Celebrate Spring with Welcome Back Week!

posted this on March 24th, 2010.
Categorized as Events, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, News, Spring Festival, turbine, Welcome Back Week.

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The time is upon us once again dear readers – the time of the Welcome Back Week!

That’s right, from March 25th through March 29th 2010 prior subscribers to Turbines Golden MMO child can return to experience the joy of the Spring Festival. Take a gander at the new changes to the game, experience the Spring Festival, stomp some shrews… and do it all for Free!*

There will be a +5% Experience Point Bonus** and Free stable master travel during this welcome back event, so what’s stopping you?!

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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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More Angmar Questing, bad Orcs; Evil Statue

posted this on October 15th, 2009.
Categorized as Angmar, Character: Branadoc, Events: Seasonal, Fall Festival, Locations: Angmar, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, questing, turbine, Videos, Welcome Back Week.

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Jumped into during daylight hours today to get some more questing in done, as well as to take advantage of the +25% XP enabled for the current event (Fall Festival is running now too folks!).

I left of last time after completing one of a small chain of quests, today I went to a cave near the camp I was at in order to finish off some orcs and Wargs. I forgot how much I hate the stealthy wargs in this area :/ – I managed to complete the quest, but I still want to explore the cave further; Heres the video of me going through the cave:

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Welcome Back Week Through the 24th

posted this on August 18th, 2009.
Categorized as News, Welcome Back Week.

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It’s another Welcome Back Week my friends? Turbine is doing these so often that they might as well just tell us when it’s not Welcome Back Week.

I kid. I kid because I love.

If you’re not subscribing any longer and want to see what’s new, download and install the client. Turbine is recommending you use their Turbine Download Manager if you need to reinstall, as it will let you play in about an hour while the game is still downloading additional components.


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Welcome Back (Again) Week

posted this on July 8th, 2009.
Categorized as +25% XP, News, Welcome Back Week.

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So it’s time yet again for another Welcome Back event. This one will start tomorrow, July 9th, and run through July 15th. As usual, all previous players will be able to play the game again for free and all players will receive +25% EXP on mob kills.

I get the impression Turbine is going to be doing this after almost every book, which probably isn’t a bad thing. More cynical people may see this as desperate, but I imagine the benefits outweigh the risks. More people is good, regardless as to how many subscribers there may be.

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