First MMO conversation |
| Written by Dave Taylor | |
| Sunday, 13 May 2007 | |
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Well, I've at least started to interact with people a little in Shadows of Angmar. The voice chat is only enabled in LOTRO if you join up with other players in a "Fellowship", which you need to do in order to do some of the larger quests. I've received my first "raid" quest, which requires me to find some people to help me take out a goblin camp.
That's for another day, I think. One step at a time. While hanging around a goblin camp trying to work out which way was north (true story), someone came up to me and asked me if I had 5 silver to spare as they wanted to buy a lute. Now as this was the first person to deign to talk to me, I figured why not. This introduced me not only to chat, but also to the trade dialog, which I couldn't get the hang of, but they talked me through how to give them the money. It felt a little like having a mugger explaining what they need you to do: "Now, open your wallet. Yes, that's the leather thing in the inside pocket of your coat. Good, taker it out. Now, get the money out. Yes, that paper stuff, and give it to me. Now I'm going to stick this knife in you and run off. Yes, you just need to fall over now." Still, I had plenty of cash because I loot everything in RPG games and I haven't found much to spend the cash on yet, and at least I was getting someone to talk to me. Like bribing people to be your friend, really. With this interaction/robbery behind me, I had the guts to talk to someone else and ask for directions, because one thing I have noticed in LOTRO is that it's easy to get lost. The lack of quest markers on the mini-map pointing you towards your goal leaves you wandering around a huge world with little in the way of help to find your target. I suspect this passes with time, as will the shyness about talking to people, but I can't say that I'm finding it easy in this brave new world of the MMO. Now, I just need to pluck up the courage to mark myself as "looking for a fellowship" or get into a fellowship somehow.
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