Tag Archives: Turbine

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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Poll: LOTRO Across the Pond

Poll: LOTRO Across the Pond

Posted on21. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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This week’s poll was a suggestion from Weatherwax of the Eldar server. He’s curious with LOTRO going free to play if people will try playing on servers across the pond. That means Turbine players would try Codemaster servers and vice versa.

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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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New Starting Area Screenshots!

New Starting Area Screenshots!

Posted on29. Jul, 2010 by Merric.

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Turbine released today new screenshots from the upcoming release coming this fall. The screens are of the new Man and Hobbit starting areas!

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Beta Player Journals:  The LOTRO Store

Beta Player Journals: The LOTRO Store

Posted on23. Jul, 2010 by Merric.

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Released today were several Beta Journals, written by actual players within the Beta, concerning the upcoming LOTRO Store.

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CSTM LOTRO Beta Key Giveaway!

CSTM LOTRO Beta Key Giveaway!

Posted on23. Jul, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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A Casual Stroll to Mordor and Turbine are very pleased to offer an opportunity to get into the LOTRO F2P Beta our blog readers / podcast listeners. We are taking entries for a random sweepstakes starting today until July 31st.

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Help Name the New Servers

Help Name the New Servers

Posted on20. Jul, 2010 by Merric.

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LOTRO will be having several new (US?) servers opening in the near future. If you’d like to help choose their name, head over to the official US forums!

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Why I’m not Worried about LUA Scripting

Why I’m not Worried about LUA Scripting

Posted on15. Jul, 2010 by Merric.

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There’s been quite a lot of feedback about Patience’s announcement concerning LUA scripting; some of it positive and some of it negative. And while I’m personally excited to see what can come of this, I do share some of the concerns that others have mentioned. But are they really possible with Turbine’s current setup?

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Some Servers Closed for Transfers

Some Servers Closed for Transfers

Posted on24. Jun, 2010 by Merric.

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In a bit of a late announcement Sapience stated today that certain servers would not be accepting any new character transfers (Creep or Freep) to certain servers.

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Clearing Up Free to Play Confusion

Clearing Up Free to Play Confusion

Posted on06. Jun, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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There seems to be a lot of the same questions popping up concerning the Free to Play announcement and how it will operate when it launches this fall. I’ve found some official answers to these common questions and thought it may be beneficial to list them in a single post.

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F2P Model Benefits Chart

Posted on05. Jun, 2010 by Veneration.

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This chart was posted at The Beta Signup subpage. I ran over this link on the forums and felt it was necessary to post it on to you all.

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Links to Some Turbine Interviews

Links to Some Turbine Interviews

Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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I’ve found two gaming sites that have some official interviews with Warner Bros and Turbine staff discussing the merger and the free to play announcement today.

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LOTRO Loyalty Rewards Breakdown

LOTRO Loyalty Rewards Breakdown

Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Goldenstar.

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For all the players currently subscribed (or lifetime members) to the game and remain subscribed until the launch of Free to Play later this fall, there will be some loyalty rewards in the form of additional Turbine Points.

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A Letter from the Producer and Merric’s 2 Cents

A Letter from the Producer and Merric’s 2 Cents

Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Merric.

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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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