Lord of the Rings Online Turbine Talks LOTRO with Warcry Dev Chat

[Martuk]

Turbine recently spoke with Warcry in an IRC Developer's Chat to talk about Lord of the Rings Online. Several of Turbine's staff fielded questions from participants and addressed concerns about Legendary Items, Radiance Gear and a number of other things enquiring minds wanted to know about.

WarCry: Ryuuroden: Has any thought been made to making a new multi-boss 12 man instance that does not require radiance, as an alternative to "gating up" for places like the new DN 12 man?

Orion: While we have not really talked about removing radiance from 12-man raids, see previous statements, we are constantly looking for new ways to improve the end game and provide players with many avenues of advancement once they have reached current maximum level. There are some interesting ideas in the works, but we are hesitant to share too much of that information at this time because many of the design ideas are still in a state of flux.

You can read the full transcript here.

[Khalus]

Not happy at all with most of their responses. Especially with the term use of End-Game, Grinding, Instance Farming for set-gear...etc etc etc! LOTRO started out without an end-game and now that's what its all about...make everything solo and really easy to funnel players casual or not as quickly as possible to the end and wait for the next update and farm some more. Crafting has been nerfed to useless now, and it'll never allow us to make equal LI or gear anymore...Turbine wants us to farm instances instead for them!

Another point I really hate is the constant class balancing and changes they keep doing and its all because of the PvMP. Just kick PvMP out of the game, as LOTRO is a PvE game through and through and should never have gone that way.

I sure hope to all hellz that FFXIV stays PvE and Squeenix doesn't try to add some dumb PvP to it, or more to it than the current FFXI methods. Keep PvE and PvP as seperate as possible becuase yes a BLM should be able to cast a spell that hits for 10 times more powerful than a single sword strike, and yes a Ranger should be able to do way more ranged dmg than a Samurai with a bow...hehe

After all the LOTRO changes and the announcement of FFXIV at the current moment I have no plans to ever return to LOTRO now!