299 Lifetime MembershipFollow

Like the title says, it seems Turbine is now offering a lifetime membership for 299.

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=72800



So, what are everyone's thoughts on that? I'm particularly interested in the founders who bought a lifetime for the 199, but everyone is welcome to weigh in lol



Edited, Jun 27th 2007 12:47pm by Darqflame

I got the $199 Lifetime founder price, that seemed ok. Doubt I would of jumped on this one if I hadn't gotten the founders price. Although... almost 4 years in FFXI now at 14.95 (have 2 mules).... heck $299 would of been a good deal for me in that game

Quit LotRO? I'm sorry, can you say that again I think I had something in my ear.

I'd have to agree with Jophiel here. I do month to month since I don't want to feel like I have "locked myself in" to a game I may be bored with in a year. If I paid the $199 founders, I would feel that way. For people being offered a $299 lifetime, I can't say as I would do it myself. I mean, if you divide the 299 by the standard monthly rate of 15.99 (yeah, I'm making an assumption here), that's like saying you are committing to at least 18 months in a game to even out the initial investment.

I guess it's just me but I simply not willing to commit to that kind of thing in a game.

The reason I took a lifetime subscription is actually so I wouldn't feel locked into the game... It's much easier (imo) to take a break from playing the game or playing multiple games at once when you don't have to worry about paying a monthly fee. Maybe i'll get bored with it after a year or so, but then I can just leave for a couple months and come right back when the next content update hits or something.

QFT! Thats exactly why I did it, if I run out of content (LOL Right, at the rate I level?) I can take a few months off, play the MMO of the month at the time, then come crawling back when they add content and know that my toons will still be there, and I don't have to "re-subscribe" at a higher cost than I was origionally paying. Heck as long as the servers are up and I don't do something stupid to break the TOS my sub is active.

My concern with LOTRO is not the $9.99/mo that I am paying, but the possibility that each expansion may cost. So far so good....Evendim was free. Will new areas come at an added expense? Has Turbine indicated whether new regions will be free or not?

I should probably clear something up here about expansions...

Evendim was a free content update, turbine has (iirc) said they want to roll about one of these every month or two. In general these will (likely) be like Evendim, although they may also just introduce new instances or more job tweaks/balances.

An expansion to the game will add many new zones and instances, and possibly a level cap increase too. A good example of what an expansion would be is adding in Moria and the stuff to the east like Lothlorien and Rohan. These take a lot more work and are generally something you have to pay for. Thats just the nature of MMOs though, and will be the same for basically any MMO.

So yes, there will be paid expansions, I can almost guarantee you that. However, I can also guarantee you that it'll be a lot bigger then Evendim, we're talking like maybe doubling the game's size for the first one if they release a whole region in it. (Look at your map zoomed all the way out and you'll see what I mean)

Not only that, even the $299 deal still doesn't give them my uber level 1 ring of agility or my regen cape! They just get a lifetime sub with none of the items us original founders got.

I'm the same, if you take the monthly fee's away you feel like you can take your time alot more with the game, there's not that looming feeling of having to play 24/7 to get your moneys worth.

One thing that does worry me a tiny bit (because it's way in the future), what would happen if LOTRO ended and codemasters stopped supporting it?

I agree that the $299 deal seems a more expensive prospect than the founders deal I signed up for, but I'm in the "Paid for it and can play when I like" camp like others in this thread. At launch I simply did the maths in my head - "Played FFXI for over 12 months and WoW for over 2 years... $199 is cheap!" and went from there.

You had that "discussion" too huh?

I got 2 founders at 199. 199/9.99 ~20 months figure I would be playing that long 5yeas EQ 2years EQ2.