I don’t remember seeing pirated stuff before Dreamcast / PS1, although to be fair, I was at a lot of PC conventions back then grabbing freeware disks and stuff, so I probably saw a lot of pirated stuff without knowing what I was looking at, just by virtue of being too young to be into the pirating / modding community.
Really hoping this isn’t the case. LotR IP isn’t in a good place these days, with all the adaptations being made that don’t have the rights to the time periods or events they want to portray.
We don’t need another half-baked property about the heroic quest for Galadriel’s bidet, Gollum’s cock ring, or whatever McGuffin they come up with as a placeholder for The Ring.
Let the Professor’s work rest. No-one is doing his writing any favors by making a mockery out of it.
Servers are being shut down and game is being delisted as of July of this year. Be aware before you buy.
Forgiveness for my pedantry, but pretty sure a greeble (or greeblie) is the individual plastic details that they would glue on to create the texture, not the texture itself.
You wouldn’t say a texture is “greeble”.
Edit - and if you’re talking 3d modeling, greebling is done during sculpting, it’s not a texturing step.