Mines of Moria Pre-order FAQs

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For those of you that are con­fused about the whole Mines of Moria pre-order pro­gram, Tur­bine has started a cou­ple of forum threads just for you. These threads allow dis­cus­sion on the topic and answer basic ques­tions for you.

For ques­tions on the retail pre-order: http://​forums​.lotro​.com/​s​h​o​w​t​h​r​e​a​d​.​p​h​p​?​t​=​1​6​7​356

For ques­tions on the early upgrade: http://​forums​.lotro​.com/​s​h​o​w​t​h​r​e​a​d​.​p​h​p​?​t​=​1​6​7​358

Both are pretty straight­for­ward and I’m sure you’ll find what you need there. Per­son­ally, my plan is to pre-order the Com­plete Edi­tion through Gamestop (who offer two bonus items). I was going to get the Collector’s Edi­tion, but I know I won’t use any of those bonus items.

Mines of Moria Release Date and Pre-order Details

Tony posted this on October 9th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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The offi­cial LotRO Web site was updated essen­tially out of nowhere today. It’s now sport­ing a blue color scheme and is heav­ily focused on Mines of Moria. With it also came some good news: Tur­bine has finally announced the offi­cial release date of the expan­sion and detailed their pre-order program.

The Novem­ber 18th release date every online store has had in their sys­tem for months now is the offi­cial date. I know, I know, it’s a big surprise.

Pre-ordering either the Com­plete or Collector’s Edi­tion ver­sions of the game will net you the fol­low­ing bonuses:

  • The Cloak of Sun­set, a unique cloak embla­zoned with an image of the Hollin Gate.
  • An exclu­sive in-game Moria char­ac­ter title — “Moria Expeditionary”.
  • 1 in-game token, which allows play­ers to choose 1 of 8 unique in-game items after launch
  • $199 life­time sub­scrip­tion or $9.99 monthly sub­scrip­tion when pay­ing for 3 or more months at once
  • Sound­track CD

If you’re going the dig­i­tal upgrade route, you can order it early. It’s the same deal, except you don’t get the sound­track CD and you get 3 tokens instead of 1.

Keep in mind, only cer­tain stores are part of this pre-order pro­gram: Best Buy, Gamestop, Hol­ly­wood Video Game Crazy and Fry’s. This does NOT include Wal­mart or Amazon.

I’ve also noted that Gamestop is sell­ing the Collector’s Edi­tion for $79.99 instead of the announced $89.99. I’m not sure if that’s uni­ver­sal yet.

More impor­tantly, it looks like cer­tain stores will have exclu­sive items in addi­tion to all of this. Gamestop is promis­ing two: the Deep Miner’s Helm and the Seeker of Khazad-dum. At this point, I’ve not been able to find any details on what other stores might carry .… Per­son­ally, it looks like I’m going with Gamestop.

Addi­tion­ally, Tur­bine is run­ning a con­test at moria​.lotro​.com (just find the big con­test link in the Flash the site plays), where you can com­pete for $25,000 in prizes. You get codes for entry by pre-ordering the game and in adver­tise­ments. Of course, you can also click a link for a free entry code.

I lost.

Pre-order Mines of Moria at Amazon

Tony posted this on September 15th, 2008. It has 3 Comments »
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Today the pre-order details for World of War­craft: Wrath of the Lich King were announced and I found myself won­der­ing if any­thing new had hap­pened with Mines of Moria. You might have noticed that no store of note was offer­ing a pre-order for the Collector’s Edi­tion of the game.

Appar­ently that changed recently, as Ama­zon has list­ings for both ver­sions of the game on their Web site:

I’m going to be pick­ing up the Collector’s Edi­tion myself, although hon­estly the $89.99 price tag is a bit hard to swal­low. That’s a good $10 more than these typ­i­cally go for … Although I have to admit the pack­ag­ing for this is nicer than what we usu­ally see.

Either way, for those of you con­sid­er­ing play­ing the game for the first time, remem­ber that both ver­sions include the orig­i­nal The Lord of the Rings Online: Shad­ows of Angmar game as well. So there’s wor­ry­ing about pick­ing up two sep­a­rate games.

For those of you still wait­ing it out, there’s not been any indi­ca­tion thus far that dif­fer­ent stores will have addi­tional pre-order bonuses or dif­fer­ent in-game items. Shad­ows of Angmar didn’t do this either, so I’d be sur­prised if that will change (despite both Age of Conan and Warham­mer Online doing it).

Ama­zon is claim­ing both as Novem­ber 18th releases still, although Tur­bine has yet to com­ment on that.

Pre-order Mines of Moria … In Europe!?

Tony posted this on August 27th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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I’ve been won­der­ing when retail­ers would start pre-ordering Mines of Moria con­sid­er­ing we were told what the var­i­ous pack­ages would be weeks ago. While North Amer­ica is still being ignored,  Code­mas­ters has put up their pre-order page for the game in Europe.

To my sur­prise, it looks as though Europe is get­ting a dif­fer­ent set of items in their Collector’s Edi­tion pack­age. Not only does it look com­pletely dif­fer­ent, but it will include a Moria broach as opposed to a replica of the One Ring. It also includes a Fel­low­ship map, a sound­track, 3 in-game items and 60 days of free play time.

While Code­mas­ters is still say­ing Autumn, Mas­sively has noted that Play and Ama­zon are both say­ing the game will hit Europe on Novem­ber 14th. Here’s hop­ing!

WB to Publish Mines of Moria, Info on Collector’s Edition

Tony posted this on July 31st, 2008. It has No Comments »
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Mines of Moria Collector's Edition

Tur­bine sent out a press release today con­cern­ing Mines of Moria. It turns out that Warner Bros. will be dis­trib­ut­ing the title to retail in North Amer­ica. Mid­way dis­trib­uted the orig­i­nal release in the area.

The release states that three ver­sions of the game will be available:

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