Contest Time! Mines of Moria: Collector’s Edition

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Mines of Moria: Collector's Edition Ahoy!

Mines of Moria: Collector’s Edi­tion Ahoy!

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:

  1. Become a fan of the MMeOw Face­book page and leave a com­ment on the wall men­tion­ing the con­test in some way.
  2. 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!

Massive $10 LotRO Sale at Best Buy on Cards and Software?

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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.

Stay tuned and good luck!

Update to Book 8, Servers Scheduled to Come Live at Noon EST

Tony posted this on June 23rd, 2009. It has 4 Comments »
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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. :)

Book 8 Hits on the 23rd; Pre-Patch Today

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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:

If you don’t know which to get, then stick with the .exe version.

You can run the saved file as soon as the down­load com­pletes. The patch will not apply itself until the servers go live ont the 23rd.

Look­ing for­ward to it!

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MMeOw is a fan site / blog about The Lord of the Rings Online, includ­ing expan­sions such as Siege of Mirk­wood and Mines 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!

Enjoy the site,

Tony