If I like WoW so much then why…

[mikejl]

Am I having fun playing LOTR MMO?

I love WoW lore, the Horde, music art style and how smooth it plays on my aged PC.


Quick background on me:
- Like to enjoy questing PvE
- Small groups (not big on raiding)
- Not big on PvP. Rather play TF2 for that kind if action

All things look as WoW is better than LOTRO .. still

If this is true why do I find myself having a blast playing LOTR?

Anyone else board with WoW?

Any one else paying LOTRO or another MMO besides WoW at this time?

[styles]

I played the beta for it and didn't like it at all, however i do love WOW (PVP only) don't care for raids or pve, im all about the pvp baby!

I do have a few other MMORPGS installed, from time to time i play Lineage II and UO

[mikejl]

I did the open "stress test week" beta for LOTR also. And had the same feeling. Guess I was also in full BC questing mode .. so nothing could have taken me away from WoW at that time.

Thanks for the reply. Any others done any non WoW MMO?

I have my eye on the Age of Conan MMO. Too bad it slipped till end of May.

[balthezor]

You are just burnt out on WoW. Happened to me several times since I started the game back when it was first release. Everyone needs a break from it. I am also looking forward for Conan. I hope it is so good, so I can leave and finally move on from WoW.

[reemixx]

I got bored with WoW when I got to level 56. Wasn't even interested in reaching 60 at the time, so I stopped.

I think all MMO's have an expiry date at some point. They get monotonous and boring and eventually you just lose interest. Of course there's exceptions to this, and it's usually when your buddies are playing and you're having a ton of fun all together etc. Or when they bring in new stuff and reinvent the game periodically. But ultimately, you're still playing the same game, and after playing it for a year or two or three, it's natural to start craving a NEW experience.

I've played a few different MMO's in my day, my favourite of all being Star Wars Galaxies. I truly think this is the greatest MMORPG of all time. But that doesn't mean I didn't get bored of it either. I stopped playing for a while, and when I came back to it they'd changed the whole combat system and everything (the infamous SWG screwup).

I'm playing Tabula Rasa now, and whilst I'm loving it to bits, I know I'll get bored with it at some point.

I say, if you like MMO's and are able to afford trying new ones, then go for it. Play what you enjoy, without trying to analyse it so much. Games are meant to be about having fun. If you're digging LoTR at the moment, then good for you :)

[habs-geek]

I did the WoW trial, but my internet crashed for about 2 months a couple days in. Got my internet back and got hooked on lotro. My experience, admittedly very brief, in WoW just did not even remotely measure up to lotro. Maybe it's just because I've been a huge Tolkein fan for years and years, but I'm not sure I've ever been as addicted and had as much fun in a video game as with lotro.

[scoobydiesel]

I play wow for my friends...I get bord pretty fast...given I'm only a lvl 26 so meh

[rokov]

When I get bored I just roll a new toon, I'll probably never reach the level cap, but I'm having fun.:D

[kristen_]

I will never forgive LOTR online for those stupid running quests carrying the pails of water. Some were even repeatable! Nah, sorry I think WOW trumps LOTR.
Did anyone play Lineage 2 :( I miss open pvp.

[kristen_]

I played the beta for it and didn't like it at all, however i do love WOW (PVP only) don't care for raids or pve, im all about the pvp baby!

I do have a few other MMORPGS installed, from time to time i play Lineage II and UO

I must've missed this - how long have you been playing?

[r3v]

I played WoW since the Alpha. (The Tri-Horde push phase, in case anyone was around and wondering.) I got my Undead Warlock up to 60 well before Burning Crusade hit and got a Hunter to the low 50s (mostly for the PVP). I was pretty much done, until we got together a five-man group who would play regularly, weekly. The goal was to level together and do all the instances together.

THAT was a blast. I played with them from 1-64 or so with my undead Warrior, until I just got insanely tired of the repetition. Sunder, Sunder, blah, blah, blah. PVP as a Protection-specced warrior was fun... mostly because I was hard to kill... I needed help to take down most anybody. I could fight a Paladin all day... no, seriously, neither of us could kill each other.

That time with the group was a lot of fun, tho. It's great having a unified team where you can all figure out your roles and help each other excel. That was the most fun I had in WoW.

We moved on to LoTRo and I enjoy that game far more, as far as the PvE questing and group stuff goes. The storyline is much richer and the world feels more tangible. To be fair, LoTRo has the best fantasy lore, bar none... it helps when your world was created by Tolkein. :)

I had to drop out of the group due to time commitments. :( My Hunter is 24 or so, and the group is now up to their mid thirties I believe. I'd love to catch up, but time does not permit yet.

So, I log on and play LoTRo when I can. I make the tough call between catching my hunter up and monster play. (LoTRo's monster play is also a BLAST, IMO. Especially when either the monsters or the freeps are taking a castle/fort/resource.)

The only other MMO I play currently, is Pirates of the Burning Sea. I don't recommend this game to most people, but I do think the Naval combat is quite fun. (It's just not quite quick enough for players looking for instant gratification.) The swashbuckling aspect is a nice take on melee combat... it's much more simple than say, WoW or LoTRo, and feels like actual swordplay to some degree.

...wow that's a lot more than I intended to write. Go, coffee!

[aerodash84]

I played the LotRO beta, and got pretty bored of it. I played WoW before that and was a bit burnt out on that. I'm back into WoW now, play with some family members and we all lvled characters to run instances. It's a blast to have lan parties for instance runs and such. I don't think I would play much if it weren't for those parties. Also, I have characters in the TR Starter Guild and enjoy chatting with members. LotR just seemed very bland and had issues with animals, monsters, and having to go through portals to enter a room/house. May have just been the beta, but it felt really cheap or something.

[bobwise]

I got bored with WoW at one point and wanted to try out LotRO, but its not available on Macs.

/cry

[connx]

I have been playing MMOs in one form or another since Ultima Online. I played WoW since the game release but I noticed about the time Burning Crusade came out that while I loved the game it was only when my friends were on that I played. If I loged in and I was by myself I just loged off.

I did try the stress test on Lotro and at the time I did not care for it at all. But after being bored with no other MMO to play I decided to pick it up since I had a few friends playing the game. I will say that when it starts up it feels sort of bland but I kept playing because of my friends. Once you hit the late teens to early 20's (level wise) the game seems to pick up and the quests start getting interesting. I do agree that the quest where you have to carry an object and not get hit on the way do suck but they tend to be very little of those. All in all I like what Lotro offers and at the moment it is my favorite MMO. But as stated earlier, sooner or later you will move on to something else.

[scoobydiesel]

Yea Main reaso i have gotten back into Wow the last two weeks besides for my friends is cause it is On mac also.

wish warhammer was on mac

[r3v]

LoTRo runs beautifully in bootcamp on an intel iMac (first gen), btw.

I do wish there were more Mac MMOs, though. I hate dualbooting. I tried EVE Online which has a Mac client, but while it was interesting... it just didn't grab me.

Shame, since I'd love a good non fantasy MMO. Why couldn't Warhammer have been Warhammer 40k?! Blah.