Release Nov 18th

[whheydt]

On the subject at hand, though, I have to side with a lot of other people here and ask...if the Big Battles are part of the Epic Story and and "integral part" of the expansion (thus the reason we have to pay for the Epic Story), then why are people at level 10, who are nowhere near said part in the story, able to partake in the Big Battles? And, furthermore, does this mean that going forward that we will have to pay for the Epic Storyline?

It's a "one way latch". You can do the battles at level 10 (I suspect that not many will, except to test the concept), but to do the Epic, you will have to do the battles.

This epic quest thing to me sounds like the first case of an actual about-face of "we'll never do X".

Second, actually. The first was "LotRO will have NO form of PvP."