Siege of Mirkwood has an official date: December 1st, 2009. To complement this, Turbine is offering several pre-order options for players:
- The LOTRO Lifetime Membership is now available for $199.
- Any current or former player who renews or upgrades their subscription to any multi-month plan by October 31st gets the Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion for FREE!
- All players can pre-order the new LOTRO Adventurer’s Pack which contains 2 character slots and one shared storage slot that allows players to share items with all of their characters on the same server for $19.99 and get the Harbinger’s Cloak which provides 8% speed boost and the Dusky Nimblefoot Goat mount for FREE!
- Starting today, existing Lifetime Members who pre-order the LOTRO Adventurer’s Pack get the Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion plus two in-game items (Harbinger’s Cloak which provides an 8% speed boost and a new mount) for FREE!
If I had more money I’d finally sign up for the Lifetime Membership at this price. It’s just easier to break up that fee than pay it all at once. Curses!
On the flipside, I’ll apparently be getting Siege of Mirkwood for free. Can’t complain!
I’m a bit confused by this Adventurer’s Pack, though. It does answer the call for more character slots (and the fee is reasonable, especially when I consider how many deals Turbine seems to like to give), but I’m thrown off by the shared storage slot. I was under the impression this was going to be part of the expansion itself. Does this mean that those with this pack and Siege of Mirkwood will have two shared storage slots? Or does it mean you need to purchase the Adventurer’s Pack to access it at all?
In any event, I’m excited about the expansion!
Update: A Casual Stroll to Mordor has a great post clearing up all of the confusion, along with links to official comments.
Yippee, yippee, yippee!
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