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• • Why so many free keys?

  • Originally posted by Wicoa
    

    Originally posted by SaibotKang
    

    The game is pretty much dead. If it wasnt they wouldnt have given me a free account like last year sometime with 3 months free play on it, only to offer me a couple of more free months a short time later and the prospect of yet more free time should I recruit anyone to pay for the game. Healthy MMO's dont do all of that. Ill say the game is very fun now and its got a lot of good things going for it. Theres just nobody playing it. Most people just look at Antonia Bayle and think the game is doing fine on the merit of that one server when thats simply not the case. And the community on AB is garbage anyways.

     

    I think what you are generally refering to is marketing "ding"

    Which I have found soe to be extremely good at.

    
     

    Haha yeah its a marketing ding alright. Considering Ive been a subrciber to a good dozen MMO's over the last 8 years or so and I havent encountered any marketing strategies anywhere near this drastic its hard to call it anything except desperation. And we all know how well SOE markets their games, since EQ2 is apparently their flagship MMO and it lies on life support with the rest of the mediocre sony lineup on all access pass.

    Seriously, SOE exremely good at marketing? Hahaha oh yeah thats precious. How many times did they repackage SWG and ship it as "THE SUPER ULTIMATE COMPLETE ADVENTURES, WERE FUCKIN SERIOUS THIS TIME DAWG" only to have it fail miserably to stop the leakage. They bought out another strong IP in matrix online, which should be bringing in subs like a guitar player drops panties just on the name alone, and instead of improving it and marketing it as under new management they just pushed it to the side and let it rot. SOE couldnt market a free aids cure in africa.

    And dont even get me started on how they handled publishing rights for PotBS. That game was hyped up to hell just mostly from word of mouth with very little in the way of real advertising and SOE gets that job handed to them and you have the most uneventful unrecorded major MMO launch in recent memory, did they even try? Yes the game sucked anyways, but so did AoC and they still manage to get plenty of good press. Funcom is a terrible company yet they are is 10x SOE's superior when it comes to hyping a game.

     
  • Posted: 7/15/08 4:09 PM
    Everquest II
• • Why so many free keys?

  • The game is pretty much dead. If it wasnt they wouldnt have given me a free account like last year sometime with 3 months free play on it, only to offer me a couple of more free months a short time later and the prospect of yet more free time should I recruit anyone to pay for the game. Healthy MMO's dont do all of that. Ill say the game is very fun now and its got a lot of good things going for it. Theres just nobody playing it. Most people just look at Antonia Bayle and think the game is doing fine on the merit of that one server when thats simply not the case. And the community on AB is garbage anyways.

  • Posted: 7/15/08 4:33 AM
    Everquest II
• • The Future???

  • Theres already a balrog in the game if Im not mistaken so I dont see whats stopping them from adding one in Moria. They can just use the age old "well you dont know that there wasnt another balrog in moria" line and it will all be good with the lore.

  • Posted: 7/07/08 10:07 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • This game worth it?

  • If you didnt like it then you're probably not going to like it now. There have been some changes but nothing thats going to completely change your whole perspective on the game. Especially at lower levels the game is for all purposes the exact same as it was at launch.

  • Posted: 7/07/08 6:22 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • I like the small things about LOTRO

  • Just wanted to let you know since you mentioned it in your post that offensive deeds/traits like for a certain attack wont update if you use the attack against grey mobs, you have to use it at least against green or higher to increment the deed. But if the deed doesnt relate to one of your offensive combat abilities it can still be updated regardless, like on burglar I had to evade 500 attacks for an awesome trait and against grey mobs that went quite fast.

    And yes the goblins are very annoying especially at that level when tanking 2-3 mobs is a pain in the ass. What I usually did against them is wait until I get them down to considerable low health and then use my stun so that I can finish them off before they turn and run.

  • Posted: 7/07/08 6:19 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online