Lord of the Rings Online

Im just corious if the population has risen with the MoM expansion?

It sure has  :)  ...I definitely see more people running around everywhere I go.

It is seriously packed right now, atleast in moria. I stopped playing once i hit 50 back in summer 07' due to lack of interest, came back for the expansion (lvl 55 right now). Every quest haven there is you see other players, every quest location you see other players...I honestly can't say iv'e gone longer than a few minutes without running into someone in any part of moria.

Now i can't speak for what the population was prior to the launch, but who cares? There are a lot of people playing right now and that is what matters. BTW im on brandywine....which is the highest population wise (or one of the highest) so keep that in mind.

Im seeing lots of folks also, Landroval server. Not just high levels or new classes either lots of lower levels as well as big guys  of all classes running about.

It definitily rised, I see so many players (not just lv 50 to 60, but 1 to 40 too) so i guess it rised.

Played this game since launch, on and off, and never reached 50 with any of the characters. While I do not believe that this game needs alot of other players to be seriously fun, it makes it easier to actually complete the fellowship quests :)

Anyway, whith the new expansion I created both a Warden and a Runemaster and there have definitely not been a lack of low level players around, so things have been great.

I also decided to finally take my lvl 25 minstrel to new heights, and to find people for the fellowship quests have been very easy.

The auctionhouse seems alive and kicking too, wich I think is one of the most important things in LOTRO, since I have always thought of Middle Earth as a rather desolate place outside the small towns - that is the way I like it :)

Oh yeah, I am playing on European Laurelin RP Server

Yeah most servers are packed even euro ones, but we need mroe night gamer. Seems like lotro's pop is only made of regular people. I'm all laone when i log on at 3am and want to go questing around.

At first the population didnt rise much, but now the numbers are increasing big time.

Probably word of mouth spreading that there is new fun to be had here and this game has never created the ill feelings most other MMOs create in people who leave. So people come back when they hear this.

Today I made a warden, when I entered Archet there were 31 people there.

At the first hub in Moria there were so many people that I lagged badly, I counted between 50 and 60 and there werent even an AH there. A guildie of mine said that it was much worse at the AH.

So yes many have returned to try out the expansion. No one knows how long it will last though.

Originally posted by afoaa

At first the population didnt rise much, but now the numbers are increasing big time.

Probably word of mouth spreading that there is new fun to be had here and this game has never created the ill feelings most other MMOs create in people who leave. So people come back when they hear this.

Today I made a warden, when I entered Archet there were 31 people there.

At the first hub in Moria there were so many people that I lagged badly, I counted between 50 and 60 and there werent even an AH there. A guildie of mine said that it was much worse at the AH.

So yes many have returned to try out the expansion. No one knows how long it will last though.

About as long as last time, when about 6-10 weeks after release many achievers quit, followed by the killers. For the last year or so the game was crowded with RP/socialize/explorer type players, I don't think this will have changed when you take a look into the game around Feb.

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People are coming back because they see that lotro keeps on delivering.

After over a year of gametime i bought my lifetime sub. this week, because turbine/codemaster have proven their competence with the last patches and especially the mom expansion, i think the future is bright for lotro, people realise that and come back to the game.