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

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best player community as of 2023?

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"Best community" is one of our recurring Daily Grind topics every year, and I always stick it on Christmas because I can't stand the...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Mascot

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Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Mascot. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP articles of 2023

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Every year, we pick out a bunch of narrative arcs and stories that dominated the headlines and emotions of the MMORPG genre, and it...

LOTRO’s executive producer hints at 2024 plans with more Umbar zones and new legendary servers

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Lord of the Rings Online players won't have to wait until early 2024's producer's letter to find out all of the details of what's...
New World ROTAE

End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2023

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If you want to look at the overall health of the MMORPG industry, one vital heartbeat that must not be missed is continual development....

Lord of the Rings Online apparently once considered non-combat classes

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With Christmas and New Years looming in the near future, Standing Stone Games is getting ready to send its devs on a well-deserved holiday...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO offered the best advances in crafting in 2023?

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For today's Daily Grind, I am not asking you which MMO has the best crafting of all time. That game is dead and lives...

LOTRO Legendarium: Recapping Lord of the Rings Online’s crazy-busy 2023

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Sixteen pages. Sixteen pages is how far back I had to flip through Lord of the Rings Online's news feed here at Massively OP...

DDO releases a free player-designed quest dungeon as LOTRO slashes craft quest cooldowns

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Before Dungeons and Dragons Online rings in the new year, this fantasy MMO is determined to make the rest of 2023 as memorable as...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024

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It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...

Lord of the Rings Online opens the doors to Corsairs of Umbar’s crafting guilds

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Standing Stone Games is playing some catch-up with Lord of the Rings: Corsairs of Umbar's feature list before the holiday break. Last week, it...

One Shots: Entering the portal to adventure

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I'll never get tired of that tiny thrill of rolling a new character and getting that sense of taking the first steps of a...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Yuletide Festival is live

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Yesterday was Halloween, today is Christmas. That's how it feels like, at least, and Lord of the Rings Online is doing nothing to dissuade...

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions

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We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Walking.

Vague Patch Notes: Waiting for the MMORPG endings that are never coming

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It took some real courage for Naoki Yoshida to get up and announce that Final Fantasy XIV was ending. After an enormously successful run,...

Lord of the Rings Online adds more quests and missions to Corsairs of Umbar

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Just when you think you've got a corsair cornered and out of options, he'll surprise you with a trick or two up his sleeve....
There are problems with this art, but we're going to overlook that.

End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2023

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When it comes to making a judgment call about the "healthiest" MMORPGs on the market at any given time, there are always plenty of...
You only remember these people when someone dies.

Global Chat: Why does CCP keep trying to make EVE shooters?

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We're not the only ones who keep wondering why CCP continues to push for an FPS game set in the EVE Online universe. Long-time...
New Year's EVE

The Daily Grind: What was the best event in the MMO genre in 2023?

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We used to run this Daily Grind as an award but canned it when we had a hard time summoning enough really stellar events...

Lord of the Rings Online prepares a rewarding Yuletide Festival for this week

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Every Hobbit loves a good party and a lot of presents, and they -- and their other LOTRO chums -- will get plenty of...

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