Goldenstar posted this on January 27th, 2012.
Categorized as Events, Yule, Yule Festival.
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January 30th is the final day of the Yule Festival! Make sure you turn in all your tokens and buy up all the goodies you were hoping for this weekend.
All the yule festival items including the horses, costumes and furniture will not be available again until next year! The tokens will not expire so if you simply wish to put a stash in your vault until next year, that will work!
Our 2011 Yule Festival Guide is available to make sure you haven’t missed anything!
Read the rest of this entry »thekhazadguard posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as Game Ideas and Suggestions, Thoughts and Musings.
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Welcome back to the final instalment dear reader, you did well, its almost over now!
I have gone over the Store, which I believe will grow and grow, make no bones about it there will be things to come which will frustrate and annoy players. With the level cap on the rise again, watch this process as a point of development. On the flip side, 2011 brought some good things with regard to frequency and quality of content, and some major changes to mechanics, itemisation, and rewards which should facilitate clearer itemisation and instance design moving forward. The system is now a durable one which holds the basics for long term adaptation and development. Yes that is easy to loose sight of admidst the communications mess, store rage, and bugs, but on the whole the actual game content I enjoyed a lot, but the delivery and polish needs some work.
Content going into 2012
Read the rest of this entry »Roger Edwards posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as lotro.
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There was a lot of excitement yesterday with Turbine’s announcement that there would be a major expansion for LOTRO in the Fall 2012. The Riders of Rohan certainly seems to have a lot of new features. It is also useful to read the forum post that came out simultaneously, as it adds some additional information regarding Turbine’s overall plans for the year ahead. However, we should not lose sight of the fact that these statements are press releases and that game development can be a very fluid industry. Also, we as players should curb our propensity to fill in the gaps, as this can often lead to confusion and possible misplaced expectations. It is good to know that new content and game mechanics are on the way, but we should double check the information that is in the public domain first before getting carried away.
So let’s consider what’s potentially on offer with ROR. Let us deal firstly with the Holy Grail of game mechanics; mounted combat. This raises a good many questions. So far the only information we have been given is the following:
Read the rest of this entry »Goldenstar posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as Beldrieth of Arkenstone, blogger, Community, fan fiction, lotro.
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You may remember Beldrieth of Arkenstone from her excellent story “Mainly Concerning a Hobbit” which she was so nice to let us post here on CSTM.
Beldrieth was so encouraged by the great comments she received that she has decided to start her own blog! You can find more of her writing now at http://thehobbitsinthestories.wordpress.com/. This is the kind of news that just makes my day!
Read the rest of this entry »suzita posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as little by little one travels far, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, rpg.
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as we’ve all been struck down with the lurgy and the littlun is showing signs of chicken pox I’ve been retreating into Skyrim of an evening, to transport myself away from miserable January. Plus being able to quicksave and pause makes life much much easier at the moment 
I did pop onto lotro last night and bankrupted myself buying a worn symbol to forge a second age bow (yayyay!) I got fairly crappy legacies on it which was… crappy 
nevermind, I have the legacies I want on there now and they can be increased. Hopefully we will be able to group up with our friend Aeowulf tonight.
I will have my champion outfit to share soon and hopefully will be back posting regularly soon 
thekhazadguard posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as Game Ideas and Suggestions, Thoughts and Musings.
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Yesterday I talked about the store. Doubtless with the news yesterday of the new Riders of Rohan expansion and further updates earlier on this year, including a new region, and Sapience’s store placation, there will be more warm fuzzy glows around. This does not, however, mean that tied to all that there will not be further additions to the store and game which people do not like, or cause and out rage. Tempering our knee jerk reactions will be key, as these two things will come hand in hand from now onwards, the store and game will drive each other. Things will not go back to how they were, but I’ve been here 4 years now… I think they are fine, the Halcyon days of LOTRO are just that… a mythical utopia. I have friends who are new to the game and Dunland is their Moria, in a few years, they will be complaining that the Gondor expansion sold out and was buggy, whilst the next round of players is wide eyed at their first experience of LOTRO. To be fair, I even remember original 2007 and Beta players complaining voiciferously about Moria in the way I see ROI being moaned about now.
Today I want to briefly recap LOTRO in 2011, and the new systems, currencies, and functionality, and what that means with regards to the game moving forwards.
Read the rest of this entry »Bill posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as cosmetics, expansion announcement, General, lotro reporter, more stat gear in the store, podcasts, Riders of Rohan, subscription select.
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Bill posted this on January 26th, 2012.
Categorized as armour set spreadsheet, damage types, General, lotro reporter, podcasts, stat armour, store, wardens, Yule Festival.
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Formeniel posted this on January 25th, 2012.
Categorized as fightclub, lotro.
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DocHoliday posted this on January 25th, 2012.
Categorized as isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, mounted combat, Raids and End-game, Riders of Rohan, Rise Of Isengard, rohan, Traits, update 6, Warden.
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DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
Right on the heels of the Riders of Rohan Expansion announcement, Massively released an article with comments from Kate Paiz and Adam Mersky talking about the upcoming year.
The article starts off with a bit of a look back at 2011 and I think it is fair to say the whole EU transition took up way more time and resources then Turbine expected. Is this to blame for the “down” year for content? Who knows, but certainly it loomed large for them.
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