Recent content by Perivayne

Just a comment here about this... Guild Wars 2 was actually spawned from the expansion process for Guild Wars. As they built and refined in Guild Wars, they reached a point where they honestly had to say that they couldn't do what they were envisioning for the game, given the existing code...

The community is unique in Lotro, really amazing. I've played in several different MMO's and Lotro still remains the best in terms of players and community, and doesn't matter which server you play on. I play on Elendilmir. :)

Lifetime members and Founders will be getting beaucoup points monthly/how many anniversaries they've been at/etc, so the lifetime membership, which I more than recouped as I played since release will still give a great value.

Warner Brothers just bought Turbine, btw. I didn't see a news report on the Escapist about the purchase.

The basic game of Lotro is PVE, and the core is the Shadows of Angmar. The two expansion packs will be available for purchase, and there will be a general VIP programs and store to purchase items from using points. PvMP is what Lotro has, and it is NOT the major focus of the game. VIP players...

Alas, I wish I could say he's exaggerating the starter quests to make them sillier, but nope, he isn't. :) But, I think I appreciated the humor in some of them more than the acrobatics that was needed to complete them.

Will depend on the server loads, but I've really had more lag issues with ISP routing problems when backbones are down or busy. But those are pretty much common to all online gaming. Aion lagged in PVP something awful for me, just too many players and too few server resources.

Turbine just announced it officially. Check out http://www.lotro.com for the beta signup for the release of the F2P if you're interested.

Please note my join date for the forums.

No, still here, but I usually prefer to have something more concrete to say. Also, I didn't see this thread earlier as it moved down the pagination pretty quickly.

I think it's not the general idea of the "plane" but more the fact that the plane flew over Lower Manhattan at a very low altitude, which is what panicked people working and living there.

Going with that logic then, in the several seconds to half-minute tops that you might see and react to the planes, some may not have seen the jets or thought the jets were chasing the plane. Shooting down the plane over a heavily populated area would not be a very good idea either. Makes for the...

Well, it's easy to tell someone that they should get over something when you didn't experience the trauma that they went through. Some of the survivors still struggle with flashbacks and other ptsd symptoms. Since this was simply a photo op of the spare Air Force One, they could have made a...

One word...communication. Need to let people know about stuff that might just cause wide spread panic, like low flying jumbo jets with military jets following them over a city that was attacked by low flying jumbo jets. Certainly couldn't hurt to let them know with a bit more than a few...

The issue will likely be determined by the next paradigm in connectivity for the web. MMORPG's have mainly stuck to turn basing because of latency issues from the multitude of different computer configs/ISPs/etc. Single player games aren't hampered by this since they're optimized for the...