Finally! This is my favorite free-to-play MMO and I can't recommend it enough. It doesn't have the same level of polish as a lot of new games like Rift or Star Wars: The Old Republic, but it does a great job of immersing you into the lore of Middle Earth. The gameplay is similar to Everquest II, but it does borrow a lot of modern mechanics from World of Warcraft like daily quests and titles.
If you fancy running around as a hobbit, killing Nazgul, or hanging out with Strider, you should give The Lord of the Rings Onlinea try. It's free, so what do you have to lose? If you like it, you can also grab a starter pack on sale right now for $14.99 that will let you ride mounts, gain XP 25% faster, and explore three quest packs. Even if you don't want to drop a dime on it, it's still a fantastic game.
Also, you can play instruments in the game and it's very easy to use text files as sheet music. This leads to many hours of standing around in town doing nothing but playing the lute.
"If you like it, you can also grab a starter pack on sale right now for $14.99 that will let you ride mounts, gain XP 25% faster, and explore three quest packs."
And THAT my friends is all that is wrong with free to play games, and it's the reason I don't play them.
So many more good games need to come to the F2P section of Steam. I'm still waiting for Perfect World published Blacklight Retribution and for Aion to be put back in the store as F2P.
I never really liked LOTRO, it's by far the worst compared to pretty much all the other WoW/EQ clones. The tutorial alone in SWTOR puts all of LOTRO to shame in quality. Maybe if LOTRO visuals and audio would have been more like the movies it would have been somewhat decent. I recommend not even wasting the bandwidth.
I hate their version of "free to play". Aion is the first MMO to do it right I feel. MMO's aren't different from F2P Mobas or FPS's, they can't be glorified demos. That's not what F2P means to me.
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