I played a bit on the open beta, and needless to say it was a waist of time... I'm not exactly a LOTR geek so the whole lore deal didn't appeal to me.. Never played eq but the game looks and plays pretty similar to what wow would be if it where designed to be played by 8 year olds... The UI and quest system is extremely similar to wow. Monster play didn't result in much more than a pointless waist of time, and from what I saw it had very little impact on character advancement. So my summery there is that I don't get the point of it... Roleplayers seemed to be in heaven, and the rest seemed to think it was a cheap boring rip off of an mmo.. It was about a 50/50 split, those who liked it and those who thought it was retarded.

Yes I'm being critical, do you really want to waist your time with yet another subpar mmo?