The Lord of the Rings: War 12+

The update which killed a fantastic game.

The game was actually very good besides some notable unbalances regarding pay to win players were prevalent; however the game was still very much enjoyable would give it maybe 4 stars. But the reason update they launched shattered all balance in the game, disrupted every working mechanism and gave those who have invested substantial sums of money an even greater advantage making the game largely unplayable and unenjoyable for players like myself.

It’s truly such a shame what this update did the the game the players were great and I had a lot of fun and now like many people I feel like the devs have neglected game health and killed the joy that I had for the game.

I wish they could revert to the pre update version but I doubt that will happen. I do thank the devs for the joy they brought in the past but unfortunately my journey with this once great game ends here.

Developer Response ,

Hello! Thank you for your feedback! We will continue to work hard to bring better game experiences for you. If you encounter any issues/glitches in the game, feel free to contact us. Our team will check it further for you. Thanks for your support!

The Devs don’t care

Currently in season 4 War if the ring campaign and it is diabolically poor. The devs have failed to find any balance whatsoever between the competing side so if you’re evil you wish you’d never installed the game and if you’re good you’re bored out of your mind. The issues were cause in part by a game breaking glitch known as the red book glitch that the devs failed to react to at all and also by pure incompetence from the devs. To make matters worse the devs have been completely unresponsive while the vast majority of their player base have been crying out for some balancing fixes and many have even requested full refunds on the game. Combine these issues with the fact that the devs seem determined to do a money grab over a sustainable game, examples include: removing the ability to dismantle unwanted gear to buy desired gear, introduced mathom vouchers in the chests which definitely do replace proper items and equate to a tiny fraction of the value of the items they have replaced; stealth patches that completely change the game without warning; constantly releasing non-canon heros to dilute the pool as opposed to rebalancing existing heros… the list could go on but I think you get the point. On the official discord the game representatives are as lost as the rest of us because the devs are genuinely failing to communicate, until they fix these issues don’t get drawn in!

Developer Response ,

Dear player. We're sorry to hear that you're not satisfied with the current state of our game. We've forwarded your message to our team as our goal is to make the game enjoyable for every player. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts!

Faction Balance bug makes unplayable

The game itself is highly enjoyable… except, you can find yourself in an no-win situation right out of the blocks. If you happened to join a low population faction, then … you are stuck and your goose is cooked. No soup for you. You cannot change factions and you can be outnumbered more than 10 to 1. It gets worse as players find they were unlucky and they quit the server, then your 100 to 1000 goes to 50 to 1000. That means you will spend your game time trying to survive while the dominant factions have their way. This imbalance can crush your experience within days. No matter how good you are, you won’t be able to keep up. Within 3 weeks of a new season (server refresh), we are entering end-game status on our server. It is valiant but brutal. One enemy player is strong enough to wipe out all 50. Your only remedy is to create an alt and join another server and faction that hopefully has a larger group of players, but you won’t know until you get there. Seems poorly considered, no? LOTR R2W need to fix this balancing issue by limiting players per faction. Until then, the game is… unplayable… even the dominant factions are bored (per general chat). Anyway, try your luck. The game is fun but also disappointing in this way.