And so we grow!

posted this on September 24th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, General, guild wars reporter, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, mmo reporter, tor reporter.

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There have been a lot of changes going on over the past little while at LOTRO Reporter, and I thought that I’d take this oppertunity to officially announce the growth that we’ve been going through.

We’ve got a few new sites out there, and many of you may wonder what this means for the future of LOTRO Reporter. I can tell you unequivocally that nothing will change. We’ve still got the same great team of writers, and we’re still going to to be bringing you the same great content that we’ve also brought you. The LOTRO Reporter podcast will also continue it’s weekly schedule, so keep listening.

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European Players March for Information!

posted this on September 24th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, codemaster, F2P, Free to Play, ftp, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.

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Groupshothorse

European players have started to chat on the forums about putting together a march on the Prancing Pony in the hope of trying to get some more information from Codemaster/Turbine about the Free-to-Play transition for European servers.

I’ve stated in the past that I through it was a really bad move for Codemaster to announce 2 days before the planned launch that they where delaying it indefinitely. Information has definitely not been forthcoming from the company.

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Yaaarrrrrrr!

posted this on September 16th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, pirate, Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner.

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Avast mateys! Gather round ‘n ye shall hear the tale of the shipwrecked Mariner, and a tale of woe and trouble it be! Enjoy piratey fun all weekend long! (Click Here) for more information.
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On Sale at the Turbine Store

posted this on September 10th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, F2P, Free to Play, ftp, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, turbine-store.

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For Premium members or Free to Play members who are looking to upgrade, don’t miss out on these deals at the Turbine Store!
  • Get 6900 Turbine Points for $49.99
  • 50% Off the Writ of Special Passage
  • 20% Off All Travel Maps
  • 20% Off Monster XP and Item XP Boosts
  • 20% Off Skirmish Boosts


Messages from Turbine re: Turbine Points

posted this on September 9th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, Free to Play, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, LotRO store, Turbine Points.

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In case you missed these messages on the login screen, here are two recent reassurances from Turbine:
  • Known Issue with Turbine Point Balances
  • Sep 08, 2010 04:00 EST
  • We are currently investigating an issue with incorrect Turbine Point balances in some players’ accounts (balances are lower or higher than they should be). We’ll have this fixed as quickly as possible! Thanks for bearing with us!
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LOTRO store intro guide

posted this on September 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, Free to Play, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, LotRO store, Turbine Points.

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A recent article on www.lotro.com provides a beginners’ overview of the new LOTRO store.  See the original article, along with screenshots of the store, here.  I provide a summary of the article below, with some of my own concerns and questions.

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New servers coming to a game near you…

posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, crickhollow, dwarrowdelf, General, head start, imladris, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, riddermark, Servers.

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Sapience of Turbine, in trademarked Incredisoon style, announced yesterday that Turbine will be opening four new servers for our gaming pleasure!

The servers will be named as follows:

  • Riddermark
  • Crickhollow
  • Dwarrowdelf
  • Imladris

These servers will be available on a first-come, first-”served” basis, starting September 8th for Head Start players, and September 10 for all others.  (Check here to see if you are eligible for the earlier start date.)  Sapience also noted that the forums for the new servers are up and running, in order to help the flocks of people organize themselves and their friends.  For those of you with 67 alts who just NEED to have 9 new characters to love, head on over to the new servers, make some new friends, and bring our well-renowned LOTRO community spirit to some new players arriving soon, very soon, ultra soon, uber soon…..  You get the idea!  ;)

Happy gaming!

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LOTRO Reporter has moved!

posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.

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Please check us out at our new site: lotroreporter.com!

You DO NOT have to change the feed for the podcast, but please also change your RSS feed for the blog to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordOfTheRingsOnlineReporter


LOTRO-Europe Welcome Back Week

posted this on March 5th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, Europe, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro europe, lotro reporter, welcome back, Welcome Back Week.

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European players can look forward to a welcome back week from March 8 – 15th. Former subscribers will find that their account have been activated for this time, and everyone will have a few nice bonuses to entice them to play:

    Free Travel and Bonus XP!

  • All travel is on us throughout this festive week so flit around Middle-earth to your heart’s content at no cost! Also, earn yourself     5% bonus XP for every mob killed.
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Volume III: Allies of the King Announced.

posted this on January 28th, 2010.
Categorized as annoucement, announcements, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, oath of the rangers, volume 3, volume 3 oath of the rangers, volume III, volume III oath of the rangers.

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Volume III: Allies of the King

Book 1, Oath of the Rangers Announced!

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