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Pre-launch Developer Chat!

Pre-launch Developer Chat!

Posted on02. Sep, 2010 by Merric.

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WarCry will be hosting a Developer Chat with some of the Turbine Staff on Tuesday, September 7th at 1:00 PM EDT (-4 GMT/UTC)

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Server Names Announced

Server Names Announced

Posted on01. Sep, 2010 by Merric.

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Sapience posted that the North American server names have been chosen and that they will be available starting September 8th!

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Dev Diary: Crafting in Free-to-Play (Volume 3.2)

Dev Diary: Crafting in Free-to-Play (Volume 3.2)

Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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With Volume 3.2 Weaponsmiths and Woodworkers are having some revisions which “…introduces an arsenal of new crafted weapons…” that target not only their stats but their damage types as well. However, it’s important to note that no existing crafted weapons will be changed.

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Scheduled Maintenance: Monday, August 30

Scheduled Maintenance: Monday, August 30

Posted on28. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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Sapience posted that the LOTRO Game Servers and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Monday, August 30 from 6:00AM to 2:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT). The forums and wikis will remain up, but players may not be able to log in.

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Tell the Community Team – 08/27/2010

Tell the Community Team – 08/27/2010

Posted on27. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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“Tell the Community Team” is where Turbine asks for the players to give them direct and specific feedback about a specific topic. This is really a fantastic opportunity for you to give your thoughts and opinions about the game directly to Turbine to think about.

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Dev Diary: Captain Revision

Dev Diary: Captain Revision

Posted on26. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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Wow, there sure is a flood of information coming in about Free-to-Play isn’t there? Today, with the release of Ken “Graalx2” Burd’s developer diary on Captains, is no exception. Although a lot of this can be heard about in our Beta Roundtable, let’s go ahead and recap what we can expect to see for Captains on September 10th.

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Scheduled Maintenance: Friday, August 27

Scheduled Maintenance: Friday, August 27

Posted on26. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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Sapience posted today that seven Game Servers will be offline for maintenance on Friday.

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Dev Diary: The Wardrobe System

Dev Diary: The Wardrobe System

Posted on24. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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The latest Developer Diary by Elliot “Avon” Gilman concerning the Wardrobe System that will be released with the upcoming Free-to-Play release on September 10th. For those who are unaware of what the Wardrobe system might be, it is a “…system designed to store the appearances of these [cosmetic] items and includes some unique features not seen with shared storage or the vault.”

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Scheduled Maintenance – Tuesday August 24, 2010

Scheduled Maintenance – Tuesday August 24, 2010

Posted on23. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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Sapience posted today that four servers will be down tomorrow morning.

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Scheduled Maintenance August 23, 2010

Scheduled Maintenance August 23, 2010

Posted on20. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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Turbine will be having some downtime for the game servers in the US next Monday.

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Dev Diary: Volume 3, Book 2

Dev Diary: Volume 3, Book 2

Posted on20. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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Today heralded the release of a Dev Diary by Jeff “MadeofLions” Libby focused on the story, tech and features of Volume 3, Book 2 which is set to release with the upcoming Free-to-Play launch on September 10th.

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Answering LOTRO Store Questions

Answering LOTRO Store Questions

Posted on19. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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Sapience and other Turbine folks went on a spree answering some questions people are having about the workings of the LOTRO Store and I thought it would be worth while to compile them all here for your information.

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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 5)

Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 5)

Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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Today, sees the last installment from Joe “jwbarry” Barry discussing the revamps we’ll see concverning dungeons in the upcoming F2P release. In this installment he discusses the Great Barrow Cluster aka, Othrongroth

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Official Instance Join List

Official Instance Join List

Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.

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In today’s Dev Diary (which we will have a review of up shortly) was released the Instance Join List that we will see in Free to Play. Those that are in bold type are the dungeons that have been revamped, while the rest are within the Instance Join List, but have yet to be converted to the new scaling model.

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LOTRO Free-to-Play Head Start, September 8th

LOTRO Free-to-Play Head Start, September 8th

Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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Sapience posts this morning that the current and returning players as well as beta players will get to enjoy a two-day head start on September 8th with the new Free-to-Play system before it is opened to the free players to join on September 10th.

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