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4th Anniversary Trivia Challenge – Round 2 – news from LOTRO
Apr 28th
Gear up your Character and your PC during our 4th Anniversary Trivia Challenge – Round 2! You could win a Tritton PC510 5.1 Analog Gaming Headset and LOTRO Swag!
Gear up your Character and your PC during our 4th Anniversary Trivia Challenge! You could win a Tritton PC510 5.1 Analog Gaming Headset and LOTRO Swag!
Starting Thursday April 28 through Sunday May 1, we’ll be asking a daily LOTRO Trivia Question in our forums. Log in to the LOTRO Forums and answer the trivia question correctly and you’ll be added to our daily drawing. Questions will be posted in our forums at 6:00 PM Eastern time on Thursday April 28, Friday April 29, Saturday April 30, and Sunday May 1.
Each day we’ll select three winners from all correct entries to receive a LOTRO Anniversary Prize pack including.
- Tritton PC510 5.1 Analog Gaming Headset
- LOTRO messenger bag
- PAX Mount Code
- LOTRO pins
About the Tritton PC510 5.1 Analog Gaming Headset The Tritton PC510 gaming headset delivers true 5.1 surround sound via 8 precision tuned speakers. Complete audio controls allow you to customize your 3D audio experience, by cranking up the front, rear, center and subwoofer channels right on the inline controller!
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TURBINE VA PRENDRE LE CONTRÔLE OPÉRATIONNEL DU JEU LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX ONLINE™ EN EUROPE – news from LOTRO
Apr 25th
NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS – 26 AVRIL 2011 — Turbine a annoncé aujourd’hui que la société allait étendre ses operations globales et prendre le contrôle du jeu Le Seigneur des Anneaux Online™ (SdAO) en Europe à partir du 1er juin 2011. Dans le cadre de cette transition, Codemasters Online continuera à gérer le service du SdAO européen jusqu’au 1er juin, date à laquelle les joueurs européens existants commenceront leur migration vers le service global de Turbine.
Take The Path Of The Fellowship! – news from LOTRO
Apr 14th
Continue your legendary journey across Middle-earth! Voyage from Elrond’s house at Rivendell, through ravaged Eregion, and on to the depths of orc-haunted Moria, where Gandalf battled the Balrog… then gaze into the Mirror of Galadriel in enchanted Lórien. Find your own adventures along the Path of the Fellowship!
Lord of the Rings Online: "Solofication"
Mar 8th
Turbine's Bob “Maurath” Hess has penned the latest Update 2 dev blog on the official Lord of the Rings Online site. This time, devs deal with the newly minted word "solofication", or in other words, giving the players the ability to solo most, if not all, of the epic storyline.
There were several overall design goals when undertaking the task:
- To make the entire Volume 2 Epic completable by a solo player.
- To allow solo players to experience several instance spaces and encounters that are truly unique and interesting.
- To smooth some of the gameplay aspects of the Volume 2 Epic, with a particular eye to some particularly difficult content to complete, and travel times.
These specific design goals were addressed using a variety of different methods, which will be further explained in their own sections:
- Re-leveling Quests
- Simplification of quest objectives with the addition of quest objectives that are more numerous and easier to locate.
- Redesigning several instance spaces for solo and duo play while allowing players to experience aspects of the original instance design
Read more here.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold… – news from LOTRO
Dec 29th
Especially in-game gold bought for real money! This is a friendly reminder to our players that buying gold for real money is not only against the EULA, but can put your account at risk for hacking or banning. Buying gold causes game imbalance, damages the economy, and contributes to the amount of spam in chat, tells, and mail. In extreme cases it’s even been known to cause increased hair loss, global warming, and the extinction of at least 2 species of insects every day. Don’t buy gold!
Guardian 101 Guide – news from LOTRO
Dec 20th
Today we’re releasing the Guardian 101 guide for The Lord of the Rings Online™ as part of our ongoing New Player Guides. As with last week’s Hunter 101 release the Guardian 101 guide is designed for brand new LOTRO players. We’ll also be revisiting our guides as game updates are released in order to keep each of them current.
And if you are a new player we suggest skimming through our Eight Essential MMO Terms guide to get you started. Keep a keen eye open because we’ll have more guides on all sorts of topics in the near future!
New Player Guides – news from LOTRO
Dec 14th
We’re proud to present the first two New Player Guides for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Eight Essential MMO Terms and Hunter 101. These guides are designed for brand new players but will not remain static — we’ll be revisiting our guides throughout the year to keep them current as we begin releasing new articles spanning a wide variety of topics.
If you are a new player, we suggest looking through our Eight Essential MMO Terms guide to get you started. Of course, this is merely the first of many upcoming New Player Guides for LOTRO, so keep an eye open for more guides on all kinds of topics in the near future!
Producer’s Letter December – 2010 – news from LOTRO
Dec 3rd
We continue to be very pleased with the success of the free-to-play addition, and extend a very big thank you to all our players who continue to help our new players feel so at home in Middle-earth! Some of the changes in this release and in upcoming releases directly stem from player feedback. Please continue to be active on the boards and on Bullroarer, so we can be sure to take your perspective and experiences into account!
Read more in the latest Producer’s Letter from Kate “Nereid” Paiz!
Lord of the Rings Online: Win 100,000 Turbine Points
Dec 1st
If you've been considering trying out the free-to-play version of either Dungeons & Dragons Online or Lord of the Rings Online, this would be a good time to sign up. At stake are 100,000 Turbine Points that would pretty much ensure the ability to purchase every item in the Turbine Store. All that is required is to sign up for a free DDO or LOTRO account between December 1st and December 31st to automatically be entered. Already have an account? Not to worry. You can sign up too!
- What Can I win?
- One 1st place winner for each game get’s 100,000 Turbine Points
- Two 2nd place winners get lifetime subscriptions to either game
- Five 3rd place winners get 1000 Turbine Points
- Do I have to purchase anything to enter?
- No, the contest is free to enter, no purchase necessary.
- Ok great, how do I enter?
- To enter, go to either www.lotro.com or www.ddo.com between Dec 1 to Dec 31 2010 and register for a free account to become entered in contest.
- But I already play LOTRO, can I still enter?
- Absolutely! If you already have a LOTRO account prior to Dec 1, entrants need to go to my.lotro.com/contest.php or my.ddo.com/contest.php from Dec 1 to Dec 31 2010 More >
THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE™: RISE OF ISENGARD™ Announced – news from LOTRO
Nov 18th
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment unveiled today The Lord of the Rings Online™: Rise of Isengard™, the latest expansion to the award-winning free-to-play massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) developed by Turbine. Rise of Isengard will expand the online world of Middle-earth where players will join forces to press further eastward into the legendary region of Isengard. To learn more read the full Press Release or watch the Teaser Trailer! Discuss the announcement on the forums!