I'm with you Ganzor. Lets hope everyone reads this forum and comes to understand that Turbine is not in fact a charity and is in business to make money before they waste years of their gaming time
enjoying LOTRO in complete ignorance of that fact.
Because if they only come to find out after they've been
enjoying LOTRO, like i did, they will surely regret
enjoying LOTRO all that time. I haven't gotten to the regret part yet....i must be in denial.
And if by chance they don't enjoy LOTRO, they can just stop playing and start posting here.
To answer the OP's question though, No, i don't think it will have much of an impact. Anyone that is into PC games and specifically MMORPG would've already heard of LOTRO by now. Besides that, if everything you read here is to be believed, by the time the Hobbit movies are released, Turbine will surely have FUBAR'd LOTRO to the point that it will be unplayable.