Welcome Back Weekend: This Time with Free Stable Travel!

Tony posted this on January 21st, 2010. It has No Comments »
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It’s another Wel­come Back Week­end in LOTRO, but this time there’s some­thing dif­fer­ent going on. The bonus XP for mob kills has been reduced to 5%, but to make up for this all sta­ble travel is free. FREE!

I hon­estly like this a heck of a lot bet­ter, as it’ll ben­e­fit every­one across the game. It also encour­ages return­ing and new play­ers to see more of the world and the things that have been changed.

The event starts today and runs through Jan­u­ary 25th.

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.

Welcome Back Weekend Extended

Tony posted this on April 3rd, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Wel­come Back Week­end has been extended until Mon­day. Smart move by Tur­bine, given the recent server issues. I hope these have largely cleared up for everyone.

You can down­load the client here if you need it. All old play­ers can use their pre­vi­ously made char­ac­ters. Every­one, new or not, gets a +25% expe­ri­ence point bonus on mob kills as well.

Welcome Back Weekend Is… Back

Tony posted this on March 28th, 2009. It has 7 Comments »
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So it’s time for yet another Wel­come Back Week­end. No one I know that’s play­ing has left the game, but I do like that I get a bonus out of it: 25% addi­tional XP per mob kill. It’s like killing four ene­mies and get­ting one free! What a bargain.

Offi­cial details:

To help cel­e­brate our lat­est free update for LotRO we’d like to wel­come back all of our for­mer sub­scribers for an extended week­end of free game­play from March 26 – 31, 2009. In addi­tion, there is a +25% bonus expe­ri­ence boost on mob kills* for every­one play­ing on those days!

If you do know some­one that left and you think they’d give the game another shot, their account will work over the week­end. If they never owned Mines of Moria, the expan­sion will not be enabled for them. Just keep that in mind.

Still with the Quest Tracker Quest Guide and other adjust­ments, the game can arguably win back a good amount of peo­ple it might have turned off even a month a go. Worth a shot, right?

Even More Welcome Back Weekend (and Bonus XP!)

Tony posted this on November 6th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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Tur­bine has announced that their “Wel­come Back Week­end” will return. The event starts tomor­row, Novem­ber 6th, and runs through Novem­ber 10th. Dur­ing this time for­mer play­ers will be able to play for free. If you no longer have your DVDs, you can down­load either the stan­dard res­o­lu­tion or high res­o­lu­tion ver­sion of the client. The client includes every­thing up to the last major update, Book 14, so patch­ing shouldn’t be too bad.

In addi­tion, all play­ers will receive an addi­tional 25% in bonus XP from mobs between Novem­ber 6th and Novem­ber 17th. This stacks with rest XP, so it’s pretty sub­stan­tial. This should help you get your lan­guish­ing char­ac­ters up to 50 or even start a new one and get a nice head start.

Maybe I can finally make more progress with my Min­strel and Bur­glar.

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