gbhuskey

The SWTOR videos were pretty funny for the ship droids feature.

This will not make or break the game per say, but if done wrong it will be another failure in a string of failures since F2P that will probably do more harm than good. The early leaked info has not been encouraging and I feel that the store will play too heavily in this new feature as does every new feature released recently.

For the gamer who devours everything within that free month of play, SWTOR is definitely not the game you are looking for. For those, like myself, who like to try out this and that, level consistently, but yet gets side-tracked by alts, SWTOR has proven to be a nice way to spend playing an MMO. I enjoy crafting as well and I really love options with leveling. SWTOR has all of that. I enjoy PvP, you can check that as well and in fact I have been pleasantly surprised by how fun WZ's are and not a time sink, unless you want to spend all day doing them which I have found myself doing from time to time when you get on a really good team that gels well.

SWTOR may not be the UBER HIT everyone wanted it to be, but it definitely is a nice break from your elf/orc fantasy and thats really all I wanted. I have to say that I impressed by BW's interaction with their customers and 1.2 is shaping up to be a monumental update.

@Stanimir

Yep voice is something I do with a friend I made from Lotro. We both play TOR now and use vent when we do WZ's together.. If TOR had in-game chat WZ's would be a lot more competitive. As it is now you can tell when a guild is running it together and using voice as they usually wipe the floor with your random group.

@OutThere

Its only just NOW occured to you that they are a cash shop? Really?!?!


Adding conveniences for IN-Store only items for features that were asked of them long before F2P went live was not a first clue? How about the $25 steeds that had better designs than most you could get in-game? Or maybe the fact that you cold have 10 toons trying for a rare halloween horse everyday of the festival and not get one, yet could spend another $25 on the horse (for only character to) and get right away? Or maybe the low-level armour that had better stats than anything you could ever craft?

I'm curious, which new feature finally was the straw that broke the elliephonts back?

@GreenArmadillo

Ultimately the TP's are NOT a free gift no matter how you look at it. It was a way for Turbine to try and console those who were loyal and who stood by them through the very slow times between Moria's release and the announcement to F2P. It was a gesture to try and not piss off the only people they knew for sure at the time was their customers. It was also a double-win for them as it would get those who do pay, to possibly use those points and find a need to spend even more money than they had before. You could argue that the lifers get FREE points, but even then they had ulterior motives as described above.

That said, I have 2 lifetime accounts with 5K worth of points just sitting there and I refuse to play this game not because F2P ruined the game, but because lazy dev-work and a continuous spiral towards everything falling to greed has turned me off of the game. I would rather pay a $15 sub to another game than be thought of as a cheap whore who can be enticed by some new feature only for it be something that is falsely advertised and of course being another money grab.

@Stanimir

I know you from the forums, or least recognize your name. Anyway it is one of the more tragic things to happen for me in a game. The way I loved Lotro when it came out probably is the only reason I stuck around as long as I did, putting up with as much as I did. It was like a bad romance.

Still, even now as they announce a cool new feature I smile and think, wow that is pretty cool and then when they actually put out a dev diary on it and the store is somehow the major tie-in, it ruins it for me. The open-world skirmish soldier feature being the latest in a string of good ideas ruined by the cash shop. It truly is a shame and what more I know that this might be the only LOTR MMO we ever get.

So for anyone who signed up for beta and did not get in, they sent you an email with a thanks, but sorry. Oh yeah and here is a video of the game you wish you could play with another apology. Wow, thats pretty weak..

Oh and the voice on that trailer is awful...

I used to be a die hard Lotro fan up until last summer when the Isengard spectacle happened. I was in beta for that and just lost my taste for the game.

I follow it still here and sometimes on the Lotro forums, although I have not honestly been on there for a couple of months. With the news about update 6 and the new area I decided to just start over again and try to fall back in love with the game. It lasted 2 hours and I just could not bring myself to play anymore. I have since gone out and tried other games and I have to say that I am enjoying myself way to much to go back.

I think for me, the store ruined the game. Turbine implemented it well enough, but that combined with so many grinds, then a level cap increase just resets the grind to such an absurd level that I would rather watch paint peel than level. The new zones are way too similar with very little thought. Its just hub after hub with the same quests, just change X(item) and maybe the total count of things to kill. The "story" is not as engaging as it was. I don't know, I just totally fell out of love with this beautiful game which is a shame.