lord of the rings
LOTRO Legendarium: It’s time to revisit skirmishes in Lord of the Rings Online
Ever since 2009, I've loved skirmishes in Lord of the Rings Online. These were a new type of instance that rose to prominence in...
Leaderboard: What types of items do you buy in MMO cash shops?
Over the weekend, I used up some of the currency sitting on my Lord of the Rings Online account, and I want to talk...
Lord of the Rings Online plans to make class, race, and virtue trait slots unlock by leveling in next update
The Bullroarer test server of Lord of the Rings Online has put Update 32 out for public testing, and one part of the update...
Lord of the Rings Online defends – and now pauses – controversial pay-to-win currency changes
(We've updated the end of this article with SSG's afternoon announcement that it will be pausing this plan. The original article follows.)
An abrupt announcement...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs at the start of 2022
One of the reasons that I have been a huge fan of MMORPGs for nearly two decades now is that they offer a terrific...
Lord of the Rings Online plans ‘significant’ changes to Ember, Mote, and Figment currencies
While Lord of the Rings Online is putting out a small adjustment patch today, it has much bigger things in store for the game's...
LOTRO Legendarium: Does LOTRO need a new dungeon finder tool?
Welcome to a new year of the LOTRO Legendarium! With Fate of Gundabad at our backs and an unknown future ahead, it's quite the...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2022?
It's time for another annual tradition: examining Daybreak's prospects. We started back in 2015, when Sony cast off SOE and it was reshaped as...
Lord of the Rings Online previews its new Dwarf premium housing
Dwarven housing has never been the most popular among Lord of the Rings Online's four original neighborhoods. But this trend may be about to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2021
As the year that was 2021 comes to a close -- raise a glass, give a toast, and perhaps think of a few fond...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax and Treebeard servers progress forward
"Say friend and enter!"
It's a big expansion day for two of Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers. Speedy server Shadowfax is jumping into...
The Stream Team: Yule join us for Lord of the Rings Online’s Frostbluff festivities, yes?
It's holiday time again in LOTRO, and Massively OP's MJ is set to start the annual collecting of coins in Frostbluff. She can never...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best player community as of 2021?
I'm a partisan on this one: I have never been in an MMORPG with a better community than Lord of the Rings Online's.
A couple...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2021
Some years are just bulkier than others when it comes to updates for existing MMOs. That's the nature of the beast. Some years just...
LOTRO weathers login issues, explains why your hero does the dishes now and then
Just in case you've been banging your head against the Lord of the Rings Online launcher in the past 24 hours and wondering if...
Global Chat: FFXIV’s Endwalker offers a flawless storyline
The MMO blogosphere is not lacking for thoughts and opinions on Final Fantasy XIV's Endwalker, especially as players devoured the Main Story Quest and...
One Shots: Christmas is on fire, yo
'Twas the One Shots before Christmas, and all through Star Citizen people were throwing trees on the bonfire and making their arboreal relatives watch....
LOTRO Legendarium: A look back at Lord of the Rings Online in 2021
It's that time of year again! As we get ready to make the psychological transition to a new year, we pause to look back...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
