I will first say I have not played for a year so by no means take what I say as truth.
I always got a feeling, when I did play, that for the most part Riddermark was a small grouping of people that no matter what worked together. I know that when we started to get smaller we did a lot of runs with people from other kins. I imagine that when our own kin's active numbers dropped so low that we did not have enough people to do larger runs we found people throughout Riddermark to work with. And though it might just be me, I imagine that it would be nice to know were some of these other people are thinking about moving and the reasons why they picked those worlds.
In the world chat these are the rumors so far as to where people and other kins are planning or hoping to move to (please feel free to add any you might know.)
First I want to talk about Steam. It is rumored (I use this as I don't know and this is only from world chat) that Steam points people to log into Gladden. Some people in Riddermark do not seem to mind this and others have count that as a strike for going to Gladden. Those that count it as a strike claim that Steam users have no invested interest in buying content or furthering characters past what is free. Others, that being tocla :D, claim that Steam users are jerks (which I guess he can say as he uses Steam to play games) and that we should rule out Gladden for such a reason.
Kins rumored or that have voted to go to Gladden if given the choice:
The Phantom Riders of.... (I forgot to write the rest down, sorry)
Black Ops (Rumored as no one from Black OPs was on to speak up)
Crickhollow:
Order of the Ebon Hawk
Second Breakfast (Though the leader is trying to change this)
Arkenstone:
Radicus (who is bent on getting everyone from Ridder to Arken and claims that he will take SPECTRE with him no matter what)
OZ Raiders ( https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?574001-Ozraid-Announcement-Our-New-Home! )
Several un-kinned players expressed interest in going to Arken after Rad's announcement however I can not find the paper with their names.
Landy:
Several people who were on during the morning hours US time express that due to other worlds planning to move to Landy and already current lag some of them were having there that they were going to leave that to other worlds/kins/people. I have nothing but rumors with this as well.
Originally Posted by Fratonia
I do use these sites often, but they are unofficial. I was hoping that Turbine would assist as there is nothing wrong with giving us percentages; it in no way reveals the number of players playing LOTRO.
I guess for those that are interested, here are the "unofficial logins over the past 24 hours"
Arkenstone - Peaked at 350
Crickhollow - Peaked at 375
Gladden - Peaked at 800
Landroval - Peaked at 700
Brandywine - Peaked at 1,200
These will of course begin to change when they open up transfers and the influx of migrants from closing servers are factored in.
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These were posted on the forms when people were talking about their world plans. For all we know Turbine might say, 'opps change of plans Ridder you are going here." Until we have the final word we really don't know what is going on but I did want to share things I have heard.
Please share any rumors you have heard or any feelings you have.
Savi