I played LOTRO for two years. That's two level 60 freeps and four rank 6 through 9 creeps worth of play time. What LOTRO lacks right now is not a vision or goal, but the team to accomplish it with. They really need to double the size of their dev team to really accomplish anything more than what we've seen over the last year. I'd love to see large, free range lands but I don't think that will ever happen - they seem intent on condensing their content, having friendly camps every 100 feet, and really leading the characters down a defined leveling path.

I'll probably never go back to LOTRO, but if they ever do revamp the game somehow to be more epic, more open, and with more PvP I'd most certainly have to reconsider that position.