Looking For A New MMO? #1 - Middle-Earth is Waiting for YOU! (Lord of the Rings Online in 2024) 

Holy cow! Thank you all SO MUCH for watching the video and supporting the channel! And welcome to all the new SUBSCRIBERS!! It really means a lot to me. Can’t wait to see where this journey takes us! 🙏🏻😊

Nah this guy's editing and story telling is like a 5 year youtube veteran, props to you man

I picked it up about a year ago and have since experienced one of the most welcoming and passionate communities that I have ever seen. This game really is one of a kind and I recommend anyone try as you get majority of the game for completely free. Great video!

Just a message for anyone watching after August 2024, the Before the Shadow expansion has been made free to everyone, so the more modern starting experience is available to all if that’s what you’re looking for

dude how do you only have 225 subscribers?? seriously man, this was awesome. keep it up!

This brother is making videos like he has been on RU-vid since for ever! Here's a well-deserved like to help you with the algorithm, my man!

Great video, definitely looking forward to what else you put out! Always enjoy finding a new smaller channel.

I might be wrong but at one time the son has exclusive rights to all Lord of the Ring lore and anything that is published. It has to be approved by him if there is a change in anything or story. So they are real strict with characters story and lore.

I love playing this when ever I want to play an MMO, but I also just want to chill. This game never makes me feel like I have to do anything other than what I want to do. And it is so much fun to just do trivial things like crafting, farming or even running some mail and pies around. :D

If you want to play an Orc, you can. They are available in Monster Play which is the game's PvP, but there is PvE in the battlegrounds as well if you want to quest as an Orc (or spider or wolf)

Subbed. Thanks for giving this game a fair shake, I've seen other creators get started on it and the minute they realised there's a lot of reading, they ridiculed it and went for the "look at this old-ass game". And yeah, it's an old-ass game. An old-ass game that - if you are a fan of Tolkien's work - keeps you entertained for years on end.

Been playing since April 26th, 2007. Even bought lifetime. I LOVE this game. The amount of care put into the lore is incredible!

It's great to see the love of LOTRO being showcased. Plus nice to see the player base growing again. Really enjoying the legendary servers. More players means larger improvements I would like to believe.

3:38 Voice acting is something you will find later in the game, in the recent espansions there's a lot of it, almost everything has voice acting!

Hey Bro! Great job with this Video! I am a 17 year player of this game and it's 100% worth Playing! Now, I am a Content Creator for the Game! This Video Popped up in my feed and you did a very good job giving a positive overview of it! It's very refreshing to see a real review of something and not just copy paste info like so many others do. So Great job! :D We play on the server crickhollow and my kinship/Guild is same name as the channel! Voice of the Rings. :) Cheers! Keep it up! Hope you and everyone have so much fun playing this game! Lot of new updates coming out for it today! P.S. with my channel I also do Voiceovers and acting in the game. (like you said about a lot of lore and reading hehe) also, LAG will be going away with 64-bit update to servers happening like right now. :D

Have loved playing Lotro for many years. A relaxing escape with many ways to enjoy middle earth.

I've picked this up recently and it has immersed me almost as much as WoW did back in the day. No other MMO has managed to do this for me until now. Shame I missed it for so long, I played it for a few hours in 2008 and got suckered back into other games.

Such a huge world I think one of the biggest maps in square kilometers

I really love this game, it's so cozy.

Thank you LOTRO is a truly magical game.

You get a like, not only because LOTRO is the subject, but also because of the very cool narration! You deserve to get a bigger channel, and maybe this might become a LOTRO one!

Dude i started playing on the legendary server and It's amazing! I have so much fun! I love your video. I subbed!

I love vids like this, where the person obviously really cares about what they are making the video on. Great quality, and I am so happy I found your channel. I'll def give the game a try!

I can't tell you how badly I want to like this game. I'm a freak for anything Tolkien, read all the books, Silmarilion, all the appendices, etc. 3 things keep me from playing: The atrocious UI The abysmal graphics I'm so late to the party, people have been playing it since I was in elementary school

the legendary Mordor server is waiting for me, open for less than a month, it is located in Europe, with a lot of people. Let's go to The Journey

Just started a couple weeks ago. Fantastic video my friend!

Subbed! I haven't played LOTRO before so I'm currently looking into it :) love the Tolkien universe so I regret not having done this ages ago.

Just as an FYI, it is not developed by Standing Stone Games. It was originally developed by Turbine, and it was later acquired by SSG which is currently the continuing to develop it.

So glad to see the LOTRO resurgence lately!

Nice video. Good quality 👍

I just started last week as well and love the pacing. It feels really good. This video is great, buddy, great start! You've got another a sub and am excited to follow along.

I had a friend named CMAC once, so I'm subscribing 😊 Great vid!

High quality for low subs. I hope ur channel grows. well done

I really need to get back into this game... This game and Guild wars 2 always feel like my comfort food mmo's...

I used to love traveling by foot or by pony across the Shire on my hobbit minstrel. I had a great time.

I picked it up a few times because it's one of my cousin's favorite games. He's been playing since it launched. And though I do love the environment, the music, the charm... I just can't seem to get into it. I think it's too overwhelming for me. Last time, I started as a Hobbit and I got as far as Bree before I stopped playing. Yet when I see video's like these, I really do want to try and jump into it again to give it another chance. If anyone has any tips on how to approach this huge chunk of an MMO (or any MMO for that matter), feel free to leave a comment please

Great job! I loved the video and it was VERY WELL executed! Got a sub out of me for sure.

Ok, ok... downloading the game and subbing a VIP sub for 3 months..

lotro is awesome !

Z-MAC Thank you so much for the informative video! You really did persuade me to try the game (again), my first attempt was in 2016. But what I really want to see and learn about in detail is how/what/when to buy the game and it's expansions, which edition is worth it? maybe explain the some of the edition's rewards and what difference are they from lesser editions etc...

nice game but they could improve the UI friendliness, inventory management for non-paying players

Before the Shadow just became free! Arguably a much better tutorial than the old one

You deserve more followers, you earned my follow anyway ^^

Super voice - hope you will reach higher audience soon

Every Tolkien fan needs to play this.

The problem with LOTRO is that it features a beautiful huge world with very small player base, so most of the time it feels like you're playing a single player game. It feels very emptly.

The biggest let down of this video was looking at your sub count and not seeing more subs. Great job, keep it up

As a totally blind gamer and massive Tolkien fan I've wanted to play this since it came out. In 2024 making this accessible should be possible. Wow has been modded no thanks to blizard, why not this game?

Some mention might be made of the incidental music, which ranges from pretty good to first-rate. Turning music off misses part of the fun.

16:10 i think its because before as a f2p the mount were temporary. When i watched Josh Strife Hayes review on this game a while back the mount wasn't permanent unless you paid thats prob why it asks if you are sure cause its back when it was a temporary mount. Don't hold me to this im like 60% sure of this

there is a way to play as an orc in 'monster play' aka this game's version of pvp, but it's not as popular as the standard play style

Just started playing again after 15 years :D Love it! Im on the Legendary EU Server

Also 15:45 - it does indicate where you are on the map - a little red triangle :) Easiest way to spot it is to just turn with the arrows keys and look for the spinning triangle :D

Here I go downloading it again...

I started it this week, hoping I can like it. I mean it seems great but the UI is making me wanna quit. Trying to ignore it and just get on with it lol. Praying for that new UI update to come sooner than later. Yup UI stuff bothers me lol

I'm not a graphics enthusiast myself, but I am pretty sure if they revamped the graphics and did an overhaul on it the game would be exploding with new players right now.

Only drag out I'm having is the lotro point grind lol but this is a great game

100% worth playing in 2024

I tried this out yesterday but got overwhelmed and my UI was all messed up. Thinking it was my resolution being 2560x1440. I'll downscale to 1080p and try again.

I really want to!! But i just cant play old games anymore :(

Guys, Im just wondering, is LOTRO promoting and paying these youtubers for these kinds of videos? Ive seen like 10 videos from last months about how Lotro is Worth it and Im wondering if it is paid or these guys just love Lotro (anyways Im glad it is still alive!)

I really tried getting into it. Even bought a subscription. But the lag and the frame rate issues really turned me off to the game.

All I want for Christmas is a current gen LOTR MMO. Cannot stand the UI and general input delay. I have tried many times to come back to LOTRO.

The problem with this game, that the devs focus on quantity over quality...

If you meet a hobbit name Bufird, I’ll make second breakfast. Then supper and dinner. Lotto is great.

I think it can do with an update on graphics but beyond that... its nice game

Really sad that the massive paywall is still present.

LOTRO is old tech and if you have a high resolution monitor IT SHOWS ... can't get the UI usable unless I go back to 2K which sucks for a 5K2K monitor.

i just picked it up today and i’m having fun! unfortunately it keeps freezing and locking my pc up and idk how to fix it 😞

The new legendary servers are amazing

It was developed by Turbine

i come back when they give ALL content back for free Just like 2021/22

Facts.

isint there like pay 2 win elements that increases stats

Everyone says ff14 and eso for story . But why? Because of voice acting? Like lotro has waaaaay better lore and story IMO. You just gotta read text is all haha

Maybe if one day the update graphics... looks very bad for 2024. They are doing big mistake

I started playing yesterday evening. The start of high elves is sooooo long and sooooo boring, just standing by, reading walls of text with no voiceover. Very hard to suffer through, my wife turned it off after few minutes. I made it to Rivendell but barely and I have worries to continue, that it will be the same, silent reading with boring combat. 😔

Its really heartbreaking for me that i barely cant enjoy any other game than WoW. I tried LotrO hundreds of times and it never lasted more than a hour. I just dont like the graphic style. Graphic overall i dont care about. WoW Classic graphic is anything but good but its still my favorite graphic style and combat style i just love this game. Still i always try to find something new but no game just give me the fun i have with wow. Its so sad man.

i would play this if the pvp wasn't weird

So you blocked my standard mmo name: Zmac

I lost my lvl 70 blue ranger Gagallen :(

played this game when it came out and a fuw years ago i started playing for a fuw months the problem is that the game is kinda dead there are almost no players it feels like a single player games

I'm not gonna play any MMORPG with an in-game store. Period. But go ahead, make all the videos you want!

Why did this load in 144p rofl.

Sadly i played this for 2nyears at launch. After trying it again this year, it's actually worse than it was and the ui and thi ga yavent been updated. The devs arwnt trying at all

Make more lotto content 😀

you can play a trany

this game is great in terms of RPG, but the animations and combat are outdated, wooden mechanics straight from the 2000s

Why am I getting so many video recommendations for LOTRO? I'm sorry but this shit looks ass. I'm not into RP like at all, and that seems to be the only selling point. Tried it way back and combat was ass, game felt jank. I did hear rumblings about them redoing the whole game of some kind but haven't heard anything since. If it gets redone I will give it another go.

graphics aren't everything in game look at most of latest games that have been coming out complete trash most of old school games are better then this day and age of games

Horrible game.. I uninstalled it after 2 hrs gameplay

Lotro is not a new mmo and it is one of the worst mmos

Tried it a week ago. It was exceedingly boring

Yet another paid promotion - good going Turbine!