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LOTRO turns two, Turbine celebrates by offering stuff photo

On April 24, the people over at Turbine celebrated the second anniversary of PC MMO, Lord of the Rings Online. And they’re inviting you to do the same. Both old and new players may find something worthwhile from the festivities.

Let’s explore a bit shall we? Until June 30, new special LOTRO pricing plans have been made available. Any multi-month plan is now a generous $9.99 a month. Both oldies and newbies can lock into this rate for the rest of their time with the game. Plus, if you join in on this special rate, you’ll get access to a special power, The Writ of Passage, which “provides 20% discounts at stable masters throughout Middle-earth” forever.

But that’s not exactly all: for a limited period of time, all monsters will drop a rare item that players can exchange for in-game gift boxes. We don’t know what’s inside of them, but we’ve been told they’re pretty special.

Happy birthday, right?


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Krow's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2009 20:21
Krow
Man, you really have a hard on for this game, huh? It's like Holmes and Brawl.

I might have to check this out.
Zodiac Eclipse's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2009 20:53
Zodiac Eclipse
The rare item that the mobs drop is a coin made of various types of metal. The type of metal determines the level of rarity of your reward and you need a few of them to turn in for the gift box.

I haven't gotten anything epic yet, but who knows what I'll find tonight.
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2009 21:14
CRAZYAPE69
don't accept the gifts from them!!! The next time you log on swine flu will be sent through the internetz to your computer, later resulting in your death and reanimation into your new life as a siwne flu zombie.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2009 02:11
Chronic Logic
Two years huh? I could have sworn it was longer than that.

They should really add an evil faction for the game though. Fight for Sauron! Unleash the orcs!
Zodiac Eclipse's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2009 09:51
Zodiac Eclipse
@Chronic they do have what they lovingly call Monster Play where you can play as a Warg or other unholy demon of evil, but your basically locked in a smaller map area and have to wait for level 60 heroes to come along and battle you between various side-quests.

They should allow you to break out occasionally and rampage through Bree, that would make it really worthwhile.
Happy Chainsaw Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2009 10:16
Happy Chainsaw Man
I've been thinking about picking this one up for a while. I might have to jump in at that price.
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