One thing that I see that is missing is a PVP server. Let loose the PVP(open the ettenmoors)!
Once the crafting is done. Once you have completed all that you can do. Many stop playing, or wait for updates, then return, complete the updates and leave again. What is there for the rest of us?? I have talked to many who get tired of sitting at 21st hall. They log off for weeks at a time. And what is there to do when everyone logs off, the servers die way, way down. Who is there to help out the (hopefully) new players? If the newer players see a dead game,, they also may leave and sooner than the vets. If, and I do say If we had a pvp server, or a option to pvp full time , the players may stick around a bit longer, or may actualy keep there accounts open. And im sure the developers and Turbine hate seeing hard earned cash flow to another game such as (the bannable word) world of warcraft.
In WOW as most call it, they pvp all the time, yes we all know wow has a pvp areana, but the developers of LOTRO could really get there numbers of hard core players back on track if they would open up the pvp, there were orcs and other nastyies on the movies,, why not let monster players have the option to PVP outside of the moors, same as in wow,, you can turn on or off your pvp ability with the flip of a switch per say. I am 90% certain many 60 level characters would love to find a wondering orc out of his realm of saftey wandering to close to the pass of rivendell. Or the warg pack,, who wants to crush the town of bree after a hard night of ettenmoors to relish in watching the new guys run for cover?
yes,, it would actually take time for the developers to rework things,but END GAME would be better. After the volumes and chapters are completed,, the rest of us who actually enjoy playing pvp know all the spots to hide in ettenmoors.
I challenge the developers of lord of the rings online to rethink there tactics. It will take work,, the world is there, you have added, subtracted,, modified before .. why not (flip the script on its end) take LOTRO to another level?