LOTRO Make All Content Free Until End of April 2020!

I don’t normally do news-y style posts, but LOTRO players rejoice! Everyone knows that due to the CoVid outbreak, life has become challenging. More and more people will be at home – and unlike myself where self-isolation is a lifestyle choice, this is strange for most of you.

Online service providers have had to consider how to respond – and Standing Stone Games, makers of The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online, have done so in style.

The “Important Announcement”

A rather ominous tweet by @lotro, entitled “An Important Announcement from Standing Stone Games LLC” went out while the servers were down:
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Gut-wrenching? Only temporarily!

All Content Free Until End of April 2020!

What SSG have done is a fab response:

• All quests, instances, and skirmishes, including those in expansion packs, are open to everyone through April 30: yes, that means you can play expansions you have not paid for completely free for this time period!
• The Curator will be returning starting March 26 through April 30: Visit Bree Boar Fountain, for example for new limited-time items.
• There will be a 10% Virtue XP boost starting on March 26 through April 6
• The Baggins’ Birthday event will be available March 26 through April 6. (This usually takes place in September)

Exhale, Explore, Enjoy

So go forth adventurers of Middle-Earth and enjoy everything in LOTRO. Don’t forget to thank them for it too!