Turbine started this month a new initiative, called The Palantir Private Preview Program, to get volunteers willing to help them improving Lord of The Rings Online. They accept applications from now, so if you feel like volunteering to track bugs, sending feedback, testing new features and maybe having an influence on how the game develops, this is your chance. You’ll have to meet some requirements though.
Testing things in advance can be interesting, but this is not a light work. Remember you’ll have to actually work helping the devs and what’s more important, you’ll have to accept a Non-Disclosure-Agreement. Anyway you could get a nice feeling, helping a game to become better.
Listening to what players have to say is always good and, if they even give you a chance to get yourself into a testing program, is even better. I hope Lord of the Rings Online gets something positive from this new The Palantir Private Preview Program.
For more info on how to apply for this, check the official announcement.
I wish Codemasters was as intent on this sort of things; as it is once can only hope they won’t delay undefinitely the f2p release on the european version of the game.
Un believingly there are still many mmo players that think it’s free as well for euro-players, having been announced on gaming magazines and lots of mmo news sites. If at least there had been an explanation as to why has it been delayed, other than “technical issues” some of the customers, like myself, wouldn’t be this disappointed.
I have a US account and play from Europe. It works ok. The bad news is you won’t be able to access your EU version characters if you change to US version, like I did.