As if making two marginal MMO games and Asheron's call wasn't enough, you have gone ahead and helped usher the new form of "free-to-play" games. Don't get me wrong, Asheron's Call was fun and AC2 was probably before it's time and suffered greatly because of it. No disrespect to Turbine, not in the slightest. I've played DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online), and I enjoyed it. Though I've never played their hobbit-filled MMO, I must assume that it is similar in polish and presentation.... Oh, and yeah, it's also gonna be FREE, soon.
Turbine made a staggering announcement recently and said that this fall their Lord of the Rings MMO will be modeled in similar fashion to DDO, as in... FREE. Well, free to a point. You will be able to play through the early portions of the game, just enough to get your excited and then abruptly shut you off. You will be required to purchase "mini game packs", that open up a little or a lot depending on what you choose. You can also spend a little extra cash and get a few things along the way, if you so desire.
But Dave why do you like this model of distribution and talk so much shit about Activision of being greedy dicksuckers, you ask? Because Activision charged PC gamers 10 dollars more (yep, a pricetag 10 bucks higher than console... 60 bones!), didn't provide dedicated servers, and slowly release old content for a new game and make you pay for it. Turbine won't require you to buy the game and they won't ever charge you a subscription fee. You will be free to roam about the world that they have given you for free and you can, if you wish, purchase a continued experience. In the 75 dollars that PC gamers have shelled out for MW2 alone, you could probably pick up a considerable chunk of the content you want in DDO.
DDO and LOTRO are NOT the best MMO games out there, but they are a nice alternative and for cheap people they will be better than just about anything else you can play for free. While I am giving shouts to free games, Guild Wars is another great alternative. Though you will have to purchase the game and some expansions to really get the full effect, the whole collection should only run you about 60 or 70 bucks, about as much as you'd spend on MW2 (faggots).
DDO and LOTRO are NOT the best MMO games out there, but they are a nice alternative and for cheap people they will be better than just about anything else you can play for free. While I am giving shouts to free games, Guild Wars is another great alternative. Though you will have to purchase the game and some expansions to really get the full effect, the whole collection should only run you about 60 or 70 bucks, about as much as you'd spend on MW2 (faggots).
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