Great to see the love for EQ in the comments. Nothing has ever achieved anything like the experience that we all had when playing EQ. I would rate it as the absolute number one, for me. I actually love the fact it is the highest game up there that w…
Other than a lot of great stuff already mentioned.. it was the feeling you had when you were in Norrath. Not playing a game, but being in another world.
But to list a few things:
From the beginning on the game was a bare frame that allowed you to…
I firmly support this idea. At some degree the cities are always a dead place. There are fake houses, pretty much like walking on a Hollywood set. The same goes for smaller villages and farmlands. Now I work in urban planning so I can see a lot of t…
Cheers for the info. Will take it into consideration to decide whether or not I will give it a go. Got an email last night of reduced one month subscriptions by SOE, so might just give it a shot. Would be great to re-experience the old glory
So what's about this leveling to 50 in one month? I am a Veteran that played at the time of classic / Kunark. I point-blank sucked in leveling. Never really got out of my teens.
What I remember was there were not much quests to be found. Killing m…
Originally posted by crazynanny Also people tend to forget that cash shop points are hardly comparable with real goods(aka they ain't produced at all). Apart greed there is no reason not to offer same amount of points for very same price even includ…
Originally posted by Methos12 Yeah, Turbine seems to have really well thought out their F2P approach, starting with DDO and continuing with LotRO. Shame that other F2P converts apparently fail to realize this. Also, the fact that you can earn TP ing…
Originally posted by ste2000
Originally posted by Lobotomist
USA LOTRO 50% price reduction for one day. - EU LOTRO 20%
USA LOTRO Lone Lands quest pack 50 points. - EU LOTRO Lone Lands quest pack 270 points.
USA 400 points = $6.50, - EU 4…
Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Whilst I agree that there should be content for solo players and that simply because they are playing an mmorpg it shouldn't mean that they are instantly shoved into a group, some of your other points I feel are …
Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Originally posted by Augurk
Originally posted by WSIMike
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I person who plays solo all the time does have access to all the content, that they can't complete said content without a group is prefectl…
Which I agree upon in my post. If I misinterpreted your comments on MMORPG heritage then just consider the rest of my post to be a general comment of my view on the whole discussion
Originally posted by WSIMike Nnnnno. Massively Multiplayer means "a large amount of other players". As in, a massive amount of other players. Massively describes Multiplayer, they're not discreet terms in that context.
From Wikipedia:
"Massively…
As a quite experienced MMO player I have a little different opinion than most on this I see.
I play MMORPGs because of a love for immersive and expansive fantastical worlds, in any setting. What adds to the experience of an MMO is the ability to s…
Originally posted by Nizur I agree. My first MMO was WoW way back at launch. Everything was new and amazing at the time. It made me want to explore, and I did for the first week until I found out exploration was pointless because there was no reward…