Middle Earth Online

[KirtViza]

http://www.meosource.co.uk/media/video/index.php

[KirtViza]

This "high price" will come as a surprise to some people but are needed to cover the high costs (see below) and you are getting a lot for it in return:

1. You will get to wander the whole of Middle-earth and not just a small sliver the Fellowship walked through (like in other LotR-inspired games). To give you an idea of the size: running from the Grey Havens to Rivendell will take about 10 hours real time.
2. The game will get new content every 6-8 weeks financed from the monthly fees
3. You can play together with some 100k people of which some 3,000 will be directly playing on the same server as you: with those 3000 nuts, you can play with (and against), chat with and conquer the troubles of the world with.
4. The game will be moderated/controlled giving cheaters and griefers less chance
5. Periodic free additions to the game making it possible to find new things all the time and the occasional paid for HUGE addition
6. Because of the previous things, the game will remain fun and new for a long long long period of time, which will save you heaps of money since you do not have to buy another game for a long long long time.

All intresting info I will be posting

[KirtViza]

The possibilities for a dedicated roleplaying-server are being investigated. At all times character names will be filtered to have them fit Tolkien and to prevent book-names from being chosen. Also you can have a form of anonymity so that people can only see your name but nothing more.
You will be able to use musical instruments, there will be taverns and a lot of emotes for expressing emotions or performing social skills. For example smoking a pipe will be an emote: you type in "smoke" and you will whip out your pipe and start smoking.
You can obtain letters, parchment and (rarely) books and write down your stories, poems and simple notes to send them to your friends

[Keer]

DONT FALL FOR IT! I wont leave, I thought Shadowbane and FFXI were so much better then SWG till the free month was over, It's a new game so ofcourse everyone is going to scream "AHHHH I LOVE IT IT ROXORS MY BOXORS", But i still believe that it probally really sux and the only reason people love it so much is cause its somthing different.

Turnabout is fair play.

[Jaminos]

Well it seems I will have to try this out but if they dissapoint me like they did in FF11 I will hunt them down and cut out ther hearts and feed them to my pet Rancor.

[KirtViza]

DONT FALL FOR IT! I wont leave, I thought Shadowbane and FFXI were so much better then SWG till the free month was over, It's a new game so ofcourse everyone is going to scream "AHHHH I LOVE IT IT ROXORS MY BOXORS", But i still believe that it probally really sux and the only reason people love it so much is cause its somthing different.

Turnabout is fair play.

I completly agree , The one thing that honestly will keep me from playing WoW is the cartoonish graphics. I have already decided that when MEO comes out I will keep SWG open for my free month with MEO that way if It starts to piss me off or cause Great Bordom I can always come back without restarting my account.

[Keer]

DONT FALL FOR IT! I wont leave, I thought Shadowbane and FFXI were so much better then SWG till the free month was over, It's a new game so ofcourse everyone is going to scream "AHHHH I LOVE IT IT ROXORS MY BOXORS", But i still believe that it probally really sux and the only reason people love it so much is cause its somthing different.

Turnabout is fair play.

I completly agree , The one thing that honestly will keep me from playing WoW is the cartoonish graphics. I have already decided that when MEO comes out I will keep SWG open for my free month with MEO that way if It starts to piss me off or cause Great Bordom I can always come back without restarting my account.

Well now that's more like it.

As always, I'm in the spirit of free and mature exchange of ideas. So despite my own experience with this I look forward to yours or anyone else's objective review of MEO.

[KirtViza]

MEO just looks like it will be a bit different then EQ and uo. Plus im a LOTR fan so that makes me want to try it out more. I was never big on Warcraft at all so that is probally another reason.

[TramelRaggs]

1. You will get to wander the whole of Middle-earth and not just a small sliver the Fellowship walked through (like in other LotR-inspired games). To give you an idea of the size: running from the Grey Havens to Rivendell will take about 10 hours real time.

When SWG first came out, I remember not getting far away from Restuss. I remember telling Nyase that I was going to walk from Restuss to Narmle and him telling me not to. I thought it would take forever, but there was bound to be great stuff between them. I remember it taking me hours to get to the Imperial Prison from the Dathomir Outpost. Getting back was even longer. That was ONE planet.

2. The game will get new content every 6-8 weeks financed from the monthly fees

Kind of like "monthly" stories, no?

3. You can play together with some 100k people of which some 3,000 will be directly playing on the same server as you: with those 3000 nuts, you can play with (and against), chat with and conquer the troubles of the world with.

As is the same with a lot of games, including SWG.

4. The game will be moderated/controlled giving cheaters and griefers less chance

There will never be a mod able to out do someone who is bent on cheating/griefing and they'll never be able to stop it all. Every time the code changes, they'll just have to do their best to plug holes. It's sorta like what the devs in SWG do.

5. Periodic free additions to the game making it possible to find new things all the time and the occasional paid for HUGE addition

Like Bunkers, Caves, and Vettes, right?

6. Because of the previous things, the game will remain fun and new for a long long long period of time, which will save you heaps of money since you do not have to buy another game for a long long long time.

Since the release of SWG, I've bought one other game, and that was Madden 2005.

Now, the reason I did this is not because I don't think MEO will be big. I do, even though I will more than likely not go to it. Wizards and Warriors really don't do much for me. It didn't on the NES and it doesn't now. But every time a new game comes out, there are suppose to be these new world changing things about it. The problem isn't with the things devs can put into the game. It's how they implement them and keep them going over the long run.

[KirtViza]

1. You will get to wander the whole of Middle-earth and not just a small sliver the Fellowship walked through (like in other LotR-inspired games). To give you an idea of the size: running from the Grey Havens to Rivendell will take about 10 hours real time.

When SWG first came out, I remember not getting far away from Restuss. I remember telling Nyase that I was going to walk from Restuss to Narmle and him telling me not to. I thought it would take forever, but there was bound to be great stuff between them. I remember it taking me hours to get to the Imperial Prison from the Dathomir Outpost. Getting back was even longer. That was ONE planet.

2. The game will get new content every 6-8 weeks financed from the monthly fees

Kind of like "monthly" stories, no?

3. You can play together with some 100k people of which some 3,000 will be directly playing on the same server as you: with those 3000 nuts, you can play with (and against), chat with and conquer the troubles of the world with.

As is the same with a lot of games, including SWG.

4. The game will be moderated/controlled giving cheaters and griefers less chance

There will never be a mod able to out do someone who is bent on cheating/griefing and they'll never be able to stop it all. Every time the code changes, they'll just have to do their best to plug holes. It's sorta like what the devs in SWG do.

5. Periodic free additions to the game making it possible to find new things all the time and the occasional paid for HUGE addition

Like Bunkers, Caves, and Vettes, right?

6. Because of the previous things, the game will remain fun and new for a long long long period of time, which will save you heaps of money since you do not have to buy another game for a long long long time.

Since the release of SWG, I've bought one other game, and that was Madden 2005.

Now, the reason I did this is not because I don't think MEO will be big. I do, even though I will more than likely not go to it. Wizards and Warriors really don't do much for me. It didn't on the NES and it doesn't now. But every time a new game comes out, there are suppose to be these new world changing things about it. The problem isn't with the things devs can put into the game. It's how they implement them and keep them going over the long run.

I agree with you, since SWG I havent played another MMO since i came back, but MEO just seems a bit different. In MEO Wizards are the jedi of SWG one difference tho the devs have stated that no PC will ever be a Wizard, among other Certin things

[Keer]

It's how they implement them and keep them going over the long run.

Ahhh, the essence. Distilled and crystallized.

[KirtViza]

The problem with Star wars Monthly faction thingys is that they werent long enough, I mean I did all of them the same day they came out so....they were too easy and too short, And that was befor buffs too.

[Jabe Adaks]

And that was befor buffs too.

There was a time before buffs? That must have been a golden age.

Jabe

[KirtViza]

Oh man, I tell you what I really wish buffs and uber armor never came out, this game was so much fun. Any and every time I went out hunting it was with a group, cause you are always scared of dying, and if you were like me in AH (( befor it became a ghost town)) Looking for a Squill cave group.

I remember one time I was in a group of 13 and we were all saying "Hey do you think we have enough, we have a few medics and one doc, but I dont think we are ready yet". It was priceless ...*sobs* I miss those days imps would raid AH all the time *crys* I WANNA GO BACK!

[Jabe Adaks]

I remember one time I was in a group of 13 and we were all saying "Hey do you think we have enough, we have a few medics and one doc, but I dont think we are ready yet". It was priceless ...*sobs* I miss those days imps would raid AH all the time *crys* I WANNA GO BACK!

I remember spending a LOT of time in Anchorhead as a Rebel. I am really saddened that place is dead. I don't understand why it happened either.

Jabe