Has anyone played it? If so, is it fun? A friend and I have been contemplating purchasing it. The reviews have been favorable. I need a substitute for WoW

It's a clone of wow that is less entertaining

Though LotR Online is less cartoony and more enjoyable

It's more like WoW with EQII-ish graphics. I played a little during the stress test and it wasn't all that fun. It's a little better than WoW in some ways but not by much.

I've played both WoW and LOTRO, however I never really liked WoW. Lord of the Rings Online is a really great MMO with an awesome community. Really, I think the community is what set the game apart from any other MMO I have ever played.

People literally role-play in this game. In the few servers that I actually played on during the beta I noticed that almost no one talked out of context (unless they used a specific chat feature to talk out of role-playing context). It made the game far more enjoyable, and not to mention it made forming fellowships and making your own adventure a lot more fun than just creating a regular guild or clan.

One thing that seems to be a huge repeating factor in almost every single MMO is the constant grinding of XP and never ending satisfaction of repetition to better your character. However, I really didn't notice any repetition with LOTRO, as it was one of the very few games where the quests were actually interesting, entertaining and different. Sure it had it's "go out and kill 5 bears and bring me back their hides", but those were more just for getting some quick cash.

All in all I'd recommend the game; however, I missed out on my opportunity to get the $9.99 monthly fee rather than the $15.00 a month or whatever it currently is now. I don't really have the money to dish out for an MMO at the moment, but I have assured myself that it will be on my soon to purchase list.
I hope that helped your decision

I played the beta and thought that it looked quite nice but I didn't much care for the gameplay. There's also no PvP and I can't tolerate that. Age of Conan is where the action is gonna be (fighting while riding your own mount, weaving your own spells, aiming your own bow, etc.).

The game's content is great, and theres definatly fun to be had.

However, its important to realise that the game engine itself is utter crap, as such you will suffer from stuttering and framerate drops even on the best of machines.

Oh and like Oblivion, you'll see the world pop up and shift around you.

I personally can't stand that, but others seem to be fine with it.

The quest are more elaborate too. You'll usually end up reading 10 pages worth of text every day, not that it's a bad thing imo, but for some it makes them lose interest.

There are non-RP servers, right? Talking in character isn't my thing.

this is the only post that needs to be in this thread.

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I have a level 37 Minstrel on Brandywine. I've been playing since closed beta, and the game keeps getting better.

It's more fun than WoW, has better graphics, a good storyline, characters you actually care about, and less grinding.

My only complaint is that there is often a lot of running between quests and objectives. Run here (takes 5 to 10 minutes) run back (5 to 10 minutes) now run to this guy to finish! (3 to 5 minutes). This gets better after 35 when you get a mount.

It's just as boring as every other MMO out there.


Still putting all my hope into Age Of Conan.

Correction. It is a clone of WoW with more innovation.

Beta was fun. Going to wait and see how Sword of the New World plays out before I decide which one I'll be converting to from WoW. Playing instruments and stuff was pretty neat. It seems to be very RP focussed.