lord of the rings
Battle Bards Episode 122: Happy town
In peaceful villages and bubbly burgs, you just know that there’s bound to be an abundance of happy music! Whenever the Battle Bards regroup...
The Daily Grind: What MMO celebration do you never miss?
The first year that any MMORPG that I'm playing launches a new festival or holiday, I'm usually all over it. Sometimes I get too...
Apple’s OpenGL deprecation could spell trouble for some MMOs on Mac
Get all the "haha people game on Macs?" out of your system right off the bat because this one isn't funny. MOP tipster Apparition...
Lord of the Rings Online 22.2 update is live with sweeping class balance changes, wearable instruments, and new story quests
It's release day for Lord of the Rings Online. Update 22.2 is the big ol' class balance patch that everyone's been fussing about for...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why Mordor fails and Northern Mirkwood succeeds
When Lord of the Rings Online turned its sight toward Mordor, it had been running off of a rather hot streak. Not perfect, mind...
The Stream Team: Springing into LOTRO’s Spring festival encore
Spring has resprung! The spring festival has returned to LOTRO for an encore, which means Massively OP's MJ can participate! She'll be running the...
Lord of the Rings Online continues to iterate on its class change patch, extends spring festival
The third build of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 22.2 is now up on the test server, and players can preview it to...
Perfect Ten: The unique pitfalls of licensed MMOs
Making a list of the "biggest" MMOs currently running is always an exercise in frustration. It's easy to put a few things on the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 171: Bless you, my subscriber
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Bless Online, Elder Scrolls Online Summerset, Worlds Adrift, Pantheon, Skull & Bones, and The Division 2, with mailbag questions on the Eastern MMO stigma and Sea of Thieves' new MMO paradigm.
LOTRO’s Spring Festival has returned for an encore through Memorial Day
Spring may not have left yet, but The Lord of the Rings Online's seasonal festival already had. But now it's back! This is great...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2018 roadmap includes a huge northern expansion and seasonal instances
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...
LOTRO Legendarium: A whirlwind of activity in Lord of the Rings Online
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
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
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...
Middle-earth is coming back to Google maps thanks to fan and LOTRO screens
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?...
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...
