Patch 28.3.1 hit The Lord of the Rings Online today, and with it came changes to the much-maligned changes to legendary items, including tweaks to scrolls of empowerment. As a result of the changes, players have started to express their displeasure at the tweaks, especially as it increases the grind needed to level legendary items in the MMO.
The LotRO community was able to ask questions directly of the developers at Standing Stone Games today thanks to an hour-long live Q&A hosted on Twitch by the Executive Producer Rob "Severlin" Ciccolini. This wasn't a simple one either, as Severlin fielded questions from everything such as the upcoming Gundabad expansion, PvMP changes to plans about upcoming races, such as River Hobbits.
The Lord of the Rings Online's self-styled "mini-expansion" has definitely been controversial, so much so that it's giving Bradford, our resident LOTRO expert, mixed feelings. Is it truly something that should be called a "mini-expansion"or does it feel like a cash grab from what many feel is an inattentive studio?
The controversial mini-expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, War of Three Peaks, has finally been detailed by Standing Stone Games. On the expansions page, you can see what separates the different varied costs of War of Three Peaks, as well as check out a new trailer for the content update, which goes live today.
The upcoming expansion to Standing Stone Games' Dungeons and Dragons Online, Fables of the Feywild, is now available for pre-purchase on the SSG website. The expansion comes with three editions, which is becoming standard for Standing Stone Games to do, including a base version all the way up to the Ultimate Fan bundle.
The Lord of the Rings Online's test server is running again, and this time will allow players to test out new, scaleable missions. Additionally, the multi-tiered raid for The War of Three Peaks brings the fourth tier to the test server.
In a short Dungeons & Dragons Online forum post by associate producer Cory "Cocomajobo" Knowles, an explanation was in order of why the level cap increase that was slated to hit the game has been postponed. The postponement was levied on the global crisis that they concede has affected their ability to keep their production schedule.
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.
Music that accompanies games, especially MMOs, go a long way to set the mood and feel of a world. Bradford takes a look at his favorite MMO's music - what's yours?
After a rough few months ending the summer, The Lord of the Rings Online seems to be looking ahead at their upcoming content plans. War of the Three Peaks was talked about again on the recent Cord of the Rings stream, but it's the pricing that feels off. Mini-expansion for $99? Bradford breaks down why he feels the timing seems tone deaf.
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!
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.