Lord of the Rings Online

Lord of the Rings Online's next update, War of Three Peaks, is coming soon and the preview server offers a first glimpse at exactly what players can expect from the accompanying update.

You are all invited to celebrate Bilbo Baggins(es) birthday in Lord of the Rings Online through September 23.

Lord of the Rings Online has announced a "mini expansion pack" featuring three different editions of the game, plus boar mounts.

In case you missed it, you might want to jump on the Lord of the Rings Online coupon code below if you haven't already in order to receive a bunch of free quests.

As of this writing, the servers for Lord of the Rings Online are still struggling with Standing Stone Games confirming that "work has been ongoing" to resolve issues.

Yesterday it was reported that Standing Stone Games is yet again having trouble with server stability, and Lord of the Rings Online was adversely affected. Players have now started a petition in an attempt to get Standing Stone Games to admit their infrastructure is poor, and that they are going to do something about it!

For those of you who have been following The Lord of the Rings Online lately, you know that last month the game experienced some of the worst downtime in its history. Well, based on a tweet from the official Twitter account, LotRO players might be experiencing a bit of déjà vu.

Over the past several years the return of Legacy, or Classic, servers have been on the rise. In the case of Lord of the Rings Online in a response to a thread looking for an alternative LOTRO experience was responded to by a developer questioning whether players truly wanted an experience of the past, bugs and all.

After a tumultuous several weeks in Lord of the Rings Online the servers are going down yet once again, but this time in a planned outage, in preparation for Update 27.2. According to the post by community manager Cordovan, the planned downtime should not be more than 4 hours.

As The Lord of the Rings Online has been navigating through the fallout from its extended downtime, the team at Standing Stone Games has finally given VIP subscribers some info as to how they will be compensated for the issues.

LOTRO's Bullroarer server is open once again, but only through Friday, July 31 at 10a EDT. Here's what's changed.

World chat has returned to The Lord of the Rings Online, allowing players to converse in the game again after almost a full week of the chat being turned off on all servers.

In a recent forum post from the community manager Cordovan on the Lord of the Rings Online website, a "Thank You Coupon" is available for players affected by the downtime and additional troubles that gamers have experienced over the past couple weeks. The coupon comes along with an apology for the downtime and points to issues with the data center and other environments affecting the playability of LOTRO.

In his latest +Cord of the Rings, community manager Jerry "Cordovan" Snook hosted a Q&A with players, he addressed, albeit still with the vagueness many customers are upset about, the ongoing problems with the game servers.

Thanks to the inmmense downtime that plagued The Lord of the Rings Online this past week, players were unable to finish the Midsummer Festival, which ended originally during the downtime. Standing Stone Games has announced the festival has been extended for players through August 3rd.