Spock
4324
The $200 lifetime option didn’t last long, as I recall. Someone at Turbine must’ve realized it was too good a deal!
Razgon
4325
Yeah - I’m one of those that got it as well - its been amazing value for money. I have around 3000 points or so only, though.
Best $200 I ever spent. I’ll also say it kept me around spending money as well. If I had needed to pay a monthly sub, I would have bailed a long time ago.
Same.
What’s the command to find out how many hours you’ve played, total?
Meanwhile…
I think it’s /time in the chat?
edit: glad to see this game still getting some love with those numbers, I could play those first 50 level-areas over and over.
DTG
4329
After 15 years I may take a new character from the start through the main epic to Mordor again. The slow way (with XP disabler).
It’s been years and I’ve forgotten the details. But they did a fantastic job and one can still play it old-school if you want.
I give LOTRO a lot of credit for keeping the original game accessible for those who want to play it as it was. Yeah, there are changes to the original group content but for the most part it’s all still there as it was years ago.
Spock
4330
I’ve played intermittently since launch, I have 7 or 8 characters — and yet my highest is just level 44. I’m having lots of fun picking up where I left off, with Book 1 and 2 epic quests. I hear Moria is great, so I, really looking forward to that.
Daagar
4331
My brain almost exploded that the peak concurrent was merely ~3.5k players until I fully read that is Steam-only numbers.
Logged in last night and got my cartless corgi. I have named him Corgomir.
I also received a cubic asston of other stuff that immediately filled up all the precious inventory space I’d meticulously kept free on my main character and a flurry of messages about titles, deeds, rewards, content, etc. that I had been granted or that were added to my account. WOW!
Am I reading those messages and the official announcement correctly and even though I am not VIP, I now have the Mordor, Minas Morgul and War of the Three Peaks quest/deed content packs and collector’s items (I can see those in the boxes filling up my inventory)?
I was correct about this, by the way. If you log in to the game during the anniversary you get everything up to the latest expansion as a gift with the exception of five levels of quests in Gondor that might cost something like $10 down the line.
Spock
4334
Yep, I seem to have all those expansions now. I haven’t even started Moria yet. My main is 47, working on Book 1 quests, and now the Bilbo Further Adventures missions, which are really fun.
One thing I’ve always liked about LOTRO is … the world chat! It’s surprisingly cordial and mature. People don’t complain about the game constantly the way they do in other MMOs. (Even though I’m sure there’s plenty that could be improved. My main issue is the stuttering I get, but that may be my 980 GTX video card, which is long in the tooth.) They often roleplay. And they’re very helpful. Plus they often know a scary amount about Middle-Earth and its lore.
The stuttering is a game engine thing and has been there since day one. It’s honestly something I started not really noticing after a while.
On Landroval there was a player called the human or something similar. I forget. He hosted a quick 5 question trivia contest about poisons in Middle-earth that went surprisingly deep. Spanning from the First Age with Eol’s poisoned javelin all the way up to the Third Age with poisons that the Drúedain / Woses used.
If you got the correct answer first he sent you 100 gold. I nailed the “poisoned weapon” that Eol used obviously. Some other loser in chat said pike. (Probably thinking it was faster to type but also the wrong answer)
Spock
4337
Good to know. Yes, I am getting used to it, as I presumably did in the past. It’s not that big a deal. Just mildly annoying.
After playing WoW, LOTRO feels a bit more “traditional.” Travel can be a bit more involved, which I like. Leveling seems a little slower, which I also like. Chat seems better, which I like.
Ablove all, they’ve really done a nice job with the lore. I wish I remembered the books well enough to fully appreciate it. Maybe it’s time for a re-read.
Super_D
4338
Logged in for the first time in a loooong while and Nimrodel is gone. Turns out character transfers from archived servers aren’t supported right now. :(
Fortunately I had a lvl 8 Champion on Brandywine, guess I’ll have to level him up the old fashioned way, without twinking.
DTG
4339
The attention to the lore is scary good. Many things that are barely mentioned in the books are there. It starts to go a bit off the rails post-Mordor and now they’re almost into fan-fic but for the first 110 or so levels it is the best representation available of the basic story. I’ve always thought that the game presents several iconic scenes better than the movies, such as Weathertop, Rivendell, Moria, Lothlorien, Minas Tirith and Helm’s Deep. Even Ithilien… I remember reading the books and while reading seeing the Anduin down in the valley below… and the game shows that (flower-picking there…not so much :) )
There’s a moment in your first playthrough when you emerge from the trees and get your first view of Rivendell, the valley spread out below you, all the trees in their autumn glory. That’s one of my favorite gaming memories.
Spock
4341
I re-experienced that feeling when I re-entered Rivendell a couple days ago for the first time in years. It’s beautifully done.
Which is why that antiquated old dog just keeps right on rolling. It’s the only place to live ME.
There is some interesting time shifts they also do. Like how Isensgard/Dunland is pre-fall of the Fords of Isen/burning of the West Fold and when you eventually get to West Rohan it is after. Also Isengard has been attacked and flooded.
They do a similar thing latter with pre-battle Minas Tirith and After-battle Minas Tirith. In addition to Midsummer Minas Tirith which is post ring kaput Aragorn/Arwen wedding.
