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Impressions of PAX 2009
2009-11-09 00:00:00
to me that they could not have released LOTRO without the commercial and cultural impact of those movies. Understandably, they are absolutely primed and stoked about the two upcoming Hobbit movies. Expect a full-blown LOTRO expansion that deals with the Hobbit content at around the time of the release of the motion pictures. A very wise move indeed and this probably explains why they have not yet gone northward toward Laketown and the Lonely Mountain the lair of the dragon Smaug.I explained to him my concerns about LOTRO and why I as a hardcore Tolkien fan (long before the movies) have not found the game to be captivating enough for me. I told him that the newbie experience really needed work and he replied that they have reworked them this year. He also revealed that many of the older quests had far too much of the “collect and return” variety and had been replaced with more bread-crumbing quests where you go from point A to point B.He agreed with my sentiments that the newbie experience was very important. He explained that they actually collect...
2009-11-09 00:00:00
to me that they could not have released LOTRO without the commercial and cultural impact of those movies. Understandably, they are absolutely primed and stoked about the two upcoming Hobbit movies. Expect a full-blown LOTRO expansion that deals with the Hobbit content at around the time of the release of the motion pictures. A very wise move indeed and this probably explains why they have not yet gone northward toward Laketown and the Lonely Mountain the lair of the dragon Smaug.I explained to him my concerns about LOTRO and why I as a hardcore Tolkien fan (long before the movies) have not found the game to be captivating enough for me. I told him that the newbie experience really needed work and he replied that they have reworked them this year. He also revealed that many of the older quests had far too much of the “collect and return” variety and had been replaced with more bread-crumbing quests where you go from point A to point B.He agreed with my sentiments that the newbie experience was very important. He explained that they actually collect...