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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

The Stream Team: Ending Ill Omens in Lord of the Rings Online

MJ Guthrie - March 17, 2020 0

LOTRO's Ill Omens event is ending, and Massively OP's MJ wants to gather a few more tokens. That means she's heading into a number...

One Shots: Stitching a world together

Justin Olivetti - March 15, 2020 19

MMORPGs are well-known for featuring an entire Sonic series' worth of contrasting biomes. And while that's great for lovers of variety, the art teams...

Coronavirus roundup: EGX Rezzed, Pokemon Go, and using MMOs to learn from home

Bree Royce - March 13, 2020 10

We're capping off an odd week of coverage here in our little corner of the online gaming world, as even those of us who've...

The Stream Team: Moving through Moria in LOTRO

MJ Guthrie - March 11, 2020 0

Massively OP's MJ has been taking part in LOTRO's Ill Omens event, but she's hit a big snag: She never finished enough epic questlines...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 262: Holly Holly oxen free

Justin Olivetti - March 10, 2020 9

Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's Holly Longdale's departure, City of Heroes' Homecoming video ban, PlanetSide 2's Escalation, Black Desert's birthday, Cryptic's chat nuke, Guild Wars 2's next episode, changing MMO opinions, and MMO automation, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends.

Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre

Bree Royce - March 10, 2020 23

Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...

LOTRO Legendarium: Five ideas for special servers in Lord of the Rings Online

Justin Olivetti - March 9, 2020 13

At PAX East recently, Standing Stone Games teased some details of Lord of the Rings Online's future. I'm going to hold off on talking...

DDO and LOTRO’s Standing Stone Games is hiring a character artist

Justin Olivetti - March 8, 2020 4

Considering how small Standing Stone Games' team is at the moment, the announcement that it is hiring a Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of...

One Shots: Breaking the speed of awesome

Justin Olivetti - March 8, 2020 24

Face it: No matter how long you live, you'll never look as amazing as Utakata here in Blade and Soul. Apparently she's being shot...

Interview: Saga of Lucimia on funding, development, launch, and business models

Bree Royce - March 6, 2020 24

Upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia has been somewhat dark over the last year as its developers hunkered down to develop rather than hype. But...

LOTRO’s future includes River-Hobbits, Mission feature, and a new type of server

Justin Olivetti - March 6, 2020 7

The folks over at MMO Central have posted a couple of interviews with Standing Stone Games that sheds some additional light on Lord of...

Lord of the Rings Online introduces a new raid and several class adjustments in its latest update

Chris Neal - March 4, 2020 2

Hope you're up on your Sindarin, because the latest content update for Lord of the Rings Online has a whole mess of it. Specifically,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 261: PAX yay, GDC nay

Justin Olivetti - March 3, 2020 0

Justin and Bree discuss PAX East, GDC, the coronavirus' impact on gaming, Magic Legends, Population Zero, Marvel Future Revolution, LOTRO and DDO, Funcom and Dune, and City of Heroes, plus adventures in AQ3D, CoH, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on everything MMOs and the doom of WildStar.