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

LOTRO players uncover secret anniversary quest

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While Lord of the Rings Online's anniversary began back in April, it is only now coming to completion with this week's addition of the...

Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!

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After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...

Global Chat: Why FFXIV is the most newbie-friendly MMO

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What's the most newbie-friendly MMO? According to Pete at Dragonchasers, it's Final Fantasy XIV. He's been pretty impressed by the support structure that the...

Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia

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Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...

The MMO Book Club has opened another round of game voting

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Remember back in April when a group of Redditors decided to put together an MMO Book Club -- a community of MMO gamers who...

LOTRO Legendarium: Seven abandoned LOTRO features

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One of the hallmarks and attractions of MMORPGs is growth. These games, much like the characters that inhabit them, grow and change over time....

Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons

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It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...
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Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist

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This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...

LOTRO releases 10th anniversary soundtrack

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A week after announcing Composer Chance Thomas' return to score the upcoming Mordor expansion, Lord of the Rings Online revealed another musical treat. The...
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Choose My Adventure: Exploring the purpose and plan of this community column

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You are no doubt staring at the title image above and thinking to yourself that it really does not look like a Neverwinter screenshot....

LOTRO patch lays the foundation for its Mordor expansion

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We don't even know the name of this fall's Lord of the Rings Online expansion yet, but the game is already laying down the...
You have to want it.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 119: Finalest Fantasy

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Justin and Eliot discuss FFXIV, FFXI, Black Desert, Neverwinter, World of Warcraft, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, EverQuest, Allods, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on MMO role homogenization, PvP pay-to-win, and the Marvel Heroes uproar.

LOTRO confirms Chance Thomas’ return to score Mordor, says it will be his ‘darkest’ work yet

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It was perhaps the worst-kept secret for Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming Mordor expansion, but now it's officially confirmed: Composer Chance Thomas is...

LOTRO teases special announcement coming at noon today

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Fans of Lord of the Rings Online will want to tune in to a special dev livestream today at noon eastern for a special...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best dungeon crawling experiences?

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Dungeons are deeply on my mind as of late, mostly because I've been missing doing them in MMORPGs. It's odd: In particular MMOs, I...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 118: Crowfall breaks up the band

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Justin and Bree discuss ESO Morrowind, Crowfall, Wild West Online, Destiny 2, Funcom financials, Star Citizen, SWTOR, Dreamfall Chapters, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on dating in MMOs.

LOTRO Legendarium: Bingo Boffin’s unexpected journey

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In addition to playing a lot of fantasy and sci-fi MMORPGs, I'm an avid reader of novels in the same genres. I never quite...
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Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs

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Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...

Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?

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With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...
And we shoot the varmint.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 117: Starfall no more

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.

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