Originally Posted by
Venziir
It's clearly not the only reason. LotR appealed to a different audience than WoW did, and just never managed to get the same foothold. Now, I played LotR til about level 20, and while the game was decent, it felt "older" than it was, compared to say WoW. The game was quite grindy and the world was *too* big honestly, I'm actually not entirely sure why it was never a huge succes as I didn't really play it when it came out, but I do know that Turbine tends to try and create big games out of big franchices and fail miserably, ending up with decent f2p niché games.
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It's a classic example of how "realistic" graphics tends to look horrid after a few years.