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• • Population rise

  •  Even on the ultra low population Vilya I've seen lots of people running around in all the zones, not just Eregion and Moria.  I hope it holds up so there will be people around when I get to finishing all the book quests.  This was a problem in SoA.  Lots of people rush though the content (and the books) leaving us slowpoke "smell the roses" type players on low pop servers scrambling to finish the epic quest line.  I'm still trying to finish Book 7.   Yes, book 7.

  • Posted: 12/01/08 5:36 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • should i come back?

  •  Zero new starter content in the expansion other than the 2 new classes.

    If you upgrade your CPU you machine should run the game fine.  I run with everything almost maxed out.  I've put everything in to the lowest settings and I can honestly say that I would probably not play this game if that was my first impression of it out of the box.  Middle-earth can only be appreciated with all settings set to High...at a minimum, and DX10 enabled for sweet shadows that give the environment the rich feeling it has.

    That being said, Moria is enormous.  I've only been to the first major quest hub inside and poked around, but I can't wait to start delving into the dephts of Moria.

    Here are some shots in full detail:

    

    

    

  • Posted: 12/01/08 5:21 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • The truth about WoW: for anyone thinking about trying it

  •  The truth about WoW...my short version:

    1-60 = fun
    60-70 = fun
    70-80 = fun
    Everything in between = suck (ie. grinding raids, grinding badges, grinding rep, grinding materials, grinding battlegrounds, grinding arenas, grinding heroics, etc, etc)

    Sad thing all the "fun" sections only take about 3-4 weeks to complete in a game that's been out 4 years.

    YMMV.

  • Posted: 12/01/08 4:58 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • WotLK; the new MMORPG techniques being used. Blizzard did it again.

  • Originally posted by strategy

    And believe me the professional future of MMO's lay  in the hands of Blizzard. No doubt about it after seeing this applied in WotLK.

      

    This is when the Fanboi Flag officially became unfurled. 

    As others have said, phasing isn't a new thing and it won't save mmos.

  • Posted: 12/01/08 4:48 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • Named Epics

  •  Blizzard is excellent at taking good ideas, dumbing them down, wrapping them in vanilla packaging, and selling them to the masses.

    Yes, I played WoW for 4 years...and am also a lifetime LotRO subscriber.  Notice I said "played" WoW...past tense. 

  • Posted: 12/01/08 4:43 PM
    World of Warcraft