The Lord of the Rings Online Expanding The Shire, Making Most DLC and Expansions Permanently Free |

System · March 2022

The Lord of the Rings Online Expanding The Shire, Making Most DLC and Expansions Permanently Free | MMORPG.com

This spring, the Lord of the Rings Online will make all premium content released from 2007-Helm's Deep permanently free for all, and will expand The Shire ahead of the game's 15th anniversary.

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Scorchien · March 2022

The player base is shrinking to an uncomfortable level .. This wreaks of desperation...

foppotee · March 2022

I took advantage of their free content offering last year. I tossed them $10 afterwards buying a few little cheap extras then played it a few hours. I enjoyed it somewhat. I keep meaning to return & play it more but I just never get around to it.

Tiller · March 2022

foppotee said:

I took advantage of their free content offering last year. I tossed them $10 afterwards buying a few little cheap extras then played it a few hours. I enjoyed it somewhat. I keep meaning to return & play it more but I just never get around to it.

Same boat. It's a good game with lots of content; just been too distracted by new shiny games.

Sovrath · March 2022

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

Mendel · March 2022

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

For me, everything past Moria is a turnoff. Moria may require excessive grinding, but there's so many things to do. The early parts of the game were stronger, and tried to focus on putting you in the Middle Earth setting.

Most of my characters that I do still play, are almost all pre-Moria. I just give up after that.

Finvega · March 2022

A gem of a title, so many good things to say about it. Yet very long in the tooth. I wish them well. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the old Turbine devs.

Kratier · March 2022

easy to be toxic and doompost , but these devs definitely still releasing content and keeping the game afloat.

i think LOTR is massive IP that devs are sleeping on, and havent done anything with for a while now. like harry potter

Theocritus · March 2022

foppotee said:

I took advantage of their free content offering last year. I tossed them $10 afterwards buying a few little cheap extras then played it a few hours. I enjoyed it somewhat. I keep meaning to return & play it more but I just never get around to it.

Every time I return I got bored really quickly...The quests in the game just wear me out and grinding has never really been an option with very little XP for killing mobs.

inmysights · March 2022

Dang, took them long enough. Been waiting on this to happen for years! Finally!!

2TonGamer · March 2022

Mendel said:

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

For me, everything past Moria is a turnoff. Moria may require excessive grinding, but there's so many things to do. The early parts of the game were stronger, and tried to focus on putting you in the Middle Earth setting.

Most of my characters that I do still play, are almost all pre-Moria. I just give up after that.

Pre-Moria for me is also the sweet spot and some of the most fun I've had in any MMO, especially when played back when it originally went live.

OldKingLog · March 2022

And by "expanding the Shire" what they really mean is fatter hobbits.

Haven't played LOTRO in years, this might get me to take another crack at it.

ashiru_1978 · March 2022

worldsbestdad said:

Scorchien said:

The player base is shrinking to an uncomfortable level .. This wreaks of desperation...

Playerbase has been in the same spot that its been in for years. I'm honestly shocked they still pay to keep the DDO servers up, or rather that they can afford to. It will be a sad day in MMORPG history when LotRO and DDO get shut down.

LOTRO and DDO are different and probably that's why they are still around. I could not enjoy DDO, but I can't pretend it isn't one of the most unique MMORPGs I've ever seen. It's the only destination for D&D fans who want to play an MMORPG, not that piece of garbage joke Neverwinter.

LOTRO is also the only MMORPG about Middle Earth and since the other once was cancelled, that only helped establish LOTRO even more. If that other MMORPG was good, which I doubt, considering it was going to be cross-platform on PC, mobile and console and would have probably be directly inspired by the Amazon TV series, which is going to be a complete woke garbage insult to Tolkien's work so the game could have never been better than LOTRO.

Mendel said:

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

For me, everything past Moria is a turnoff. Moria may require excessive grinding, but there's so many things to do. The early parts of the game were stronger, and tried to focus on putting you in the Middle Earth setting.

Most of my characters that I do still play, are almost all pre-Moria. I just give up after that.

Initially I did not like Moria, but that was mostly because the map was very confusing, but after finishing it, I kind of miss it now. I liked Mirkwood, Enedwaith and Dunland, The Great River not so much and after reaching East Rohan, I really want to skip it - it looks so much the same and boring and the mounted combat is awful and it sucks how much it is involved in lots of quests. When I read about people shitting on the mounted combat, I thought to myself that it can't be THAT bad, but after finally experiencing it, I must say, it's one of the biggest mistakes in the game.

I haven't been past East Rohan ever so I don't know how the rest of the zones are, but I'm hopeful that after I'm done with West Rohan as well, it will get better.

godsmack1 · March 2022

we keep forgetting folks....its a new generation now
its not like it was before
we plaayed this game for hours...remember
now with most of us approching 50 and fast!! lol
we just cant give what we use to give. covid this stupid war goin on now to much has changed.
and these kids in 2022
if it aint on ps5 or xbox X
they aint intterested

Wordsworth · March 2022

It's too much content already. Every time I come back after a break, all the systems seem to change and taking an alt from start to current content seems more and more daunting to the point where I have a lifetime account with more points than I could spend but I just don't wanna log in. It just feels like they are just constantly building new rooms on to a dilapidated house.

Nebless · March 2022

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

You really need to check out the walk throughs with those. I had that problem too, I couldn't get to the area of the battle field I needed to be at to advance the quest. Turned out I wasn't suppose to walk over there, but take a fast travel horse that was near the quest giver.

Last resort, right click on your character portrait to exit it.

DigDuggy · March 2022

I really wished I like this game. I think the content expansions are awesome in the actual places they add.

shetlandslarsen · March 2022

Still one of the best communities out there.

Worth it to enjoy the journey and complete the main story at least once.

Sovrath · March 2022

Nebless said:

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

You really need to check out the walk throughs with those. I had that problem too, I couldn't get to the area of the battle field I needed to be at to advance the quest. Turned out I wasn't suppose to walk over there, but take a fast travel horse that was near the quest giver.

Last resort, right click on your character portrait to exit it.

I looked for walk throughs but couldn't find any. Any leads?

I feel like it should have been a natural progression through the big battles right to the end but for some reason I just can't see it. Heck, I still haven't seen the end of the battle where I assume we win.

Scorchien · March 2022

Sovrath said:

Nebless said:

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

You really need to check out the walk throughs with those. I had that problem too, I couldn't get to the area of the battle field I needed to be at to advance the quest. Turned out I wasn't suppose to walk over there, but take a fast travel horse that was near the quest giver.

Last resort, right click on your character portrait to exit it.

I looked for walk throughs but couldn't find any. Any leads?

I feel like it should have been a natural progression through the big battles right to the end but for some reason I just can't see it. Heck, I still haven't seen the end of the battle where I assume we win.

you may need to change time period Before/After battle

Nebless · March 2022

Sovrath said:

Nebless said:

Sovrath said:

I'm literally stuck at the battle of Minas Tirith and can't get out. I've done the big battles (which I hate, they just suck) and I can't find a way to move on to the next part of the story. I've wandered around the field until I hit an invisible wall so go back and forth trying to figure out hot to be done with it.

That's my biggest disappointment with this game. the major battles are just snorefests.

You really need to check out the walk throughs with those. I had that problem too, I couldn't get to the area of the battle field I needed to be at to advance the quest. Turned out I wasn't suppose to walk over there, but take a fast travel horse that was near the quest giver.

Last resort, right click on your character portrait to exit it.

I looked for walk throughs but couldn't find any. Any leads?

I feel like it should have been a natural progression through the big battles right to the end but for some reason I just can't see it. Heck, I still haven't seen the end of the battle where I assume we win.

It's possible you're having problems finding a guide because there's no actual epic battle called 'the battle for Minas Tirith'. You have either the 'Defense of Minas Tirith.' or 'The Battle for Pelennor Fields' and both have walkthroughs.

Can't remember which I used, but this is a good starting place for Pelennor Fields:

https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Battle_of_Pelennor_Fields

Same for the Defense one:

https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Epic_Battle:_Defence_of_Minas_Tirith

Tokken · March 2022

Scorchien said:

The player base is shrinking to an uncomfortable level .. This wreaks of desperation...

As you would say, Tick.. tick... tick... tick... The End is Nigh!

BLNX · March 2022

Tokken said:

Scorchien said:

The player base is shrinking to an uncomfortable level .. This wreaks of desperation...

As you would say, Tick.. tick... tick... tick... The End is Nigh!

I mean, I respect @Scorchien , but every game is going to die. The heat death of the universe will see to that, if nothing else.

Hariken · March 2022

shetlandslarsen said:

Still one of the best communities out there.

Worth it to enjoy the journey and complete the main story at least once.

That's whats great about older mmo's. The community will be older players.

Ungood · March 2022

Scorchien said:

The player base is shrinking to an uncomfortable level .. This wreaks of desperation...

Eh.. not the vibe I get.

I think they are just getting some idea that since the game has grown, people expect more of it to play when they start.

Think of it this way, if they gave away 20% of the game for free when it launched, players coming in now, still want, say 20% of the game for free, but because the game grew, they are only getting 5%, so, SSG is like.. Eh.. lets give them a bigger taste of the bigger pie, and hope that lures them in better.

The "Mini Expansions" now.. that was desperation to milk money from their lifetime subs.

JeroKane · March 2022

They should have done this a long time ago, when the game still had a decent population! Now its just too late and most have long since moved on and won't come back.

Pretty much every other MMO included previous expansions when buying the latest expansion pack.

This was one of the major reasons that turned off new players, when they were faced with so much content being locked behind a paywall. Even old content that was released for free back in the day before Moria expac. It was nuts and made a lot of players angry back in the time they went F2P and made those horrendous cash grab decisions.

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