Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini dropped a juicy letter today that went into detail about the studio’s plans for LOTRO over the next year. It all begins with Update 21.3’s Abyss of Mordath raid, coming before the end of 2017. Then in early 2018, Update 22 is taking players to Northern Mirkwood, Dale, Laketown, and Erebor. Following that is Update 23, which returns to Mordor for a trip into Minas Morgul and a confrontation with Shelob.
Ciccolini sprinkled in some other additions and improvements coming to the game, including Elk mounts(!), a playable fiddle, updates to the festivals, the continuation of the Bingo Boffin storyline from last Halloween, and avatar updates to Dwarf and Hobbit models.
“We’re excited to further explore the lore and setting of Middle-earth for years to come, both by telling our own stories, and continuing to add the most iconic encounters, locations, and developments from the trilogy to the game,” he wrote.
Is the Mordor expansion available for LOTRO Points yet?
Nope, not yet.
Took the words out of my mouth . I have my doubts it will happen before christmas .
No worries I am just leveling up an alt in that time .
MOP just announced it. Some of the cash bennies aren’t in the coin purchase, so read the article.
Just saw that in the Beacon, too. Nice! Time to finally jump back in.
I just realized how casual a player of this game I’ve become:
Northern Mikwood? Okay I guess. Minas Morgul? Yeah, whatever.
A Playable fiddle! Ahhh yeah! Festival updates! Finally! Updates to Dwarf and Hobbit models (head explodes) .
Well i can almost smell more lootboxes with stats gear. It´s a shame what greedy stone game does to LotRO. I almost lost interest in that game. Maybe i will play another Char to 50 to just revisit the old content with my life time account.
Haven’t played in quite a few years and didn’t know they have added loot boxes with stats gear, that’s a real shame :(
Heck, im actually playing this game, and even i didn’t know. haha
Their cash shop practices a long with those horrible loot boxes pretty much made me quit. I used to be able to tolerate the cash shop in this game, but I’m just fed up with it, which is too bad because this is a great game.
I tried Lotro twice. This past April I tried it and my Wireless headset wouldn’t work. So I moved onto something else. I downloaded it again this month. Same issue(yes I fiddled around with the sound settings). Now I’m cashing in SWL instead. How do you release an entire Expansion without fixing bugs? That’s telling me that they don’t care. I give Lotro a year before it’s tossed in the waste bin, officially…
I use a wireless headset all the time with lotro . No problems at all .
I would’ve preferred Northern Mirkwood to be a complete expansion with 4-5 zones. With everything crammed into a single update, hopefully the area won’t feel too claustrophobic.
Still, really looking forward to it, of course.
Unfortunately, it’s not stemming the tide of outgoing players. It hasn’t been this empty since the server merges.
I thought the Elks all sailed into the West…
This made me smile a little when it was posted in a thread asking when the game was closing down
Source: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?659957-SSG-what-is-the-date-for-the-games-closing&p=7792031#post7792031
YES WE ARE FINALLY GETTING “THE HOBBIT” BOOK’S GEOGRAPHY!
Treasure this game, people. Treasure it. Its like may never be made again.
Agreed. Been my favorite MMO since 2006 during closed beta. I really hope towards the finale of the game as a whole they figure a way to improve the server lag. Only real thing holding me back from diving headfirst into the game again. :\
They will never fix the performance issues because they know [some players] will get so excited about new content that they’ll forget about everything that is wrong with the game.
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So whom should they cater to? People excited about the game, or curmudgeons? Who won’t love them no matter what they do?
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Christopher Tolkien has stepped down as Guardian of Middle Earth Lore (title I made up). The folks running the Tolkien estate going forward are likely to be a lot more liberal with licensing and restrictions on content. A lot more stuff like Shadow of Mordor, and less like LotRO, I’d bet. I’ll be glad to see more licensed stuff, but I doubt I’ll be happy with the “extensions” made to the lore. (“Hey, what if dwarves had Uzis?”)
But what if dwarves had uzis…?
Then there would be one heavily perforated Balrog.
What if dwarves were oozey?