kierg10 wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 10:10pm:


Correction: no expansions (cough up for content, plus higher levels) this year.  "Some" content is supposed to be added (quest packs?  added to old quest packs? who knows?) this year.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?535422-A-letter-from-Executive-Produ...

They are also supposed to be adding a class as well.  I can't imagine who thought that LOTRO needed another class.  This isn't DDO where anyone cares about builds.  LOTRO's issues are apparently with the endgame (after seeing what they did with DDO, I'm in no hurry to rush to endgame.  I'll herd my alt army elsewhere) and zero difficulty leveling content (apparently a power creep issue).

Finally, according to Steam, some of what I saw was seasonal (since I last played in winter), but the downward slide isn't exactly stopping.

http://steamcharts.com/app/212500#All

The scary thing is that Turbine launcher issues should be causing steam to increase (unless people are avoiding it for pylotro, not sure).  I'm guessing that the problem is Turbine, and Turbine's care for the games and customers.