A Look At LoTRO Housing

Finally, the hobbits get shelter. It was funny seeing them crouching in the dirt.

Well-known MMOG blogger Tobold has posted a brief review of the player housing feature in Lord of The Rings Online that gives a decent feel for what to expect from the housing.

On the positive side the houses in LotRO sure are beautiful. Being in instanced neighborhoods enabled Turbine to give us houses with a garden around them. They really *feel* like houses, not like appartments as in EQ2. And they come with two useful features: One is the ability to teleport to your house from whereever you are, and the other is the ability to store items in your house. Additional minor features are a mailbox on your doorstep, which sounds very logical, but is unique to the MMORPG world; in all other games the mailboxes are communal. And there is a banker and an NPC furniture vendor in the neighborhood.

Check it out at Tobold's MMORPG Blog.