{"id":37101,"date":"2010-06-16T19:06:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=37101"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:06:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:06:24","slug":"lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/16\/37101-lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTRO Free-to-Play Closed Beta Begins &#038; 1st Store Screens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LOTRO-Store1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LOTRO Store1\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37096 no-lazyload\" \/>Turbine today kicks off the North American closed Beta for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) Free-to-Play.  Beta participants will help shape and refine new content and features to be introduced in Volume 3, Book 2, as well as the new in-game Store, when LOTRO Free-to-Play launches this fall. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37101 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/16\/37101-lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens\/lotro-store1\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LOTRO-Store1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail no-lazyload\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/16\/37101-lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens\/lotro-store2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LOTRO-Store2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail no-lazyload\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/16\/37101-lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens\/lotro-store3\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LOTRO-Store3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail no-lazyload\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/16\/37101-lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens\/lotro-store4\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LOTRO-Store4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail no-lazyload\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/16\/37101-lotro-free-to-play-closed-beta-begins-1st-store-screens\/lotro-store5\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LOTRO-Store5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail no-lazyload\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Turbine has also released the very first screenshots showing off the new LOTRO store.<\/p>\n<p>Volume 3, Book 2 will launch across North America and Europe (with Codemasters operating the game free-to-play in Europe) and will introduce Turbine\u2019s innovative new pricing model to the game, as well as extending the award-winning story. Players interested in getting a sneak peak can still sign up for a chance to participate in the Beta program, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LOTRO.com\"><strong>www.LOTRO.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turbine today kicks off the North American closed Beta for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings Online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107],"tags":[338,917,109],"class_list":["post-37101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-lotr-online","tag-lotro","tag-turbine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9Ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37101","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}