free to play, it is grind to play some of the game but a lot is still locked behind paywall
>>719856065I still load up 420Legolazeit and shoot arrows sometimes. I've been F2P leeching so long I've got more content than I've ever seen and a couple carryalls so the inventory isn't QUITE as nightmarish, but I've never joined a guild or sworn a blood oath with someone for leveling and questing together or anything
>>719858435>but a lot is still locked behind paywallThey literally had a free giveaway a week ago.
>>719856065Do people still play it?
>>719856065Such a comfy game with a great atmosphere. I love leveling in this game but the overly aggressive monetization of everything makes me lose interest after a few dozen hours every time I try playing. It just feels like pic related the whole time.
>>719856065> why don't we ever talk about thisBecause they ran out of bookbase, and without it they can only draw locations, which with the wooden gameplay from the noughties is clearly not enough.
>>719859130https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-free-questing-coupon-2025-enNice, it's still live. Actually has some I'm missing too, thanks for the heads up
I started a duo run of this game with a friend without knowing much about it. Thank god they rolled a hunter and can teleport both of us around the map with no cooldown, because holy fuck there is a shitload of traveling around doing the MSQ, and the fast travel system is slow as fuck without paying real money
There's a code right now that gives you a lot of the quest packs/expansions...get in on it bros...
>>719859891Wait a minute, is that a... black..... elf?
>>719856065Zoomers don't play mmos
>>719856065It's an almost 20 year old game, anon. Free shit they do with >>719860019 is great. Currently it lets you level all the way to 140.
>>719860087they kinda lost the plot and start going eastward with the story.
>>719856065This game lives rent free in my head simply over how much I loved the warden class. I only ever played the game casually and only tagged along in a single raid and didnt really play any content past moria. it just seems too old, janky, and dead at this point for me to actually start playing again though
This game will be perfect if they actually changed how birding and fishing works. I don't want to play a reactive fishing mini-game. I want a full on, bass pro hunter mini game with 5000 species for fish to catch.
>>719860019I wonder if that instance cluster and quest pack they've got priced at 99 points are worth it if you're nowhere near level 140. Probably not since they might be in next year's big code giveaway and I may not even be high enough level by then
>>719860275>Currently it lets you level all the way to 140.Like all MMOs they made the mistake of greatly exaggerating the experience you get. Players end up rushing through zones rather than taking their time to enjoy them.>mfw entirety of MoriaIt was the only legitimate expansion game got and it's still some of the best underground zones ever put to a video game.
>>719860552Warden was already hard enough, my brain exploded once it gave me 9 abilities with individual cooldowns that instantly give different combinations of 2 colorsThat shit has to be the highest skill ceiling mmo class to ever exist
>>719860585BROTHER
>>719856065Playing music for random people was the best part of LotRO, I lost all motivation to play after thefatlute died.
>>719860646Everyone recommends you get yourself Stone of the Tortoise when leveling.
If you like to RP, I think this is a fantastic game. The atmosphere is spot on, the location are sufficiently detailed and you have a lot of Out of Combat options. I loved the bands that popped out once in a while. PvE feels dated, also had a lot of lag. Played up to Rohan where every quest zone felt like it had the same chain of quests and got bored.It seems to me that they tried implementing many different half-baked systems to see which ones would work best, yet most of them were duds.
>Check DDO to see if there's a new quest/expansion code there, zilchDamn it
>>719860953>also had a lot of lagThat should be a bit better, the 64bit servers run a LOT better for me than the old ones. You'll still get some lag but nowhere like before
>>719860617I genuinely no longer have any idea what sort of content there is. Instance cluster, quest pack, expansion, etc.
>>719860690Thats the biggest I loved it. I managed to figure out a good keybind set up using modifier keys to make use of the gambits and even the combo gambits, and actually managed to remember all of the combinations for skills, cycling through keeping up buffs, debuffs and weaving things in as I needed. Never had so much fun with an mmo class.But im an asocial underachiever so I never really did much and eventually got bored.
>>719860953Problem is that's generally not the usual online latency, but ancient engine itself the game runs on.
>>719861058It did apparently do wonders for DDO after the initial transition nightmare.
>>719856065I love it but I haven't been compelled to reinstall lately. But between LOTRO and Knights Of Old Republic Online it's great to know whenever you get the itch to relive some straight up MMO, both of these games are free. And they are both pure good MMO gameplay. LOTR atmosphere really can't be beat, but KOTRO has better stories and mounts. The number of free mounts in KOTRO blows LOTRO out of the water as a free game.
Is it actually alive enough to have anything but casual end game players? Is the end game even good? Is pvp active, is it any decent? How long does it take to get to level cap? Adventuring around in the world would be cool a bit but I generally kind of hate leveling desu, is it even worth playing in that case?
>>719861724LotRO is horrendously P2W in the end game, but no one talks about it because there's a tiny dedicated scene that's alright with it somehow. I mean "buy stats via tomes in the shop" kind of P2W.
>>719856065I wish I could get into it but it filters me. Shame because it looks like it's good for an autistic lore gameplay of LOTR
>>719860087What about a black Aragorn?
>>719861937Post the Smaug card
>>719862015not seen it, is he black in that too?
>>719861724I don't know about endgame but just play the first 10 levels or so, it's good for the soul. Plenty of people running around doing their quests, very comfy.However you can't chat until you're like level 20 which is horrendous but whatever. Just seeing people use the chat is comfy.
>>719861013They should be releasing it soon, the code was actually accidentally discovered and they shut it down. The game is experiencing some major server issues with lag after switching to 64 bit like LOTRO so people are assuming the code will drop once that settles down.In the meantime they do have some pretty decent codes, FAVOREDMEMORIES unlocks 32 point buy, artificer and warforged, and there's a few more like one that'll give you Keep on the Borderlands expansion.
What server are /v/irgins playing on?
>>719862015
Grinding endlessly all the deeds in each zone really tickels my boomer sensesIt feels good to grind in an old mmoAnd actually get rewarded for it
I made a cute ginger high elf qt and I can't stop playing the game ever since
>>719862317this, but unironically
>>719862181Nice, thanks. I'll get DDO patching and throw that code in while I'm playing some Menzoberranzan. IIRC I don't have 32 point buy, artificer, or warforged but I did have Keep on the Borderlands which was pretty fun. Much more enjoyable than newbie island
>>719862317Almost like instant gratification is a mistake or something.
>>719862308LOOK AT THOSE FILTHY NOBBIT HANDSES, PRECIOUS!
>MMO gets supported in forever barely touch it mode so never gets a private server
>>719862465Yeah the 32 point buy artificer and warforged are all granted from grinding in-game favor on a server by server basis, which becomes pretty annoying, so that code unlocks it permanently across all severs. And yeah Keep is pretty good, its got a lot of soul.
If I'm going to play a MMO with no sub it's going to be GW2. I have LotRO on my computer just to redeem the codes they always give out that I'm never going to actually use.
>>719859710The f2p model is utterly soulless. Feels like a theme park where you have pay separately for every ride. I played during the Mines of Moria expansion and it was peak. I miss those days.
>>719862846>gw2Lmao.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTiwKvp348
>>719862982Its still miles better than most freemium games, since you can farm lotro points ingame.
>>719856065Because it's not really worth it to sink 500 hours into leveling to go sightseeing.Gameplay is trash and story after Mordor is also trash.
>>719862982Anon, just use the coupon. It unlocks everything but the two last expansions + current. https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-free-questing-coupon-2025-en
>>719862846LOTRO and GW2 both deny you a mount if you're F2P. SWTORO meanwhile allows you to grind like a dozen mounts for free.
>>719863252I think mounts are free in LotRO now but I'm not sure if that's for everyone or if I got it from one of their giveaways at some point. I know riding skill used to be a cash shop thing but I don't THINK it is now
>One of the DDO codes had a bind to character sack in it>Had a trash character selectedOH NO. At least the inventory pain isn't QUITE as bad in DDO as it is in LotRO. Still feel like a dumbfuck
>>719863327At the start of the game you get a store tutorial that has you buy riding with some LP, you get a real shitty 30% mount with it but then you can grind out a mount on just about any character. Once your account is old enough you get some account wide mounts.
>>719864209speaking of which is it just me or is the new shared tutorial area absolute ass?
>>719864683idk I'm just too used to the old ones.They do bombard you with way too much shit at the start but it gets better after.
>>719856065Every time I've tried to play the game the lag and combat flow has only ever felt like I'm suggesting my character to do something instead of controlling it. The game feels like they were trying to make World of Warcraft but forgot to make it so that when you hit a button your character does something. It's a shame. If they ever did a proper classic progression version of the game and sorted out their servers I'd probably give the game a better shot.
>transfer to Orcrist>some tranny terrorizes world chat every day
>>719862982>I played during the Mines of Moria expansionThen you should have a premium account with pretty much everything you had while subbed. Early on in the F2P cycle shitg sucked but you should be good now, especially with all the free content.90% of the store is useless shit
>>719856065How can you not have understood that /v/ is populated by five kinds of poster>corporate shills>debtcattle whose hobby isn't gaming but consumption>performative gaymer who crave parasocial validation>glowniggers who try to propagandize and entrap anons>bullies who target all the aforementioned demographics
Never actually tried getting into it, as I am a PvP player -- I cannot stand grind. I do vaguely recall that its PvP relied on monster classes. Is i any active/curated nowadays?
>>719860860How do you progress with this on?
>>719866214unequip it
>>719861724There are failed wowfags that basically runs entire endgame and ssg actively panders to those retards with reworks and the way they design high end content, they ruined like 3 classes for casuals already trying to make them more appealing for raidfags.
How does F2P work now?I played way back when they first added F2P and it kept you from doing sidequests beyond level 25 unless you bought expansions or the pass or something like that.
>>719856065I tried to get into it a couple of times and I always stopped after a few days. The gameplay didn't age well, it's even more clunky than wow. And the amount of stuff that is locked behind paywall and various different currencies makes my head hurt. Also the fact that I was memed into playing warden as my first class didn't help. Maybe I would have stuck with the game if I started playing it 10-15 years ago. It's a shame really because the world is massive and beautiful, I wish this was singleplayer RPG without online crap.
>>719866560>Maybe I would have stuck with the game if I started playing it 10-15 years agoI think that's generally the case. I played during Angmar/Moria and I still enjoy returning to it but I wouldn't try to convince a new player to play it. Just doesn't seem worth it.
>see some dude in world chat trolling about jews, this one guy in world chat going ballistic over muh antisemitism >later check the forums because bored>see this guy absolutely seething about the lack of jannies over this specific incidentIf it was one of you I salute you.
>>719862308hey! give it back
>>719856065How's the ERP scene? How many slutty elf girls are there?
>>719868186everyone moved on to roblox
>>719868186Many girls, no females thoughever.
>>719866490Changed. Use the current coupon while it's active and get everything up to lvl 140.
Deeds and exploring is really enjoyable, but once you hit that slog that is Delving I just gave up.
>>719864867The server transfer took even my last will to log in
