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• • Time Warner invests $40 mil. to Turbine: for what??

  • I see now that JRR sold the rights to United Artists in the 1960s and Zaentz aquired the rights in the 1970s. (http://www.xenite.org/faqs/lotr_movie/news_0000/486.html).  Still, there is no question but that Zaentz has kept a close hand on the way LoTRO is protrayed.  I know that in producing the LoTR card game, Decipher had to send every card to Tolkien Enterprises to get their approval of the cards (I can't link to that, this was information told to the product champions (Riders) in emails.)  When they changed the cards as the result of testing, they often had to send them back TO Tolkien Enterprises to get them improved.  It resulted in some interesting times trying to get everything okayed in time for release.

  • Posted: 6/06/08 11:56 AM
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• • Time Warner invests $40 mil. to Turbine: for what??

  • Originally posted by logicbox9
    

    Originally posted by Jirel
    

     

    Originally posted by Kyleran
    

     

    Originally posted by Adamantine
    

    An a huge title, too.

    AFAIK WoW and Vanguard both "only" had 30 Mio for their development.

     

     

    Better double check your facts.  By all accounts WOW's initial release cost roughly 75M to develop and far more has gone into it since.  (not that they can't afford it)

    Can't see 40M going into just LotRO expansions, but if so maybe Turbine's going to "NGE-it" and give it a major overall haul (such as adding meaningful pvp) to try and increase the player base.

     

     

    Your comment about adding meaningful pvp to LoTRO just proves that you don't understand the game or the limitations of their liscense.  As they have said MANY TIMES on thier boards, The Tolkien family who control the liscense will not allow any PVP other than the monster PVP.

    Just so you know, you're wrong. The family has no say... they own the rights to the Similarrion and the history of middle earth series or w/e... JRR sold off the rights years ago to a guy named Sal, who operates under the name Tolkien Enterprises.

    
    If JRR himself actually sold the rights then he sold them to someone he KNEW would keep them to his personal standards.  The man had a very strict Christian background and would never have okayed any type of people playing the "bad guys".

  • Posted: 6/06/08 11:49 AM
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• • coming back to gaming and need an idea

  • What do you think of Stargate Worlds?  They aren't do to come out until 4th quarter this year or 1st quarter next but I'm kind of excited by them.  There are different advancement lines depending on profession, scientist should not even need to kill anyone to advance (others will of course) and the worlds will of course be accessed via a Stargate.

  • Posted: 6/06/08 11:40 AM
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• • Time Warner invests $40 mil. to Turbine: for what??

  • Originally posted by Kyleran
    

     

    Originally posted by Adamantine
    

    An a huge title, too.

    AFAIK WoW and Vanguard both "only" had 30 Mio for their development.

     

     

    Better double check your facts.  By all accounts WOW's initial release cost roughly 75M to develop and far more has gone into it since.  (not that they can't afford it)

    Can't see 40M going into just LotRO expansions, but if so maybe Turbine's going to "NGE-it" and give it a major overall haul (such as adding meaningful pvp) to try and increase the player base.

     

    Your comment about adding meaningful pvp to LoTRO just proves that you don't understand the game or the limitations of their liscense.  As they have said MANY TIMES on thier boards, The Tolkien family who control the liscense will not allow any PVP other than the monster PVP.

  • Posted: 6/05/08 12:34 PM
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• • Funcom deals coup-de-grace to MMORPG's

  • "and Turbine makes copy of WOW with LOTR skin..."

    Your logic on that statement alone is poor enough that I'm not even going to try to pay attention to the rest.  If you can't compare games any better than that, then you do not have good logic.

  • Posted: 6/05/08 12:28 PM
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