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: Is level boosting in LOTRO worth it?

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While I make my way through the new King's Gondor zone in Lord of the Rings Online -- impressions coming next week, hopefully --...

Lord of the Rings Online says hello to King’s Gondor, farewell to Shadowfax

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It's been a week of transitions for Lord of the Rings Online. The fantasy MMO said farewell to the speedy Shadowfax server following its...

Here are the full patch notes for tomorrow’s Lord of the Rings Online Gondor Renewed

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It's really happening, and it's happening soon: Players return to the refreshed Gondor aka King's Gondor in tomorrow's Lord of the Rings Online Update...

Lord of the Rings Online takes us back to Gondor this week with Update 36

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After only two and a half weeks of testing, Lord of the Rings Online's Update 36 is bringing us back to Aragon's homeland this...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best skybox?

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A while back, I was playing Lord of the Rings Online when a player in chat remarked that he had spied a specific constellation in the night sky. How often do you look up?

Global Chat: How insistent are MMOs that you group up?

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In a recent essay over at Inventory Full, the author looks back at a couple decades-plus of MMO gaming to recall how fast and...

The Daily Grind: What do you hope Amazon’s LOTR MMO does differently from LOTRO?

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In the comments of our pieces on Amazon's second go-round with the Lord of the Rings IP in the MMO space, multiple MMO gamers...

Lord of the Rings Online raises legendary item level cap, says three more updates are on the way for 2023

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That shiny, glowy super-weapon that you've been lugging all over Middle-earth is about to get even more powerful than before. Lord of the Rings...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 423: The Overwatch MMO we’ll never get

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Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's LOTR title and shade for LOTRO, Overwatch 2's PvE debacle, Worlds Adrift's return as Lost Skies, and delays for Nightingale, Ashfall, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO and Torchlight II, plus mailbag topics on character build freedom and the natural and unnatural ends of MMO characters.

An investor group is trying to mangle Daybreak’s EG7 for shareholder payouts

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Just a week ago, we covered EG7's first quarter financial report, and you know what, it was good. Like real good. Like record-setting for...

The Daily Grind: Why did you delete the last MMO character you deleted?

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Every deleted MMO character has a story. Sometimes the concept or name sucked. Sometimes you decided on a different race or faction. Sometimes you...

LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again

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Weren't we just here? I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...

Annoyed with LOTRO’s scaling and launcher issues? An MMO dev has tips for solving them yourself

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Whenever we write a Lord of the Rings Online article here on MassivelyOP, it's inevitable that someone - usually someones - will pop into...

Amazon Games VP throws shade at LOTRO over new Lord of the Rings project

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With the recent announcement of a new Lord of the Rings MMO in development by Amazon Games, one would expect the newcomer to follow...

EG7 Q1 2023: EG7 pulled in a record $54M last quarter, and Daybreak is a huge chunk of it

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Enad Global 7 aka EG7, the company that owns Daybreak, Standing Stone Games, and Piranha Games and is effectively still being run by Daybreak...

Lord of the Rings Online promises that it’s ‘not going away’ after Amazon MMO announcement

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As exciting it's been to hear that Amazon is working on a Middle-earth MMO again, some Lord of the Rings Online fans expressed concern...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all

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Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.

Lord of the Rings Online addresses new siege system and tougher landscape difficulty

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With Update 36's first preview on the test server this past week, Lord of the Rings Online fans and devs alike find themselves looking...

One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?

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So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...

LOTRO Legendarium: A look back at Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad

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When Lord of the Rings Online released Mines of Moria in November 2008, the expansion became one of the most amusedly divisive in the...

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