Apologies if the title was misleading to anyone. It's a question about when RoK is going to be announced, and how the impending competition might affect that. I couldn't think of what else to call it. Anyway, here's my question. Lord of the Rings Online looks like it's going to be pretty big. It certainly is now at any rate. As someone who has been with EQ2 since a few days after launch, the pricing options available in LOTRO are incredibly attractive. I frankly wouldn't have given the game a second glance had it not been for those options. But had those options been available at EQ2's launch I would have personally saved somewhere in the neighborhood of $220 to date, so it's tough to ignore. Without getting into a comparison of the two games, my question is this: Wouldn't it be wise for SoE to at least
announce RoK now to keep would-be defectors here . . . or am I wrong and would it actually be smarter to wait until
after LOTRO launches to suck those defectors back? With over a third of our guild currently having rendered their subscriptions inactive to pursue LOTRO, the rest of us have some decisions to make. Some lean toward going, some lean toward staying. For me, since I've been through all the top-level end-game heroic content a few times, and some of the epic stuff. But I don't have the massive time blocks needed for raiding on a regular basis . . . I'd like to know what to look forward to (or dread) in RoK and when to expect it before making a decision. I'm sure there have to be lots of others in the same boat, no? If they announce it now, they risk people saying "Oh, great. No cap increase!? I'm outta here" or vice versa. I mean let's face it you can't please everyone. But by saying nothing, don't they risk people feeling there's nothing left to look forward to except repeatedly running the same instances (whether heroic or epic) and taking a hiatus or worse? Or are the million plus beta testers in LOTRO a mirage that will evaporate once it becomes time to shell out the benjamins? Or is EQ2 beg enough that they can just ignore the competition?
