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

Global Chat: EVE Vanguard has a lot to prove

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Just because you're a huge EVE Online fan doesn't mean that you're instantly rallying to the cause of CCP's EVE Vanguard. The Ancient Gaming...

Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMOs for which a spin-off mode would be welcome?

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Pantheon's announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized "247" extraction mode hasn't engendered a whole lot of hope for the...
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LOTRO Legendarium: Eight beneficial activities in LOTRO you may be overlooking

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In my personal, immediate experience, I find that even in a broad MMORPG with lots of options, I tend to narrow my activities and...

LOTRO delays Corsairs of Umbar to November 8, talks 4K upgrades and new legendary servers

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It's a sword day, a red day, a Q&A day for Lord of the Rings Online! Executive Producer Rob "Severlin" Ciccolini appeared on this...

Lord of the Rings Online opens the Corsairs of Umbar expansion for player testing

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The first round of public testing for next month's Lord of the Rings Online expansion popped up on the Bullroarer test server yesterday as...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 441: A Blizzard trick or treat

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Justin and Bree discuss MMO Halloween events, Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard acquisition, WoW Classic's LFD, Embers Adrift, and Ship of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, New World, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on the potential for WoW on console and Gamepass.

Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe forester event has been pulled for the third time

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Stop us if you've heard this one: Standing Stone Games has pulled the Combe Forester event from Lord of the Rings Online yet again. As...

EverQuest, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, and more fundraise for this year’s Extra Life push

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It's the season for the annual push by gamers and game studios to support Extra Life, the charity that raises money for Children's Miracle...

Lord of the Rings Online previews two Corsairs of Umbar zones

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With the expansion coming in November, a new Extra Life campaign, and the Harvestmath festival keeping things spicy, Lord of the Rings Online has...

One Shots: A most adorable destroyer of the cosmos

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As we enter the delicious aroma of fall and the spine-shivering thrills of Halloween, is there any MMO that deserves to be revisited this...

LOTRO Legendarium: What could a LOTRO challenge server look like?

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Lord of the Rings Online's legendary server experiments aren't done yet. Even though it's been a while since we've seen a new shard come...

Third time’s a charm? Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe forester event is finally live

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If it seems as if Standing Stone Games has been talking about the Combe Forester event in Lord of the Rings Online for an...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath Festival returns with a new mount and cosmetics

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Lord of the Rings Online's autumn events are underway today as the Harvestmath Festival has officially returned to Middle-earth - and it's got fresh...

LOTRO fine-tunes the Mariner while DDO makes stomach polyps a safe place to be

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It's mid-week patch madness for both of Standing Stone Games' MMORPGs as one of them marches toward an expansion and another away from one. Lord...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 440: It’s fall MMO content, y’all

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's Rise of the Angry Earth, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, and Final Fantasy XIV's Growing Light, with a mailbag question on which studios could do justice to World of Warcraft.

LOTRO is ‘tackling something more difficult and interesting’ with Corsairs of Umbar’s story

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With Corsairs of Umbar on the way next month in Lord of the Rings Online, players will be getting to go to this southern...

Global Chat: So who’s ready for EverQuest 3?

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Hibernating fans of the EverQuest franchise stirred from slumber this past month to hear that EG7 and Daybreak may actually be progressing with a...

LOTRO Legendarium: Are we ready for LOTRO’s Corsairs of Umbar?

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They say that as you get older, time seems to pass by much more quickly. Perhaps that explains why 2023 feels like it's been...
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Massively Overthinking: What’s the most chaotic behavior you’ve seen from MMO players?

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A week or two ago, I found myself discussing Ultima Online by way of trying to convince our work chat that players often do...

EverQuest’s 30th expansion, Laurion’s Song, launches in December – with class swapping

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With Lord of the Rings Online and EverQuest II both debuting new expansions this week, you had to figure EverQuest was close behind, and...

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