I normally do not post online petition links, but this one seems fairly straightforward, Jonathan sent this along: I saw that you had a story about the LOTR Conquest server shutdown (See ‘EA To Drop Online Support for LOTR:Conquest’ from Feb 17th). I play that game nonstop, we have spoken to EA and they said if we get 1000 signatures on a petition we could save the game. I was wondering if you could post another story with a link so true LOTR fans could help us out? Here’s the link. We have a semi big community if you want to check it out www.lotrconquest.proboards.com. The shutdown date is March 16th.
Category: Gaming
Today, Turbine announced the release of the newest Volume in the epic story of The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). Volume III: Allies of the King begins a new adventure for subscribers, who can now experience Book 1: Oath of the Rangers, the next major content update for the award-winning MMO.
Turbine has also released a batch of new screens depicting new Skirmishes added with Book 1. Continue reading “Turbine Releases Next Major LOTRO Update – Book 1: Oath of the Rangers”
Elicia Basoli from Turbine writes: Turbine has just launched the latest social feature for The Lord of the Rings Online™ (LOTRO) players, the Player Feed.
The Player Feed application allows players to share their in-game status and achievements with their online friends via Facebook, extending the social experience for active LOTRO players. This new application is powered by the my.lotro.com social network and allows players to easily share their adventures with friends worldwide.
Players can visit www.lotro.com for more information, or install the app directly here: http://bit.ly/dypl74! A screenshot is also posted below, for your use.
Rick “Sapience” Heaton, Online Community Specialist for Turbine, writes: Greetings! Here’s this week’s round up.
Reminder: Scheduled Maintenance Tuesday February 23
As the final stage of our datacenter move, all Turbine games will be offline on Tuesday February 23, from 4:00AM – 4:00PM Eastern Time (-5 GMT). Websites, including myaccount.turbine.com, forums, wikis, and social networks will be available, but players may be unable to log in or access their account information during this time. We thank you for your patience while we complete the move! Continue reading “LOTR Online Update”
From geek.com: EA has posted an online status update on its website informing gamers that another twelve titles are losing online functionality. On March 16, 2010 online service will shutdown for players of ‘Lord of the Rings: Conquest for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360’.
EA has been keen to stress it doesn’t take these shutdowns lightly, and only carries them out on games that just aren’t popular anymore:
“The games scheduled for shutdown in March and April 2010 represent less than 0.3% of all peak online players across all EA titles. Despite some people’s perception, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these older games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99.7% of customers playing our more popular games. These decisions to retire games is never easy.”
Elicia Basoli from Turbine writes: Today, Turbine released a batch of screenshots for the upcoming Volume 3: Allies of the King, Book 1: Oath of the Rangers content update for The Lord of the Rings Online. In Book 1, the War continues to rage in the North and the epic tale continues for players. For more information about Book 1, please click here.
Stay tuned for additional details regarding Book 1 in the coming weeks!
