PVP in LOTR Online
Looking at PvP for LOTRO is different than any other MMORPG to me. LOTR has been around for over half a century and has a large and loyal following. Locations, events, races and all other sorts of information like this are well known to many people. So this means you have to decide to either try to remain true to the “Lore” or not.
Now there are two extremes; the first is the “strictly by the book” extreme which is almost impossible to do in an MMORPG and keep the game enjoyable for a large number of people. The other extreme is the one that just wants the LOTR images and does not care about the books or story. Now the argument can be made that having thousands of elves running around Gondor is immersion breaking and that would be correct to a point. The developers have to decide where between those two extremes to draw the line. Anything that deviates from the “lore” is technically immersion breaking. So it appears they are trying to stay as close to the lore as possible while bending some to make the game enjoyable to as many as possible.
I am going to try to look for ideas that fit in between these two extremes. With the development team saying that there will be no PvP and alternatives are required I am also going to try to address that as well as addressing some of the “cons” of PvP. [Read More]
Now there are two extremes; the first is the “strictly by the book” extreme which is almost impossible to do in an MMORPG and keep the game enjoyable for a large number of people. The other extreme is the one that just wants the LOTR images and does not care about the books or story. Now the argument can be made that having thousands of elves running around Gondor is immersion breaking and that would be correct to a point. The developers have to decide where between those two extremes to draw the line. Anything that deviates from the “lore” is technically immersion breaking. So it appears they are trying to stay as close to the lore as possible while bending some to make the game enjoyable to as many as possible.
I am going to try to look for ideas that fit in between these two extremes. With the development team saying that there will be no PvP and alternatives are required I am also going to try to address that as well as addressing some of the “cons” of PvP. [Read More]
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