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LOTRO Legendarium: How LOTRO’s cosmetic system should be overhauled
Here's a fun bit of trivia for you newcomers to Lord of the Rings Online: Did you know that for most of the first...
LOTRO’s September is full of pirates, birthdays, and treasure bugans
September marks a pretty packed month of events for Lord of the Rings Online, starting with this weekend's Treasure Bugan hunt. Through September 18th,...
Massively Overthinking: When the big five MMORPGs have five big expansions in the same year
By the time you're reading this article, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light Seoul has officially launched on PC, and it marks an...
LOTRO previews its first Legacy of Morgoth expansion zone, Ambarûl
Lord of the Rings Online officially has begun promoting its fall expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, with a series of preview streams hosted by Senior...
Perfect Ten: The 10 crafting and gathering professions you find in every MMO
Despite the common perception that MMORPGs are only about smashing, slicing, and blasting foes to oblivion, these games typically offer a whole lot in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 484: September MMO mailbag show
Justin and Bree dip into the mailbag to discuss MMO limitations, megaservers, studio dealbreakers, age accessibility, aggro, and offline MMO content, plus there's adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2.
LOTRO devs tease housing estate system, reveal a ‘SMITE-like’ project abandoned a decade ago
In a dev video this past week, Lord of the Rings Online's lead designer said that plans for that MMO in 2025 are "in...
One Shots: The concert that ended the world
Poor Ragnaros. This World of Warcraft dude's been trying to live up to his namesake by trying to destroy the world for the past...
LOTRO Legendarium: The easiest LOTRO virtues to get as a low-level character
One of the most important yet easiest to overlook parts of your character's growth in Lord of the Rings Online is investing into virtues,...
Lord of the Rings Online devs talk expansion development in new video series
MMORPG expansions don't appear out of thin air, although it might appear so from the player side of things. Two developers behind Lord of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 483: Singing the Blues Protocol
Justin and Bree discuss the demise of Blue Protocol, WoW's War Within launch, RuneScape's sub fee hike, and Wizard101's console ambitions, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on MMO cosmetic gear, Ultima Online as a survival game, and sticking to a vision as MMOs age.
Lord of the Rings Online’s devs tease ‘so many plans’ for player housing
Back in early August, Lord of the Rings Online fan site Deco du Milieu hosted a player housing Q&A with members of Standing Stone...
The Daily Grind: Is there a place in an MMO that you’re sentimentally attached to?
The Psychology of Games podcast recently did an episode on forming attachments to places in video games.
"Have you ever become attached to a place...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why haven’t I burned out on LOTRO yet?
None of what I'm about to write is to meant to be self-promotion - just observation. It really hit me the other day how...
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you partnered up with a stranger in an MMO?
I'm having a pretty great time on Lord of the Rings Online's new progression server, partially because it's keeping the community in the same...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs without player housing in 2024
Last week, Guild Wars 2 became the latest western MMORPG to finally add proper housing, with pages lifted straight out of Wildstar and RIFT....
You can get your free mini-expansion, mount, minipet, and dungeon in LOTRO now
Hey who wants some free stuff?! Lord of the Rings Online was supposed to drop a big patch and promo yesterday, but it got...
LOTRO is giving everyone a free instance, mount, pet, portrait, and Before the Shadows content pack
Update: SSG has postponed this patch - full update at the end.
It must be some royal Hobbit's birthday today because gifts are flying out...
LOTRO dev addresses PvP (im)balance after Update 41’s glory-seeking feature
The small incredibly vocal PvP community in Lord of the Rings Online has a few words for Standing Stone Games after the studio attempted...
Lord of the Rings Online says its free Dragon and Storm dungeon arrives this week
Update 41.2 is scheduled to arrive in Lord of the Rings Online this coming Wednesday, bringing with it a new free dungeon for all...
