“Focusing on The Lord of the Rings video games at the expense of other projects is now a priority”

“We know we need to be exploiting Lord of the Rings in a very significant fashion and turn that into one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world.”

Yeah and it totaly understandable. That is bit of the problem with games like lord of the rings,star trek, age of conan and D&D online and star wars. They are more for fans than just mmo for every one.

I love No Man’s Sky but I tend to just dip into the game every now and again. For me personally, a new community expedition is a good way to see what’s new and get some structured objectives as well as players all around you. I just rolled up a new save for the current expedition and am excited to play! Idk how they make their money, but if they release a game that’s anywhere close to a genre I like, I will buy it (like The Last Campfire – lovely game as well).

Reddit is very useful for finding information but has been hostile to end users for a long time, so I loathe the company. I hope the blackout leads to some concessions, or we get more alternatives as Reddit becomes less relevant (agreed that Discord isn’t it – it’s getting to the “how much can we get away with before there’s overwhelming pushback” phase and is much less searchable).

Vertical progression is fine, people see it as evil because a lot of MMOs have had huge power increases available. That doesn’t need to be the case.

“I think it’s a couple years too early to speculate on what Pax Dei will or won’t have. Don’t let yourself fall down the rabbit hole of speculating based on little dribbles of general info from the devs.”

We don’t need to. The red flags are already there.

I would like to see Reddit and Discord burn and die (the companies, not the staff. Since that probably actually has to be explicitly stated given how the Internet is now.)

I hope Reddit stands their ground until their entire userbase bails out and the ground caves in beneath them.

Exactly. Or it would be more of an actual event when the actual interaction happens. Less gank, more tactical. Or possibly diplomatic, though that’s a stretch.

And the pve players that travel in the flanks and provide support would be crucial to the whole operation.

Man, it’s like… right there.

A large part of my interest in CU is because the progression was supposed to be horizontal, i.e. your characters didn’t get more powerful, they simply unlocked more options, more specialities.

That is a huge selling point for me! Vertical progression is, imo, the enemy of most MMORPGs. It makes most content redundant, makes it really difficult to team up with your friends, often removes choice from the players by forcing them through a tiered route. In PvP games the situation is even worse! Not only will veterans be more experienced, but they’ll also be more powerful! This results in the game “eating its young”, dooming it to an inconsequential niche.

I obviously need more precise information, but if this game has moved from horizontal to vertical progression, then it’ll move from being the only MMORPG im interested in…..to a hard pass.

You, you know, basically everything that WoW has ever done with their UI – who cares, users will just mod the hell out of it anyway. And then probably stick every single icon to the center of the screen, because *Real* WoW isn’t about experiencing a virtual world. It’s about playing “whack-a-mole” with 30 different icons covering your character so that you don’t have to look away from… well, the center of the screen.

There’s also the part where I’ve had save-games corrupted when the game got a patch, and I reloaded my save without noticing that one or more of the mods had NOT been patched yet. Oops, data corrupt, hope you weren’t attached or did something stupid like playing the same save for 150 hours.

Yeah, I think offline raiding and flattening random newbs would be a lot less of a griefer paradise if they had to relive “The Stand” to even *get* there…

They did that with the last expansion as well. Looks like this might be a thing now.

Couldn’t agree more Ironwu, one of the reasons i’m not going to be suckered by FUNCOM again.

Beholders got all the OSHA reps.

When I left my home upon Coruscant, I was no more than a boy,
In the company of troopers,
In the quiet of the docking station, ships were there.
Laying low, seeking out the ragged places
Where the Sith insurgents go,
Doing quests for people only they would know.

Just imagine the same job in some fantasy MMO, designing flags, banners, coat of arms and even shields and armor, WoW provide a little of that with guild tabards, but this is just one time thing … beside i don’t think Blizzard updated the UI for making tabards since vanilla!

I admit that my ignorance of the IP is very likely coloring a lot of my experience here. Whatever is being referenced in the MMO goes wheeling over my head.

That’s also known as Raph Koster syndrome.😉

How dare you, sir. This man braved the horrors of an empty office during covid to process like 2 of the refunds people requested.

Otherwise it looks, feels and plays like the division with touch controls or optionally controller.
I saw mouse and keyboard settings in the options menu so I assume It could show up on pc or at least on the google play pc client.

It ran very smooth on my recent but not-at-all built for gaming tablet, though with some texture pop-in weirdness.
No idea about monetization. Seems to be skins + battlepass + currencies, but I’ve not played anywhere near enough to say what the impact is.

FTC failed in so many ways over the years, it’s like the fire department runs around the fire while waiting for their town mayor to ensure them they did donate to his/her/they campaign before they actually try to put out the fires and fail horribly at it…

Just wanna point out barrier of entry for dauntless vs mhw. It’s one of those genres that leaves me uncertain so i welcome the free model. For longplay, though, im sure mhw has it beat.

…..right Ubi? :(

This is EXACTLY like driving by and seeing a car crash lmao. Overwatch 2 being the crash. :P

Don’t worry. I’m sure the investors will get buy backs.

This sounds like it’s going to crash and burn like Infinite Crisis did. The only difference is that it may benefit LotRo this time.

You’d think! >.<

Yeah that top chunk has me wary for Dune.

I’m betting about 3 or 4 weeks til the first faction imbalance and the devs start thinking about “making changes to make things more even”.

Developers never seem to get their head around the fact that some people just want to ruin the gameplay of others. They are not playing your game, they are playing the gank and grief game.

Yeah. And again, if they nail the details this can be a fine design pattern theoretically. But most often it isn’t actually engaging (killing deer that don’t fight back for tier 1 materials), and so the non-PVP crowd churns out and the game fully relying on players has too few.