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 Legendarium: Five ways to fully fix LOTRO’s virtue system

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Newer players to Lord of the Rings Online may not be aware that the game's virtue system used to be very difficult, requiring certain...
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Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?

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Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...

Perfect Ten: The MMO races that nobody ever seems to choose

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Just because an MMORPG offers a wide array of character options doesn't mean that player interest will be equally divided among them. We've long...

Lord of the Rings Online talks about ‘boat pants’ and the lost Drearspire dungeon

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This week on the forums, the chatty developers over at Lord of the Rings Online shared a couple interesting behind-the-scenes tales of content that...

LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s five least-played classes – and why you should play them

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In gaming, I'm often fascinated by "paths less traveled." Maybe it's a leveling expansion everyone ignores, a race that's never picked for a kickball...

Dungeons and Dragons Online gets ready to test its own subscription-only 64-bit server

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If envy has been burning in the bosom of Dungeons and Dragons Online players after seeing its sister MMO LOTRO get 64-bit servers, maybe...

LOTRO gives a development update on kinship revamp delay, 4K resolution, and Elf avatars

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There was a surprise development update for several Lord of the Rings Online projects that the game's lead designer delivered in the forums on...

LOTRO Legendarium: How LOTRO’s cosmetic system should be overhauled

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Here's a fun bit of trivia for you newcomers to Lord of the Rings Online: Did you know that for most of the first...

LOTRO’s September is full of pirates, birthdays, and treasure bugans

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September marks a pretty packed month of events for Lord of the Rings Online, starting with this weekend's Treasure Bugan hunt. Through September 18th,...

Massively Overthinking: When the big five MMORPGs have five big expansions in the same year

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By the time you're reading this article, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light Seoul has officially launched on PC, and it marks an...

LOTRO previews its first Legacy of Morgoth expansion zone, Ambarûl

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Lord of the Rings Online officially has begun promoting its fall expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, with a series of preview streams hosted by Senior...

Perfect Ten: The 10 crafting and gathering professions you find in every MMO

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Despite the common perception that MMORPGs are only about smashing, slicing, and blasting foes to oblivion, these games typically offer a whole lot in...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 484: September MMO mailbag show

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Justin and Bree dip into the mailbag to discuss MMO limitations, megaservers, studio dealbreakers, age accessibility, aggro, and offline MMO content, plus there's adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2.

LOTRO devs tease housing estate system, reveal a ‘SMITE-like’ project abandoned a decade ago

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In a dev video this past week, Lord of the Rings Online's lead designer said that plans for that MMO in 2025 are "in...

One Shots: The concert that ended the world

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Poor Ragnaros. This World of Warcraft dude's been trying to live up to his namesake by trying to destroy the world for the past...

LOTRO Legendarium: The easiest LOTRO virtues to get as a low-level character

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One of the most important yet easiest to overlook parts of your character's growth in Lord of the Rings Online is investing into virtues,...

Lord of the Rings Online devs talk expansion development in new video series

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MMORPG expansions don't appear out of thin air, although it might appear so from the player side of things. Two developers behind Lord of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 483: Singing the Blues Protocol

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Justin and Bree discuss the demise of Blue Protocol, WoW's War Within launch, RuneScape's sub fee hike, and Wizard101's console ambitions, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on MMO cosmetic gear, Ultima Online as a survival game, and sticking to a vision as MMOs age.

Lord of the Rings Online’s devs tease ‘so many plans’ for player housing

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Back in early August, Lord of the Rings Online fan site Deco du Milieu hosted a player housing Q&A with members of Standing Stone...

The Daily Grind: Is there a place in an MMO that you’re sentimentally attached to?

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The Psychology of Games podcast recently did an episode on forming attachments to places in video games. "Have you ever become attached to a place...

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