Why’d they choose the bald guy?

Rogaine! You know you want it.

Okay, this has been bugging me.

Does anyone else find it odd that the spokesperson for LotRO’s new Oath of the Rangers update is balding?

I don’t get it. Usually, when you’re trying to stir up feelings of heroism and hope in people, you choose someone who, you know, looks heroic. The one they picked, well, he may as well be trying to sell me a vacuum or some knives on the Home Shopping Network.

There’s a reason why men in video games tend to be examples of physical perfection. Those are guys you’d expect to see kick a bad guy’s ass. When you look at a guy going bald on top, it doesn’t exactly scream “dragon slayer.”

Don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with guys who lose their hair. It’s a trait that, oh so unfortunately, runs in my own family.

But, from a marketing decision, I don’t understand why they didn’t choose someone a little more fitting for the role.

Color me up in wonder.