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Lord of the Rings Online: Free To Play Beta Keys!

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MMORPG and Turbine Inc are pleased to present a special beta testing opportunity for our community. We will be taking entries into a random sweepstakes event from July 16 to July 22. We will select 2500 winners that will be granted access to The Lord of the Rings Online™: Free-To-Play Beta Test. In addition to this winners will receive a 1,000 point code for the store to allow you to experience the shopping system during the beta test (note that these point codes will only work during the beta test).

CLICK HERE TO ENTER FOR A GOOD CHANCE AT A BETA KEY!

- MMORPG.COM Staff -

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  • just2duhjust2duh Member Posts: 1,290

     It seems both Vindictus and this start the same day, that could really hurt the tester numbers for this one :P

  • junzo316junzo316 Member UncommonPosts: 1,712

    I really don't think it will hurt it that bad.  There are A LOT of MMO players "between" games.  So, I think there are more than enough to go around.  Add to that...the games are fairly different and will attract somewhat different audiences.

  • SteamRangerSteamRanger Member UncommonPosts: 920

    Loose the Legion of the Perpetually Bored into Tolkien's cherished realm. It's the beginning of the end.

    "Soloists and those who prefer small groups should never have to feel like they''re the ones getting the proverbial table scraps, as it were." - Scott Hartsman, Senior Producer, Everquest II
    "People love groups. Its a fallacy that people want to play solo all the time." - Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer, Rift

  • aikunfelcisaikunfelcis Member UncommonPosts: 8

    It would be nice to participate in beta. I hope we will see each other in middle-earth! :)

  • OkhamsRazorOkhamsRazor Member Posts: 1,047

    Originally posted by LordDraekon

    Loose the Legion of the Perpetually Bored into Tolkien's cherished realm. It's the beginning of the end.


     

     

     I've been playing a bit of DDO of late . It being free does'nt seam to have hurt their community at all . Its all still pretty helpful and friendly . I can recall such arguments being made when it went free to play . There will be a period of a few weeks were you may get some some stupidity but they'll all soon get bored . While Warcraft exists other games end up relatively free of undesirable behaviour simply because they don't appeal to the very young players or those that want a little more challenge in an mmo . The perpetually bored will soon do what they do best and get bored and go back to thier endless grind of battlegrounds and raids leave the LOTRO community as good as ever (just a little more vibrant) .

  • CujoSWAoACujoSWAoA Member UncommonPosts: 1,781

    I've played LOTRO before, why would I want a beta key to a game I've played... the hell out of. Just because now I have to pay to do anything worthwhile in a game that's content was ultimately not that worthwhile?

    Its mind bottling.

  • PapadamPapadam Member Posts: 2,102

    Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

    I've played LOTRO before, why would I want a beta key to a game I've played... the hell out of. Just because now I have to pay to do anything worthwhile in a game that's content was ultimately not that worthwhile?

    Its mind bottling.

    Is anyone forcing you to play the beta?

    If WoW = The Beatles
    and WAR = Led Zeppelin
    Then LotrO = Pink Floyd

  • Manu20Manu20 Member Posts: 22

    Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

    I've played LOTRO before, why would I want a beta key to a game I've played... the hell out of. Just because now I have to pay to do anything worthwhile in a game that's content was ultimately not that worthwhile?

    Its mind bottling.

     "bottling?"  Really?

  • Lexe01Lexe01 Member Posts: 97

    I've got the game, played it untill like level 15 and gave up. and now they're adding an itemmall to it ? Eeewwwww !!!

  • AsheramAsheram Member EpicPosts: 5,078

    Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

    Its mind bottling.

     mind bottling?

  • b0bbyZb0bbyZ Member Posts: 46

    Mind bottling LoL. I hope that was a joke from that horrible Will Ferrel movie, otherwise I've lost all hope for humanity.

  • PhilbyPhilby Member Posts: 849

    Turbine has unleashed a darkness upon Middle Earth. Elves will flee and no Hobbit will be safe within his hole. Enter now for a chance at a front row seat to armageddon. Long Bottom Leaf and Dwarven Ale will be available at the Prancing Pony for a few Turbine Tokens.

    WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.

  • EqvaliserEqvaliser Member Posts: 74

    Love this game, played it more than a year, 2nd best graphics on a mmo til this date..

    only passed by AoC... 

     

    Great news it will be semi free, just like DDO..   Gonna get it again. 

    Just shitty my chars is on Codemasters servers,,  when its turbine makeing it free :D

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    Playing MMO's since my first which was Ultima online, then Anarchy online. and so on.. ;)
    Now a days im very critical before i ewen bother downloading a Free to play mmo.

  • cyclops65cyclops65 Member Posts: 2

    Looking forward to Playing LOTR again after a few years away i was there at the begining and remember a very good game

  • AdminAdmin Administrator RarePosts: 5,623

    Originally posted by b0bbyZ

    Mind bottling LoL. I hope that was a joke from that horrible Will Ferrel movie, otherwise I've lost all hope for humanity.


     

     Bit your tounge!  Blades of Glory is a classic!

    "Yeah, mind-bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?" - Chaz Michael Michaels

    - MMORPG.COM Staff -

    The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.

  • ValentinaValentina Member RarePosts: 2,109

    Lol @ the admin.

     

    I honestly think it being f2p is going to make lotro that much more popular, theres so many incentives for current subscribers to stay subscribed as it is.

  • ReaperUkReaperUk Member UncommonPosts: 760

    Originally posted by Eqvaliser

    Love this game, played it more than a year, 2nd best graphics on a mmo til this date..

    only passed by AoC... 

     

    Great news it will be semi free, just like DDO..   Gonna get it again. 

    Just shitty my chars is on Codemasters servers,,  when its turbine makeing it free :D

     You're obviously not playing the game at the moment then or you'd know that it's going F2P on the Codemasters servers at the same as Turbine's. You could hardly miss the announcement telling you so every time you logged on recently.

  • medmarijuanamedmarijuana Member Posts: 282

    Interestingly enough I saw "star wars galaxies free to play beta keys"

     

    then clicked on this and it was LOTRO... which is ok, I am interested in LoTRO , anyhow, but it may not go f2p in time before I pick up the next game I plan to enjoy.

     

    If any game needs to go f2p it is SWG, I wish that when i clicked on that it would have been SWG instead of some error.

  • bigcheeseukbigcheeseuk Member UncommonPosts: 133

    I got in on this beta over at fileplanet yesterday, they are offering keys, I just signed up but did not subscribe, you get 1000 points to spend if non sub

  • loyaltrekieloyaltrekie Member Posts: 105

    Originally posted by bigcheeseuk



    I got in on this beta over at fileplanet yesterday, they are offering keys, I just signed up but did not subscribe, you get 1000 points to spend if non sub


     

     

    It's worth noting that the points don't matter in the slightest - since no character will 'roll over' to 'real servers'.

  • labg11labg11 Member Posts: 84

    Vindi... what, first time i hear about that?.... Lotro will be fine.

  • MoraxvMoraxv Member Posts: 1

    Hope you can make a lvl 65 character in beta with some good gear. Otherwise you are 'stuck' to test the low-level areas with this beta-account.

  • SteamRangerSteamRanger Member UncommonPosts: 920

    Originally posted by Valentina

    Lol @ the admin.

     

    I honestly think it being f2p is going to make lotro that much more popular, theres so many incentives for current subscribers to stay subscribed as it is.


     

     Yeeaaah...well for me, this is only incentive not to login my Lifetime account ever again, and never spend another nickel with Turbine. I'll let the rest of you play in a world populated by "XXHobbitDudeXX"s and "GankerDeathRouge"s. LOTRO's free trials were a preview of the calibre of playerbase Turbine fostered. In the end, it will be the same people who will be shelling out money. If they didn't pay before, they won't now and the game environment will suffer for it.

    "Soloists and those who prefer small groups should never have to feel like they''re the ones getting the proverbial table scraps, as it were." - Scott Hartsman, Senior Producer, Everquest II
    "People love groups. Its a fallacy that people want to play solo all the time." - Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer, Rift

  • PhilbyPhilby Member Posts: 849

    Originally posted by LordDraekon

    Originally posted by Valentina

    Lol @ the admin.

     

    I honestly think it being f2p is going to make lotro that much more popular, theres so many incentives for current subscribers to stay subscribed as it is.


     

     Yeeaaah...well for me, this is only incentive not to login my Lifetime account ever again, and never spend another nickel with Turbine. I'll let the rest of you play in a world populated by "XXHobbitDudeXX"s and "GankerDeathRouge"s. LOTRO's free trials were a preview of the calibre of playerbase Turbine fostered. In the end, it will be the same people who will be shelling out money. If they didn't pay before, they won't now and the game environment will suffer for it.

    Agreed. All this new found population will be great for running Barrow Downs if you can stand the folks you will have to fellow with. The only effect this change will have on the higher level areas will be the lag people suffer. Bree will be a joke and as a former player on Landroval I can only wonder where the RP folks will go after the Prancing Pony becomes a gathering place for this new found fanbase. I didnt have a lifetime sub and payed quarterly but like you, Turbine has seen the last of me as well.

    WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.

  • QuicksandQuicksand Member UncommonPosts: 684

    Whats the point of the beta key and how does it work? I have an old LoTR account, I got a beta key in the email, applied it to my old account but it still says I need to resub (pay) when I try and log in, so if I could pay to play right now anyway, whats the point of the beta key? or is there a new client I am suppose to download?

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