Quote Originally Posted by CaptainBoots View Post
I'll ask you the same question .. why? Nothing changes for you at all other than you get some perks you didn't get previously. You continue to be a VIP member FOR LIFE and FOR FREE. The other people who pay nothing get an intensely limited game experience. (see above where I point out the many things they'll be missing such as limited chat, mail, AH services and no Monster Play, very limited character slots etc etc etc.

To reiterate, as a LIFETIME VIP member you continue to get the same game PLUS a few perks.
You know what changes? LOTRO. That is the point. I would have never shelled out for a lifetime membership to a F2P MMO. I don't like them, that is why I don't play them. I am ticked that I have now bought into one inadvertently.