The whole point is irrelevent since Lotro's popularity has nothing to do with anything here. You argued that it is still pretty successful with lots of people playing it, and compared it to other older games that don't have the same advantage. The original comment was that Lotro shouldn't be copied because it's not successful. Never the right items, never quick enough to get them, never enough of them. Admittedly it doesn't help that they used to give out loot boxes, which gave people time to hope they might get something they wanted before finding out they get a random hat, but even when they did that it was never enough.
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Elder Scrolls Online does this, their login rewards include a cosmetic item each month (usually something small, a hat, a pet, but sometimes a full outfit or a mount skin or something) and every month there's people on the forum complaining it's not good enough or even that it's insulting (all the usual "this is a slap in the face to loyal players who make the tremendous effort to log in for 14 days in a month" stuff). I think the same would happen if they included cosmetics. If they gave out similar items through the gem store it would probably go the same way - players would forget to pick them up or start complaining that it's not good enough and they want something more appealing. The argument wasn't really if LOTRO had an advantage by having a popular brand behind it.Īlso wasn't claiming that giving away free stuff is what makes LOTRO succesful.Īs other people have pointed out you already get 4 free gem store items every 28 days and apparently it's such a great gift that many people forget about it. Doesn't really matter if one has a popular brand behind it and the other doesn't.ĭoesn't change that the others falled behind, but the other is still having decent success. But I don't understand what's wrong with comparing it to other mmo's that have come and gone though. LOTRO would be dead today without taking place in the LOTR universe.
I don't really think giving away stuff in the gem store regularly will hurt the game, or particularly help it. Lord of the Rings makes it successful as Middle Earth has tons of fans. Regardless of that, and more on topic, the idea of giving something free in the store isn't what makes Lotro successful or not successful. You'd have to compare Lotro to something like Star Wars for a fair comparison. Final Fantasy and WoW were both based on popular franchises as well. But the fact that LOTRO is still making profits and having a loyal fanbase, while wildstar, rift and all these other big shots come and go is what I would call a success.Ĭomparing Lord of the Rings to Wildstar and Rift is a bit rich, considering no one had heard of either before they were actually talked about by the devs, where as Lord of the Rings is a book that was written well over half a century ago, has multiple movies associated with it, has spawned a number of computer games. Will WoW and FFXIV have to run in fear? Not even close. According to a shareholder meeting in 2020 it was presented that the game has about 40k subs and averaged 118k monthly users.
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