Archive for 'Codemasters'
Dev Diary: Crafting in Free-to-Play (Volume 3.2)
Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
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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Dev Diary: Captain Revision
Posted on26. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
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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Dev Diary: The Wardrobe System
Posted on24. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
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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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 5)
Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
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
Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
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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Tell The Community Team 8/13/2010
Posted on14. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
“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. These “Tell the Community Team” questions focus on Defilers. They [...]
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 4)
Posted on11. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today’s post from Joe “jwbarry” Barry is all about Helegrod and the changes that we will be seeing with the upcoming changes in Free-to-Play. This is a fairly long and detailed post, mostly because it was a fairly detailed process.
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Tell the Community Team 7/30/2010 Wardens
Posted on30. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
“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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Codemasters Upgrade Offers
Posted on13. Jul, 2010 by Goldenstar.
I found this in the Codemaster’s News this morning and wanted to share it with our European friends that read the blog.
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Codemasters: Lifetime Account Offer Expiring Soon
Posted on28. Jun, 2010 by Goldenstar.
Those of us playing on Turbine accounts have had the Lifetime Subscription option gone for quite some time. However, those lucky buggers across the pond not only still have the Lifetime Subscription option available to them, it’s on sale!
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Vote LOTRO!
Posted on15. Jun, 2010 by Merric.
The 28th Annual Golden Joystick Awards have started their short list (final) round of voting! And up for two awards are LOTRO’s Siege of Mirkwood for Online Game of the Year, and Codemasters for UK Developer of the Year! So go and vote!
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A Letter from the Producer and Merric’s 2 Cents
Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Merric.
In conjunction with today’s announcement Kate Paiz, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online, released a letter on the forums to the general community concerning these changes and her opinions on the matter.
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LOTRO Going Free-to-Play
Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Merric.
Well, I didn’t think it would happen, but I guess I need to listen to Mordor or Bust, because apparently he’s psychic.
But here it is: LOTRO is going Free-to-Play! We’ll definitely be talking about this in the future and in our next podcast, but I’m interested in hearing about what you all have to say about it!
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Europe Welcome Back Week!
Posted on06. May, 2010 by Goldenstar.
A new Welcome Back Weekend starts Monday, May 10th through Monday, May 17th for the Codemaster players of LOTRO. Welcome back weekend is to allow players with inactive accounts to come back and play their old characters for free! Returning players are welcome to join in the Spring Festivities. The rest of the players will [...]






