Rise of Isengard breaks records

Still the leader of the pack, got my F2P money they did. Game on.

Forth, Eorlingas!

What record did they break, or did I miss something? I heard the game was improved, but I don't have time to even try it. I'll get my fill when "The Hobbit" is released next year.

@vadicta Well personally if you break your own record you would be pretty ecstatic. So I am not surprised they announced it.

They could breack any record, there's still only one ring.

I love you Turbine. Keep being awesome.

They forgot to mention that you can buy the equivalent of the expansion (minus the pre-order bonuses) in the LOTRO Store using Turbine Points that you can earn through gameplay. Or if you are already a subscriber to the game (the VIP status), you get 500 TPs per month and can use that to buy the expansion. I'm VIP (Lifetime member in fact) and I piled more than 10 000 TPs since the F2P switch, because I never spent any points. So now I can get the expansion for free.

I hope that The Old Republic goes F2P, in LOTRO's model, after some months. Since LOTRO still makes a lot of money, I can't see why not, there's already a huge amount of people waiting for The Old Republic and are willing to subscribe, I suppose that amount would grow even more if people weren't to subscribe, but put their subscription money towards expansions.

@xGlenn11x I'm not saying it's not good for them. I'm just saying that the headline gives more grandeur to what's happening than is there. That's all.

@vadicta, Even so, they still accomplished a personal best. That's good enough for me.

What you can take from this is that the free to play model is the way to go. LOTRO is thriving in a WoW market. They are doing better then they did before and so many others have started following. I am not saying they where the first, but they have gotten so much right, and yes I do play.

@xGlenn11x The headline reads (or read at least) "Rise of Isengard Crushes Records." That creates quite a different image in comparison to what the story is actually saying, especially since they didn't even release any specific numbers, so we don't even know how much they really accomplished.

@Vadicta, So I guess playing a game with a Time Trial mode and beating your personal best time, or running a mile and beating your personal best time, or accomplishing a grade in school that you had never accomplished before is not breaking a record, personal or not. Beating a record, personal or not, is still beating a record.

Breaking a personal record isn't quite breaking a record, in my opinion.