So I’m completely out of the loop and the article wasn’t clear on why there’s apparently a mad rush to transfer servers. New update? New servers? Anyone in the know?
Hopefully someone with better info than me will chime in (my algorithm occasionally coughs up LOTRO vids, but I haven’t played seriously in some time). I believe that there are two stated reasons for the situation, both relating to the age of the game. The first is that the remaining player base is not big enough to support the number of servers currently offered, and so consolidation will help the game feel more alive at any given moment. The second reason is that the legacy servers are 32 bit, and they want to modernize to a 64 bit architecture. So, two birds, one (standing) stone.
They opened 64bits servers instead of the older 32bits (that’ll stay open).
I don’t think I’ll transfer my account this time and just let it disappear and die one day.
Haven’t been playing this game for a bit but its my fav mmo. Def gonna give the 64 bit servers a try when this mess ends. Speaking of which is there a lotro community on lemmy?
I tried to play this but I’m not a fan of MMOs. I couldn’t do the fetch quests and just clicking on boxes for combat. I kept ending up wandering into these really remote areas and getting lost too.
I would hope someone takes this world and updates the graphics and maybe even provide an updated RPG experience because it is truly amazing. There are so few good Tolkien based games out there which is nuts because there is so much lore to pull from.
Good Lore doesn’t necessarily make for good games
