FakeStrake wrote on Jun 19^th, 2014 at 11:55pm:


I'm guilty for many of the posts some may have read.  I did post the twinkies.

I'll keep it short since I'm usually long winded.  Arkat actually warned us about this guy already.  And yeah we've been yucking it up waiting for his arrival.  Sadly it's far too late for our game.  Kate Paiz has gutted it of any content.   At one point we had multiboss raids, 6 man instances, 3 man instances and other decent stuff for endgame content.
We were always told 2 things about anything we wanted as a playerbase.  Too hard, too expensive.

Today what you get is epic battles.  Where you basically spend an entire instance not playing your class.  They have removed the aggro tables from the mobs  and they basically ignore you.   And the loot!  You finish an instance and it's possible no one in the group receives anything.  Basically we were forced to run instances 100's of times to get usable items.  The loot system is like something out of the Sands casino.  The house always wins!  So random it has driven away the players.

The fanboys on our O board have chased away anyone who has tried to point out the flaws in these strategies.   And Sapience has given us the kinder gentler forum by banning people. 

I think we have alot in common.  We Lotro Community people have been likening our game to the titanic for along time. 

Turbine has flushed our IP's down a toliet.  It's sad too because I still play tabletop DND.  So soiling this IP saddens me as much as what they have done to Tolken's works.  They have become just as bad as movie license games.   

Turbine is deliberately not merging dead servers so they can milk us for paid transfers.  My server is constantly under 150 players total everyday.

We have a ton of mistrust for Turbine employees.  So let's not expect too many warm welcomes.

That said hello everyone.

Do they have an Epoch though? Every forum needs an Epoch.

Epoch wrote on Jun 20^th, 2014 at 4:41am:


Word.

It is a little shocking how similar that game is to DDO in how badly they fucked up something that had so much potential.

Your forums have some good drama too so thanks for the laughs.

Its called being a corporate monkey that gets told what he is working on.  Warner Brothers doesn't give a fuck about either game and could care less if they both close down.  In the grand scheme of things Turbine means nothing to WB.  WB owns the best cartoons in the world, multiple television stations, movie studios, comic rights, you name it and they own it.

"Reclaiming the crown, Warner Bros. was No. 1 in global market share in 2013 with $5.04 billion in global ticket sales. It's only the second time a Hollywood studio has hit that mark (Paramount achieved the milestone in 2011)"

Now with numbers like that why would they care about a game that produces $250k a year at best???

kinda underwhelming read, i expected to get my mind blown or something

it pretty much explains how a guy designed a business in the hopes of selling it to someone and no one ever gave a fuck about anything other than getting paid

at least they seem to have done that right. all the initial people are probably well paid and no longer associated with the fail that is turbine.

maybe if we are lucky, when turbine is no longer worth shit, someone with a brain will buy it off warner bros for a fraction of the price they acquired it for and turn it back into a money maker

TL;DR guy sold dogshit to a big company who thought it was brown gold.

Steiner wrote on Jun 19^th, 2014 at 6:31am:


Go back to bitching about Shiradi, and Fury Shot.  At least you are good at that.

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Who THE FUCK is "we", white man?

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Anyone know? I assumed it was u21.

Yobai wrote on Jun 20^th, 2014 at 4:10pm:

The cards were March 12th until April 14th?
U21 March 10th. About 75 days ago.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 20^th, 2014 at 5:10pm:


Then they are lesser. Tis a shame.

Rubbinns wrote on Jun 19^th, 2014 at 10:22pm:


Wow. I guess they win.

I could be wrong here, but if you're constantly changing producers - at both companies - doesn't that suggest a gross lack of vision?

Or are they just really, really sensitive? "Oh, no, they're complaining on the forums!  We need a scapegoat - who's the producer? You're fired! Get me a new one."

After reading Feather-of-sun's explanation, I think Turbine is run by an incompetent asshole who makes stupid, conceited and insecure decisions to boost his impotent ego. Or maybe it's a chic.

Just kidding girls.

Hiding wrote on Jun 20^th, 2014 at 9:04pm:


Any credit given to that cumdrenched monkey butler is misplaced