This past week, many of us were shaken out of our self-absorption with LotRO’s F2P switch as we were suddenly joined by — of all things — the good folks at EverQuest II . I don’t think anyone could’ve predicted two such high-profile MMORPGs moving to a subscription/free-to-play hybrid model this year, which makes LotRO and EQII comrades-in-arms for the time being.
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The Road to Mordor: Gated communities
Dungeons and Dragons Online ’s next update will bring more content to the game, and the excitement for Update 6 has been high in the DDO community, thanks to one little detail: underwater combat. That’s right, the next update will not only bring a new wilderness area — the Red Fens — but it adds underwater combat to DDO .
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New DDO screenshot gives first look at Update 6
If you’re attending Gamescom this year, you’ve probably got a pretty heavy schedule planned. There will be plenty to do, but you might want to carve out some time to head to the Lord of the Rings Online booth, because Codemasters has a nice gift for those attending. The news of LotRO ’s impending free-to-play status was pretty big, and Codemasters will be offering signups at its booth this year.
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Codemasters offering free LotRO store points at Gamescom
Have you ever imagined what life is like for MMO characters once you log out of the game? Do they go to the market? Enjoy some free time flying kites?
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One Shots: Time for a nap
Filed under: Fantasy , Lord of the Rings Online , Interviews , Previews , Free-to-play While the new version of Lord of the Rings Online is still under NDA lockdown, Turbine’s opened a crack in the door to allow a few beta testers to jaw about the LotRO store. On the EU site, beta testers were encouraged to submit their thoughts and experiences with the new store for non-testers to assimilate, with four stories chosen to be posted .
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Beta journals testify about the LotRO store
Patch 1 for Dungeons and Dragons Online Update 5 dropped this morning, clearing up a long list of problems that have plagued the game since Update 5 arrived. Issues large and small were taken care of, including several things that players have been dealing with since Update 5 released in the first place. Fog of War, for example, has been resetting immediately upon leaving an area
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Dungeons and Dragons Online patch 1 released for Update 5
Ever since hearing the news that Turbine will allow players to create mods for Lord of the Rings Online using the Lua programming language , the community’s been abuzz about what this means for LotRO — good and bad. Would this allow for the creation of game unbalancing add-ons, or perhaps the rise of a LotRO edition of WoW’s controversial GearScore
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Turbine expands on LotRO’s Lua scripting
While fans of Dungeons & Dragons Online in North America have had good reason to celebrate the game’s transition to a free-to-play model and its subsequent revival, European players have had to make do with the regular (i.e. subscription-based) version of the game under Codemaster’s rule.
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DDO Europe to go free-to-play on August 20th
All eyes in Lord of the Rings Online are set on the expanding frontier of the game, as both the Fellowship and players alike begin to head south this fall. This means a brand-new zone, Enedwaith, and all of the secrets and discoveries that it holds. We previously got a glimpse of this new area through a sneak-peek tour, but it’s still great to read a nine-page dev tour of Enedwaith by Turbine’s Jonathan Rudder.
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LotRO’s devs have some real estate in Enedwaith to sell you
Dungeons and Dragons Online Update 5 has been out for a while now, and it came on the scene to mixed reviews. Some players were unhappy about the combat changes, bugs here and there caused problems, and there were a couple of hotfixes in the first few days
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DDO Update 5: Massively’s interview with Fernando Paiz
