lord of the rings
LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s expansions from worst to best
Every once in a while, it's a lot of fun to sit down and rank things in your favorite geeky franchises. A while back,...
PSA: OK procrastinators, you’re running out of time to get your free LOTRO and DDO stuff
Last spring, when the pandemic was ramping up here in the US and states were closing down everything in a panic, MMO studios around...
LOTRO extends summer festival while servers are still being fixed
Are Lord of the Rings Online's servers getting better? From anecdotal evidence, it appears so, although the recent instability hasn't completely vanished from the...
New week, old problems: LOTRO can’t seem to fix its servers
If you logged into Lord of the Rings Online this week hoping for an easy road to Mordor, think again. There are a whole...
Players petition for better servers as LOTRO’s second wave of instability continues
A second period of server instability in the past month is plaguing Lord of the Rings Online, even as Standing Stone Games said that...
Don’t look now, but LOTRO is having issues again
I know we joke that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online, we have...
Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs
Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...
Lord of the Rings Online’s merged Farmer’s Faire and Summer Festival are live today
With the addition of the Midsummer Festival a little while back, Lord of the Rings Online's summer season got more than a little full...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying travel system in an MMO?
A while back, I finally talked my husband into buying his Elf Warden a basic Hobbit house in Lord of the Rings Online. He...
The Daily Grind: Do MMOs need to jump onto bandwagons to stay relevant?
We've been watching TERA's latest move into -- of all things -- MOBAs with a quirked eyebrow and a quizzical expression. We're never quite...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 283: TennoConversations
Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss Warframe and TennoCon 2020, Crowfall's beta, LOTRO's Rohan housing, DDO's nasty rollback, Blizzard's latest mess, and Guild Wars 2's underwater mounts, with a special edition of the Daily Grind Blitz.
Jukebox Heroes: It’s time to turn your MMO’s music back on
We're going to take a detour from our tour of various MMO soundtracks to talk about one of the most common statements I hear...
LOTRO and DDO re-enables character transfers, Wayfinder suffers three-week rollback [Updated]
We've got a bit of good news, bad news, and really bad news for those looking to hop servers in Lord of the Rings...
LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of Rohan housing
To my knowledge, this past week's Update 27.2 for Lord of the Rings Online may well be the biggest housing patch that's hit the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers your favorite type of resource gathering?
You know, we talk about crafting a lot here on Massively OP, but gathering doesn't get nearly as much love, and yet pretty much...
No, Lord of the Rings Online Classic isn’t going to happen, Standing Stone says
When any MMORPG has gone on long enough, a movement among fans to return to the earlier days of the game tends to emerge....
Lord of the Rings Online opens the doors to Rohan housing and Helm’s Deep
It's always a momentous occasion in Lord of the Rings Online when a brand-new type of housing is added to the servers, and today's...
Lord of the Rings Online community reschedules Weatherstock for September
In hindsight, Lord of the Rings Online's greatest annual player concert series couldn't have picked a worse time to try to host the event....
Jukebox Heroes: The ultimate guide to MMORPG music
It's been a long, strange, and wonderful journey to explore MMORPG music with you here in Jukebox Heroes. And while I am anticipating many...
One Shots: The ultimate tree house
When I asked for pictures of plant houses in online games, I wasn't quite expecting that notion to sprout and grow into this tremendous...
