An updated LOTRO Store arrives soon!
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TheoriginalFoofy
Active member
Lotro community is pretty tight and players often want to help others or do something nice for them. I am not a fan of WOW, however, the ability to gift someone play time or buy them , for example a horse? or outfit is available. Using a system where you can real I.D. your friends and gift things from the store would be amazing. It would also be profitable for Standing Stone Games. The new store looks great, wish you would have included a gifting system, so many people want that.
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New Stuff will roll in, their main goal would be to get a Working New LOTRO Store THEN add stuff once it's working. Adding more Items while in the process of changing Behind the Scenes Systems is a recipe to ensure that things will go wrong or have more errors.
Gildoriel
Guardian of the Citadel
Well, Steam purchases work with the external browser, and that is mentioned as still functioning, so I am keeping my fingers crossed. Otherwise that will be the end to my Lotro purchases.
Grotmaggot
sends his regards!
We used to be able to mail store items to each other (using a couple of mithril coins to do it) but they walked back that feature because of goldspammers
Not a huge fan of the new store myself. It perplexes me how SSG still hasn't figured out how to re enable the preview feature. The boxes in which icons are shown look off to me. And it reminds me too much of a mobile game store. But honestly it's not bad enough to never use
Greenpath
the sky is falling!
nah it isn't. A new store launching with new permanent items from the get go will have more people browse it, a few bundles trickled down the line for a couple weeks a year just cause fear of missing out, and after that it will be nothing again
YamyDeAragon
Student of Lady Galadriel
Yah, i have many times too, friends & relatives saying that they wish to give me some LOTRO store bought gift. Others that i wish
to be doing the gift but can't. The system don't allow it thanks that a few people abused the system back when it was possible. They used it to make "gold trade". I think that the problem is that the system is fully automated. If the gifts were done with SSG more closer administration to prevent abuse, is less likely that the abuse can happen.
aleczander
Scion of Vilya
I thought going to a "new" store would enable the "dressing room preview," so I'm very confused why SSG is bothering at all. I thought the majority of store sales were cosmetic, but there is no preview..doesn't make much sense to me (well, I only had 2 to begin with).
It's to update things Behind the Scenes. They haven't been talking about this much but what they've been using is much Older Tech & Older Limitations. This is as much to clean up things Behind the Scenes which we Players don't & can't see, as it is to continue the overall Modernization of the Lord of the Rings Online.
That's why it's been Updated & a New Store is coming.
UI Work is something that a lot of Projects are waiting around on and the New LOTRO Store isn't any different. UI Work is what will, one day, have them adding a Preview to the LOTRO Store. UI Work also will enable various Projects to either Start, Continue or in some cases actually get Finished for things the SSG LOTRO Team have been wanting to do like: Kinship Updates, Social Panel Updates, Deed Panel Updates, The Current (New) Legendary Item System for it's UI and so on.
Elmagor
The Knights of Round Table Ambassador
It will be good only IF they doing that to increase our account protection. If they doing this to implement new ways of monetization...
As for Security, they obviously aren't going to even hint on that, even hints can help those who are determined enough.
They have said 2-Factor Authentication is coming as well. It's no longer a "We'd like to add that" topic they are talking about. So that "peace of mind" that so many believe 2-Factor to be will one day be in LOTRO. I won't put any form of window on it for them but it sounds like a 2024 Project, pending anything, at least from how they are talking about Upcoming Features to LOTRO back earlier in 2023.
So likely between the New LOTRO Store + Other Projects, LOTRO "should hopefully" in what remains in 2023 and going into 2024 & 2025 see Security for Accounts increasing.
Elmagor
The Knights of Round Table Ambassador
They have logical reason for that - SSG consider what such feature give more reasons for some people to hack accounts. So they need increase account protection first before working on that feature
Pewpewmidget
Well-known member
I don't think you understand what "send something as gift to someone" actually does.
You buy something normally but instead of buying it for yourself, you give it to someone else.
There is absolutely nothing else involved. No links, no codes. No ways to hack other peoples' accounts.
The only concern is someone getting scammed.
As in offer to buy something from someone and that someone takes their money and doesn't send anything in return.
auximenes
Well-known member
If the gifts can be bought with points then there absolutely is reason to hack an account. After the account is compromised all existing points are spent on gifts sent to the account of the hacker's choice.