Recently, there was a post on the forums that although atypical for the LOTRO forums (as far as my experience goes) is fairly typical for most gaming forums; especially MMO’s.  How is it typical?  Well, for those of you who do not want to pollute your mind with meaningless drama and crud, I’ll go into a somewhat brief description.

The title is “@Orion” and the message is simply, “How goes the North Down’s revamp.”  For those who don’t know, this was answered in a blog post by Orion in late January, stating that he is no longer working on the North Down’s revamp and has been moved to other projects.  Once informed of the situation by another player, the author responded with the single-word reply  “Fail” .  However, once Orion actually responds to this post,  the post is hijacked by those who begin to discuss how the game is awful, how it’s changing from its original design, how nothing is good anymore, that people are leaving in droves, and basically that everything is poop.  When others fire back that they do not share the same views and that perhaps those complaining should find a different game, some of those complaining use the justification of how they love the game and wouldn’t spend all this time telling everyone how much it sucked if they didn’t.  Bull-poopy.