LOTRO Just Changed MMOs Forever

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LOTRO just introduced a new feature to its MMO that is changing the way that players are experiencing Middle Earth. Specifically, it's called the Adventure Mode system - one where players are able to scale the difficulty of the open world to their liking, earning currency and rewards. And the best part is, if you want to explore Middle Earth in a group - you can. Create your own Fellowship and wander through Lord of the Rings Online with your friends, braving the challenges that lie ahead.
Before the Shadow will send players into two new regions, Swanfleet and Cardolan, as Boromir makes his way north to Rivendell ahead of the meeting of what will eventually become the Fellowship of the Ring while the Nazgûl search for “Baggins” in the peaceful land of the Shire. Players will discover the threat rising from Mordor and Saruman's Uruks as they explore the far history of Middle-earth! Before the Shadow features questing from levels 1 to 32 in addition to four new Books for new characters. Higher level characters will see a new six-person Instance, in addition to a new Skirmish, and a Delving difficulty system that will offer new rewards and challenges!
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@gamershow5944 Жыл бұрын

EverQuest 1 has made you group for years. its an old concept. Boosting or being powered leveled in mmos now day is better imo because old content isnt polished. Better battlegrounds, more Timewalking all levels, more amazing looking raids at all levels, heroics all levels, adding better graphics and spells is also better idea imo. I did the slow grinding mmos and I dont ever think about that as my best mmo memories. They should make wow scale from lvl1 to 70 in any zone and add more loot, more quest, interesting quest that are easy plus fun and faster leveling bonuses for having max level characters. Redo all zones like dragonflight daily's and keep vanilla wow on classic. Redo older zones except on classic servers. This will allow you to quest for gear on multiple expansions all the way to 70 - accentually playing at any level with end game features. Hire more developers.

@marterion80 Жыл бұрын

I remember Age of Conan had a similar mode. I remember long time ago i turned on something, and all normal NPCs suddenly was all elites. That system was called epic mode. I always told my friends that MMORPGs needs such system. Make the entire world a dungeon difficulty.

@r13hd22 11 ай бұрын

Some unnecessary lies told in this video. LotRO did not do anything special or genre changing. All they did was add a way to make current content harder. Their early game was not changed. It remains the exact same thing it was when it was first made with a few timed events and a couple adventure packs that added a few more quests added in since then. So, all that stuff that was there 15 years ago, having to kill x amount of y for a mission can instead take you longer and if like to cut yourself, you can make it so each and every single thing you come across can kill you in one or two hits and be a major task to kill...which you will quit after noticing just how many mobs are in many places you need to go to, if you play alone that is. It basically makes the open world group content for you. Also. This change did not bring players back/in in droves. The games population is still very low though should not be because the level 1-105 game is amazing but does start to go down-hill fast once you enter Mordor and beyond. SSG taking over from Turbine takes the game in a really bad direction focusing heavily on end game grind with each expansion.

@artsveiman7776 11 ай бұрын

So basically they are doing something similar to what Guild Wars 2 has already been doing for 10 years, and apparently other games as well, from what I read in the comments. This isnt changing MMOs forever, this is putting another coat of paint on an outdated MMO I loved LOTRO but it has become stale and outdated, and just putting a new coat of paint is not going to bring me back, specially not when I have to pay sub, if I want a proper experience of the game.

@artsveiman7776 11 ай бұрын

What would change MMOs forever if LOTRO applied it, is to create LOTRO 2 AND have a way to transfer your character and his items or at least the skins of those items into LOTRO2 that way they could create a new LOTRO every 7-10 years, update it with new gaming advances, graphics, etc, and players would not loose their thousands of hours of progress. THAT would be the gamechanger in the MMO world.

@everlonggaming1966 Жыл бұрын

This is the first time I have seen a developer do something that benefits both casual and more hardcore players. Well Done LoTRo well done!

@DarkScreamGames Жыл бұрын

I guess you don't play a lot of MMORPGs? The difficulty system for quests and a separate currency is not new, City of Heroes was doing this in 2004. D&D Online does it too. So if it's the first time you've seen it, you've not been looking too hard!

@socklips7655 11 ай бұрын

@@DarkScreamGames CoH has been legit dead and gone for years, DDO is incredibly obscure, more than lotro. If these are the only examples you can pull out of your arse, the original point stands.

@UltraSuperDuperFreak 11 ай бұрын

Diablo 3 ..Torment lvls .. changes entire game's difficulty all over ... so no .. not first time we see this.

@UltraSuperDuperFreak 11 ай бұрын

@@socklips7655 it doesn matter if those games are dead ... the point was it has been done before !

@everlonggaming1966 11 ай бұрын

@@UltraSuperDuperFreak not the same but ok enjoy.

@82automan Жыл бұрын

It puts a smile on my face that LOTRO is still going strong after all this time

@dannynelson8930 Жыл бұрын

It keeps me coming back. Just no other world like it! Especially if you’re a LoTR fan.

@CrizzyEyes 11 ай бұрын

It's very comfy and the player housing is unmatched. It suffers very heavily from a lack of players in the early game though but this might have fixed that problem.

@RavenTheBlackheart 11 ай бұрын

every time i go back i just end up trying to take over the pipe weed market =/

@artsveiman7776 11 ай бұрын

Personally it feels like just another coat of paint that does nothing to address the real problem that, this game is just too old. They need to create an LOTRO2 and allow for players to be able to transfer their existing characters into the new one. I love this game but the sub fee does not justify it. either make it entirely free to play or make an LOTRO2

@ethanchen4504 11 ай бұрын

What early game they've had 3+ codes that gave you lvl skips to 60 80 and 100 or something. I like it though. Those notorious fetch quests were so terrible. Gandalf wants to talk to Radaghast? Go travel across two entire regions 4000m+ just for one line from each and again!

@Eas_the_Planeswalker 11 ай бұрын

The most fun for me in MMOs has always been the world. Glad to finaly see a dev recognise the importance 🙂

@daveisnothere 11 ай бұрын

I am the same, This was one of my favorite MMO's. I played EQ2, this, and ESO, the world in LOTRO was by far the best of all of them. I may need to see if I can get into my old account still. Or worst case, start fresh since it has been so long since I played.

@jjswigger8591 7 ай бұрын

is there more ppl playing besides steam1?!

@jazzyjeph4143 Жыл бұрын

I'm in for a LotR Online leveling series. That'd be neat!

@thomasdasilva2399 11 ай бұрын

It is crazy that this has existed for ever in solo games. Like restart it in higher difficulty and maybe get additional unlocked content. Prop to the LOTRO team for bringing "multiplayer" from MMORPG back in the leveling, a part with always fond memories.

@PsyrenXY Жыл бұрын

I love the idea of player-controlled difficulty in the open world. It's like WoW Hardcore without the prospect of losing weeks of progress to a lag spike. Brilliant!

@leinonibishop9480 Жыл бұрын

Whatever else lotro does, it will always have a warm place in my heart simply for the music system. If other mmos implemented the musical instruments like lotro I would be in heaven. The fact that you can create a band in game and jam out with other players is so awesome and I love wandering around the towns listening to random musicians performing. It’s so immersive. Sitting under a tree playing your harp or lute and just relaxing is also amazing. One of the best features available in any game ever.

@Recca92 Жыл бұрын

The bard can do this in xiv

@kainhighwind2 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Final Fantasy 14 has this. Everything from pipes, violins, to drums, to even an electric guitar

@eboethrasher Жыл бұрын

@@kainhighwind2 can you: program in songs, program them so that your group of people each plays a separate instrument and plays the same whole song together in time as a performance?

@leinonibishop9480 Жыл бұрын

@@kainhighwind2 can you basically turn your keyboard into a piano and play multiple octaves?

@leinonibishop9480 Жыл бұрын

@@eboethrasher not only the programmable features. You can have several people playing their parts live while logged in together, on their keyboards, sounding like different instruments. Giving a whole band live performance in game.

@Arduous087 11 ай бұрын

It honestly boggles my mind how long LOTRO has hung on for. It’s a testament to their community and the devs. I really enjoyed the game on and off for years. The storytelling is head and shoulders above any other MMO.

@jamesdavidson7495 11 ай бұрын

I just jumped back in and I think there are more people playing now than 5 years ago. The current devs are soooooo player focused, it is refreshing.

@skycaptain95 6 ай бұрын

DDO is better

@Hurbster2112 Жыл бұрын

As much as I love ESO, it needs something like this so badly.

@gabenwatching2746 Жыл бұрын

Truest true that has ever been trued

@Sportskiduhuh Жыл бұрын

I gave up on that shit game, everything you do feels meaningless.

@Kapuska1916 Жыл бұрын

Preach brother

@keldor8302 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the progression system after hitting lvl50 on your first character. Makes the One Tamriel scaling a joke on subsequent characters. It would be interesting to implement an option like this which ALSO turns off all of those bonuses. Doing Dolmens, Dragons, and Public Dungeons without someone uber geared and maxed out on champion point progression facerolling it for you. Would make the game feel so much better. I'd still have trouble staying in that game though. The combat bothers me. It feels "floaty" and a bit janky to me. And the bar-swapping stuff is annoying. And I don't want to grind and go through a special mini-game progression to unlock the ring that buffs you to use a single bar. Locking that as an option to play the game behind barriers was a mistake.

@jak1165 Жыл бұрын

This seems like a better version of One Tamriel

@kingmonday2918 11 ай бұрын

Long story short: Added 'Adventure Mode' that lets you scale enemy and area difficulty for better rewards and exp. also gaining new in-game currency to buy cool new flashy items.

@yamashi82 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see Lotro content. It has been my comfort MMO for 11 years and counting.

@harrr53 11 ай бұрын

I love LOTRO and I am mystified as to why such a good game with such a huge IP is mostly ignored. I read Ready Player Two recently, there's a whole part of the book where they are in a virtual Middle Earth and the main character mentions a host of companies that made LOTR games. I kept expecting him to mention Turbine....but no mention.

@Caerulean Жыл бұрын

This system is actually pretty recent! It came to the regular servers at the very end of May this year with the Gondor Renewed update. It was originally introduced to the legendary (VIP-only) servers in 2021. Also, Before the Shadow is separate from this and is not a necessary purchase to access the difficulty system. 🙂

@Nerobyrne 11 ай бұрын

I'm pleasantly surprised that the monetization isn't as predatory as it could be, despite you being able to buy pretty much everything aside from weapons and armor past like 20.

@CrizzyEyes 11 ай бұрын

The monetization is not bad at all in this game. Of course it is also 16 years old, but even the player housing and furniture is very reasonable

@harvain731 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, they had their info a little wrong about the Landscape Difficulty. Good selling point for the Before the Shadow Mini-Expansion but it's not required 😆

@wiliestrogue2924 11 ай бұрын

They allow multi-boxing which totally defeats the purpose of this system.

@harvain731 11 ай бұрын

@@wiliestrogue2924 Why? Multi-boxing isn't actually efficient in any form for Combat now. They also removed the Aggressive Stance from Pets & Heralds Updates ago, so it's not like a Multi-Boxing 6 Lore Masters can do anything.

@ragingfilthycasual Жыл бұрын

This is completely badass and intuitive! I love it! Omg imagine if Blizzard restarted Classic WoW again next year with several difficulty tiers for the world and for adventuring instead of just "heroic" dungeons.

@warrenraaff Жыл бұрын

I've wanted that for so long as I slowly try to get the loremaster achievement

@NonsensicalSpudz Жыл бұрын

the hope in blizzard is astounding consider the past 5 years

@cococock2418 Жыл бұрын

You clearly know nothing about classic if you think that's how it goes.

@TapTwoCounterspell Жыл бұрын

@@cococock2418 ... classic is laughably easy

@JuraDenus Жыл бұрын

@@TapTwoCounterspellon 24th aug hc classic comes out. you not even get lv14 bc you are just a FF14 Andy! 😂

@runestormfly8428 Жыл бұрын

I hope you do that group LOTRO leveling series. Sounds like it would be a fun time.

@LumbyMcGumby Жыл бұрын

I played this game at launch and would just play the instruments in game for hours making up songs with my friend. We dumped at least a week worth of time into just hitting notes on the instruments in the game. Such a cool feature.

@kainhighwind2 Жыл бұрын

Final Fantasy 14 has the same feature

@eboethrasher Жыл бұрын

@@kainhighwind2 we get it, weeb, now go elsewhere

@YaBoySquints Жыл бұрын

More games need to add this feature.

@nickunnerved Жыл бұрын

SSG's other title Dungeons and Dragons Online has a similar thing called reaper mode which was released in 2017 ... each quest you do has the option to choose difficulty settings Casual, normal, hard, and elite and then you can choose Reaper mode which has 10 additional levels of difficulty above elite. Reaper mode also adds mobs called reapers to the quests that are not in the casual through elite settings.

@dr.philphilsphil5795 7 ай бұрын

I played both thousands of hours but I’ll always go back to lotro, you can solo all the way to cap but not with ddo. And pvp in ddo died 10+ years ago, pvp is still alive in lotro

@ruwudboy 11 ай бұрын

The amount of effort spent to get this video over 10 minutes long is honestly quite impressive.

@voidox 6 ай бұрын

this should be a standard feature in ALL mmos, existing and future.

@danandmeghan4691 Жыл бұрын

Please do the leveling series! LOTR is awesome!

@bruh-myega Жыл бұрын

The scaling system is EXACTLY. Letter by DAMN LETTER. what I wanted from every other MMO, especially WoW. I'm just imagining ESO, with its completely open world and freedom in doing whatever the hell you want, adapting this system. It would make the game infinitely more enjoyable and turn it into a game where i would not mind grinding 20 alts. I applaud the LOTRO devs for this. Such a "simple" feature, yet something absolutely revolutionary in the world of MMO RPGs

@lukefrederiks5906 Жыл бұрын

It seems that when you're not beholden to some insane Activision/EA overlord, you're more likely to try new things that might/might not work just because they sound interesting/fun It's nice

@MedRider Жыл бұрын

they've had this for about 10 years in their other game...Dungeons and Dragons Online. Its called reaper mode. you earn reaper XP for participating in reaper dungeons which allows your to gain special abilities etc. They need to add a reincarnation system like DDO which allows players at max level to go back to level 1 and level up again as a new class etc and you get special rewards for doing so...like increased stats etc.

@eboethrasher Жыл бұрын

Instanced content. This is landscape content.

@Illthallion 11 ай бұрын

Great video, awesome edits - thanks for giving LoTRO some love, subscribed!

@westen5604 Жыл бұрын

I need to play Lotro again 😮

@noturproblemford Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't bother the devs one on a massive Purge for political reasons on Brandywine not that long ago. Could only imagine how bad iy was on other severs if people wouldn't stop getting removed from yhe forms for asking why

@TizzieTZP Жыл бұрын

Been doing this with 4 buddies of mine we all had to go max difficulty as soon as we left the tutorial, and we meet up at Thorin's hall. It's also a hardcore challenge so death = delete and group self-found. Made the game really fun overall especially with it being our first time playing.

@morrowoblivion13 Жыл бұрын

Captain from the arkenstone server here. I hope you have a great time 😁

@johnwayne4911 9 ай бұрын

is the hardcore challenge in the actual game or is that just rules you guys just made for yourself

@TizzieTZP 9 ай бұрын

@@johnwayne4911 our own rules u get some titles so it can kinda be tracked but only up to 20 after that it’s honor code

@morrowoblivion13 Жыл бұрын

Lotro captain main on the arkenstone server here. This system can make helping lower level people be more fun(potential captain ego trip lol im joking). I do from time to time help lower level people out because i was a low lv and it does increase community engagement.. Heck i am even mentoring captains if they want to do group content.

@nothingcanstopwhatscoming6664 7 ай бұрын

LOTRO is not all about endgame, it's about content, and oh boy does it have content. One of the most feature rich and well developed games I've ever played. It's nearly impossible to complete the entire game you will be discovering new things for years and the world is massive. But the best part of the game is starting a new character, exploring the world and leveling, building skills, improving gear, getting to know your class and progressing through the world which is heavily based around the story line.

@cavetroll666 Жыл бұрын

Lotro is doing amazing things these days and they have a new expansion coming out soon to bring us to the port city of Umbar :)

@benjaminlocks Жыл бұрын

Aside from their recent butchering of my human characters with the model update fiasco, I'm still very impressed with LotRO and their ability to cater to its player base and their needs. I really appreciate what SSG does for its fans and the ways it constantly tries to innovate the game and keep it sustainable. I like seeing games like EverQuest who launch two TLP servers a year - one standard, and one with new experimental rulesets to see what fans enjoy. I like seeing these developers actually WANT to try new things.

@TearsofaLunarian 6 ай бұрын

Started a new character after a 10+ years of absence from LotRO with a friend and we went with tier 7 difficulty. We just got to Mirkwood yesterday. It's been a lot of fun!

@starstruck7307 11 ай бұрын

can't believe I just watched a 10 minute ad with 2 minutes of information 😭

@anthonyharding4380 Жыл бұрын

This has inspired me to finally try LOTRO, even though I'm most likely going to play solo :)

@DreySpynthasalar 2 ай бұрын

Playing high difficulty as a new player in Lotro right now... surprised at how much fun i'm having! 😊👍

@bon7029 11 ай бұрын

This is why I love FFXIV. The game feels lively all the way from level 1 to end game.

@Miloascape Жыл бұрын

As an active LOTRO end gamer, the grouping up of people to do Heroic +2, in theory is great but in reality, is wanting. Initially, right out the gate it would be useful, BUT at higher levels, you are more than able to solo the landscape mobs at heroic +2 - just do green-level quests. The other problem is just the LOTRO culture atm. Many people with endgame characters could care less about Heroic +2, because there is no benefit to doing it for endgame content. This means only hardcore fans or new players will be even attempting this, and it will be really tough forming up a group. It's been out for weeks, and I know of 1 group across all the servers that are trying to set this up. Here's the crux of the problem, because LOTRO has SOOOOO Much content, people are too impatient to sit around waiting on others to group up with to do landscape content.

@Mastemine498 Жыл бұрын

I wish I could have made it to the endgame, I tried to get into LOTRO but the UI seems super clunky and cluttered, and the questing experience for me was the worst questing I have experienced in an MMO, I had trouble locating how to do many quests. I was questing in a group of friends and we got mulitple lag spikes in a town we were in and there wasn't even many people in the area. We all live in different regions of the world too so I know it just wasn't my internet connection or something. One of our friends got stuck in an instanced campaign quest as well and couldn't get out except to log / relog. A lot of issues we kept running into like this in the early game really turned us away from the game unfortunately and it just didn't feel like there was a lot of content to do. I really think they just need to use a new graphic engine though and the game would be incredible. Right now the game feels extremely dated, even WoW has had graphical updates to their character models and most enemies. But this game looks and still feels like an early 2000 game, wish they had a bigger dev team, and if this type of game was on say Unreal Engine it could be very well the best MMO.

@Miloascape Жыл бұрын

@@Mastemine498 They've done some quality of life improvements over the year. For example, now you can set a quest as focus, and it will have an arrow on your minnimap showing you exactly where to go. This has made questing much quicker and more enjoyable. Don't know when last you played, but a lot of things you mentioned have actually been fixed over the years. But there are still bugs here and there that creep up. I have to confess that I actually like the look of LOTRO, simply because it feels more "realistic" to me which makes it feel immersive. They do not use flashy colors like wow etc. But it is the nature of the game. They are also starting to roll out new updated graphics content. They just overhauled the entire Last Homely House in Rivendell and it now looks stunning, newer zones are also seeing improved graphics. So they're doing the best given the limited resources they have.

@taylemgames2652 Жыл бұрын

@@Mastemine498 Modern MMOs have made you spoiled. Road signs to every quest location killed the spirit of questing.

@MegaShadow91 Жыл бұрын

Yeah sure. Roadsigns are the problem.

@davidepannone6021 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being honest. While watching the video I was like "this changes little to nothing, as veterans probably don't even need this system".

@blivion Жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing so much love for this game.

@Selrahc_69 10 ай бұрын

You, sir, ROCK! I've been playing LOTRO since 2008 and still play every day but your enthusiasm made me smile and look forward to logging in again shortly. LOL Thanks for the video! Long live LOTRO!

@qrome6432 11 ай бұрын

Sounds similar to what SSG did with Dungeons and Dragons Online a few years back when they added their Reaper system that allows the player to increase the difficulty by an additional 10 settings, which scales up the enemies and promotes group play. Main difference is it is instance based vs world based so you can change it from quest to quest and instead of a tradable currency you get permanent points to an additional system the provides bonuses to the character.

@soulward6334 Жыл бұрын

City of heroes had the ability to set the the mission to the number of people , up to 8, the level of mob, and whether bosses are present. It came out in 2004. Can currently play on homecoming private servers. Game had a sidekick feature to play with anyone at any level. And a ui completely customizable. ...in 2004. Way ahead of its time.

@Nostromo2144 Жыл бұрын

^ This. Still playing the crap out of it every now & then. Have over 50 toons. There is nothing like CoX & Homecoming has made it even better (and free!).

@DarkScreamGames Жыл бұрын

yep.. not a new feature or idea at all, definitely a good one, but let's not pretend LOTRO has innovated anything here, DDO does something similar too

@jjswigger8591 7 ай бұрын

the servers have more then 200- ppl?

@yunishot Жыл бұрын

When you have a guy who's been watching your videos for 10 years, you know you're doing something right. Hesitated a lot to play lotto, now it's downloading. Ty Nixxiom 😉

@rikosborne1212 11 ай бұрын

Perhaps not quite the same thing, but City of Heroes lets you increase the difficulty of leveling missions (though not of open-world enemies - missions/quests are instanced). Missions already scale to your level (within different ranges), and with default settings, enemies come in "minion" and "lieutenant" varieties, with lieutenants being roughly equal to three minions. You can increase the difficulty in several ways: * Make the enemies tougher by having them spawn anywhere from 1-4 levels higher than your character * Make the enemies spawn in greater numbers, as if you were on a team with up to 8 people. * Have the named "end bosses" of missions, which spawn as lieutenants by default, instead spawn as "bosses", "elite bosses" or, toughest of all, "arch-villains". So the toughest settings for a regular, solo, leveling mission would be +4/x8, Allow AVs (using the game's notation). I'll note that the "x8" part happens automatically if you actually enter the mission with a team of eight players. Another neat feature is the "sidekick" system. This lets two players of different levels team up without the higher-level player ROFLstomping everything. A higher-level player can "exemplar down" to the lower-level player's level, in order to help with lower-level content. When this is done, the higher-level player's abilities are limited to the abilities they had at that level, and those abilities are powered down accordingly. Alternatively, a lower-level player can "sidekick up" to join a higher-level player in higher-level content. In this case, the lower-level player gains no new abilities, but the abilities they do have are powered up to where they would be at the higher level.

@Rustyjamesman Жыл бұрын

imagine if wow put the mythic debuffs on random mobs throughout the leveling experience

@scottbowser702 11 ай бұрын

This sounds a lot like Reaper mode implemented in 2017 in DDO (another SSG title). Big difference here is that it applies to the open world, not just dungeons in LOTRO. It was implemented in DDO to promote group play as well. Reaper difficulty is 1 through 10. Most people solo content on R1 these days (due to XP boosts), but there are some of the endgame people that solo content on R10 as well.

@Jibcutter 11 ай бұрын

Watched this and came here to say this. Brother and I went back to DDO recently, me on a 2 year hiatus, him on 15 year hiatus. Having a blast 2 manning Reaper 2-4 difficultly as lowbies. Cool to see SSG did this on their open world in LOTRO. Imagine if they did reincarnation in LotRO like in DDO on top of this?

@generalsdragons6952 Жыл бұрын

This was the first MMO I played, didn't play for more than 2 months. Going to have to give it a try again.

@TrentSLucas 2 ай бұрын

That is how it used to be in SoA. When the game first started there were areas, even low level areas that it was dangerous to walk around without a small fellowship. This is pretty cool.

@HuxleyBun Жыл бұрын

Now they just gotta make the animations and combat more fluid and it would be a top tier game.

@Illthallion 11 ай бұрын

Yes, exactly. The pita is the engine that needs to be updated. I feel that if that could be accomplished this MMO would be reawakened.

@booksnbooze7796 11 ай бұрын

100% I'd play if the graphics / gameplay was modernized.

@Paul-ng3xn 11 ай бұрын

Not very likely to happen, the dev team is not as big as the Blizzard WoW team. But I guess you never know, it could happen. I'm already glad they still update and make new content/expansions.

@LightS_bRight 9 ай бұрын

Be careful what your asking, maybe you'll never be satisfied and eventually gets to a point where it loses what made the game great.

@zelurstak Жыл бұрын

Another older mmo does very similar thing and has done it since the beginning. Dungeons & Dragons Online, although instanced, offers difficulty options for every quest with more difficult options giving better rewards and unique currency, and the most difficult options requiring a party.

@gameaddictz4431 Жыл бұрын

Was about to comment this on here about DDO having this from the beginning…it’s a great idea but LOTRO isn’t the first to implement this type of system

@brnperes Жыл бұрын

Both are currently developed by the same folks.

@eboethrasher Жыл бұрын

@@gameaddictz4431 yes, but the point that both of you have made is that it is instanced, and this is landscape content, which is probably harder to do it for. Given that they have both been developed by the same company for as long as I can remember, at least 14 years, I'm sure they had something to do with it over there as well.

@oopomopoo 11 ай бұрын

@@eboethrasherddo from my memory is almost exclusively instances gameplay outside of hubs. This was also back at release, forgot who created it is been so long lol. Either way doesn't detract from what lotro did.

@Timithos 6 ай бұрын

Yes, but the key phrase is "although instanced".

@Osinivos4 11 ай бұрын

You had me at Death equals Delete !! lol man I am happy I found this channel

@Travybear1989 11 ай бұрын

As a 43 year-old casual LOTRO regular (since it came out) I doubt I'll ever try this but it's nice to see as an option for people interested in challenging themselves. I just can't get into challenging games anymore as a husband and father of two kids with a 50-60 hour a week job as life is challenging enough as it is so when I get time to play video games on Friday and Saturday night after the kids are in bed for 2-3 hours after dinner but before lovemaking time. If I were a teenager/young adult I'd probably give this a whirl though, I used to play all-nighters on video games back in the day.

@TheGrumpyMinstrel Жыл бұрын

I've looked at the game before but it never grabbed me, might have to revisit it now.

@griggins Жыл бұрын

I've never had a good experience on LotRO. I've tried the game numerous times over multiple PC's, and it always ran like shit. This does make me wanna give it another go, though.

@mattp2557 Жыл бұрын

It's best when you have someone to play with, I've found some areas/ quest lines can be a little boring but it has some that are great

@Miloascape Жыл бұрын

lag is a real thing in raids, but it has gotten much much better for landscaping. There is now no more rubber banding when you run through the landscape.

@griggins Жыл бұрын

@@Miloascape That's good, I remember rubber banding being a huge issue. Thanks

@jacobbradshaw7801 Жыл бұрын

LotR Online leveling series!!! PLEASE I NEED THIS!

@morrowoblivion13 Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah and make sure they bring a captain with them if they can't find a healer or a tank to level with. 😁

@brendo7363 Жыл бұрын

Endgame in LOTRO is learning lute joining a band

@lesball1754 11 ай бұрын

This has been in the game for a bit now. It was just on their TLP. It is an AMAZINGLY fun system and really caters to the hardcore gamers!

@wiliestrogue2924 11 ай бұрын

They allow multi-boxing which totally defeats the purpose of this system.

@taylemgames2652 Жыл бұрын

More LOTRO from you, Nix. Be the Mouth of LOTRO for us. :)

@joshb1089 Жыл бұрын

Not sure if others might have commented but ESO needs this for the Overworld!

@Complication84 11 ай бұрын

LOTRO was a lot of fun when it launched, but it got lost in the big mmo whirlpool of those years. The music system in that game was so damn fun. I spent most of my time in the game just jammin on my lute in the town square.

@ASwabbie Жыл бұрын

A system like this could make so many games worth playing again.. Oh how I both hate and miss WoW.

@PastaAivo 11 ай бұрын

MMO that actually encourages grouping up? Now that sure is something in the modern times. Also great seeing LotRo still going, always surprised to find it alive and kicking.

@Demane69 11 ай бұрын

The difficulty level only affects you. Someone next to you could be on a different setting, slaying everything around while you get 2 shot. Why would he group with you?

@barukkazhad8998 8 ай бұрын

I bought a lifetime subscription in 2011 and still play now but along with my 11 year old son...we run together through the game as 2 Dwarves who are brothers 😊

@TheOnyxian 7 ай бұрын

Actually something I discussed with my old WoW guild a number of years a go was something like this. Think I coined it 'HC Levelling' or something. They dismissed it. Seems Lotro implemented it and it's loved by the entire MMO community and yea, I'm installing it right now to have a look at it.

@bladerunner2006 Жыл бұрын

Great video! This has been on my mind forever. I get that devs don't want to waste too much precious time on old content. All the veterans want new stuff to do. But something like this is such a relatively easy fix, that gives us alt-players much needed challenge. Sounds awesome.

@dassonntagskind Жыл бұрын

This feature re-vitalized the game for me. Landscape was way too easy for way too long and for a few years I was thinking more and more about stopping all-together. I'd prefer for landscape to be generally harder without any system (like they did when Mordor came out) but I'm happy with this too.

@theneurologist1 11 ай бұрын

This video was like an 8 minute commercial for LOTRO. And that's definitely not a bad thing. I haven't been near this game in gosh, it must've been maybe 10 years ago now. It's looking damn good! 👍🏻

@Doug111973 11 ай бұрын

Its funny you used the "You dont just walk into mordor!" clip. Because you can buy an item in the store called a Mithril Coin, and you can, just walk into Mordor. ;) awesome video!

@Oliver_the_place Жыл бұрын

Awh, I love LOTRo...played it up until roham expansion. It's such a beautifully crafted world and you can tell the developers put love it. The party combo system, the warden class.. they had some really intuitive ideas. Makes me want to return!!

@aerdraiochta 11 ай бұрын

You should!! ^^

@Travybear1989 11 ай бұрын

The game is better now than it was then IMO. I've played LOTRO off-and-on since 2010 and it's never left my hard drive(s) since it came out. I like to play many games but when I get bored of everything else I always go back to LOTRO, not even classic WoW holds my attention as much as LOTRO. I think it has to be the well-crafted world, friendly and helpful community, player housing, and the epic story that make the game what it is. Sure, the graphics have aged but the game still looks pretty good.

@dencsyy Жыл бұрын

This system sounds amazing! Honestly... I think every MMo could benefit from this. It's not a MUST TO DO CHORE, it's just a choice to elevate your experience. BUT it should be included in the tutorial as well imo. Like showing you that yeah, that's an option from the start even if you are new player. No gate keeping.

@eebee8052 11 ай бұрын

great vid! i cannot imagine how gameplay with adventure mode challenge on in angmar, during peak hours. playing on regular mode in angmar with its lag issues has me rage quitting at times lol. i hope the devs will be able to fix angmar's lag issues soon

@neverbeen5691 10 ай бұрын

Man i must say the video edits so well 😂❤ really good job. I just started with lotro yesterday, and i actually enjoy it. But i didnt know about the adventures system. Gonna try it later today 😊

@psychotical21 Жыл бұрын

May have to give it a try, does LotRO have a healer class/classes?

@mornarmo5833 Жыл бұрын

Yes. Minstrels, Rune-Keepers, Lore-Masters, Beornings, Captains all have healing specs!

@SyriusSyn Жыл бұрын

Yeah it does, Runekeeper and Minstrel are both pretty a standard healer with buffs and the like. Beorning have Raid Wide AoE heals and some buff/debuffing. All which are viable but Runekeeper is lacking a bit in the support aspect and is considered a more Pure healer while Beorn/Minstrel are considered more healer/supp I think Beorn ATM has some of the biggest raw HPS for Raid environment's but that may have changed, with Minstrel being the Standard I'd say.

@psychotical21 Жыл бұрын

@SynicalSyn nice, thanks for the summary, as miserable as it sounds to some I only enjoy playing healing classes in mmos

@psychotical21 Жыл бұрын

@@mornarmo5833 thanks

@vali.s5109 Жыл бұрын

be the minstrel that tries to hook up with everything that's sentient or not

@SavithTV Жыл бұрын

A scaling questing experience is something I never knew I wanted in an MMO. I enjoyed it in games like Diablo 3 which is the only thing I can compare it to, so I hope it comes to other games, too!

@Echoparticle Жыл бұрын

I started LOTRO seriously in 2020 I love the game, I loved solo leveling, and I loved playing with friends that I roped in for a couple weeks hehe

@88dfletcher 11 ай бұрын

Nothing to bring in the realism like being wrecked by a fuckin piglet. We need more.

@AFpaleoCon Жыл бұрын

I quit as soon as I get to endgame. I literally don’t care about endgame. I care about the leveling experience and story.

@NixxiomOnYouTube Жыл бұрын

I'm in the same camp. Endgame is fun, but the joy of an MMO (for me at least) is the world and adventuring through it. I've always preferred leveling in MMOs to endgame. I know that makes us odd compared to the average MMO player though. Kek

@emarskineel Жыл бұрын

@@NixxiomOnKZfaqwe're a minority in this genre

@hououinkyouma1488 Жыл бұрын

@@emarskineel I think the demand for this kind of gameplay is growing. WoW hardcore, Ashes of Creation, Pantheon Rise of the Fallen and some other less known mmos are all seeking to deliver a gameplay more focused on the journey, leveling and exploration. I also think that WoW Vanilla+ will 100% be a thing, although I am not sure if I trust Blizzard to do a good job with it

@TheZorch 11 ай бұрын

Final Fantasy XIV doesn't experience this kind of problem in the Early Game. It was reworked some time ago to make progressing through the story faster. Filler quests in the MSQ (main story quests) were removed, except for those that introduced characters important to the story later on. MSQ dungeons can be run solo with A.I. party members, and instanced events in quests have a difficulty selector.

@BatJeff 11 ай бұрын

This is so true. I've been a WoW player for nearly 15 years, and started FFXIV 3 weeks ago on a trial account. Just picked up the complete collection and got a sub going because it is incredible. I'm loving just leveling at my own pace through the entire story.

@Bongwater33 5 ай бұрын

Wondered why I was in a server queue logging on to LOTRO for the first time in a few years! Its a quality game, glad to see it thriving!

@xKiNx 11 ай бұрын

Played on Riddermark ( long dead server ) for years. Really makes me smile to see the game given love. Gonna try really hard to make myself play again. Runkeeper and Guardian love!!❤

@JabbarTV1 Жыл бұрын

This game can't get better because of its core mechanics and gameplay, this patch is just the game trying to survive longer

@nerdslapper9361 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree.

@ivansalamon7028 Жыл бұрын

But there's nothing wrong with it's core mechanics and gameplay? You do realize there are those among us that actually love the complexity and pacing of everything, right? I love tab targeting mmos, and LotrO is one of the very best imo, alongside wow and a couple others.

@JabbarTV1 Жыл бұрын

@@ivansalamon7028 ok, enjoy

@DoYouSmokeKush 10 ай бұрын

The game is dead, good luck finding groups for heroic content.

@vadim6656 10 ай бұрын

yah the player base is almost non existent

@LightS_bRight 9 ай бұрын

What a lie hahaha

@forestcitytrivia9167 4 ай бұрын

You can tell this commenter doesn't really play LOTRO, because LOTRO players aren't this toxic. Landroval and Crickhollow deffo busy in a good way.

@triatrianta6462 9 ай бұрын

i really enjoyed your video its my first time seeing your channel great job!

@alondaar 11 ай бұрын

Phantasy Star Online (1) did this, although most don't classify it as an MMO, its online functionality was similar to Guild Wars (1). Lots of games in the co-op genre do this too as you're probably aware, like Deep Rock Galactic or Remnant, where difficulty is easily swapped or "opt-in." I think its a really good feature that lends greatly to the success of co-op games, which we can see apparent in even older games such as Left 4 Dead 2, and extending it in an innovative way to MMOs is a good idea.

@RoBert-on1kb Жыл бұрын

But the game sucks.

@ArticLover 11 ай бұрын

I set my captain to Fearless +1 and where I used to own the playfield in POE on the élite mobs I had to use my herald as a tank. I felt like I was playing a pet class. It took much time and I could not do more than 2 mobs at a time. Who needs a turtle stone now. I had to turn it off when I would solo skirmishes at a higher level. It was just too difficult. It really makes you think about teaming up to progress. Very cool and fun. I used to out level zones without doing much of the zone content and this is a game changer indeed. Nicely done SSG. At +1 I was getting alot of H Tokens. On Heroic setting I cannot imagine trying to solo that.

@theenigma7685 11 ай бұрын

I love exploring in lotro im currently a lvl25 hunter, i like fishing in the game and just admiring the scenery in hobbiton,michel delving, rivindel.

@morrowoblivion13 11 ай бұрын

Did you get a house yet?

@Nerobyrne 11 ай бұрын

Star Trek Online had a baby version of this system, which they were able to do because every battle is instanced. Basically, the overworld is just for warp speed flying with your main ship, and any other content involves you zoning into an instance. This means that they could just tweak the difficulty for each player. But it wasn't nearly as fleshed out as this.

@thepaladinbelle 11 ай бұрын

The first MMO that did this was Adventure Quest Worlds, a 2D MMO from Artix Entertainment they added a "Lore book" in 2010 that takes you through all of the low level content and it was engaging as hell.

@TheMikeLyons 11 ай бұрын

Standing Stone, the dev company, has been toying with something LIKE this over on DDO (their other game) for a while: reaper difficulty levels. Interesting to see them port it over (conceptually if not mechanically) to LoTRO.

@fel385 Жыл бұрын

Bro this is just content farm. Scaling up the numbers in the world? Wow, absolutely groundbreaking. A feature I'd like to see for sure, though it's not new or novel. Lots of warcraft private servers already offer leveling challenges that include simple unga bunga numbers tuning alongside other, more interested changes. And the notion that it's so deep and community building to just have stuff tuned so hard that you NEED a group is so bland it might as well be british cuisine. Every MMO under the sun has content meant for groups in the form of dungeons and harder quests.

@LeviBallou Жыл бұрын

You gained a new subscriber dawg, excellent, entertaining, and very informative. I am downloading lotro now. I appreciate your content.

@HugoARSantos 11 ай бұрын

This can be so expanded upon, there could be high level items in the open world, and different loot tables, instead of farming the same dungeon/raid over and over again imagine grouping up clearing a high level zone at max adventure difficulty with a group and getting endgame gear. And i don't know how LOTRO works at the moment but add a system like the Commander Tag in GW2 and you got a perfect match to tackle that kind of content as a group if you don't have a dedicated group for this.

@anoriolkoyt 10 ай бұрын

I would bet EVERYONE remembers getting destroyed in the Goldshire kobold caves, or Westfall ganks by those harvestor robots. The idea of "the entire world is a dungeon" exists in almost all MMOs but is always abandoned with new expansions. It is the most fun of any MMO, the LEARNING, the F around and find out aspect. I am definitely going to go back and check it out (I had a level 50 Champion back in the day).

@Carriesue1982 6 ай бұрын

This is literally what I’ve been wanting in retail WoW forever. I don’t do end game anymore and just level alts. But retail is so easy to level in it’s not fun at all. If I could up the difficulty I’d actually play retail

@BobSmith-dk8nw 5 күн бұрын

I recently came back tot he game. The best thing for me - was that you get a horse during the tutorial phase. When I played before - in a non- paying way - I had to go through a tremendous amount of work to get a horse. And - this time - the other character I had made - which did not have a horse - had to really jump through some hoops to get one. There was only one place I could go where I could run that new players quest that got a horse. My Biggest complaint with the game - is the Graphics. They were good before and they aren't horrible now - like a few of the really old games - but they are not up to the quality of the newer games. .

@DMT-ix9zj 11 ай бұрын

I played this game from launch till moria man so many great memory's. My mom passed away had to grow up and settle the estate since i was only one left alive in family. Sadly i quit MMO'ing back then to much to do in life. Nice video .

@avocadotoast7367 10 ай бұрын

I love lotro so much, the only bad thing is, I'm Brazilian, and as a Brazilian the lotro points are so so so expensive to me, the Dolar is like 5x more valuable than the Real, to buy a horse in game I literally can pay my light bill, also the game is in english what in a certain way benefit me because I learned english alone playing the game lol, would be amazing if the game had a Portuguese translate, Lotro would be so popular in Brazil, a lot of people here does play the game but I'm shure the game would be extremely popular here, so if I where SSG I would reduce Lotro points value and offer the game in more lengages, That would help them to spread more the game and help SSG expand and lotro could still around for more 20 years

@angiefilangey 11 ай бұрын

I'm so happy my favorite game growing up is still around, and that I can now jump back in with new features (on my first full PC build!!) nearly 8 years later. It feels like I'm finally coming home 🥹

@Timithos 6 ай бұрын

Favorite and most played MMO of all time, I just returned and didn't even know about this system!

@gs.558 11 ай бұрын

So that's a real MMO! :D , when you talked about grouping up made me smile ! I kinda have difficulty to start this game actually , due to graphics and gameplay, even if I'm a big fan of the Tolkien's Lore. Hope it will change one day