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

Lord of the Rings Online’s 2018 roadmap includes a huge northern expansion and seasonal instances

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Don't call it a full-fledged expansion, but Lord of the Rings Online's next content update may be nearing that level of content and focus. Standing...
Oh, you're busy, we can come back later.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 170: Mild West Online

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Justin and Bree discuss Conan Exiles, Wild West Online, LOTRO, NCsoft's financials, Gamersfirst's acquisition, H1Z1, the Guild Wars franchise, WoW, DDO, and Trove, with mailbag topics on offensive in-game titles and too-fast MMO combat.

Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle

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With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...

LOTRO Legendarium: A whirlwind of activity in Lord of the Rings Online

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If you haven't noticed already, an extended silence from me in this column space usually means that I've taken a break from Lord of...

Lord of the Rings Online puts a fresh coat of paint on old zones

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The return of a former Lord of the Rings Online developer has put into motion a gradual revamp of one of the game's older...

Lord of the Rings Online starts testing massive class changes

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It's finally here. For a while now, Standing Stone Games has promised that it would be giving most of Lord of the Rings Online's...
It's Lord of the Rings. There's your elevator pitch.

Middle-earth is coming back to Google maps thanks to fan and LOTRO screens

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Who hasn't used Google maps to check out some interesting patch of Earth? Now who hasn't wished they could do the same for Middle-earth?...

Daybreak update: Renova boss questioned over Columbus Nova’s alleged payment to Michael Cohen

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MMOs and politics once again collide this week as last night CNN broke the news that Robert Mueller's FBI team has zeroed in on...

Global Chat: MMOs need to do ‘difficulty’ right

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A thinkpiece that we had back in April about the difficulty levels (or lack thereof) in MMORPGs sparked some interesting discussion among gaming bloggers...

Lord of the Rings Online wants to know what you want from your VIP sub

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Never say the devs aren't listening: Standing Stone Games apparently is. Lord of the Rings Online forumgoers learned this lesson today when in a player-started...

One Shots: All giant spiders, all the time

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Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...

Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff

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Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.

Jukebox Heroes: LOTRO’s Northern Mirkwood soundtrack

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One of the most pleasant surprises I experienced in a while came a week or so ago when Standing Stone Games announced that it...

The Daily Grind: Do you buy the Daybreak-owns-Standing Stone Games rumor?

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Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...

One Shots: A well-rounded Hobbit (breakfast)

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With the prodigious and well-known appetite of Hobbits, it's a total surprise to me that the Shire hasn't been stripped bare with these creatures'...

EverQuesting: Columbus Nova or not, Daybreak is tying its own noose

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How about those Red Sox? Seriously, that's a conversation I'd rather be having than the one that has cropped up this week -- and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 167: Daybreaking news

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Justin and Bree host a special edition of the podcast focused entirely on the Daybreak denial and layoff story as it's unfolded.
Nope!

Daybreak has now been hit with layoffs [Confirmed]

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Daybreak has now confirmed the layoffs, and we've got lots more information from our own sources - see below for updates and context. Multiple game...
Hate the player, not the game! It's not the player's fault that they're in the game as it is.

Leaderboard: Does the Daybreak fiasco affect whether you play its MMOs?

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Over the last couple of days, we've been covering the Daybreak scandal - specifically, how concerns over the impact of government sanctions on Daybreak's...

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