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Edit: oldsneakers beat me to it

For the longest time I have used the item scanner from the Compendium. At some point in the past few months it seems to have broken, as the last thing it picks up is traceries, and I dont pick up...

Lack of content in general has always been Lotro's biggest issue. Mordor had a big landscape endgame but lacked instances, Minas Morgul lacked landscape but had many instances and Gundabad is a mix...

Updated original post for Dwarf-Holds and Vales of Anduin

i was able to log in

Fun at launch, but theres been game breaking issues since. Wouldnt recommend in its current form.

While I believe you can make a successful mmo without an existing ip, I feel these games have much less wiggle room. Player loyalty wont nearly be as strong. For example, a bad design decision in...

Yes, Lotro relies on the IP to carry the game.

There are simply too many issues that plague the game; lack of content, poor itemization, broken game balance, lag, bugs and so on, that if you...

Anor is currently in this weird phase where parts of the Iron Hills/Grey Mountains update is available (because a part of Erebor was added with the Iron Hills/Grey Mountains.) I was able to complete...

Bundles look fine except that dye carry all. Ideally should be a picker box. I would even take a small carry all over a large dye carry all lol

Updated original post for Mordor. Big thank you to Laurelinarien for making it easy this time around and posting everything so fast :)

Compared to the past two expansions, Gundabad is shaping up to be the biggest expansion SSG has made by far. (New class, LI revamp, Gundabad expansion content (which in the Louey7 interview Raninia...

Updated to include 105 rewards. Thought there was a reward for unlocking The Wastes resource instances, but I guess its not cross server.

I think you have to look at the reason for why the update is being made. This year, the Gundabad expansion in the fall is the largest and most important update. So most of the dev work this year will...

Yes, I am aware that Durin woke up in Gundabad. You misunderstood my post.

What I was trying to say is that I will expect an area like the foundations of stone, maybe slightly larger to...

As others have said Moria is the grandest Dwarf city, so Gundabad should be smaller by quite a bit. If I had to guess I would expect it to be the size of 4 or 5 of the Moria zones. Something like:
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If putting the set bonuses back into the loot table causes issues, then just expand the vendor and make the set bonus gear barterable for morgul crests or some other token.

To me, the two biggest issues with MM/Langflood/WOTP was:

Content - just a general overall lack of content at endgame.
Itemization - Boring and uninspired, has no desire to run higher tiers for...

As others have stated, the biggest issue with t4/t5 is simply the number of players that have completed the tiers. I personally cant justify spending dev time on something that only a few hundred...

I still play because Lotro does a lot of things well imo.

However the things Lotro doesnt do well just so happen to be the most important things for MMO's. Lack of content and poor/boring...

According to the investor presentation released last fall, Lotro's Year to Date bookings, as of September 30th 2020, was 9.9 million.

Adding in October, November, December and January, which...

$20 a month subscription.

All store content is distributed throughout the game so it can be earned through playing.

Any locks/caps are removed.

All content already released is free.
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Updated original post to include Gondor Part 1. Again, if any regulars have found something I missed, please let me know.

To me, SSG's biggest issue is that they are creating less content with more work. Some examples of this:

The Instance Tier System - Currently we have 2-4 boss instances with 5 tiers, as well as...

The main thing you are missing is that Lotro devs are split into teams. The content team makes the quests/instance/raids while the systems team does class work, LI work, balance work etc.

So...