lord of the rings
Global Chat: MMOs need to do ‘difficulty’ right
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
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
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
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...
Jukebox Heroes: LOTRO’s Northern Mirkwood soundtrack
One of the most pleasant surprises I experienced in a while came a week or so ago when Standing Stone Games announced that it...
Lord of the Rings Online takes a step forward in lockbox transparency
Ever since Standing Stone Games started ramping up the prominence of Lord of the Rings Online's lockboxes following last year's Mordor expansion, the microtransactions...
The Stream Team: Celebrating 11 years of Lord of the Rings Online
It's been 11 years, and Massively OP's MJ is no where near tiring of roaming Middle-earth in LOTRO. (She's also no where near finishing...
The Daily Grind: What was the most disappointing MMO expansion of all time?
Best and worst, top and bottom: It's fun to discuss video game in absolute extremes (at times). And I'll bet that a lot of...
Lord of the Rings Online talks Update 23, Mordor’s difficulty, lag, and more
Now that Lord of the Rings Online has emerged from Mordor, it's preparing to go back in the future. SSG's Rob Ciccolini and Jerry...
Check out these jaw-dropping LOTRO panoramas
One of the true joys for many Lord of the Rings Online fans is being able to explore an intricate and often gorgeous-looking Middle-earth....
Lord of the Rings Online celebrates its eleventh birthday
Not that Hobbits need much of an excuse to throw a party, but it just so happens to be Lord of the Rings Online's...
Jukebox Heroes: Five great YouTube channels for MMO music
As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...
One Shots: Fun with filters
You know all of those weird filter effects that you have in your photo editing software? There always seems to be a stigma against...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO NPC do you love to mock?
Hell hath no sarcasm like MMO gamers who find a particular NPC to be a little too annoying, repetitive, or otherwise goofy. Then the...
Sea of Thieves conscripts Sean Astin and plans a death tax
Citing "unprecedented numbers" of players rushing in to play Sea of Thieves over the past few days, Rare has acknowledged the multitude of issues that...
Lord of the Rings Online releases secret goat quest
Leave it to the sly folks at Standing Stone Games to slip a little spring surprise into Lord of the Rings Online.
The studio behind...
One Shots: Don’t you forget about me
I think that we can all agree that Hirku seems like he'd be a pretty fun-loving dude to hang out with in World of...
Lord of the Rings Online team works on future ‘far-flung adventures’
Having some issues with Lord of the Rings Online Update 22? A small patch released on Wednesday may have cleared it up. The small...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 161: Project power
Justin and Bree discuss RIFT Prime, Trove, Project C, Project Gorgon, H1Z1, The Division 2, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on mimicking Minecraft's business model and playing the good stuff while you still can.
One Shots: The Soviet Summoner
Undoubtedly, our world is poorer in this post-City of Heroes era for the lack of pun-inspired superhero names that used to run, fly, and...
