{"id":113053,"date":"2022-04-29T01:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=113053"},"modified":"2022-04-29T01:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:30:01","slug":"lotro-hits-biggest-simultaneous-player-count-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/04\/29\/113053-lotro-hits-biggest-simultaneous-player-count-in-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTRO hits biggest simultaneous player count in 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/lotro-hits-highest-player-count-in-10-years\/1100-6502802\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gamespot<\/a>, the free-to-play MMO game The Lord of the Rings Online SteamDB recorded 3,700 concurrent players on April 21. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This peak represents the highest simultaneous numbers since 2012 when the game first launched on Steam. Gamespot points out that the numbers don&#8217;t take into consideration the people who play via the game&#8217;s own proprietary launcher and client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Players from TORn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/discord.gg\/TheOneRing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Discord <\/a>also report that, anecdotally, the game&#8217;s servers have been noticeably busier recently with many new characters. The surge may coincide with the current 15th anniversary event that offers both current and new players a huge swag of freebies when they login.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game&#8217;s anniversary celebration event runs until 3:00am ET on May 12 and you can find out more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lotro.com\/news\/lotro-15th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">freebies on offer for all players here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/241.jpg\" alt=\"The Lord of the Rings Online\" class=\"wp-image-113055 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/241.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/241-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/241-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/241-255x143.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gamespot, the free-to-play MMO game The Lord of the Rings Online SteamDB recorded 3,700 concurrent players&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":113055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107,149,1700],"tags":[3820,3819,1206],"class_list":["post-113053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-lotr","category-video-games","tag-free-to-play","tag-mmo","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings-online"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/241.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-tpr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113061,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113053\/revisions\/113061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}