Welcome Back Week May25 - May 31

Rifle123

Kick off the summer in style during LOTRO’s Welcome Back Week from May 25th through May 31st! Come back to LOTRO for free1 and receive a +5% XP2 boost for all mob (monster) kills and free travel at Stable-masters. You can play your old characters or start a new one.



Plus, LOTRO’s Third Anniversary Celebration is still in full swing and Middle-earth is bursting with gifts! Through June 30th, players of all levels can collect tokens from defeated monsters and trade them in for special level-appropriate rewards to aid in your adventure.



For current, new, and returning subscribers, the presents are even better: Running throughout the celebration, a token of our esteem will be placed in your bag when you log in and join the party!3 The Writ of Virtue is a reward for steadfast loyalty and will keep the revelry going with special privileges from the Bards of Middle-earth. And there’s no need for the party to end! Sign up for any 3, 6, or 12 month subscription plan, and play LOTRO for only $9.99 per month!4 Keep the party going and celebrate three years in Middle-earth with LOTRO!



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Special Note: You do not need to reactivate your account to participate in the Welcome Back Week. Your account will automatically be enabled for the event. If your account does not seem to have been reactivated, please try again in an hour or two. It may take time for our servers to update your status.

Xiaoki

Werent previous Welcome Back weeks like +20% or +25% experience?

Nebless

I'm wondering why they're having more of these.  Wasn't the last one at the start of the month?  I know if was a Thursday to Sunday thing and didn't seem like that long ago.

I love LotR, been reading the books since I was introduced to them in 6th Grade at Outdoor School over  38 years ago, but I barely played during the last welcome back and can't seem to get the omphhh to even log in this time around.  Don't get me wrong, it's a great game; visually beautiful, excellent quest write up's but just seems to lack something at the mid-30 levels.

zeowyrm

Yeah, they do these all the time.  Not that I'm complaining, most I can take of the game anymore is about a weekend's worth.  I log in, get whatever seasonal stuff I need from the current event, and then go back to other games once its over.  Basically been playing the game for free for about a year now with these.

einexile

If I remember right, they did this last summer and then again in the fall, but haven't done one this year until now. There may have even been three of them last year.

It may be that the game is failing, but it's also effective. I stuck around for two months after the first 2009 beg-back. I kept my Age of Conan sub active for half a year after theirs. I probably would have subbed to Darkfall last month but that game is just too quiet for me.

It's a shame they don't do this with Ryzom. They've got a nice three-week trial but you can't use it if you've ever had an account, even from while it was F2P.

Xiaoki

Its been 2 days and the servers are still crapping out.

Awesome free week Turbine. Yeah, you're really going to get return subscribers with this kind of service.