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

Players petition for better servers as LOTRO’s second wave of instability continues

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A second period of server instability in the past month is plaguing Lord of the Rings Online, even as Standing Stone Games said that...

Don’t look now, but LOTRO is having issues again

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I know we joke that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online, we have...

Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs

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Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...

Lord of the Rings Online’s merged Farmer’s Faire and Summer Festival are live today

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With the addition of the Midsummer Festival a little while back, Lord of the Rings Online's summer season got more than a little full...
Faires past

Massively OP Podcast Episode 284: Mommy, don’t let them take my Fortnite away

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Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.

Global Chat: Getting an early look at Crowfall’s beta

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Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying travel system in an MMO?

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A while back, I finally talked my husband into buying his Elf Warden a basic Hobbit house in Lord of the Rings Online. He...
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Massively Overthinking: Jumping the shark in MMOs

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I'm sure those few people out there still bearing a grudge over the Rune-keeper would disagree with me, but one of the things that...

The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs with ‘rested experience’ in mind?

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Let's talk about rested experience in online games this morning. MMOs call them all sorts of things, but World of Warcraft's has stuck the...

DDO Wayfinder players are getting even more boosts and refunds following three-week rollback

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Last week, Dungeons and Dragons Online players were dismayed to learn that they hadn't quite escaped all the horrors of the LOTRO downtime last...
Still running.

The Daily Grind: Do MMOs need to jump onto bandwagons to stay relevant?

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We've been watching TERA's latest move into -- of all things -- MOBAs with a quirked eyebrow and a quizzical expression. We're never quite...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 283: TennoConversations

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Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss Warframe and TennoCon 2020, Crowfall's beta, LOTRO's Rohan housing, DDO's nasty rollback, Blizzard's latest mess, and Guild Wars 2's underwater mounts, with a special edition of the Daily Grind Blitz.

The Daily Grind: What do you spend your in-game MMO money on lately?

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A while back, I asked you folks whether you tried to become rich in MMOs, but that Daily Grind didn't go into detail on...

Jukebox Heroes: It’s time to turn your MMO’s music back on

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We're going to take a detour from our tour of various MMO soundtracks to talk about one of the most common statements I hear...

LOTRO and DDO re-enables character transfers, Wayfinder suffers three-week rollback [Updated]

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We've got a bit of good news, bad news, and really bad news for those looking to hop servers in Lord of the Rings...

LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of Rohan housing

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To my knowledge, this past week's Update 27.2 for Lord of the Rings Online may well be the biggest housing patch that's hit the...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers your favorite type of resource gathering?

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You know, we talk about crafting a lot here on Massively OP, but gathering doesn't get nearly as much love, and yet pretty much...

No, Lord of the Rings Online Classic isn’t going to happen, Standing Stone says

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When any MMORPG has gone on long enough, a movement among fans to return to the earlier days of the game tends to emerge....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 282: Gate crashers

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Dragon's Prophet, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Phantasy Star Online 2, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on memorable MMO stories and the greediest games.

Lord of the Rings Online opens the doors to Rohan housing and Helm’s Deep

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It's always a momentous occasion in Lord of the Rings Online when a brand-new type of housing is added to the servers, and today's...

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