Official lotro podcast and new non-nft-cosmetics

April fools ofc

With the weekly official streams taking a hiatus and the Lotrobeacon also getting postponed indefinitely there was a distinct lack of regular news outlets for The Lord of the Rings online.

While the stream and beacon were a mainstay for regular lotroplayers it didn’t reach a new audience. With the new quarterly producers’ letter and regular Q&A’s with developers and personal streams such as A casual stroll with Scenario we think we’ve covered the regular players. But we’ll expand our media with new avenues quite soon

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Lotro will launch its new podcast officially next week named Beyond-er-shire. It will feature an interview with our new head of Marketing and Producer on the topic of the upcoming wardrobe and cosmetic system that will launch (tentatively) in Update 34.

New account-wide cosmetic wardrobe

Instead of the current system where each cosmetic is a seperate item which may or may not share it’s looks with other outfits. The new wardrobe will function as a large repository for all cosmetics you will have gotten or unlocked through several means. Once you’ve gotten an item it’s cosmetic appearance will be unlocked in your wardrobe. Allowing you to know where it is on any characters, add dye colors (once), browse all your available cosmetics and match it with any you haven’t unlocked yet.

Will previously owned or bought cosmetics be added to the new system?

Over time any item will be moved over to the new system, but we’ll need to make adjustments to each cosmetic to make it compatible with the new dyeing and racial modes. This will also allow us to reintroduce previously lost items such as legendary weapon skins.

How will the ingame store function with the new system?

The new system allows us to add new promotional items through give-aways, codes and ingame reward tracks. Any item previously or newly bought from the ingame store will unlock the item in the new system. From a future update no new “classic item” will be available anymore.

Tradable cosmetics will go away?

Some players may have noticed we’ve been shifting away from Bind-on-character in cosmetic and gear for awhile now. Any cosmetic or gear will be bind to account in the future. While we do recognize some people like to gift items to other players, viewers or kinmembers this will be done with a new auction house and mail system where each item will have a unique ID allowing us to prevent issues we’ve had before such as real-money trading or goldselling.

NFT cosmetics?

We wouldn’t want to call it blockchain or NFT’s. While you will now be able to trade in-game cosmetics through a new part of the auction house. These will be limited to ingame gold and a small mithril coin deposit. For all details we’d welcome you to listen to our upcoming podcast episode or the accompanying Developers diary by following this link