is lotro a virus

[bigbenfire101]

i have some people saying this game is a virus can i get some actualy player opienion

[Saher Saymulla]

nope

[inter#2]

nope

[Edelweiss ✿]

poe's law is strong here

[GothicHM]

only in the sense that if you start playing you may never be cured

[Cleatus]

No.

[wolfzapzap]

LOtro isn't a virus

[Elaini]

What? LOL...

It would be a fancy thing for a virus, I tell you... and suspiciously heavy in filesize, too.

No. It's not a virus. But it's infectious fun.

[Jinji Bones]

lol no it is not a virus, it i one of the more popular mmos out there

[karenscomp]

they no dam virus in that game i watch hobbit and lord of the ring complete films i don't like lies about virures to this games is not funny and not joke.

[SeriousCCIE]

What you are referring to is likely the previous distribution method they had embraced at one time, which was the "pando" installer, that made a peer-to-peer download topology and utilized your upload bandwidth to seed downloads for other people--as well as acting as an ad delivery network to help reduce the costs of distribution.

The Hi-Def texture package was very large (still is!) and was quite a problem for them to distribute until they began to utilize the Akamai CDN network for content delivery, and of course Steam.

Pando itself was not a virus, but people believed it acted like one. Windows 10 has a similar method enabled to help with the distribution of service packs, and also displays personalized marketing based on monitored activities, so the definition of "virus" has changed over time. I'm not judging it.

This game, as distributed by Steam, does not do any of those things and I suggest you give it a try since its free to play and the ability to earn in-game currency you can spend on account upgrades and such is one of the most reasonable methods I've seen out there. I think they did the whole free-to-play thing very well over all (not perfect... but very well over all).

[Lordfulger]

Lotro is a virus because once it takes its hold on you, it will spread to every last cell in your body and reprogramm your DNA to produce more virus' to infect more of your cells. So far it has taken 365 billion of my cells away.

[76561198288615675]

I have played the game myself here on Steam. I got a firewall warning that the game is not safe, but that wasn't from my Antivirus, only Windows Defender. I continued playing, and nothing occured. Had no problem at all. You can run a scan and see for yourself.

[Jean]

I think I know what you mean, are you referring to the akamai netsession message that pops up? I thought it was skecthy so I googled it and it's safe but I still denied it access xD

[Running-Target]

the LOTRO launcher and game files is NOT any malware. Whomever told you that is Trolling you.

[Mark]

Like others have said, it's infectious but not contagious.