LOTRO free to play going ahead.

I wonder which party was being the tightfisted one. Still good to see that things have been sorted out, but with Cataclysm coming out soon I don't think I'll be checking this out this year now.
 
The other issue is that even the few regular members at the moment are really spaced out level-wise. I know Sleep's trekking through Moria at the moment, my new main's polishing off north downs & lone lands and mp4 has been playing for months but hasn't hit lv25 yet :rolleyes: :p

Edit: Pestilence, do you play on Laurelin? We could do with a few new members, granted that the atmospehere's about as lively as Wycombe at the moment but f2p should bring more of the older members back and a fair few new players too. Cyliscaen is the main I play on at the moment, feel free to add me - I'll be on for most of this afternoon.
 
Deadbeat said:
The other issue is that even the few regular members at the moment are really spaced out level-wise. I know Sleep's trekking through Moria at the moment, my new main's polishing off north downs & lone lands and mp4 has been playing for months but hasn't hit lv25 yet :rolleyes: :p

Edit: Pestilence, do you play on Laurelin? We could do with a few new members, granted that the atmospehere's about as lively as Wycombe at the moment but f2p should bring more of the older members back and a fair few new players too. Cyliscaen is the main I play on at the moment, feel free to add me - I'll be on for most of this afternoon.
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And dont forget to join the global chat channels, theres near constant chatter in those, several hundred people in the channel. Always someone yabbering about something in there and makes grouping a damned site easier.
 
Yes, that - /joinchannel globallff and /joinchannel globaltrade

Generally I stay out of them unless I have a reason to join in. Think along the lines of poorly-regulated GD.
 
Deadbeat said:
Edit: Pestilence, do you play on Laurelin? We could do with a few new members, granted that the atmospehere's about as lively as Wycombe at the moment but f2p should bring more of the older members back and a fair few new players too. Cyliscaen is the main I play on at the moment, feel free to add me - I'll be on for most of this afternoon.
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Yep, on Laurelin. Won't be on until later this evening and I'll be busy pretty much all day, but I'll get you added when I can! If you're on today, my char is called Taldnur - feel free to add me if you like.
 
Ruddy ridiculous that Codemasters can't get a contract sorted out and were making excuses about technical issues as to why Europe, yet again, is shafted when it comes to dates/timing of new content/updates.

The problem is, its not like F2P snuck up on them out of the blue, they had months behind the scenes to sort out contracts, which I guess is primarily both sides vying for a bigger slice of revenue. Was it out a month, almost two months ago, or was supposed to be. Now might be another couple months.

I really lost all enthusiasm to play Lotro when F2P was announced, in as much as I suddenly felt investing time with the game massively changing soon seemed pointless. Been waiting for the change to F2P to get on and see how it is. community changes completely, sucks, is over run and awful, or its a fantastic change, either way I just can't be arsed to play till then.
 
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Ruddy ridiculous that Codemasters can't get a contract sorted out and were making excuses about technical issues as to why Europe, yet again, is shafted when it comes to dates/timing of new content/updates.

The problem is, its not like F2P snuck up on them out of the blue, they had months behind the scenes to sort out contracts, which I guess is primarily both sides vying for a bigger slice of revenue. Was it out a month, almost two months ago, or was supposed to be. Now might be another couple months.

I really lost all enthusiasm to play Lotro when F2P was announced, in as much as I suddenly felt investing time with the game massively changing soon seemed pointless. Been waiting for the change to F2P to get on and see how it is. community changes completely, sucks, is over run and awful, or its a fantastic change, either way I just can't be arsed to play till then.
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It wont be a couple more months. :)

I'm on lifetime, I still play at the moment, not because F2P is coming or not, but simply because I enjoy it. If I enjoy something I'll do it, when I cease enjoying something I stop :)
 
drunkenmaster said:
The problem is, its not like F2P snuck up on them out of the blue, they had months behind the scenes to sort out contracts, which I guess is primarily both sides vying for a bigger slice of revenue. Was it out a month, almost two months ago, or was supposed to be. Now might be another couple months.
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It didn't sneak up on them, but then turbine were bought over by lucas's lot, and codemaster were either part bought or fully bought by the zynga farmville creeps.
I think this was just prior to actual launch, so i think many many contracts had to be renegotiated.
I think both sides will be hurt by the delay which eventually got to the stage of ****ing off Honvik, the number one fanboi in Europe, and when he eventually started to dispair they eventually published some information for the community. Glad he spoke out, finally bought us some info.

Looking forward to the expansion,s but i thought they'd be coming thicker and faster now we can modularise buy them.
 
Going by recent updates we should hear something today at the end of play.

Can't wait, Enedwaith and the changes on Bullroarer are great and it's nice to come back to the EU to play F2P.
 
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mp4 has been playing for months but hasn't hit lv25 yet :rolleyes: :p
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32 now!!

And Mnecraft has taken over my lotro habbit & m now back at work! (FAIL!!!!) so ... probs lotro will be played a lot less & even then i plan to skirmish my way to 65 or whatever :P
 
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Looks like LOTRO going free to play has proved another financial success, just as DDO was with its 500% increase in revenue.

"Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Kate Paiz announced during a panel at GDC Online 2010 today that Turbine has done it again: Lord of the Rings Online has doubled its revenue and created over a million new accounts since going free-to-play early last month. That's the second MMO Turbine has taken from a paid subscription to a hybrid microtransactions-based business model, with Dungeons and Dragons Online doing the same thing last year (important to note: Paiz was in charge of both transitions, switching to LotRO in July). Paiz told us after the panel that LotRO wasn't in trouble, but rather that Turbine did the math and decided the switch would work. "We knew there was more out there for us," she said.

Paiz also shared that 20% of LotRO's former players have returned to the game since the switchover, and that the game has seen a 300% increase in peak concurrency, with three times the number of players online simultaneously, and a 400% increase in active players total. 53% of players have used the in-game microtransaction store (which sells everything from mounts and outfits to XP boosts and character slots), and as you can see above, extra storage slots are extremely popular in the store. And even paid subscriptions have increased. Turbine's lesson seems to be that, as Paiz said during the panel, "when you tell people you no longer have to pay for it, they come in droves."
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So, a 500% increase in money for DDO, double increase in revenue for LOTRO and over a million new accounts with over half the players using the store. I suspect that several other MMO companies will have watched the results of DDO and LOTROs move to f2p with interest.
 
How will this work for previous subscribed accounts? As free version has gold limit and character slot limit.

Will the original characters i(f have more than 3) still be there if you decide to subscribe again, and will all the gold be there still if you have over 2 (or what ever limit is for free to play)?
 
If you have spent any real money on the game at all you have a premium account and most of the major restrictions are lessened or lifted entirely. All your characters will be there (depending on your specific account you might have to select which ones you want active but none will be lost) and all your gold should still be there.
 
i've been busting to play one of these, either wow, lotro or eve lol but im too scared to start in fear of loosing my life lol

just how addictive are they?
 
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