Agreed, I intended to reply to the author on his site a day before and realized it was pointless. AoC and LotRO are two completely different MMO's targetting at totally different audiences.

I honestly don't see the appeal of AoC as a PvE game for people that don't intend to participate in PvE, there are strong PvE MMO's than AoC.

As others pointed out the author was already biased, he's bored with the game and hasn't even gotten past the first third of it, intends to right a review when he's all but decided the game 'sucks'

AoC is the only true PvP oriented MMO on the market right now, no other MMO allows that freedom, for what faults it has, it's proven there's 500,000-700,000 subscribers backing that up. Players are tired of the existing MMO content, and they're tired of limited PvP rulesets, AoC delivered on those despite its early release and minor faults.