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

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have characters that don’t quite match the gameworld they’re in?

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A while back, the MOP team was chatting about Chris' foray into house ownership in Final Fantasy XIV. I was actually kind of surprised...

Lord of the Rings Online players are putting on a 30-person adaptation of Sondheim’s Into the Woods this weekend

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One of my favorite memories in MMOs is participating in plays and musicals, something I first saw people doing in Ultima Online in 1997...

Lord of the Rings Online wraps up another leg of update 35 testing with revamp of The Last Homely House

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Even as the spring festival begins today, Lord of the Rings Online's devs are back on Bullroarer testing update 35: The Return to Carn...

Lord of the Rings Online’s patch today lays the groundwork for the spring festival tomorrow

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As promised, Lord of the Rings Online's spring festival returns this week - tomorrow, actually, though update 34.3 is live on the servers after...

Lord of the Rings Online talks monster play and Guardian class changes

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More changes and adjustments to Lord of the Rings Online's odd PvP system are on the way with this month's Update 35. In a...

The Daily Grind: Are lifetime MMO subs ever worth it?

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I've more than once told the story about my guildie who bought a lifetime sub to Hellgate London (oh no). And I've personally never...
Ah, no.

Lord of the Rings Online brings back the spring festival next week with new rewards

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The third preview for Lord of the Rings Online's big spring patch, Update 35, should be coming to the Bullroarer test server next Tuesday,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Six unpopular opinions about Lord of the Rings Online

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Just because you're a fan of a particular franchise or game doesn't mean that you always concur with the larger groupthink. It's always a...
Ah, no.

Lord of the Rings Online’s delvings to see nerfs, improvements, and dungeon expansion

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When Standing Stone Games introduced the delving system with last year's Before the Shadow mini-expansion, it was banking hard on this difficulty slider being...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax server heads toward its final stretch with Minas Morgul unlock

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Lord of the Rings Online's fastest progressing (and least populated) server is nearing its final months of existence, as Standing Stone Games has plans...

One Shots: That moment when you missed your cruise ship’s departure

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The day had started so promisingly. You had docked in a tropical port full of free-flowing wine, endless parties, numerous souvenir shops, and nary...
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The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA

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Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t

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A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...

Games startup Elodie Games announces Project Skies, a ‘social cooperative action RPG game’

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At this point, we all see a press release from a new startup studio with tons of investment money touting devs from the likes...
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Lord of the Rings Online increases its virtue and legendary item cap, talks about ‘new work in Gondor’

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In case you missed it -- possibly because it wasn't initially broadcast to all channels -- Lord of the Rings Online recently increased both the virtue...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 410: Cyberpunk meets gaslamp

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Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Diablo IV, Palia, Nightingale, Blizzard, NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and EG7/Daybreak, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and SWG Legends.

The Daily Grind: Do you join serious or goofy guilds in MMOs?

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A while back in Lord of the Rings Online, I saw an ad for a guild float by that made me giggle when usually...

The Stream Team: Into LOTRO’s Ill Omens

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It's been a while since LOTRO has run the Ill Omens event, and now that it is live again, Massively OP's MJ is going...

EG7 Q4 2022: Revenues are up thanks to mobile as LOTRO sees ‘mainstream resurgence’

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Enad Global 7's Q4 2022 investor report dropped over the weekend, with a recap of the year for Swedish games corp EG7 and its...

LOTRO Legendarium: Why flying would have ruined LOTRO’s Middle-earth

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Despite the title up there, this column isn't really about flying. I'm just getting that out of the way right here. I actually have...

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