Harmen

I used to play Runes of Magic, but there is no way you can play that to the endgame without spending significant amounts of money, or you'll have to really really grind all the way. Hmm, on second though, you'll have to grind anyway, but paying makes slightly less. Next game please.

And why should anyone care about this title?

The comments/share/link links are now separated by a darkgray line of the body of the text. They look a bit detached from the article. On Joystiq there is the same line, but the background of the comments/share/link links is a bit darker, which does make them go together with the body of the text.

You finally fixed the '1 Comments' link. Yeaj :)

Digging up items! Do we get a Dowsing Rod then?

Ok, it came out completely wrong. I have nothing against LOTRO, but I found the video rather bad.
Let me try to rephrase it:

Good they give LOTRO attention but if this video is mend as an introduction to non-online gamers and maybe even non-gamers it could have been clearer. They could have used World of Warcraft as example of a similar game, since at least 11.5 million people are familiar with that. Of course it's not the same game, but it might help some people to place what it's about.

They could have left out the mumbled phrase 'massively multiplayer', but maybe give a nice description 'is a video game where you play online with other people in the world of Lord of the Rings'. Leave out the jargon. And earlier in the video.

And either tell me things or show me pretty pictures, but not both at the same time.

Yes, but I found they used rather vague descriptions to explain the concept in the beginning. And the pretty images distract from really listening to what he's saying. But the idea is nice :)

Couldn't they just summarize it as "Just as World of Warcraft but with different backdrops"?

No, they are ok with it and even offered to transfer characters to an eventual American server.

*sigh*. There is no difference nor preference between American and European accounts. There is limited server space, so there are not that many accounts for sale, but those which do get sold are not specific to europeans.