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Lotro F2P from 2nd November 2010 on EU Servers

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Silriel

Today Codemasters announced great news for all European fans:

The Lord of the Rings Online Free-to-Play Store and latest content, Book 2 Ride of the Grey Company will launch across Europe on Tuesday 2nd November 2010.

Free to Play Maintenance times will start at 1am UK time (GMT) and last till morning. During this time Free to Play will be applied to the servers. To ensure a smooth launch Codemasters will be bringing the servers back up one at a time, starting with the new worlds.

More information on the official site: Free To Play European Launch Date Announced.

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A Riddle in a Bottle Lotro Quest

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Silriel

I must admit this is one of the best quests in the Fall Festival. At first I thought it will be boring because of the time limitation, but on the contrary, solving the riddle and finishing the quest in the last seconds was really breathtaking! If you have any problems with solving this great riddle head over to our A Riddle in a Bottle Guide. I hope you'll enjoy this quest as much as I did.

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Lotro Dev Diary: Vault 2.0

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Silriel

Yesterday, Ransroth - Game Systems Engineer, has released new Developer Diary about improvements to the Vault System 2.0. So, these are the following changes:

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Europe Preview Event for Lotro F2P

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Silriel

Codemasters has finally announced the European Preview Event for Lotro Free-to-Play:

The preview event will start on Monday the 25th of October. Stress tests and events will be organized on the dedicated server of the preview event, in order to prepare the F2P version for all EU servers shortly thereafter.
The more players we will have to test the new content and F2P, the quicker our tests will be completed and we can then apply the F2P model on all our EU servers.

Don’t be shy and come sign-up!

Sign-up now to participate!

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The Great Hobbit Rescue Lotro Quest

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Silriel

Haunted Hobbit Cellar is the new event added to the Fall festival. It consists of several quests and you can only have one quest at a time. The quests are repeatable daily and each of them has a reward 3 Fall Festival Tokens.

So if you have any trouble with the great hobbit rescue quest, click on the screenshot for the locations of the Scared Hobbits.

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Lotro November Update

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Silriel

Kate "Nereid" Paiz has announced some interesting details about upcoming changes to Lotro releases:

On the topic of updates, I wanted to let you know that we have shifted the way we think about our releases. In the past our updates depended on new Books being added to the Epic story. Going forward, updates will not always feature a new installment in the epic story line. By decoupling the Books from Updates we’ll have the flexibility to offer different types of new content and new features in each release. This will also allow us to do more releases each year. Don’t worry, continuing the Epic Story and continuing along the path of the Ring is very important to us! We’ll have more information to share about that and our plans for 2011 in the coming months.

And also the next update is right around the corner - it's scheduled for November:

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Lotro Life Revamped

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Beleglin

Dear Visitors,

It has been more than 3 and a half years since we first started www.lotrolife.com. My wife and I started this site out of pure love for having a chance to play a game set in the Lord of the Rings universe. The site was programmed in a PHP framework I messed around back in 2007 called CakePHP and it has served us well over the years. Our design dates back to 2008 (or maybe early 2009 - I can't remember) and I bet everyone and their mothers have gotten sick of it. All in all, this platform hosted 1.7 million visitors and 5.6 million page views over the years, which is no small feat for something we did in our spare time (and sometimes it was all of our spare time for months).

Time has come for a change on our site. We have decided to switch to WordPress as the back-end for Lotro Life. It will make our lives much easier with its great article creating capabilities and it should provide less clunky interface for you guys to interact on the site. We are also in the process of changing the site's design, but it is far from being complete. The task of converting from a custom-coded site to an entirely different system proved to be a daunting task buy itself. Converting all of the elements of the old design (cluttered as it was) into a new thing that is as informative, but far less congested is going to take a lot of time. I just didn't have the nerves anymore to hold back on the new platform. That is why you will be seeing some pages with the old design, and some with the new and yes, the right hand double column with menus is awful. The most important thing is that the content is all there (we hope 😉 ) and that there will be much more of it now that the back-end is more user friendly. In the meantime, some of you might have noticed that we started a LOTRO Quests database and we are very excited about that as well, but I do not feel that the Quests project is out of the beta and we'll be making an announcement as soon as we feel comfortable with it.

Just as LOTRO renewed its vigor by going Free to Play, we will attempt to do the same with LOTRO Life and continue living Lord of the Rings Online alongside you guys, only with some new "clothes" on.

Wishing you all Epix,
Silriel and Beleglin

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Codemasters F2P Delay Explanation

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Silriel

Yesterday, David Solari - the General Manager of Codemasters Online, has explained the reason why Free-to-Play service for LOTRO in Europe has been delayed. Unfortunately the issues have been contractual not technical but the good news is that the issues have been resolved. He also confirmed that Codemasters should be able to announce the dates later this week/early next week.

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Lotro Troves and Trickery quests 2010

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Silriel

The most interesting events during the Fall festival are Troves and Trickery quests. You have to perform four tricks for different persons who will give you a hint which trick to perform.

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Lotro Scheduled Maintenance October 20, 2010

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Beleglin
The LOTRO Game Servers will be offline for maintenance on Wednesday, October 20 from 6:00AM to 10:00AM Eastern (-5 GMT). The forums and wikis will remain up, but players may not be able to log in.
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