It’s time for another contest. This time I’m providing the item myself: a brand new and sealed Collector’s Edition version of The Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Collector’s Edition includes discs for Shadows of Angmar and Mines of Moria. You get a soundtrack, art book, map and a replica of the One Ring to boot.
This is for a North American (US) copy of the game. It will work in other areas, but you will have to connect to the North American/Oceanic servers if you use it. I will ship this worldwide (although it may take a while, I’m not rich!), but just keep this in mind.
Last time I picked a winner based on comments left on the contest entry. This time I’m going to do something a little different because I feel like social networking. There are two ways to enter:
Become a fan of the MMeOw Facebook page and leave a comment on the wall mentioning the contest in some way.
Follow MMeOw on Twitter and send a reply to @mmeownet mentioning the contest in some way.
Anyone from either of those groups will be automatically entered and chosen randomly. If you’re on both, that means you’ll have two chances to enter. Please no duplicate accounts beyond that … play fair!
If you already own it, no big deal: give it to a friend or upgrade your standard account with its code. Whatever makes you happiest.
Winners will be chosen on October 7th. Good luck!
I was at Best Buy today, planning on picking up a new Logitech Revolution MX mouse ($40 instead of the normal $100, not bad). I made my way to the computer software section and was pretty surprised: a significant amount of games were being sold for $9.99.
This included every last thing they had that was LotRO related. The Mines of Moria: Complete Edition and Mines of Moria: Special Edition were $9.99 each. Even more surprising, the 60 day game cards were $9.99 instead of the normal $29.99.
I live in Chicago, but I cannot confirm how widespread this may be. Two separate Best Buys here (a good distance apart, at that) had this special going. One had signs out about it, while the other did not.
Your best bet is to see whether or not the games and cards have a green circle sticker on them. Every thing that was $9.99 had that sticker.
If you don’t manage to find anything, keep in mind that I loaded up on quite a bit (more than one Special Edition and several game time cards) and will be having contests to pass it all on to you guys.
Well it’s June 23rd, which means all of us US/Oceanic players will be updating our client to Book 8. If you run the launcher now, you can patch and/or download all the necessary files. I downloaded in advance (the files add up to about 600MB), but it’s still a pretty lengthy installation process. Just keep that in mind.
Servers are still down and will not officially go live until 12 EST. There’s always a chance it might be a bit earlier or a bit later than that.
For the Europeans out there, Codemasters has not announced an outright official time just yet. They are, however, currently aiming for Thursday. We’ll see.
Very excited to see some of the changes. I’m still largely playing as my Rune-keeper, who is pretty close to hitting level 40 now. I’m interested in seeing how some of the changes affect him. I might roll a new character to check out some of the Bree adjustments as well.
Does anyone else have any specific plans? I imagine at least a few of you will be hitting the new raid.
A bit of a surprise today: Book 8 is coming on June 23rd for US/Oceanic players. That’s next Tuesday for those who can’t find a calendar. Pretty sudden, but definitely a welcome announcement. To coincide with this announcement, Turbine has posted the final patch notes for the update. We’ve already discussed them here before, so I won’t get into that just now.
If your client is currently up to date (and you’re running the US/Oceanic version), you can download the update now through Turbine. TDM users don’t need to do this, but everyone else can get set up a few days in advance to save some time on launch day.
The full file set clocks in at around 600 MBs. Not too big, not too small. It’s available in two versions:
MMeOw is a fan site / blog about The Lord of the Rings Online, including expansions such as Siege of Mirkwood andMines of Moria. We post guides, news, articles, tips and thoughts on the game, MMORPGs and the community.
Most posts here are from a more “casual” player perspective, but as new staff join on to help we’ve been able to offer varying perspectives.
The name MMeOw is basically a mix of MMO and “meow”. I adapted my cat, Napoleon, as the mascot of sorts. Someday I’d like to involve our mascot more, but for now he serves his purpose!
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