Merric at A Casual Stroll to Mordor reports that LOTRO’s Japanese servers, Aeglos and Narya, have shut down. venerab, a player and LOTRO blogger in Japan, was nice enough to comment on their post and explain a bit about what’s going on. Apparently some of the Japanese players are planning to move over to Elendilmir, a North American server, but they’ll have to buy the game. Much to my surprise, in Japan, the client is free and they only charge a subscription fee. Any fees that were paid in advance will be refunded.
We never heard much about the Japanese release of the game, even though it happened quite a while ago. I wonder how the game is faring in Korea … It seems there will always be a large barrier for Western MMORPGs in the East.
It appears that the Japanese LOTRO blog site has gone down as well, which is unfortunate. MMeOw received a surprising amount of traffic from http://lupin.lotroblog.jp which appeared to be an official blog for the game over there, venerab’s blog, which is now at http://lotrolotro.seesaa.net.
It’s a shame, but I hope those that want to keep playing will feel welcome on Elendilmir.
Good catch, Merric! And thanks to venerab for the updates!
Thanks Tony! I think you did a better job reporting it than I did, though.
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Don’t be so modest
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http://lupin.lotroblog.jp/ is not offcial site. It is my personal blog.
And http://lupin.lotroblog.jp/ has moved to
http://lotrolotro.seesaa.net/
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Oh, my apologies. It always was so thorough I just assumed it was official. You did a nice job with it.
Glad to see that you’re going to be blogging on seesaa.net!
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