WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES
THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE™ WILL BE FREE TO PLAY STARTING SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Turbine and Codemasters to Release Free-to-Play Version of Award-winning Online Game Across North America and Europe
WESTWOOD, MA – August 18, 2010 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that Turbine’s The Lord of the Rings Online™ (LOTRO) will introduce its innovative new pricing model, allowing players to download the game and play for free and purchase expansions, quest packs, items, and account services a la carte from the new LOTRO Store starting September 10, 2010.
In this, the fourth of a series of Dev Diaries about our new Scaling Instance systems, jwbarry is going to be talking about Helegrod and all of the changes and upgrades it experienced and a lot of the reasoning behind why.
Read more from Joe “jwbarry” Barry's latest Developer Diary!
Running a Beta Program can be a tricky thing; everyone who isn’t in the beta wants to know what’s going on, but due to NDA restrictions no one in the program can tell them. So how do you let players talk about what they’re seeing, without violating their NDA? The answer is the LOTRO Beta Journal Project! Even though the NDA has been lifted we have one last set of Beta Journals to share with you.
This week we asked players what they thought about the upcoming changes for their class.