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Standing Stone Games has once again postponed Lord of the Rings Online’s first ever Combe Forester crafting event as they continue to work on a fix for the desync issues that caused it to be delayed in the first place. The issue apparently didn’t rear its ugly head during internal testing but popped up once the event hit the live [...]

With the sweeping changes made to Lord of the Rings Online as part of last week’s stat squish, something was bound to go wrong… and some things did. True to Murphy’s Law, Update 37 broke character builds and inadvertently made monsters stronger than originally intended which didn’t bode well for both the players and the developers. Standing Stone Games, however, [...]

As you’d expect from a big game-changing update, Lord of the Rings Online Update 37’s launch arrived with its fair share off issues. Players apparently weren’t exaggerating when they complained that their characters were significantly weaker after the stat crunch as the update inadvertently made mobs a bit too tough and nerfed healing too much. The team has promised a [...]

The River Hobbits have finally made their way to Lord of the Rings Online’s virtual version of Middle-earth with the release of Update 37: The Humble Homes of the Holbytlan. Players will now be able to roll the new River Hobbit race, the first Hobbit variant to be added to the 16-year-old MMORPG since its launch. River Hobbits are slimmer [...]

After being delayed by a week, Standing Stone Games is finally ready to welcome the new River Hobbits starting race to Lord of the Rings Online later today. The River Hobbits, along with their new housing zone, will be arriving as part of Update 37, a.k.a. Humble Homes of the Holbytlan later today. You’ll have to spend some cash to [...]

The River Hobbits have hit a bump in the road on their way to Lord of the Rings Online as Standing Stone Games pushes back the release of Update 37 by a week. The update was originally scheduled to roll out yesterday but will now be arriving on August 29th for more work and polish. “We are working to get [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s ancient in-game cash shop is set to receive a major makeover as part of tomorrow’s update. The revamped store will feature a sleeker and modern-looking interface and will come with additional features such as the ability to tag favorites and search for recently added items. It’s mostly going to be a visual makeover though and [...]

Standing Stone Games continues to work on addressing the lag issues plaguing Lord of the Rings Online with more patches coming over the next few months, on top of last week’s patch. During last Friday’s developer stream, the team offered a sneak peek at the game’s next patch and its next major content drop. Scheduled for release in early July, [...]

Standing Stone Games has finally found a possible solution to Lord of the Rings Online’s notorious lag issues. Upon investigation earlier this month, Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini said that they found two major causes of lag in the game and will be working on a fix to address the ongoing issues once and for all. The said fix, or at [...]