Turbine recently had an Update 15 preview stream that had a few new pieces of information.
- New Beorning class will cost 1000 Turbine Points
- There will be Beorning-only raiding gear spaced throughout all levels
- New Epic Battle 6-Man size delayed until later with no definitive date given (solo and duo still will release with Update 15)
- Update to the music system will be in Update 15 but new instruments will not be added until later with no definitive date given
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Too bad! Seems like they’re under pressure. Still, I’m excited to continue exploring Gondor! I’ve started questing with the quest helper off to immerse myself in the world more. It’s exciting!
Sigh. While I’m pretty happy to get a new solo/duo battle since I wouldn’t step into the 6 man anyways.
It’s just a new nail in the coffin for the people asking for more group content, pretty sad:/.
Sad about the instruments not being added too.
MajMal made it pretty clear that was only a can be anyways though, as long as they fixed the problems with the music system that’s acceptable I guess.
Honestly not too worried about Beornings one way or the other myself as I only play Hobbits nowadays anyways 😛
I am really sad that Turbine has now so few people that they can’t add even one new full (ie for fellowships too) epic battle after one year from introduction of epic battles and that they had to resigned from many things planned for that update. Lotro is very good game, with magnificent lore (and not destroyed by devs too much, at least they treat Tolkien much better then Peter Jackson), great landscapes, nice HD graphics if your computer is strong, but it seems to me that WB fails in marketing that game. Now, when there are Hobbit movies released, we should be flooded by people playing that game. Devs should be flooded with money, but most probably most people liking Hobbit movies has no idea about the game, cause WB do not care about it. I have seen in my country TV commercials of many games among them MMO like WoW and WoT. But I have never seen commercial of Lotro (even in the internet). I found the game a few years ago only because I was looking at lists of best MMO RPG looking for something new to play and decided to try cause I like Tolkiens world. Having such marketing handicap like those movies and failing to attract people – thats fail of the decade in the game industry if you ask me.
I would love to play that game for many more years (with breaks ofc), but I am afraid it will die soon cause if they cant attract people now, so what will be when interest with the Hobbit movies will end??
No date set for new instruments! Oh BooHISS!
I am going to try the new class. As far as grouping goes I have not done much in the game since June. A lot of people I enjoyed playing with have moved on to other games and it made me not enjoy playing as much anymore. The lack of raids is what did it. Big battles never appealed much to me. I wish the game had take a different path.