A Casual Stroll to Mordor

Last week Eurogamer interviewd Turbine about mounted combat and LotRO’s Future. Here are the interesting things they found.

Celestrata has announced on the forums a special event that will be happening on December 25th (Christmas Day) in game.

This past Tuesday, Merric was able to have a nice chat with Aaron Campbell, Producer for LOTRO, and Adam Mersky, Director of Digital Communications, from Warner Bros. Games/Turbine.

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Last month Turbine hosted their annual Pumpkin Carving Contest and today the winners were announced! The LOTRO pumpkin winner is by Vror titled “The Flaming Eye”.

Today Turbine has announced that the ability to transfer your characters from the Codemasters service to Turbine is closing.

Turbine is once again hosting their Pumpkin Carving Contest. This is not a LOTRO specific contest as the pumpkins can be carved for any of their MMO titles.

Turbine has released an update on their forums status stating that they have identified a potential issue in their system.

Turbine is hosting a “White Hand of Saruman” contest asking players to submit pictures of creative places to find the White Hand marker.

Merric had a chat with Turbine’s Adam Mersky and Aaron Campbell. Merric was able to ask many questions submitted by our listeners.

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Alphaman is packing his bags and braving PAX Prime for us this year as Merric and I could not make it out to Seattle.

PAX Prime out in Seattle is in 4 days and Turbine is planning a party to celebrate with their fans!

Today Turbine has announced that The Rise of Isengard beta will begin on July 27th (although the annoucnement says August, it is a confirmed typo).

Back in September of 2010 I wrote an article about Lua scripting and how it came to exist in LOTRO. Needless to say I was pretty excited. However, lately it seems that it has been all but abandoned by Turbine.

In an article today, MMORPG.com listed awards for the best that they saw at E3 this year. The Lord of the Rings Online, Rise of Isengard was chosen as their pick for best expansion.

The account migration process from Codemasters to Turbine has officially opened! To start go to http://transfer.lotro.com

Turbine has launched it’s European LOTRO Account Migration page! Time for our EU friends to prepare to join all of us into one happy LOTRO family!

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Friday, May 27 from 6:00AM – 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for a hotfix.

Today Turbine released some official screenshots with the launch of Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador which is now live on Turbine servers!

The Turbine Support Website and Knowledge Base will be brought down for scheduled maintenance on Saturday, May 21st at 9:00 pm Eastern.

It has been a couple weeks since the announcement of the Turbine Global Service coming starting June 1st. Folks most affected by this are our friends currently on Codemasters servers and are wondering how all this will play out.

Yeah, it’s a cheesy title, but I couldn’t resist! All thanks to Caelas for pointing out today that Sapience posted on the Codemasters forum that EU players transitioning over to Turbine’s system will not need to download or install a new client.

Celestrata posted this note in the forums about scheduled maintenance for this coming Monday.

Sapience posted a word today addressing concerns from the EU players who currently reside on Codemaster role-play servers.