Originally Posted by Kulamata
No, I don't think we'll see a full replacement for Hz. Hz was too far ahead of the pack, and the imagination was too free for us to see anything better.
As for the LotRO community, there were a lot of complaints on the forums; it seems that the open (Free!) stress test pulled in a lot of the Blizzkid types. Otherwise the community on Meneldor seems fine. As for the playability of WoW? So far to me, it seems the equal at least. Some of the quest lines are much more sophisticated than any I ran across in Wow (bearing in mind I only got to 28 or so in WoW. )
I would not say that it's similar to VG; for me a very different "feel" to the two games. VG I find dull, grindy, monotonous. Not at all the case with LotRO. I've come to feel that it's not worth my while to focus on independent characteristics of a game, but to take it as a whole to see if I enjoy it.