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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LOTRO Legendarium: Reacting to LOTRO’s 2023 roadmap

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Do you remember the years of the past when we'd be waiting well into March or even later for a Lord of the Rings...

Lord of the Rings Online executive producer talks River Hobbits, a new launcher, and even boats

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If you thought you got all of the big 2023 plans for Lord of the Rings Online from the recent roadmap, think again. In...

The Daily Grind: What do you think LOTRO’s new class will be?

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Last night, Standing Stone Games dropped a huge 2023 roadmap for Lord of the Rings Online, and buried at the very end was the...
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Last year, we did a piece on what we expected our top three MMOs of 2022 to be. We'll do that again next week,...

Lord of the Rings Online’s 2023 roadmap teases Corsairs of Umbar expansion theme

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Earlier this week, we remarked on the MOP Podcast how it was to see Daybreak's EverQuest and EverQuest II roadmaps - and wouldn't it...

Former Lord of the Rings Online producer illuminates the MMO industry’s pay problem

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In last week's Massively Overthinking roundtable on the weird MMO trainwrecks that nobody noticed in 2022, MOP's Justin brought up one I had forgotten:...

The Daily Grind: Do you like pop-up landscape quests in MMOs, or do you require quest-givers?

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So I was playing Lord of the Rings Online the other day, going through Paths of the Dead on my way into Gondor. I...

Lord of the Rings Online promises a producer’s letter ‘soon,’ plans to start testing Update 35

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After an event-filled 2022, Lord of the Rings Online players are understandably interested in hearing what's coming this new year. While Standing Stone Games...
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LOTRO Legendarium: 10 more tips to improve your LOTRO experience

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A while back, I put together a list of 10 tips to enhance your everyday Lord of the Rings Online play experience. It was...

Global Chat: The MMO blogs you should be reading in 2023

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Welcome to a new year of Global Chat -- and with it, the anticipation of a great assortment of MMO blog essays, questions, guides,...

Massively Overthinking: The biggest 2022 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed

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As we wrap up our end-of-the-year and turn-of-the-calendar content until next December, there's one more recurring Massively Overthinking I like to do - and...

Lord of the Rings Online nerfs delving difficulty, eases housing restrictions

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Lord of the Rings Online's relatively new delving system hasn't been quite the success that its studio hoped, as the mission difficulty slider is...

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Psst. Hey. You. Come over here, but keep it quiet. Listen, Bel's in a lot of trouble with the snowman mafia, and it's uncertain...
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever organized and run an MMO player event?

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I seem to recall learning through our Daily Grind conversations that quite a few of you are or have been guild officers and leaders...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMO to play at the start of 2023?

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Last year, I had a hard time with this annual Daily Grind, and that's because "expensive" depends entirely on what you have to buy...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023

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Thanks to a recent piece by MMO Folklorist, I learned something that I had never known about The Secret World: Apparently, in early development...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax server advances into Vales of Anduin

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One of Lord of the Rings Online's smallest servers took another step toward rounding out the game map this week. On Wednesday, Standing Stone...

End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023

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You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...

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