In addition to the sales in the LOTRO Market and Turbine Market, LOTRO content on Steam is also currently 75% off!
The sale includes the Helm’s Deep expansion, the expansion Quad Pack (Mines of Moria, Siege of Mirkwood, Rise of Isengard & Riders of Rohan), and the Steely Dawn Starter Park. More info here.
Sale ends July 6.
In their weekly players email, Turbine announced a 75% off sale for the LOTRO Market (http://store.lotro.com), the cash shop built into the LOTRO website which allows you to make in-game purchases using real cash rather than Turbine points.
What most people don’t know it that there is a second cash shop which sell slightly different items: the Turbine Market (http://store.turbine.com). Scroll down to find a list of which items are on sale in which store.
It’s a pretty impressive sale with something for everyone, including expansion packs, quest packs, class steeds and skirmish packs.
Sale ends July 5.
75% off in BOTH Stores:
Helms Deep expansion pack $10 (was $40)
Rider of Rohan expansion pack $5 (was $20)
Rise of Isengard expansion pack $5 (was $20)
Siege of Mirkwood expansion pack $2.50 (was $10)
Mines of Moria expansion pack $5 (was $20)
Samwise Gamgee’s Starter Pack $2.50 (was $10)
75% off in the LOTRO Market only:
Expansion Quad Pack $10 (was $40)
Light Armour Steed Pack $18.75 (was $75)
Medium Armour Steed Pack $18.75 (was $75)
Heavy Armour Steed Pack $18.75 (was $75)
All Class Steed Pack $37.50 (was $150)
Tri-Steed Pack $15 (was $60)
All Quest Packs $20 (was $80)
75% off in the Turbine Market only:
Footman’s Skirmish Pack** $5 (was $20)
Guardman’s Skirmish Pack** $5 (was $20)
Veteran’s Skirmish Pack** $5 (was $20)
** Note: the Skirmish Pack gives you four keys were brought, so they can be shared across four accounts or with three of your friends.
In order to ensure a la
rge player base, the difficulty of MMOs is often turned down to facilitate the play style of so-called ‘casual gamers’. In doing this however, long standing members of the community can find themselves losing interest in the game, complaining that gameplay is ‘on rails’ and unengaging.
Increasingly, LOTRO players are rolling up ‘challenge characters’, with their own self imposed rules, to bring new joy to what they consider to be an otherwise stale gaming experience.
Examples of rules players self impose on their challenge characters include
For me, the real challenge of LOTRO is finding enough time to log in more than a few times a week!
Do you play a ‘challenge character’ in LOTRO? And if so, what rules do you set for yourself?
As part of its annual Summer Sale, LOTRO content on Steam is currently 75% off. The sale includes:
The sale ends on June 22, so head over to the Steam Store to grab these bargains!
As part of the Spring Festival 2015, Turbine is introducing a number of quality of life fixes that are being well received by the community. After issues caused the Spring Festival to be pulled down last week only hours after it went online, an updated version of the event has gone up on the Bullroarer test server as part of Update 16.1 testing. In addition to new cosmetics and a new steed, the 2015 festival will see improvements to: travelling between festival hubs; the Bree-land Festival Grounds; and earning cosmetic pets.
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Crazypants of Landroval posted an image on Twitter of the new cosmetics, which this year features a tunic and trousers. Over the last year or two we’ve only gotten a cloak and robe each festival, so these new additions should be a boon for the cosmetic community.
Gloredh from Wandering Arda has snapped some lovely screenshots of the new festival steed, the Steed of New Bloom.
Herebrand of Rohan reports that there is now a new Stable-master route from the West Bree gate to the Bree-land Festival Ground, which will make picking up and turning in quests a lot easier. Curious to see if The Shire Race-track gets a similar service.
This new travel route will come in handy, as Lasswen has spotted a new festival stage and performance area at the Festival Grounds in Bree-land. It will be interesting to see if the stage stays active after the festival for use by bands throughout the year.
If you missed out on the Shrew cosmetic pets last year you’ll be in luck this year, as according to Crazypants the pets can now be bartered for with festival tokens.
The Spring Festival is scheduled to go live on Tuesday June 9.