I’ll address my thoughts on the title of this thread “This is maybe just not the game for you”…… I’ve been playing about 3 weeks off and on, have a level 29 Mesmer, and can say that I’m sceptical about staying with it. My main game for 3 years has been Lord of the Rings Online, but I’ve played WAR, Star Wars, Minecraft, Rift, a little WoW, etc… but I’ve always gone back to playing my little girl hobbits in LOTRO. Why? I think there are several reasons why I give up all the games except LOTRO:
1- My attachment to my characters… the developers have made them more life-like than any other game I’ve played, outfits are graphically very prominent when looking at another toon, faces and physical body types are appealing.
2- The story line is from a real book story, and not just a bunch of made-up nonsense just to keep the game going.
3- The landscape is very realistic and colors are real, not the fakey brights like WoW, WAR, GW2. The enemies are really scary….
4- There’s in-game audio voice, so that when you join groups you can talk to each other (most of the time people have voice)… that results in an experience of laughing and talking strategies with tons of people you don’t know, which doesn’t exist in GW2 and most other games.. 5- Most of the time the Chat consists of tons of people looking for groups or more to joing their group… you can always jump into something and have fun with others, no matter if you’ve done it 50 times.
6-There are group instances at all levels from 20 and up. No matter what level you are at, there’s instances in your area that require between 3 and 24 people.
7- Crafting is understandable (need I say more?) and very profitable.
8-The roles of each class are very well-defined, so that it’s like going into a real battle with a group of folks that each know their roles, and it’s easy to know when someone’s messed up (which can be irritating or a huge laugh, depending)…. there’s healers, tanks, dps, crowd control, etc… which are very clearly laid out… This role-clarity causes folks to want to be the best _ they can be… I want to be the best Burglar I can be, so I don’t mind doing an instance tons of times because I learn a lot, still at max level, about my skills and how to use them under different circumstances.
9- Group battles seem to be visually more appealing, in that the affects seem more defined and easy to tell what’s actually going on (not just a bunch of sparks, lights, and stuff flying around).
10- There’s always something extra to do that is actually a lot of fun, such as the seasonal festivals… the Fall Festival is coming up, where there’s a haunted hobbit house that’s just like a real haunted house you’d make up.. secret panels in walls, stuff jumping out at you, etc… There’s bobbing for apples, etc… and you get tokens to spend on new horses and cool emotes and pranks. New cool looking horses are always something folks are after.
No one get me wrong… I’m not advocating the game of LOTRO in this post, but I’m telling the things that draw me to a game and keep me there… If some company, somewhere could make a game that provided the similar 10 things I’ve listed above, I think it would be a HUGE hit.
(edited by Marthared.3210)