I’m happy to pay for the service you provide in the full knowledge that your developers and staff can carry on making this and other games.Īnd please don’t imagine that I’m acting in anger over your recent “hiccups” in terms of communications and store items. you need to make money to pay wages and develop games. Besides, my first love is always going to be Tolkien’s Middle Earth aand I have no intentions of giving that up.Īlso don’t think I’m against the concept of in-game stores & micro-transactions: I’m not. Whilst I may not have endless hours of free time, I have enough to accommodate more than one game. It is also true that I have been looking around for a new MMO to play from Star Trek to The Secret World to Guild Wars 2 I have been itching to try a new game, but never at the expense of LOTRO. No, it was not this that led me to my final decision. Now it is true that over December & January I grew sick of the grindy nature of the levelling & Legendary Item system, but I am not an idiot & I know that grinding is a part of pretty much all MMOs. Why you may (or may not) ask? What have we done to illicit such a strong negative response from you? I will do my utmost to ensure your company never has a penny of my money again. Yet now I find myself so upset by a single recent decision that I will not be renewing my subscription this year and I will not buy a single Turbine Point from your store again. Since then I have played extensively and had an incredible time in the wonderful, beautiful world you have created and have happily spent several hundred pounds there in both subscription and store & Turbine Point purchases.

I have loved LOTRO since I started in May 2011, enough that although it was my first ever experience with an MMO I gladly became a subscriber the following month.

Still here I am and here is my letter to Turbine via their Community Manager, Sapience (aka Now he’s a busy fella so I’ll get right to the point. I suppose it’s mainly because I don’t think it would do any good – no company is going to listen to me are they? I don’t mean this on a personal level, but I am just a player and they have plenty of those without worrying about me. Oh I’ve ranted and blown off steam about this game or that, some broken feature or other, but I’ve never sat down and deliberately written a ‘letter’ to a company about why they have upset me so much.

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