Lord of the Rings Online Ventures into Helm's Deep

not really rage just annoyance.

All the rage from a little sub title.

@oueddy: there's making jokes and being funny and then there's a continued disdain for a entire genre just because you're not into it. If someone made a joke about "Gone Home" along the lines of "Oh look another pretentious indy game." or "Who would buy this game?" on this website the shit storm would be huge.

Funny that this has come up - I went back to try LOTRO again this week, for the first time since it launched. It's very slow paced, but it's really quite good as far as hotbar based F2P MMO's go.

Patrick's awkward and recklessly dismissive sub-title sniping ftw.

Holy shit you guys: Calm yourselves, grow up, and get a sense of humor for goodness sake. (I play lotro, it's great. It's CRAZY that it still exists!)

It's just a joke. People need to not get so butt hurt about it. You seriously think they only make fun of MMOs? They make fun of everything.

Having played a little bit of just about every MMO for the past decade plus, me and my MMO buddy actually dumped quite a bit of time into LOTRO. It was not a terrible game at all.

LOTRO is one of the more successful and active MMO's out there. Ignorance is bliss.

Jesus fuckin christ you guys take shit way too seriously

If I were to be totally objective and discount my fondness for games I have serious nostalgia glasses for, LOTRO is probably one of the best MMOs ever made. Good art design, good graphics, decent combat, admirable reverence for the source material. I'm glad it's still around. I'm well over any desire to play it, however.

Yes...lets make a joke about the games that we dont like to play. But I guess Patrick is too busy with playing whatever is the next so called indy game to save the gaming genre.

We will MAKE it go away. Take that, MMO lover.

@thorniergravy said:

Yeah, they never make fun of any other genres of games or trailers

I love MMOs and I have the same reaction as Patrick. I just assumed it went belly up.

I understand Patrick's dislike for the genre but that's no reason to insult the game and it's audience just to make a joke.

It still exists, as far as I can tell it still has a solid enough userbase to have kept it going all this time. Considering where most MMOs seem to wind up I'd say LotRO has been pretty damn successful.

My brother is super addicted to it. :|

Wait, Lord of the Rings Online still exists...?

Of course it does, silly. Hell, Ultima Online, Everquest and FFXI still do. Just because you don't care about something, it doesn't make it go away. Check your MMO privilege.

There's even a Coursera class going on right now that uses LOTRO as one of the main discussion topics: https://www.coursera.org/course/onlinegames

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