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Siege of Mirkwood on December 1st with Pre-Order Offers

Tony posted this on September 29th, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
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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.

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European “Welcome Backers” Offered Lifetime Sub for £75 / €110

Tony posted this on August 7th, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
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All-around good per­son, mbp (of mind​bend​ing​puz​zles​.blogspot​.com), sent me an inter­est­ing e-mail today. I’m just going to quote him because he says it nice and clear:

Tony, peo­ple who availed of Lotro Europe’s “wel­come back” week have been offered an exclu­sive life time sub­scrip­tion offer of only £75 / €110. That’s a big sav­ing on reg­u­lar prices. It hasn’t been adver­tised at all but if returnees try to reac­ti­vate their accounts they will see the offer. Might be worth telling folks because the deal runs out on 10th August. You can read a forum post about it here http://​com​mu​nity​.code​mas​ters​.com/​f​o​r​u​m​/​s​h​o​w​t​h​r​e​a​d​.​p​h​p​?​t​=​3​7​0​195

So, if you’re in Europe and love the game, there’s a great deal. Heck, even if you don’t want to play for­ever, that’s lit­tle more than a year sub­scrip­tion. You could come and go as you please for years.

For those of you in the US, that’s about $160. I pay $120 a year cur­rently for my sub­scrip­tion, to give a com­par­i­son. Not bad.