Pharone
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Lotro is NOT like other MMORPGs. It's that simple. Lotro is a story-based MMORPG with a high emphasis on story-first.
This sets Lotro apart from the rest of the industry because every bit of content ever created for Lotro is as relevant on year 20 as it was on year 1. There is no such thing as irrelevant content in a game like Lotro. There is no obsolete content in Lotro. Period.
At this point, there is over 16 years of content in Lotro, and as amazing as the devs and designers have been over the years, there are issues here and there, a boulder floating here, insanely long back and forth quest steps, and so forth.
The designers have gotten better at knowing how to push their game engine over the years to get the most out of the game and the devs have made changes to the engine over the years that have given the designers more tools and ways to accomplish their goals. These are things that should be applied to ALL content and not just NEW content, but... we don't exactly have the man power and time to go back and fix everything with out causing a slip in what they can produce in new content for each new expansion.
SO... Here's my suggestion.
Every employee at SSG should be given the opportunity to take ONE area in Lotro per year, play a new character through it, read all the quest dialogue, do all the quests, No Cheating, play it like a real non-employee player of the game, and submit at least 3 things for that area where they could improve something in the way of Graphics, Animations, World Design, Quest Design, Travel Paths, or anything Quality of Life related.
This is obviously above and beyond their normal work time and efforts, so this is something they would do on their own time, and how do we compensate them for spending their non-work time making the game better? Glad you asked.
Add a Future Proof Lotro coin to the store (real money only.. no LP). Make it something like $5 and let any account purchase it as many times as they want. The total at the end of the year that is raised via selling this item is split as a yearly bonus among the employees that took part that year.
Add a cosmetic item, pet, mount, title, emote, or what ever to a NPC in game that players can barter for with their Future Proof Lotro coins they bought that year.
Now... I can tell you right now that there is no way the company will do this unless everybody clicks that upvote thing to the right over there. If a thousand people upvote this idea, it's a heck of a lot harder to ignore. So, help us help SSG to continue to make Lotro the best game for the rest of time and not just a "the new content is great" game like the rest of the industry.
This sets Lotro apart from the rest of the industry because every bit of content ever created for Lotro is as relevant on year 20 as it was on year 1. There is no such thing as irrelevant content in a game like Lotro. There is no obsolete content in Lotro. Period.
At this point, there is over 16 years of content in Lotro, and as amazing as the devs and designers have been over the years, there are issues here and there, a boulder floating here, insanely long back and forth quest steps, and so forth.
The designers have gotten better at knowing how to push their game engine over the years to get the most out of the game and the devs have made changes to the engine over the years that have given the designers more tools and ways to accomplish their goals. These are things that should be applied to ALL content and not just NEW content, but... we don't exactly have the man power and time to go back and fix everything with out causing a slip in what they can produce in new content for each new expansion.
SO... Here's my suggestion.
Every employee at SSG should be given the opportunity to take ONE area in Lotro per year, play a new character through it, read all the quest dialogue, do all the quests, No Cheating, play it like a real non-employee player of the game, and submit at least 3 things for that area where they could improve something in the way of Graphics, Animations, World Design, Quest Design, Travel Paths, or anything Quality of Life related.
This is obviously above and beyond their normal work time and efforts, so this is something they would do on their own time, and how do we compensate them for spending their non-work time making the game better? Glad you asked.
Add a Future Proof Lotro coin to the store (real money only.. no LP). Make it something like $5 and let any account purchase it as many times as they want. The total at the end of the year that is raised via selling this item is split as a yearly bonus among the employees that took part that year.
Add a cosmetic item, pet, mount, title, emote, or what ever to a NPC in game that players can barter for with their Future Proof Lotro coins they bought that year.
Now... I can tell you right now that there is no way the company will do this unless everybody clicks that upvote thing to the right over there. If a thousand people upvote this idea, it's a heck of a lot harder to ignore. So, help us help SSG to continue to make Lotro the best game for the rest of time and not just a "the new content is great" game like the rest of the industry.
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