Having seen that Turbine keeps breaking their promises about the store over and over, with the recent addition of low level stat armour its the last straw. Sure the armour isn't end game stuff but if this is allowed what prevents Turbine to add end game armour and stuff. Also an issue is that when Turbine releases content it contains a long list of known and unknown bugs, sure i can understand its very difficult to make software bug free, but the sheer amount and severity of the bugs is great. To name the pit of iron as an example.

I had great fun over the last 4 years with lotro at Codemasters and then Turbine, but my journey is coming to the end. My sorrow in Turbine's Middle Earth has grown to greatly and I fear I have to set sail to the west. Perhaps I will venture into another MMO that hasn't yet introduced micro transactions.

Now because I have a lifetime sub I see no reason to cancel it as it doesn't give Turbine anything, but I can say Isengard will be the last 'Expansion' I have bought. And I will not buy anything from the store anymore even if its from the points I gather for being a lifetime member.

For what it's worth I hope Turbine will see what it has been doing and turn around before it is too late.

Be at peace my fellow travellers and may the light of Elbereth watch over you.