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

Massively Overthinking: Changing ‘mains’ in MMOs

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When I first started MMOs, the idea of mains and alts was bizarre to me. Why would I spend time on a second character...

LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Before the Shadow’s new starter area and skirmish

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You know that agonizingly delicious sensation of encountering an MMO drop that has so much stuff to explore that you hardly know where to...

EG7 Q3 2022: LOTRO’s monthly active players are up 11% compared to last year

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If you can pull your eyes away from the Activision-Blizzard/NetEase trainwreck that unfolded overnight, then we've got a blast of new financial news for...

Lord of the Rings Online goes Before the Shadow today with new zones, leveling changes, and delving system

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You can't walk into Mordor, but you can download a new mini-expansion for Lord of the Rings Online today -- provided that you've purchased...

One Shots: Officially up to no good

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Hey, I hope everyone had a good week of recovery from all of those MMO Halloween festivities because One Shots is back -- and...

The Daily Grind: How frustrated do you get with MMO delays?

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With all of the MMO releases happening this month, I was banking on the rollout of New World's fresh start servers, LOTRO: Before the...

Lord of the Rings Online enters the final phase of testing for Beyond the Shadow

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So yesterday, November 8th, was supposed to be the day that Lord of the Rings Online's Before the Shadow launched. But of course, on...

LOTRO Legendarium: What class should you pick in LOTRO?

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Hunter. Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one! What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...

SSG has delayed Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow to November 15

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Well, it's not exactly an impossible-to-fathom move given that it's baked into preorder verbiage, but it's going to be irritating nonetheless: Standing Stone Games...

Perfect Ten: 10 great reasons to revisit older MMORPGs

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When one MMO dies, it forces us to look at the rest of the bunch through the sunglasses of mortality. The finite nature of...

One Shots: Hamming it up for Halloween

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It's that time of year again! That's right, it's National Cat Day (October 29th)! So find the nearest cat, bow deeply to it, and...

The Stream Team: Wandering Wistmead and other Halloween fun in Lord of the Rings Online

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It just isn't the Halloween season for Massively OP's MJ until her Hobbit takes a jaunt through the Haunted Burrow in LOTRO. Along with...

Massively Overthinking: Do you have a love/hate relationship with specific MMO content?

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This week's Massively Overthinking is inspired by one of Justin's Daily Grinds, ironically. It was the one about the best online card game you've...

LOTRO continues Before the Shadows testing while DDO answers community questions

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The latest build for Lord of the Rings Online's Update 34 -- better known as Before the Shadow -- is up on the Bullroarer...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 394: To pre-patch or not to pre-patch

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's Brimstone Sands, World of Warcraft's Dragonflight prepatch, LOTRO's inbound QOL improvements, City of Heroes Homecoming's big balance patch, and FFXIV's 6.25, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and CoH, plus a mailbag topic on useless inventory clutter in MMOs.

Lord of the Rings Online promotes Before the Shadow’s delvings and new soundtrack

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With Lord of the Rings Online's Before the Shadow update right around the corner, there are a whole lot of things to be excited...

LOTRO Legendarium: 10 reasons to get psyched about Before the Shadow (that aren’t the new zones)

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Standing Stone Games went and pulled a classic case of misdirection on all of us -- and I'm not complaining. While the studio had...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow begins public testing – with a few surprise features

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Testing is now underway for Lord of the Rings Online's major fall release, as Standing Stone Games announced that it's put Update 34: Before...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….

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Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

Lord of the Rings Online highlights Before the Shadow’s Cardolan region lore and landscape

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Lord of the Rings Online is once again following up on its earlier tour of the Cardolan region with a separate post that offers...

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