#because apparently lotro needs to 'keep up with modern expectations' if it wants to survive

[rohirric-hunter]

A while ago I submitted a bug report in LotRO and I got a generic kind of ‘We’re aware of this issue and working on it’ reply, but then at the end of the message it said I could keep up with things like that on the LotRO forums and really? Really? I am playing a game that I love, staying in my lane, minding my business, and instead of submitting bug reports they want me to go to the LotRO forums? Last time I went to the LotRO forums I encountered a pack of individuals who want female dwarves and apparently female Stout-axes don’t count because they’re the same as male dwarves and to these people it seemed obvious that the gender option on Stout-axe dwarves was meant as a joke. They refused to elaborate on what traits they would like these new “real” female dwarves to have and accused everyone who was happy with the Stout-axe option or just mentally assigning whatever gender they liked to their regular dwarf of being “conservative dinosaurs.” I wouldn’t willingly spend time on the LotRO forums if they paid me. Fuck that.

#lotro #ignore me im complaining #also i find it very interesting that they were accusing other people of being 'conservative dinosaurs' #when there position was LITERALLY 'i know it says its a woman but it doesnt look like a woman to me so its not a woman' #*their #they also insisted quite stubbornly that it doesnt matter what tolkien said about his dwarves #because apparently lotro needs to 'keep up with modern expectations' if it wants to survive #which is just the most privileged fucking attitude #translation: this is directed at a different target audience and i dont want it to be directed at them i want everything to be for ME #theyre like customers who go into a barnes & noble and get pissy when the bookstore doesnt have a very big pancake mix selection #not even to mention the fact that i have never once in my life encountered a fantasy series that didnt have female dwarves #more or less the same as they are in lotr #that is. difficult to distinguish from male dwarves #on the bright side iirc the end of this thread was cordovan shutting it down #with a note that he could tell they were ban evading to keep making contentious threads and they were dismissing it out of hand