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Mail.ru has announced that service for Lord of the Rings Online in Russia will be closing effective June 1st. As of this writing, players can no longer register for the game and no more payments for microtransaction items are being accepted. A special tavern with all equipment in it has been set up to equip players with the best of the best for one last epic journey through Middle-Earth.
Turbine has taken to the airwaves to give Lord of the Rings Online players a sneak peek into what they can expect in Update 16. Find out more about the lore behind the update, the new Legendary Imbuement System, and some brand new instances coming to the game. The video features a great look at the three new regions coming with Update 16. Check it out!
The Lord of the Rings Online team took to the airwaves to discuss the new way that legendary weapons will be imbued and announced that most of the current legendaries will be grandfathered into the new system.
While Lord of the Rings Online hasn’t been around quite as long as other AAA MMOs, it’s still been around long enough for the short attention span of the internet to proclaim it ‘forever’. Launched in April 2007, the game has taken the Lord of the Rings story all the way to Gondor, with players getting to help Aragorn take on the Corsairs of Umbar. Update 15 also brings Beornings to the table, the first new class added to the game since 2008.
The Lord of the Rings Online forum has been updated with the latest update notes. Included among the general bug fixes and feature enhancements is the news that unique essences from Central Gondor will no longer be stackable. Players will only be able to equip one of each type. The team detailed how retroactive changes will be applied alongside the long list of other patch contents.
Recently, we were invited by Turbine to check out Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 15. In it, we were presented with a first look at the Beorning class and also the new big battle that centered around the off-camera lore story of the retaking of Pelargir, an important Gondorian port that Aragorn and the Grey Company needed to liberate in order to prevent a devastating attack upon Minas Tirith.
According to a confirmed report at GamesIndustry.biz, Lord of the Rings Online developer, Turbine, has been hit with a round of layoffs as part of restructuring by Warner Bros. Interactive. The exact number of employees affected remains unknown.
Lord of the Rings Online players anxious to give Update 15 a look will have the opportunity to do so on Friday, October 10th when the content goes live on the Bullroarer test server. Players will be able to try out the new Beorning class as well as explore new areas of Gondor.