The Daily Grind: EQ2X or LOTRO?

1. DDO
2. LoTRO
3. Nothing
4. Nothing
(...)
999. EQ2X


But that's just me.

Never been a fan of EQII -- not a horrible game by any standard, but it never grabbed me the way that LotRO did. I came back to LotRO a few weeks ago and I've fallen in love with it again. There are some virtual worlds you can visit, but with its visuals, crafting system, unique places to visit, and community, LotRO's a place in which you could stay awhile.

Uninstalled EQ2 after about 2 hours of trial. To say it shows its age is a drastic understatement. The graphics are godawful. LOTRO is still an excellent game, winner, no contest.

LotRO has my vote also, I beta'd EQII and maybe I'm just bitter about what they did to the necro. But I much prefer LotRO over EQII even when it was full on P2P.

Lotro at the moment. Surprisingly enjoyable as a Rune Keeper. Will it make it past my 30 day ADD cycle on games?

I'm one to agree with the rest here. I tried out EQ2x, and I just couldn't see myself putting in the effort to level a character to max. However, LotRO is a different story...

Now, I'm pretty much at the same membership level in both. Silver in EQ2X and Premium in LotRO. But when it comes to visuals, storyline, varied quests, and you just get more for your money... LotRO, imo, is the clear winner.

I played both EQ2 and LOTRO to max level (although I'm behind in EQ2 now, since I still haven't picked up the latest expansion and resubscribed), and I liked both of them. I'm perfectly willing to resubscribe to either--right now I'm messing around with Premium status in LOTRO and I'll probably go VIP for a month soon. EQ2 definitely is of lesser interest for me right now because of how they split the servers--I see how it makes sense for new players, and for older players that are still subscribed, but it's not going to bring back people with lots of time invested (in my opinion). But I still enjoyed EQ2 and I do plan to eventually pick up Sentinel's Fate and resubscribe.

Also, I think the fact that there are only 4 races available when you pay a normal subscription in EQ2X is just ridiculous. Why would they limit what you get when you're paying the same as for the regular servers? However, EQ2X is better in terms of content--while free players may be limited in classes and being able to wear Legendary or Fabled items, they appear to have the full set of quest content from 1-80. When you're heading for the level cap, you really don't care much about Legendary or Fabled items because you're going to be replacing them soon enough anyway. LOTRO's throttling of quests between 20 and 50 is understandable, but frustrating. (That is, I understand that if they didn't do this, previous subscribers could play the full content with impunity, and that's a poor business model, but it still chafes a bit.)

Man. It's hard for me to decide now. I'd probably give the edge to LOTRO.

Lotro

Just trying to figure out what the have changed for old subbers.

The way the tattered notebook guy writes about free to play being the scum of the universe i dont think id ever touch EQII.

But lotro on the other hand is extremely fun and friendly. Definately my free game of choice

EQ2X is so horrible i could not bare to play over few days I waited for LOTRO F2P to launch.

I played EQ2 back in the day. And I did like it back than. But by today standards its bad in every possible aspect. Its boring to play. Boring to look at. Classes are bland. Quests are repetitive. And with all the limitations (especially no chat) its even worse.

If EQ2X was the only western P2P to go F2P it might work, hardly.

Like this LOTRO vs EQ2X

Its not even a competition.

I prefer to pay developers to make games rather than pay them to find new ways to ruin the game unless i pay them for a so called FREE to play.

So screw that, i play sub games and won't touch neither of those 2.

I'm going to have to dissent here and say EQ2X. I'm still trying to get into LOTRO, but I am finding it really bland. Combat is like molasses.

I having just started playing some Lotro (couldn't make it work on previous crap ati graphics card (advice, don't ever buy from "Diamond Multimedia" horrible company!, no service, HORRIBLE!!!) Major cheers for GTX460! I luv my sweeeeet new card!), anyway! Lotro, has the most beautiful game world I've yet to see. I've been in alpha/betas of so many of these games from the beginning, and Lotro is a beautiful game to look at at least. Not sure about anything else really at this point only just started. Used to subscribe to EQ2, The Shadow Odyssey expansion I did not like, that was my last. The "new" spell graphics downgrade not impressive.... I have no idea why they did it except to possibly try and make you feel superior at higher levels with "bigger" relative sparkliness? I just have no idea... But that just stinks...