Other Multiboxable games discussion for those leaving WoW

[akourbat]

Yes, this is true. There was a summer give-away event in Lotro (covid related) where you could get most quest packs for free and some expansions for nearly free, but it is gone now. Still you can get away with slow progression and doing most if not all deeds in the zone before leaving it, which gives you almost enough LPs (currency) to unlock next zone and so on. Besides, deeds also give you virtue XP, which boost your virtue traits (read combat stats) - so it is something you'd need to do anyway if you want a well-rounded character. But yeah, the money grab is there, and a lot of players complain about it. My main is life-time VIP (cost me $99 at a time and was my best game investment lol), so that helps my team some, as VIP gets monthly free LP allocation that paid for all expansions on that sub-account. I still need to spend money on my other 2 sub-accounts when I want to go to new expansion zones etc. This is also one of the reasons I cut-down my fellowship from 6 to 3.

Most people would buy some content to allow progression to say lvl 60 or 70 - like Moria expac, and then spend LPs they accumulate from deeds on additional content when it is on sale.