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

One Shots: When the cuteness dug too deep

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In this past week's adventures, Utakata claimed to have plumbed the great depths and mysteries of Khazad-dûm... with a mouse-person. I don't remember that...

LOTRO Legendarium: What will happen when Lord of the Rings Online dies?

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You know that old hypothetical of "Would you want to know when you die or would you rather be ignorant of it?" A slightly...

Gamigo reopens transfer window for RIFT players on closed servers

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Remember back in spring when Gamigo announced it would be merging down the RIFT servers into four remaining shards? There followed a period in...

Lord of the Rings Online starts testing Update 41’s new crafting event and PvP improvements

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The first beta test for Lord of the Rings Online's summer content update is here, as Update 41 revved up on the Bullroarer server...

LOTRO Legendarium: Is Lord of the Rings Online’s new birding hobby a flight of fancy?

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My father-in-law is an obsessive birdwatcher. He took it up as a hobby a few years ago, and now he travels all over the...

One Shots: The portents of the heavens

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When you look up at the night sky and everything's going nuts, it's either the end of the world as we know it or...

The Daily Grind: Would you trade places with any of your MMORPG toons?

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Most of my MMORPG characters do not live gentle or safe lives. My Lord of the Rings Online hobbit Hunter is constantly being set...

Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?

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The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...

LOTRO celebrates Christmas in June, outlines major Lore-master changes

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Whether you're feeling hot or cold this summer, Lord of the Rings Online has a festival for you. Today the MMO is releasing Update...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland

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Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
Because you've got nowhere to go.

The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?

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MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...

LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online’s enormous new Neaths zone

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Do you remember when you were a kid and you got to poke around and explore a cool place? You'd eagerly run around it,...

One Shots: Stargazing for incoming asteroids

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Now that you've got the Jurassic Park hymn playing in your head from today's headline picture, you're prepared to romp around with dinos, stick...

LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Update 41 plans monster play reward track, birding hobby, and coop crafting event

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Yesterday's Lord of the Rings Online dev stream was a particularly informative one as SSG's Orion made an appearance to talk about what's coming...

Lord of the Rings Online to reveal its newest hobby, Birdwatching, this Friday

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It's (almost) official: Lord of the Rings Online's second and newest hobby is to be Birdwatching. SSG's Orion teased the reveal on the forums, saying...

Lord of the Rings Online’s ultra-slow progression server finally hits level 100 this week

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Almost three years after it first launched, Lord of the Rings Online's Treebeard server is finally hitting the level 100 threshold this week. The game's...

The Daily Grind: Do you bring any habits from one MMO to the next?

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So a few weekends ago, I was doing overworld questing on my Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online when I caught myself...

One Shots: Who left the lights on?

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As a dad, I am perhaps consumed by a drive to make sure that all of the lights in the house are off when...

Perfect Ten: My top 10 favorite MMOs across two decades

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Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...

LOTRO squashes a pesky spider (and other bugs) with Update 40.0.1

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Who doesn't want to see a few bugs squashed in an MMO -- especially if said critter had too many legs for comfort? Lord...

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