It's not unusual to see developers send out an apology when something goes wrong or is delayed, but it's rare to see the mea culpa taken to the extent that Codemasters has done.
Codemasters has introduced the Community Therapy program/contest as a way for players to vent their frustrations about the European Lord of the Rings Online free-to-play launch delay with a bit of fun and humor. You are invited to throw something at the developers -- via text, screenshot, hand-drawn picture, you name it.
Everyone who enters gets the satisfaction of blowing off a little steam, but the 10 entries judged the most creative will win a Codemasters goodie bag, so check out the rules and get your throwing arm ready!
Reader Comments (7)
Posted: Sep 14th 2010 6:50PM Keen and Graev said
Hold out as long as you can Codemasters!
Posted: Sep 14th 2010 6:56PM (Unverified) said
Codemasters does all wrong. In fact i left LOTRO cause i was playing the EU version and CM treated the game and it's community like crap. I knew this would happen. Please, Turbine, find another publisher for the EU version of the game, LOTRO would be a better game.
Posted: Sep 14th 2010 8:11PM goatfoam said
Yeah, I have to agree with Hecteron. I really don't care if Codemasters wants to pretend like it's "funny" that they're so crap, they need to go.
Posted: Sep 14th 2010 8:55PM mattward1979 said
Im playing on a US server with a Ping like they were in the same room.
Codemasters can do what they want =) Its Turbine that will get my cash if I decide to part with any!
Codemasters can do what they want =) Its Turbine that will get my cash if I decide to part with any!
Posted: Sep 15th 2010 7:26AM SkuzBukit said
After having played DDO on the U.S. servers from the U.K. I was pleasantly surprised how decent ping times wre (averaged 80-90) if LoTRO servers are giving similar then playing on Codemasters' EU servers looks like a bad proposition, they have a bad rep for game management & customer service.
So I recommend sticking with Turbine.
So I recommend sticking with Turbine.
Posted: Sep 15th 2010 10:23AM Trippin said
atleast they admit there doing it wrong, and give the community a change to get a bit of revenge on the CM.
think at it this way, they could ignore every post/comment about the delay like most other server-operaters would do and give it a nice twist. ive seen game developers do much worse to us customers.
and @Deadalon: stop the flaming you little child. i checked you're account and every comment you posted on other then (a wild guess) WOW games you just Troll, and i do think you havent played any one of them (yes he isnt just annoying the lotro posts)
think at it this way, they could ignore every post/comment about the delay like most other server-operaters would do and give it a nice twist. ive seen game developers do much worse to us customers.
and @Deadalon: stop the flaming you little child. i checked you're account and every comment you posted on other then (a wild guess) WOW games you just Troll, and i do think you havent played any one of them (yes he isnt just annoying the lotro posts)
Posted: Sep 15th 2010 10:54AM donweel said
Codemasters failed on DDO, now they are out of DDO. Codemasters failed on LorRO, and I think once thier contract is up or this an opportunity Turbine will expunge them from LotRO.







