LOTRO wins again, BABEH
embrace of death
It's for the best
>>724563324>Y'all
>>724563324>news about cancelled games using a beloved IP are now celebrated The absolute state of this Godforsaken industry
lotro was great
Total LOTRO victory
>>724563576Death to suits
>>724563324They put so many niggers in even the playtesters complained?
>>724563576LotR is sacred, if you can't make something better or on par with the movies then make your own damn universe for your slop games.
>>724563324https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/amazon-have-reportedly-cancelled-their-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-again>Amazon have cancelled their second attempt at a Lord Of The Rings MMO as part of recent mass layoffs, according to a now-former senior gameplay engineer at Amazon Games.>The engineer in question is Ashleigh Amrine, who announced that she had lost her job on LinkedIn yesterday. "This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y'all would have loved it)," she wrote. >Amazon's first LOTR MMO was a collaboration with Chinese company Leyou, announced in 2019. It met an unfortunate end in 2021 thanks to an apparent contractual dispute, after Leyou were acquired by Tencent. Amazon revealed the second LOTR MMO in 2023, after partnering with new Middle-earth rights-owner Embracer. They called it a "persistent open-world MMO adventure", spanning the events of The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy, but beyond that, we've never heard much about the project.
>>724563324Based
>>724563529Every time I hear someone say "yall", I get flashbacks from the HOTWATER CHALLENGE YALL niggerina throwing boiling water on her brother
What happened to the show? Is it still ongoing?
>>724563576>beloved IP will not be tainted with evil woke trash>this is somehow bad
After RANZ OF POWAAHHHHH this is only a blessing.Imagine the shit they would infest this game with.
>>724563973They have fallout now and zoomers love that bollywood garbage for some reason so hopefully this means that gets cancelled too and they are leaving LOTR alone from now on.
>>724563923>>724563324What happened to the Rangz of Powah?
>>724564150>>724563973They started filming the third season in may. Mexicans love it strangely.
>>724563324I wish they would just leave this IP alone. I feel we are currently in the mire of "shit media" and anything getting made today will have the taint of modernity on it. Most recent update to LotRO was about black people btw. They swapped a load of the guards and background citizens to be black for this update that revolves around a black woman with dreads fighting a corrupt Gondorian family who enslaved them. This isnt even a joke, check for yourself. Gondor are now slave owners, just like Tolkien envisioned.
>>724563324>game that is going to be shit gets releasedy'all have to understand we were forced to make it like this and we knew for years that the game was shit but we refused to speak up>game that is going to be shit gets cancelledomg y'all it was literally a 11/10 masterpiece that could never have failed and it would have won every award for greatest game ever madethis seems to be a new meta they're using that started with that cancelled blizzard game that nobody had even heard of but the devs swore up and down it was the most magical experience ever coded while also not giving any real reasons on why they thought it was great or why these alleged undeniable works of art are getting cancelled before even getting reveals.
>>724563576RoP already showed how little they give a fuck about Tolkiens work.
>>724563324Why has no one ever made a LotR CRPG? It seems like prime BioWare style Lord of the Rings RPG should have been a no brainer at the time given the success of KOTOR, and Witcher made a cultural phenomenon of much much lesser source material.
>>724564150>>724564265Its contracted to be at least FIVE SEASONS, yes, even if its bleeding money it is going to have that many seasons, because Amazon has more money than god they can just do whatever they want, even if the thing shouldve ended at season one because its not making enough money to warrant the expense, its Amazon.>lets give the most expensive show in human history and one of the most beloved IPs, to two nobodies. Also hire people who dont want to stick to the source material and kick out the people that keep trying to keep things on track>oh people didnt like what we made. Call them racist, that why we cast a bunch of black people, so we can deflect criticism of the writing to criticism of the characters skin color. Gaslight ourselves even, that were doing good work, and that everyone is just racist if they dont like it nowI love modern media.
>>724564508did they seriously have her say gravy?I can almost tolerate the rest of it but gravy sends it from cringe worthy to rage inducingalso, LORD DEM RANGS
>>724564271That's just sad.
>>724564716There is so much work put into tolkien's world adapting it faithfully to a video game RPG would take far too long. It isn't like star wars where you can come up with whatever you like and autistis will write entire novels supporting the lore in the wiki
>>724564508Shes genuinely not even the worst aspect of the show, makes no sense to have a black person that lives underground through but shes not the worst. The writing overall is just awful, with lots of pointless characters and people made dumb. Reminder that Gandalf is in this, and were getting an origin story for how he got his staff and pipe, also Blackalass is a pointless character whos only reason for being in the story is for the first season, he is now just a completely pointless character that has nothing to do, I dont remember his name but an entire season of narrative was around him. Hobbits for no reason, with another plot of their own to deal with. This is the kind of thing that takes away from them telling a coherent fucking narrative. Theyre trying to tell 10 different stories with characters that are barely realized or pointless.
>>724564508OHHHH LAAAAWD DEM RAAAAAAAANGZ
>>724563576LotR has been licensed out by Tolkiens Kike grandchildren and turned into soulless slop
OH LAWDY LAAW DAM RANGZZEZ MASSAAAH NGUBIDY LAAAAAWDDD
>Blew some hundred millions on some uninspired MMO slop nobody asked for>Actual MMO material IP that could have worked gets cancelled because of itSuits need to be beheaded
>>724563324good.
>>724563576could be worse: game could have been made and scared the memories we have of the movies and the IP.
>>724563324Thank FUCK.
Oh no!Anyway
>>724563324wdym you guys aren't excited to see King Aragorn and all the stuff he got up to after the end of Return?
>>724569046>when Kang Aragorn enters the battlefield, You become the Monarch
>>724564916They didn't even have the rights to The Silmarillion because even the money grubbing grandchildren wont give that up so they have to make a 5 season show from 3 pages of the LotR appendix without using the actual plot lines from The Silmarillion
>>724563324>MMOThat ship sailed over a decade ago, what were they thinking?
>>724564150streaming is guaranteed free money/money laundering because there's zero oversight. every streaming service has "the most watched" "the #1 show" because they all fake their numbers and there isn't a governing body to make sure they don't.
they already proved they can't run an MMO with new world being canned
>>724563324MMORPGs are a fucking dead genre.Thanks WoW for killing it.
>>724564916anon you have to stop being naive please, its all by design, they choose the ""wrong"" people in your perspective because you think they want to make money of it, when in reality they just wanted to truly shit on one of the only western stories that wasnt raped yet, they actually choose the right people for the job and I will go even further and say there was probably nepotism involved to a certain degree too.Ignore whatever they label you or themselves, its all gaslight and acting in their own self interest, if you think companies too big to fail care about profits you are delusional
>>724563324>Amazon have reportedly cancelled their upcoming LOTR MMOto the surprise of absolutely no one
Retvrn to Lotro. Use coupon code EXPLOREOURWORLD to get all content up to level 140 for free.
>>724563324>Y'allholy shit we would have fucking hated
>>724570512Too p2w...
It's been MMOver for fucking years now, we're never getting a good new game.
>>724563576don't worry anon i get what you said
>>724570594the future is private server scenes for existing games because no company will shell out the time/money to make a real proper new MMO so your only recourse is to modify existing games
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>>724569849I know, it begs the question of why even fucking bother with this. You know what I want? New IPs. Im sick of cultural vandalism, Im sick of IPs being run into the ground rather than being left alone in a state where they are loved. I have to remind people of this; there was a LotR anime that came out last year and it was about Helm Hammerhand, it was a home run concept, and what did they do? Made his daughter who is not a feature of the story the main character, and made another strong female protagonist who doesnt need no man story, and it was completely unwarranted. This is cultural vandalism. Someone came in and wrote over what someone else made to tell their own story. Fuck this shit and anyone who does it, if I was a creator and people did this to my work I would be fucking pissed.They are making a show for themselves, not to do the best job they can at portraying the source material, which in this case, is a few pages, which means there is a lot of interpritation, of which, NONE is written by Tolkien, its written by spastic hollywood writers who do lines of coke of underage prostitutes and take baths in money while making deals to fuck over their friends to get a shot at the big time, these people are not the people who can write a soulful narrative because they themselves are tainted. LotR being in the hands of Amazon is such sad irony that it could never work. >>724570023Part of me believes that these people actually want to do a good job, they are just really fucking shit at it and the wrong people for that job. Examples of this is when they try to write like Tolkien and you end up cringing, they know what the idea of the writing is and what it makes them feel, and they think that if they write like that, but they are not him, and its plainly obvious in their writing.
>>724563324>Their buying the rights of Harry Potter aren't they?Slop'tters have a infinitely lower bar than LOTR Chads
>>724571005>marxists want to culturally vandalize something that's "white" "heterosexual "christian" to make it brown gay and atheist>True Believers actually believe in all this shit and think they're doing good>sycophant upper management types know it's all bullshit and just use the lingo to get ahead (oh yes sir mr. shekelberg we'll make sure to hit those diversity mandates)>trannies/jews/browns just want to watch the world burn, some deep down know they're wrong and evil but they don't care, they love having the power and just want to destroy things that are pure and good and make them as ugly as they are
>>724571394>True Believers actually believe in all this shit and think they're doing goodI refuse to believe that, these people couldn't be more disengenious, and they realized it's a powerful weapon to move up and have full protection, until they inevitably fail, but fail upward
>>724566327>origin story for how he got his staffbut the hobbit movies already showed he got it from the brown wizard, they can't do this shit again
>>724571394You know what sucks? The "everything is political" thing has actually been picked up, thats the thing that makes me most dissapointed. Use to be you just told people to fuck off when they did that, now you have people from all sides approaching all media like this. Its not just the left now, people like Arch and Grummz who engage in it dont even realize it anymore, theyre just participating in the politics of double jumping and demanding that creators themselves bend the knee to their politics even if the product in question has none of their politics present in it. Marxism worked. This is why NOONE is making timeless media anymore, everyone is doing this gay "WHOS SIDE ARE YOU ON, WHAT IS THE SUBVERSIVE MEANING BEHIND YOUR PRODUCT" shit.>>724571648Nah, I believe these people really do think they are doing a good thing. Like when they race swap a character its "well now were including more peoples, so more people can enjoy this" and they dont give a thought to the consistency of the setting because they are bad writers that are thinking more about modernisms that are outside of the thing they are working on, than how that would work within the thing itself. They are genuinely brain broken anon, this is why they get actually upset and think people are racist when they take issue with this. To them, they are doing a wholly good thing, they believe it, they dont give a thought to how it actually works within the product itself because they dont let those thoughts enter frame.
>>724571005That movie was definitely made just so they could keeps the movie rights to LotR
>>724563324They were making TWO fucking mmorpgs? what kind of normie retard did they put in charge of their gaming division?
>>724563324is the other one still populated?
>>724563971lmao
>>724563324>Embracer+what has Embracer done to qualify for that "+"?
>>724563324God be praised. Down with Amazon, all hail LotR!
>>724566327THANK YOU GRAND ELF
>>724563576Amazon has made too much damage to LOTR already.
>>724564508The dwarves plot is 100x better than the other plots in that show.
>>724563529tpbp
>>724563923>Ashleigh Amrinehow do you think her senior gameplay engineering was?
>lotr still isn't public domain
>>724564716IP too expensive and world too rich
>>724564716I hope I live long enough to see Kenshi 2 have overhaul mods for Middle Earth.
>>724569523would be a weird cross over, but whatever
>>724564508I don't think there's a way to make black elves or dwarves without it looking Spirit Halloween as fuck. If these ass clowns actually gave a shit about diversity or inclusion for it's own sake, and not just because they're pandering to trends, they would have put a black person in the live action Mulan, but they knew better, because China doesn't play that shit.
>>724563324they should make a wheel of time MMOwell... not amazonbut somebody should
>>724563324How active even is LOTRO these days? Always thought it looked interesting back in the day but figured it must be almost completely dead at this point.
>>724563324>y'all would have loved it
>>724571648well they do exist, they're whatever normies that aren't swept up in conservatism. zero critical thinking, literal herd animals that just go with the crowd. when 6/10 people around them use pronoun badges they start using them too without thinking about it too hard.>>724573939there isn't because they're an inherently white/European creation, it would be like dressing up a black person like Sadako or Kayako, it would look stupid.
>>724563324yes im sure the game would've been great, not another shitty checklist simulator that's nothing more than a collection of busy work and progression systems with an attached micro transaction currency like every modern mmo
>>724574171NA is basically down to one active server with 1000 concurrent players every night. Though there is an expansion coming pretty soon that might boost the numbers a bit.
>>724563324>y'allI hate nigger vernacular so much, it's unreal
>>724574171idk but there's a classic era private server up now>>724574542it's not nigger vernacular, niggers took it from white southerners, most "black culture" is really just white southern culture but ghettoized. white liberals use this language to sound more "folksy" or black because liberalism is a secular religion about worshipping niggers as gods.
I've never played an MMO that felt as comfy as LOTRO. Farting around in the Shire actually felt like being in the books, Moria had my jaw drop with the majesty of it, the main quest stakes felt like you were making a positive impact on the world without FFXIV's chosen one bullshit.I don't care if it plays like just another WoW clone, it's the aesthetic and the setting that matter most to be and it's incredible there.Also, Warden's my favourite class in an MMO ever, even with all the yelling.
>>724563923>spanning the events of The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogyYou have the ENTIRE FUCKING SECOND AGE to play with. More than 2500 years covered in about 10 pages in total by Tolkien. Multiple human, dwarf, and elvish empires at their zenith. Multiple untouched continents.But no, you retards try to barge into the novels.
>>724574692yeah but does the second age have Galadriel™, Sauron™ and Gandalf™????
>>724574801>GaladrielYes.>SauronYes.>GandalfNo.
>>724574850there's your answer
>>724574937You have the Blue Wizards, though, who arrived in the Second Age. Bonus points in that you can make them Asian, since later on they traveled East.
>>724575035Are Asians even diverse enough?
>>724575035the blue wizards weren't in the movies, normies don't know who they are so we're not gonna make a show about that. just find the era with the most recognizable characters/things we can shove into the frame at once for maximum memberberries, that's how you make a franchise profitable
>>724575143Jeets.
>>724575168I remember back when Rings of Power launched its first season who people coped he Wizard wouldn't just be Gandalf.The far more interesting option would've been making him Saruman and showing the good he used to spread, but that would be TOO interesting.
>>724564918>did they seriously have her say gravy? I can almost tolerate the rest of it but gravy sends it from cringe worthy to rage inducing????
>>724575171Oh right, I forgot about that particular attempt at making Indians look better.
>>724575143>>724575171Unironically making one Chinese and the other Indian would fit.
>>724574659I returned after not having played since level 65 was the cap. Even the main menu feels good. God Damn the soundtrack is comfy.
>>724563324Common LOTROGAWD W
>>724574659lotro is great but its showing its age. just on a technical level. it really needs some engine upgrades.the ui cant even scale right past 1080p.
>>724563576>and by slow arts of cruelty and wickedness were corrupted and enslaved. Thus did [bezos] breed the hideous race of the [kangz] in envy and mockery of the normalfag, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes.Death is a mercy for things so twisted by hate anon
