lord of the rings online

Official Site: Lord of the Rings Online
Studio: Standing Stone Games, formerly Turbine/WB Interactive Entertainment; published by Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: April 24, 2007
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

LOTRO’s dungeon drop and spring festival arrive this week with the cutest snail ever

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Last year the Lord of the Rings Online community lost its collective mind over a rock. In 2024, it may be for a snail. The...

The Daily Grind: What’s the hardest MMORPG to return to after a long time away?

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When I returned to Lord of the Rings Online several years ago, I'd been away for a very, very long time - so long...
Of all time.

LOTRO Legendarium: Untangling LOTRO’s complicated travel system

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Considering how absolutely huge Lord of the Rings Online's Middle-earth has become, I'd say finding efficient ways to traverse its landscape is paramount to...

Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy

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One of the things I note is that every so often - not all the time, but every so often - something will just...

Aww, the LOTRO and DDO dev meet-and-greet at PAX East is limited to 300 people

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Lord of the Rings Online is on the cusp of bringing Update 39: Arenas of Conflict to players, although the release date has yet...

One Shots: Slice me a chunk of that moon cheese, would ya

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You have to love the absolute hubris of Jedi in Star Wars because there's no object that they don't think they can levitate, smash,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Three key problems LOTRO can’t seem to solve

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There's a special agony reserved for faithful fans of a franchise when they see said franchise make unforced errors, decline in quality, or fail...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records

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I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it's somewhere between "for amusement value" and "stone cold...

LOTRO goes into a fourth round of Update 39 testing

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Extensive testing of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 39 continues, as a fourth round of the beta activated this week. The promising news...
Sit the eff down.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 459: A Gigantic return

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Justin and Bree discuss Nightingale's launch, Gigantic's return, Guild Wars 2's Realm of Dreams, and Last Epoch's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on Wagadu Chronicles and TTRPG-MMO crossovers.

LOTRO and DDO’s Standing Stone Games invites fans to a meetup during PAX East

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If you're heading out to PAX East next month and have any affinity for Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons and Dragons Online,...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever ruined an MMO character to the point of deletion?

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I was hanging out in City of Heroes a few weeks back when someone in chat mentioned that back in the day, he had...

One Shots: What am I looking at here?

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Sometimes a screenshot ends up in my lap that I stare at for a long time and still have no idea what's going on...

LOTRO Legendarium: 10 ways LOTRO was vastly different at launch

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While I would argue that Lord of the Rings Online has grown in a remarkably cohesive way since its launch, what we have here...

LOTRO activates two weeks of free gold Hobbit presents for subbers as it reshuffles spring schedule

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Are you subscribed to LOTRO or coasting on a lifetime sub these days? Then consider this a friendly prompt to log into the game...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 39 contains a whole lot of class changes

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Lord of the Rings Online's winter instance update went into a third round of testing this week with one of its four dungeons --...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 458: PlanetSide 2 in limbo

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Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak selling PlanetSide, Nightingale's early access, Islands of Insight's launch, and NCsoft's financials with Guild Wars 2 and Throne & Liberty, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on features we want to see in features for Amazon's LOTR and ZeniMax's Star Wars MMOs.

LOTRO Legendarium: Rethinking LOTRO’s landscape soldiers

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In December 2009, Lord of the Rings Online added one of its most unique side systems with skirmishes. Not only were these instances flexible...
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Lord of the Rings Online pushes closer to Update 39’s release as it tests more dungeons

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Could Lord of the Rings Online's Update 39 be coming very soon? It's starting to feel that way, especially as the instance-heavy patch goes...
I have a thought.

The Daily Grind: What are the most recent three MMO classes you’ve been playing?

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Take a deep breath and let go of the fear that we were going to fling some overly obtuse topic your way. Today is...

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