Lottery system in my.LOTRO updated
by Rubi Bayer 
Nov 27th 2009 at 12:00PM
Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Contests, News items
Turbine began the Lord of the Rings Online player lottery just over a month ago on my.LOTRO, and player response so far seems to have been very positive. After all, who doesn't like freebies? Turbine has used my.LOTRO's first month to gather player feedback, and now they are implementing some changes to streamline and improve the lottery system.The first change is sure to be welcome for those who don't want to miss any opportunities: a regular lottery schedule. Gone are the sporadic start and stop times -- my.LOTRO now has a schedule that includes three lotteries for all levels, plus a welcome wagon lottery three times a week especially for level 1-15 characters.
The items you can win from the lottery remain a secret. They're random, but guaranteed to be useful to the specific character that you entered. However, lottery loot has undergone a little upgrade -- the site promises even better prizes from here on out.
The new changes are in effect now at my.LOTRO.com.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Graill said on 3:24PM 11-27-2009
With Orion running this game into the ground and them trying all this lame stuff, why dont they simply consolidate to one server (they could easily) and let the game slowly just go away (which it is) and give some other publisher a shot at LOTR done right?
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Jason said on 7:56PM 11-27-2009
Some people just like to troll. Some people also lie to themselves so much that eventually they actually believe the nonsense that comes out of their mouths. The game is thriving and showing no signs of withering away unlike some of it's MMO competition.
mr.gabriel.serna said on 7:05PM 11-27-2009
running the game into the ground? you make it sound like this is Warhammer or Age of Conan.
With Siege or Mirkwood many people came back to the game to take advantage of the multi-month deals or lifetime signups.
the developers are still looking at ways to improve the fundamental aspects of the game as time goes on. Nothing is broken or pointless, the community is great and so is the majority of the playerbase.
The story and lore factors into every aspect of the game well and isn't tacked on.
They are even going to improve the pace of combat with SoM and that is pretty much the only thing that was a consistent complaint from MMO players.
Personally I like the pacing as it is because it was easy to solo/explore or farm materials at the speed I wanted to and not feel like I was missing out by taking my time. On the contary, I enjoyed being able to sit and grind levels if I wanted or just explore.
I used to play FinalFanasy XI, and many many people left at the time WoW came out because of much of a time sink getting stuff done was in FFXI, that was years ago and that game was designed and optimized for the Playstation 2 but people still play and server populations are pretty good for a MMO. I don't see how you think the game is going away Age of Conan and Warhammer had much more hype around them and just keep shrinking versus Lotro playerbase.
I really just don't see why you would say they need to fade away and die as if the are languishing a slow death. Even Aion or Champions will probably implode before Lotro in the wake of SWtoR and future AAA titles in terms of a fast shrinking playerbase but neither them or Lotro as going away soon because they all have a captive playerbase that will pay each and every month.
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Gregory Christopher said on 7:30PM 11-27-2009
LOTRO is the best MMORPG hands down
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Snorii said on 6:29PM 11-29-2009
I love the lotteries, but haven't been able to enter them for a few weeks. I just hope Turbine fixes the problem.
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