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If you think the 120/80 version is too expensive, BUY THE REGULAR ONE. This time around you doesn't miss out on anything but cosmetics.. The new race and the content around that is available in base expansion. Boosts can be bought separately anyway. I don't get the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smapper
Makes it easy, I'll do exactly the same as I did with Mordor. Wait until its released, then buy the standard edition - £30 seems a fair price and I'm not that bothered about the extras in the other editions.
So you said Standard will include race and not valar, is there a way you could switch out the two? because someone like me who is good with 4 toons would be wasting something like Valar for a Race that i will most likely never play.Quote:
Originally Posted by SSG_RedPanda
Or maybe, start saving some money! I gladly pay 39$ for real content.. It's not expensive, dude. You should be happy that it's even possible to buy with points, it's not all games that do this for their expansions and DLC's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olebenny
Yep. It's the reason I shall only buy the base pack, and not until the servers actually go down to patch for the Expac.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olebenny
Give me the choice and I might pre-order, I might go for a higher one, or I might pay with LP ... I've done a mix pre-Mordor ... take away that choice & I'll pay as late & little as possible.
When Mordor editions had the high elf included only in the higher ones and not the base edition people complained about the combination with the Aria, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisgrat
I remember an interview where devs said that the comments of not wanting a new race had led to moving it to the more expensive editions and just including the Aria.
Would have preferred both things to be included.
That's 179$ Canadian Funds, this is ridiculous! Cant something be done about this SSG?
picked up my ultimate thing earlier today. still waiting for the email to confirm purchase. :(
Spending any money on a product that isn't even in beta is absurd.Quote:
Originally Posted by LotroVidz
Explain please, if i have VIP status do i need to buy Minas Morgul ? or Minas Morgul free for VIP ?
Thanks
At this point i would like to remember everyone what SSG did with the Mordor-expansion!
There was 4 betas for it, and we got such an unfinished garbage, that it was hard to play at all.
Instances: Naerband is broken since SSG launched it and SSG has no intention to fix anything.
Also don't forget, was SSG did with the barter jewellery and with the essences! (within two months we got 3 new essence tiers)
Remember all the promised things:
- finish class update : not in sight!
- class balance: not in sight!
- fix bugs instead of re-implement them again and again: not in sight!
and and and ....
If some one pre-order, it is totally his/her choice, but be aware, that - depending on what you pre-order - all what you may get at the end, is a cosmetic armour, because the content will be broken, the instances will be broken, your hared earned stuff will be worthless as you reach level 130 and the grind will be once again increased.
Just keep in mind that this company is not only not willing to learn from their mistakes but rather has the intention to repeat them again and again!
Well when it comes to this game I agree!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smapper
This is what i expect from this expansion:
1. No instances on release day, we have to wait 4 weeks+ for any group content.
2. Raid won't be available until 8 weeks after release date.
3. You will be able to get endgame gear from lootboxes
4. A majority of the instances will be 3-mans that makes some classes useless because SSG cant balance them.
5. No new skills for any classes, no surprise since when did we get new skills anyway huh?
6. Insane increase of power on all LI's , that will once again force us to use store or do old content for scrolls.
7. Faceroll landscape since SSG doesn't know how other MMOs fix this by making old gear obsolete and give us new landscape gear from quests.
8. Players will be maxed level in an hour by farming WP.
Sorry for coming off so negative but they have a lot to prove since Mordor release to gain my trust.
On MARCH for Lotro points?! Cmooon, please, don't do that! Change it to the end of November. All people that want, will buy it before for real money. March is too far!
Until I know what "Besieged Mordor" means I shan't be committing any money to this expansion. Previously with Moria, Rohan, Mordor, etc., I've had a reasonable idea of what to expect but this is just too vague at the moment.
What are these "Three Relics for all characters", can we get any more information?
Nothing else catched my attention so it might be a selling point.
Everyone has to buy it. Not free for VIPs.Quote:
Originally Posted by firesky
Yep another broken mess but according to one person a month for beta is more then enough time. SMH I remember Isengard's release & how much stuff was broken in that & how peeved players were & that had several months of beta. This is not even getting a full month. Then SSG has the nerve to ask the ridiculous prices that they are for the expansion, If they had planned on releasing an expansion this year they should have announced it earlier this year & should have started beta some time in the summer. I just cannot see rewarding SSG by spending money on this mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaerArianrhod
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Originally Posted by Smapper
This.
And yet, I'm sure some will anyway.
I've already seen a player with the new Ultimate cosmetic armour in game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Narthalion
I can sort of respect the bravado of announcing an October release date for something that isn't even ready for beta at the end of September, but there's no way this is going to manage an even halfway decent release on that timeline. At this point, the pre-order isn't even asking people to accept on faith that this expansion will be good based on a previous track record, it's basically saying "well, yeah, the last THREE (four if you count Isengard, as while it was eventually vindicated due to future expansions being even worse, it did launch in a pretty sorry state) expansions launched broken and half-finished and some of those issues were never fixed, but this time, this time will be different! for realsies!". Of course there is some core userbase that will buy anything so long as SSG manages to hold onto the Lord of the Rings IP, and they have of course already bought the biggest, most expensive pack in support of half-finished (honestly, maybe quarter-finished at this rate) content that comes out on schedule darn it!
Up for purchase for LP in March 2020? At this point RELEASED March 2020 would be ambitious, if the intent was to put out a polished product given their team size and track record.
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Originally Posted by Zalena1976
You're "sure", are you?
Just in case you're interested, there are literally HUNDREDS of those "better ideas" you referred to on these very forums from players' suggestions over the last several years. The vast majority of them have never been responded to by the Devs.
My apologies if this sounds harsh. I'm just a bit tired of certain people assuming that the way the Devs are doing things is the ONLY way to keep the game alive.
By falling back on the formerly time-honored but now basically abandoned tradition of putting out a quality product that people are willing to put money into (rather than just pushing out anything with art assets attached to it knowing someone somewhere will pay for it), and maintaining a game that doesn't lock new players behind a soul-crushing wall of legendary weapon grind to get to the point where they're cap-viable (conveniently skippable by spending a not insignificant sum of money!) that only gets bigger every year and will never be removed because it's so easily monetized?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zalena1976
(I would have responded to this in my previous post but only caught it when it was quoted, so apologies for not seeing it earlier)
Literally zero incentive to purchase any of these expansion tiers right now.
Cool, you get some cosmetics. Its like polishing a potential #### and showing off something shiny.
We have literally no idea what is coming in the expansion and frankly I have little faith the expansion will address any of the core issues with the game (LIs, Essence grind, crafting grind).
Not to mention the vaguely worded instances promise. They literally NEVER fixed the 6 man instance in mordor. Why do ANY of you have faith that any of these instances will be functional at all? Ever?
Assuming they are classic instances and not 4 crafting instances and a hodge podge filikul 3 man, 6 man, and 12 man.
But hey, at least the Whales have something to entertain them.
I'd like to add this to the list of questions:
I'd like to know which kind of item it is (which slot it's gonna take in gear) and up to which level is it gonna be equippable.
It'd help to gauge how useful the item is in relation to the ones that we already have from previous pre-purchases.
Edit: it's an earring, very similar to the high-elf gift from mordor pre-puchase, and it gives XP up to lvl 120. So, not that useful.
The way people think in LotRO is literally fallacious reasoning, this here would be the gambler's fallacy, the idea that since every other round was a failure, this one ought to be the one that will be good instead of learning from the past. Lotro has officially found a player base which will eat up whatever it gives it without a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Narthalion