Yesterday Turbine announced the official date for the first expansion to Lord of the Rings online as Nov 18th 2008, just over a month from now. While I haven’t played my hunter for about 8 months now, some of the additions to the game sound very exciting.
All the information on the upcoming Mines or Moria expansion have already been available online for many months, so I’m not going to cover what’s new, you can read my Mines of Mora announced post for details on that.
The one new feature I will talk about are the new Legendary items. These are weapons and class-related equipment that the player can forge themselves and that level up along with the player. Turbine was kind enough to provide us with some screenshots of these new legendary items so check it out.
Definitely a cool new feature and if I wasn’t having so much fun with Warhammer Online, I’d be thinking about coming back to LORTO once the expansion hit.
Truly a real expansion. Although they took an approach similar to Burning Crusade by adding additional levels, they didn’t just throw those in there, added two dungeons and called it a day.
The addition of two new classes, the legendary items, and more show that at least some developers out there still understand the concept of properly expanding their games.
Even though this is a niche game by now, it’s still really fun to play, and sees constant worthwhile additions. Isn’t that what an MMO should be all about?
@Malcom
I so agree…yet, the game is not fun.
I wish the really good games treated their customers like Turbine does.