These services just keep getting worse and worse. They lose features, inevitably get ads, and charge you more anyway.

@USDevilDog: 100% nailed this comment. My gf plays Dreamlight Valley and it's the most low effort shovelware I've ever seen.

Essentially this entire article boils down to: more lore.

In other news, water is wet. In seriousness though, why buy this? There's no PS5 games and most people only just got their console in the last 2-3 years.

Surprise surprise. Who'd have a thought a game-as-a-service model turn out like this?

yawn

Pay for your game once, or pay for it every month... forever. Get out.

@wbrabbit: who hurt you?

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT

Love to hear it! I will pick it up

Nintendo certainly loves running their games on potatoes. Nothing changes

GoTy. I'm 120 hours in and loving every second of it. Can't wait to reach 200, and then start again.

Meh. I prefer the open world games anyway. If nothing else, this cements their future in the franchise.

@Barighm: I need it

This review doesn't matter: Chad, Thad, and Vlad will buy this game anyway and it will make millions. They ensure this drivel keeps coming every year. Ugh.

Good for them. This reminds me of BioWare before EA acquired and subsequently destroyed them. Larian is king.

GoTy

@gamespotter_198: families sharing tv's...

IT'S HAPPENING! EVERYBODY CALM DOWN IT'S HAPPENING

It's incredible that with all of the epic, endless, rich lore in the LoTr universe, they chose... Gollum. What were they thinking? This was doomed from the start. Also, this line. Wow: 'So if the deve...