LotRO hit­ting con­soles is a rumor that just won’t die. I sup­pose the nat­ural assump­tion is that this means it’s likely true. Gamedaily has infor­ma­tion on a sur­vey with ques­tions that are themed around a Xbox 360 vari­a­tion of Lord of the Rings Online. Ques­tions from the sur­vey dis­cuss a $12.99 monthly sub­scrip­tion fee as well as microtransactions.

These ques­tions and the game itself are all hypo­thet­i­cal. I’ve taken enough of these sur­veys to real­ize that most of the time, noth­ing within the sur­vey winds up being 100% accu­rate. It’s gen­er­ally just a way to phrase things that sound inter­est­ing to the per­son tak­ing the sur­vey, while still simul­ta­ne­ously find­ing out about their gen­eral interests.

Still, Tur­bine is obvi­ously work­ing on some­thing and at this point I would be sur­prised if it wasn’t LotRO related. Even if LotRO appeared on the Xbox 360 in an inter­est­ing way and even if it was a VERY dif­fer­ent game, I’m def­i­nitely not inter­ested in pay­ing any sub­scrip­tion fees.

I sup­pose we’ll see what hap­pens. E3 isn’t far away.

Update: I think some peo­ple have taken my thoughts on this the wrong way and I just want to be clear: this post was never tak­ing this sur­vey as 100% fac­tual. I apol­o­gize to those who mis­un­der­stood my inten­tions. I was aware of Turbine’s gen­eral “this is a sur­vey, don’t think so much!” response to GameDaily’s post and thought I had taken a sim­i­lar side. I cer­tainly meant to, at least. I guess some things get lost in trans­la­tion!

It does, how­ever, fol­low other rumors and, as I said, adds “fod­der” to the argu­ment. Fod­der, to me, is very dif­fer­ent from some sort of offi­cial doc­u­mented con­fir­ma­tion. If this was the only thing that ever popped up about the title, I think the flow of the posts about this online would be different.

I prob­a­bly should be more clear in the sense that I would be sur­prised if this wasn’t Lord of the Rings related, more so than some exact port of LotRO. Either way, both would obvi­ously be online because that’s sim­ply what Tur­bine does. Thus I sup­pose both could use the title of LotRO in the way that FFXI and FFXII both use Final Fan­tasy despite one being a MMORPG and the other being the com­plete opposite.

Will their even­tual con­sole game be some vari­a­tion of LotRO? I don’t know, but I also don’t agree with the idea that a PC MMORPG could not be adapted to fit a con­sole. The first thing you have to throw out the win­dow is that they’ll both play the same or even use sim­i­lar UIs. I think from either side of the argu­ment, you’re stuck form­ing con­clu­sions. Regard­less of that, we see that every  day with MMORPGs: “what will hap­pen to my class if this nerf I’m assum­ing will be com­ing down the line hap­pens!?”, for example.

Regard­less of the out­come, I still feel it’s worth respond­ing to hypo­thet­i­cal sit­u­a­tions that are pre­sented through indi­rectly offi­cial chan­nels. I don’t see the harm in that, per­son­ally, but what can you do? haha

In any event, like I said ear­lier, we’ll see what hap­pens. It’s cer­tainly an inter­est­ing sit­u­a­tion.

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