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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5977273" data-attributes="member: 54877">Well, I got into both games late, WoW on two different expansions.&nbsp; And I've never been much of a raider; so can't speak to that. For all I know, the variety there across the games is different.&nbsp; I did play Turbine's Asheron's Call shortly after launch, and have played other Blizzard games.&nbsp; So I think my characterization of the companies is fair.&nbsp; WoW was a lot more fun for me around the first expansion than it was the second time around, and all kinds of changes to make the characters more alike was a big part of my distaste.&nbsp;Whereas, I can completely believe that LOTRO was very similar at launch, but changed as I have described by my late entry.&nbsp; Turbine just can't help themselves.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; AC launched in October or early November the year it came out.&nbsp; That winter, they had a &quot;holiday&quot; upgrade that included snowmen with snowballs all over the landscape.&nbsp; Except, some of the snowmen were animated, tough, and very hostile.&nbsp; They put some right next to roads.&nbsp; So you'd have some poor character walking from one town to the next getting whacked from a hostile snowman camoflagued in the landscape.&nbsp; And then you had to go run back and get your stuff off the corpse.&nbsp; It was one of those things that was mostly funny, but not so much when a bunch of your friends got whacked at 11:00 P.M. when you really needed to get some sleep before work the next day. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel&nbsp; &nbsp; :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5977273, member: 54877"] Well, I got into both games late, WoW on two different expansions. And I've never been much of a raider; so can't speak to that. For all I know, the variety there across the games is different. I did play Turbine's Asheron's Call shortly after launch, and have played other Blizzard games. So I think my characterization of the companies is fair. WoW was a lot more fun for me around the first expansion than it was the second time around, and all kinds of changes to make the characters more alike was a big part of my distaste. Whereas, I can completely believe that LOTRO was very similar at launch, but changed as I have described by my late entry. Turbine just can't help themselves. :D AC launched in October or early November the year it came out. That winter, they had a "holiday" upgrade that included snowmen with snowballs all over the landscape. Except, some of the snowmen were animated, tough, and very hostile. They put some right next to roads. So you'd have some poor character walking from one town to the next getting whacked from a hostile snowman camoflagued in the landscape. And then you had to go run back and get your stuff off the corpse. It was one of those things that was mostly funny, but not so much when a bunch of your friends got whacked at 11:00 P.M. when you really needed to get some sleep before work the next day. :angel: [/QUOTE]

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