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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Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes

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Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...

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Turbine cancels plans for EU-based LOTRO datacenter

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Turbine Executive Producer Athena "Vyvyanne" Peters has bad news for Lord of the Rings Online players in Europe: Your game servers aren't moving to...

Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?

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Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO podcasts

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Podcasts are certainly splendid means of feeding one's MMO interests and keeping in touch with the news and community. It's always great to hear...
Overpowered.

Lord of the Rings Online immortalized on game show Jeopardy

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MMORPG Lord of the Rings Online was the subject of a Jeopardy College Championships question last night. https://twitter.com/lotro/status/698168523722350593 Apparently the first contestant to ring in has...

Jukebox Heroes: Six soundtracks from MMOs that never launched

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As an MMO fan, there are few things as sad as a promising game being killed in development without seeing the light of a...

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The high cost of Oculus Rift brought a lot of discussion to the MMO blogosphere recently, with writers taking sides for and against the...
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Lord of the Rings Online’s latest patch expands Minas Tirith questing

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Lord of the Rings Online is releasing a medium-weight patch today tailored to Minas Tirith gameplay. Of note, there are new quests scattered throughout the...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 47: The sky’s the limit!

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Justin and Bree discuss Diablo III, Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, Elder Scroll Online, TERA, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on a LOTRO reboot and volunteer worlds.

Lord of the Rings Online’s server woes continue

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Days after Lord of the Rings Online moved to its new datacenter, the game is still being plagued by server issues that is causing...

LOTRO’s new datacenter causes login headaches

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Lord of the Rings Online's move to its new datacenter yesterday triggered a few significant issues that were unseen by the dev team before...

One Shots: It came from the comments super-edition

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The One Shots community does love congregating on Sundays to post favorite MMO screenshots in the comments section. While I certainly do love and...

Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2015

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It's become tradition to fare well the MMOs that sunsetted in the preceding year, but that wasn't always the case. At the beginning of 2015,...

Jukebox Heroes: Six MMO soundtracks that need to be in your collection

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Lately, a friend was asking me where he should start with collecting MMO soundtracks. "Pretty much anywhere and everywhere" was my initial reaction, although...

LOTRO activates its new datacenter on January 11

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Although it was delayed from its planned roll out last year, Lord of the Rings Online's new datacenter is now ready for deployment. Executive Producer...

LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back and forwards with LOTRO

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I think it is safe to say without any malice whatsoever that Lord of the Rings Online has firmly entered its autumn years. Everything about...

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Imagine you have a friend who wants to play an MMO but doesn't want to get involved in a game that's in decline or...
All right, the Lopp have some chops here too.

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As the final pages turn on 2015, MMO bloggers engage in a favorite pastime of recalling their best and most notable gaming experiences of...

The Stream Team: The lure of LOTRO’s Yule festival

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MassivelyOP's MJ can't help it: She loves holiday festivals! And LOTRO's Yule festival is full of fun winter activities that reward participants with tokens...

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