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 puts a cap on embers, motes, and figments

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If you are not acquainted with the Lord of the Rings Online scene these days, chances are that the headline above made about as...

Massively Uplifting: From weddings to memorials, gamers celebrate life in AQ3D, GW2, BDO, LOTRO, WoW, and more

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It's an alphabet soup of good (MMO) vibes this month! While many may have returned to the school of hard knocks this fall, plenty...

One Shots: Getting all down and cozy

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I love a good cozy place in an MMO, moreso if it's got a fully stocked snack bar and some of my all-time favorite...
There is a metaphor here somewhere.

Battle Bards Episode 154: Death and decay

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Get an early jump on Halloween with the Battle Bards, as they grab the nearest shovel and start unearthing all sorts of morbid and...

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you wish could live forever?

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You all know that I love my hypotheticals by now, so here's another one for our daily discussion period. Imagine that you have the...

Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers

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An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
This is surely not going to turn out badly.

Lord of the Rings Online warns Mac players not to update their operating system due to software compatability

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If you're happy that we are collectively moving on to 64-bit systems (perhaps you're still really anxious about the impact of the 2038 problem),...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 240: Hypergank!

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen, Zenith, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, WoW, and SWG, with mailbag entries on true MMO difficulty and cyberpunk MMOs.

One Shots: An oldie but a goodie

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Last week's screenshot challenge to share pictures of older MMOs that still check out (visually, I mean) resulted in a small avalanche of Lord...

LOTRO Legendarium: Minas Morgul is off to a better start than Mordor

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While we have known for a long while that this was coming, the official announcement of Lord of the Rings Online's 2019 expansion was...

LOTRO: Minas Morgul will take you back in time to the Second Age

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With the undead and possibly soulless cat out of the bag with Minas Morgul, Standing Stone Games is fielding a whole bunch of questions...

Lord of the Rings Online starts Minas Morgul pre-orders, rolls out Stout-Axe Dwarves

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What we know for certain: Lord of the Rings Online is pushing out Update 24.3 today, and that single decimal point usually indicates some...

The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?

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Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
Hello, art discussion prompt.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 239: Astellia ascending

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Justin and Bree discuss Astellia, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge Unchained, WoW, LOTRO, PlanetSide Arena, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag topic on making gaming more productive (or not).

The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb

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By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...

Sea of Thieves celebrates talk like a pirate day with sweet Twitch loot

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Dang, I almost forgot it was talk like a pirate day! If you aren't into LOTRO and World of Warcraft's take on the second-most...

Lord of the Rings Online begins testing the new Stout-Axe Dwarves

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Ever since we got word that a new Dwarf racial variant was on the way to Lord of the Rings Online, we've been curious...

The Daily Grind: How would you make a special MMO ruleset server?

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Lately there's been some friction over in Lord of the Rings Online due to what players see as mishandling and miscommunication over the game's...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play

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Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.

Pirate holidays make landfall in LOTRO and World of Warcraft this week

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Disclaimer: This author's family threw him a pirate-themed 30th birthday party and he walked the plank and it was definitely an amazing experience. Double...

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