new LOTR MMO announced

[lefty1117]

Looks like we'll finally get a new MMO with some money behind it. Modern tech, real actual security for your accounts, and ongoing active support for at least a few years. Probably still a few years off but at least there's hope. Can't wait to get into a modern LOTR MMO.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/the-new-world-studio-is-making-a-new-lord-of-the-rings-mmo/ar-AA1bdoYj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0a704f3e3ab041b0a2c177b9142ac0a0&ei=12

[Lyric]

LOTRO was a labor of love. The new game will be a cash grab. There's no topping LOTRO, no matter how good the modernization and optimization.

[Wenzilber]

The game is not even out yet so it's not fair to judge it at the moment.

But basing off what the developer has done in the recent past, I think it's going to be full action paced gamepad button masher MMO rather than a story telling MMO-RPG. If not, like a Diablo-esque MMO.

But who knows? Maybe they'll end up doing something similar to what SWTOR does but in the LotR universe.

I personally think that the New World game was supposed to be their Lord of the Rings MMO but they didn't get the required license.

[Allwynd]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lyric:

LOTRO was a labor of love. The new game will be a cash grab. There's no topping LOTRO, no matter how good the modernization and optimization.

LOTRO WAS a labor of love, when it was developed by Turbine. Now it's a cash grab too. All the changes that they have made (or didn't make when needed) show their complete disregard and hate for their players. Everything they do is for money, a marketing stunt.

Between early 2021 and early 2023, I was of the mind that LOTRO was an OK MMORPG, the last bastion to experience Middle Earth, I bought the game, all the expansions and VIP, but now I won't touch that POS game anymore. It just isn't worth it anymore, the developers are making a mockery out of their players.

But recently, I was given a reality check and found out that LOTRO and SSG don't care about their players, they only care about money and their public image, they will turn the game into a circus full of clowns if it makes them more money before they fix anything, like performance, lag, or their horrible launcher.

The new game will somehow manage to be bigger trash than LOTRO, which isn't hard to achieve these days. For that I agree with you - it will have its own custom universe, vaguely inspired by Middle Earth and it will be the same cringe letdown as New World. If AGS can't fix their magnum opus MMORPG, where they have complete creative freedom, for so long and keep bleeding players, then there is no hope for them to create something better.

The only hope would be a time machine - develop the game in the 2003-2006 range and send it in 2023. That's the only way to have a game that's not complete woke trash with vapid world, substance and story.

[Pythax]

No interest in anything LOTR or MMO related from Amazon, they have a terrible track record on both fronts. LOTRO has and always will have a place in my heart.

[KingCoward]

I dont understand why there arent more LOTR based games in development, such a wealth of rich lore ready to be turned into a highly detailed single-player RPG.. yet there is nothing except cheap trash like the recent gollum game.

[Anapoda]

Amazon? Yeah, well, no thank you.

I don't want the meat of it and i don't want it raw.

[Jimothy]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von KingCoward:

I dont understand why there arent more LOTR based games in development, such a wealth of rich lore ready to be turned into a highly detailed single-player RPG.. yet there is nothing except cheap trash like the recent gollum game.

There's still copyright on it so you need to pay licensing fees. Which makes it super easy for big companies to get in while medium/indie companies are restricted entry because of that.

You basically need a full time lawyer talking to the copyright lawyers handling things, which the big companies will have by default, will be about an extra $100,000/year just in lawyer fees so they don't get sued or have the license revoked.

Passion projects are gatekept from even trying. I think it's around 2050 when it's finally public domain, maybe a little sooner. When that happens there's guaranteed to be a million new LOTR projects everywhere.

[carbonfibre]

The problem nowadays is the game will need to appeal to everyone. Sounds great on paper but it will need to be simplified. Probably have 5 or 6 skills to accommodate controllers, a basic levelling system, very little risk when exploring. Source material will be mutilated. It won't take any risks and will do the minimum to milk a community.

Or in a moment of optimism, it will have dozens of skills, a complex levelling system, quests full of variety, landscapes that will kill you if not levelled properly and will stick to some vision of the source material that is coherent.

[Berserkr]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von carbonfibre:

The problem nowadays is the game will need to appeal to everyone. Sounds great on paper but it will need to be simplified. Probably have 5 or 6 skills to accommodate controllers, a basic levelling system, very little risk when exploring. Source material will be mutilated. It won't take any risks and will do the minimum to milk a community.

Or in a moment of optimism, it will have dozens of skills, a complex levelling system, quests full of variety, landscapes that will kill you if not levelled properly and will stick to some vision of the source material that is coherent.

Well it's almost 10:20 PM where I live but you win the internet for today
Sadly it'll more than likely be the former

[Mehrshad]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von lefty1117:

Looks like we'll finally get a new MMO with some money behind it. Modern tech, real actual security for your accounts, and ongoing active support for at least a few years. Probably still a few years off but at least there's hope. Can't wait to get into a modern LOTR MMO.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/the-new-world-studio-is-making-a-new-lord-of-the-rings-mmo/ar-AA1bdoYj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0a704f3e3ab041b0a2c177b9142ac0a0&ei=12

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