Is this game still Freemium?

[Captain Geriatric]

I heard good things about the recent update. How fun is the game right now for "free" players?

Be objective please. Fanboyism is unnecessary.

[Lazlow666]

I think buying piece by piece is better, if you like the game up until 95 buy an expansion. But to put a subsribe on top of that is just too much, at least make the older expansions free to subs and keep only the newest one under a price lock. Anyway, still waiting answer to my question.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Publicado originalmente por Silent Möbius:

Publicado originalmente por Lazlow666:

Too much to read here. Also what if you buy vip, select a legendary server to play on, what happens if you stop paying, you lose access to that server?

I personally won't play it. It's still brutally Freemium and in my personal opinion an absolute life service scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNmG4Na9MQ

The link shows you a video what you still have to buy or what you miss out as a freeplayer. I don't care if you guys love the game or not, everyones own decision but i just hate it when something is sold piece by piece and this is ridicolous.

You missed the point. Some of the content described in the video is also being offered for players who play during the anniversary event and everything else will easily be unlocked by playing without having to pay at all or grind much if at all (unless you're just speedrunning the main quest).
If you had checked before the release of the latest expansion you'd also have snagged a code for every non expansion quest pack which, couple with the ongoing expansions giveaway, would mean you have every piece of content available except for newest expansion and the new 2 low level regions.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Publicado originalmente por Lazlow666:

I think buying piece by piece is better, if you like the game up until 95 buy an expansion. But to put a subsribe on top of that is just too much, at least make the older expansions free to subs and keep only the newest one under a price lock. Anyway, still waiting answer to my question.

Vips (only relevant for people who stary playing after the ongoing anniversary) will have access to all expansions except the newest one.

Publicado originalmente por Lazlow666:

Too much to read here. Also what if you buy vip, select a legendary server to play on, what happens if you stop paying, you lose access to that server?

You lose access to the server while not vip.

[Longhaul]

So i got back into this one recently. Question about those level boosts.. 50, 105 and 120 i think I got along with all kinds of goodies and cosmetics. Do you only get all that stuff for one character? Or do all your characters get it.. i only have the one hobbit. Or is it one character per game world?

I would prefer to level without them... play through the story. Then maybe use one on a new char.. dunno.

[Berserkr]

Each valar is only good for one character (they have virtue xp tomes though that can be used on any character though), but once a valar is open its all bound to that character so make sure who ever you want to use it on has it before right clicking. If you don't want to use them to pass content some people on forums suggested to use them at lv 49-104-119, the 104 and 119 ones will give you decent her0 gear and you'll still have the virtue xp

[Lazlow666]

Publicado originalmente por Lazlow666:

Too much to read here. Also what if you buy vip, select a legendary server to play on, what happens if you stop paying, you lose access to that server?

You lose access to the server while not vip. [/quote]
So the char just gets server locked not automatically transfered? Why i'm asking is much more about if i don't have time to play the game i'm not gonna pay them for a month extra. So it's not gonna be an auto transfer then when i buy sub again i have to pay for transfer too.

[Elitewrecker PT]

You can't transfer characters to the legendary servers anyway, at best you'd be able to transfer them out if you won't want to VIP anymore but not back in. The character would stay in that server until a time where you decide to pay VIP again and you can access it again.
In the meantime you either don't play LOTRO, or make an alt in a regular server.
What legendary server is appealing to you?

[Lazlow666]

Honestly i have no idea, i'm new. Played for 1 hour last night.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Are you aware of the difference between the legendary severs and the normal servers?

[Lazlow666]

Nope. I was just expecting people who are paying to be a bit more invested in the game than those who don't. I'm just trying to get my fix until wotlk classic starts.

[Elitewrecker PT]

So, the legendary servers:
You have one with higher exp gains (Shadowfax)
One with slower exp gains (Treebeard)
And one with normal exp gain.

All of them started with the original release content, and are progressively unlocking the already existing content in the order it was released. Anor, the normal one, is the furthest one ahead since it's been open for a while now.

So:
Starting in Anor is basically no different than playing in a normal server because it's quite ahead in the endgame content compared to the other two and before you got there it'd probably be up to date.
That leaves Shadowfax and Treebeard as relevant choices, in case you want a quicker or slower progression and to be closer to the max level players compared to the normal servers.

[Lazlow666]

So treebeard is more for a grinder e xperience. Good to know, thanks.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Not exactly. A common complaint of people who want to experience content in a decent difficulty is that, while going through all the quests in a region, you'll easily outlevel them. In treebard, exp gains are reduced so that doesn't happen. Going through quests in a region isn't really "grinding".
The grinding of content for gear (like instances or raids) isn't changed as far as I'm aware.

[omegazeda]

How much does the free content of LOTRO compare to free content of ff14(trial), which one has overly more content?

[Elitewrecker PT]

Start playing now and you can get like >90% of the content without having to pay anything.