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#1 Mar 28 2007 at 8:08 PM Rating: Decent
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http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=32457

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I'm sick of this. Before closed beta ended people wouldn't shut up about not being able to play with people in Europe. Now that we're on the eve of open beta people won't shut up about having to play with people 2 hours away from them.


Seriously...

EDIT: Okay, so maybe I was a little harsh, but I saw this thread and kinda decided I'd had enough.

Edited, Mar 28th 2007 11:35pm by Kurohyou
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#2 Mar 28 2007 at 9:41 PM Rating: Decent
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I think the guy complaining about how it didn't take weeks to walk from one city to another like it did in the novels tops that. Or maybe the Turbine poster who said he would quit the game if they didn't use the measuring units Tolkien did. <3 RP.

See if I can find those threads.

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#3 Mar 29 2007 at 8:45 AM Rating: Decent
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An irl friend of mine beta tested it for a week before quitting and citing something like Bag End not being geographically where it was supposed to be in relation to Hobbiton or something =/
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Was the thread here where some guy wrote a pointed memo to Turbine for predicting doom for the game because, among other things, Goldberry's dress was the wrong shade of green?
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#5 Mar 29 2007 at 9:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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That forum was dead, I think he was trolling just to get some action going!
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#6 Mar 29 2007 at 11:35 AM Rating: Good
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Lydiaele wrote:
Was the thread here where some guy wrote a pointed memo to Turbine for predicting doom for the game because, among other things, Goldberry's dress was the wrong shade of green?


You mean this thread? I mean really, it's all such small details that no one but a hardcore fan would notice, or even care about. Do I care that a dress may be a slightly different shade then in the books? Not really... Do I care that it doesn't take 3 weeks to walk from 1 city to another? Hell no. Besides, you could speed up the in-game time so it takes roughly 3 weeks in like maybe an hour or something of RL time. Now, big geographical errors i'll admit are a little harder to overlook, as there are many maps of middle earth from the books that would have been a good starting point for mapping the game. Is it something i'd quit over though? Nope, it is a game as sometimes you do need to make compromises between lore and playability.
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#7 Mar 29 2007 at 11:48 AM Rating: Decent
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I agree. They aren't trying to make a game that can be enjoyed only by a couple thousand people. And if they upset 10,000 people by "distorting" Tolkien's work, but make another 1,000,000 people happy by providing an awesome game based on Tolkien's work. Then I think they are right to do so.
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#8 Mar 29 2007 at 12:03 PM Rating: Good
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KingLeonidas wrote:
I agree. They aren't trying to make a game that can be enjoyed only by a couple thousand people. And if they upset 10,000 people by "distorting" Tolkien's work, but make another 1,000,000 people happy by providing an awesome game based on Tolkien's work. Then I think they are right to do so.


Some would argue they don't though, because of some agreement with Tolkien Enterprises or something where they can't rewrite the lore or something. Of course, the main problem with arguing that is that we don't know the exact wording. Who knows, maybe there was a clause they could change small things to increase playability. I mean really, who wants to play a game where you have to play for 3 WEEKS to get to another town? The hardcore lore freaks may THINK they do, but I guarantee if they actually had to they would be screaming bloody murder at turbine.
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#9 Mar 29 2007 at 1:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Mistress Darqflame wrote:
That forum was dead, I think he was trolling just to get some action going!


The sad thing is that that thread is still currently the largest thread in that forum...
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#10 Mar 29 2007 at 2:32 PM Rating: Decent
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What are you going to do about trolls? Absolutely nothing! Go ahead and insult them, but that's all you can do besides ignoring. Sad to acknowledge that.

LRO would never get popular with the masses if it took too long to travel from one city to another. I personally believe the game is fine the way it is. Can't wait for open beta to start tomorrow either. :)
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#11 Mar 30 2007 at 11:27 AM Rating: Good
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Posts in the official forums of any MMO are always bad. It's what drives the smart posters to sites like this. Remember when the EQ forums were called whineplay? They got so bad after a while that SOE shut them down rather than have to read them. That IGE post on the forum there is just an example of why I stay away from official forums. They are full of jerks and morons and people who are full of themselves.
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#12 Apr 06 2007 at 3:17 PM Rating: Decent
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I threatened to quit in a forum /rant over the whole nonsense of this game's outside-fellowship courtesy heal = griefing design, and go back to FF11. That was a week ago and still haven't followed through :P BUT, my conscience is burdened from having watched a poor L4 Champion get eaten by that L5 named boar in Archet when I was watching him on my L5 minstrel. Then I waltzed in and shredded its ***** 'Healers' in this game are sick, oh yes!
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#13 Apr 20 2007 at 5:57 AM Rating: Decent
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So from one person who probably didn't have a decent understanding of the controls and got wiped by a mob you decide the whole class system is off? MMO players are defintely a different breed :D
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#14 Apr 20 2007 at 6:02 AM Rating: Decent
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so are necroposters Smiley: lol
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#15 Apr 20 2007 at 9:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Just like anything else in the world, you can't please everyone. There are gonna be alot of whiners among the hardcore purist LoTR fanboys, because obviously SOME changes and concessions have to be made when translating a work of fiction into a vivid, realistic virtual world. I've been hitting up the beta in my free time when I'm not raiding in EQ and have had a blast. So much that I went ahead and preordered(just got it in the mail yesterday $$). I've been a huge LoTR fan ever since I can remember and it's really something to get to wander around middle earth, and visit places I've imagined and seeing that world come to life! I think they've done a pretty topnotch job so far from what I can see. Is it PERFECT? Hardly, but nothing is. But it sure captured my imagination as a gamer and a fantasy fan, and I can't really ask for much more then that.
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