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Free content for LoTRO with a coupon for 3rd of November (redeemable in-game with code EXPLOREOURWORLD)

Free content for LoTRO with a coupon for 3rd of November (redeemable in-game with code EXPLOREOURWORLD) - Lemmy.World

A bunch of free content with a coupon in LoTRO. Very worth downloading the game and redeeming if you ever had or ever think you might even want to try the game. I think it’s still the best LoTR game out there. And it’s free-to-play model doesn’t even suck too badly. Old as hell of course, from the webpage to the game itself, it’s like traveling back in time by 15 years.

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echo Nov 3

Holy shit… that game is still around? It was dead many years ago when I quit playing it. I mainly quit because of lack of players even in what should have been major activity hubs.

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ClickAndPoint Nov 3

It’s still going. It’s not the most active game but at least I always enjoyed it playing lone wolf as well. The world is amazing.

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NuXCOM_90Percent Nov 4

If you actually look at the MMO/MMO-adjacent landscape… most of the ones that are still alive are over a decade old with some legally allowed to drink.

Runescape: 2001
WoW: 2004
LOTRO: 2007
Star Wars TOR: 2011
Guild Wars 2: 2012
Old School Runescape: 2013
Elder Scrolls Online (about that…): 2014

And a lot of that has to do with people increasingly using MMOs as “comfort games” which… work best for the oldies. And most of the money going into game dev focused more on annual games and then live service games where you still spend about the same amount of money per year but feel better because it isn’t a monthly subscription.

So most of the newer MMO-ass MMOs are either doomed from the start for being overly niche or take a more Korean/Gacha oriented balance and monetization scheme where… they are competing against the juggernauts that are also closer to a decade old than not.

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Nima Nov 5

its because the “oldies” are well designed and aren’t overtly obvious cash grabs.

well I mean some are cash types. but quite a few old MMOs have a great life due to private servers and whatnot. And some “dead” MMOs are still alive solely on private servers (Star Wars Galaxies for example)

and ones like ESO are great for not needing a subscription to play. you have the option to just buy the content outright if you’d like.

but yeah I would love to see a new MMO come along to bring that feeling back. the good old days of competition between MMOs. it does feel like cash shop gacha trash is everywhere these days.

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