One Shots: What's old is new again

Hmm.. I parked my runekeeper somewhere in Moria. Guess it's time to dust her off again to see the changes.

I wanted to play this now that it's free, but there are so many restrictions on F2P customers I don't really see the point in playing unless you are going to spend money on it, which is something I was on the fence about in the first place or else I would already be playing it.

I understand it's a company and they are out to make money, but there is a huge difference between giving paying customers added benefits and holding existing game features hostage unless you cough up some dough.

So far, it's pretty fail.

Servers are having major problems just dealing with the returning players (once free ones hit, oh my)

They can't accurately keep track of your Turbine Points balance. If you earned any yesterday, woops, they're gone. And forget about those loyalty points you promised. But hey, Turbine is having a special sale, 6900 points for only $50. I'm sure they'll get around to those loyalty points sometime.

They also had the brilliant idea to completely overhaul the forum system and website. So if you had problems with the game, you had to load their facebook page. And even now it's sort of up, I can't login (they changed it so you now need to log in with your game id/password - oh no security risk there or anything) but it won't accept it.

They also seemed to have jacked up the prices of a lot of items over the beta. I guess to make up for the removed rep horses...

I was never interested in LotR. making it F2P just killed any future intention I could have of trying it.
Im avoiding it like the plague now...

despite all the problems and complaints everyone is having (which my only complaint so far has been the revamped vault view) I'm really glad this is now F2P as my other friends who wont pay for a third online game a month now are all going to roll some characters and play along with me.

I didn't notice when looking through the store but if they didn't, i hope they put in the ability to use your own points for guest passes like in DDO so that all those loyalty points i have coming my way can be put towards some bonus stuff/quests for my friends.