LotRO's Community Manager Talks Hardcore LotRO Servers, 2024 Plans In Latest Livestream
The last Cord of the Rings stream for The Lord of the Rings Online team has come and gone last Friday, and community manager Jerry «Cordovan» Snook touched on some interesting topics, from hardcore servers to a business meeting with publisher Daybreak.
The latest stream saw Community Manager Jerry «Cordovan» Snook detail some of the goings on right in The Lord of the Rings Online, which saw the release of its Corsairs of Umbar expansion last month. Early highlights included the recent release ofUmbar crafting guilds, which dropped last week, bringing new recipes and more to high-level crafters in the endgame. Additionally, we got an idea of when to expect some upcoming events in the early new year, with the Ill Omens event kicking off on January 11th and running through January 31st. Additionally, the Combe Forester Event will be back in January as well as February of 2024, which Cord reminds players that it'll be on a rotation.
Cordovan confirmed that the recent Update 38.1 will be the last update of the year, though downtime will still continue to happen over the course of the next two weeks while the Standing Stone Games team takes its much-deserved holiday break. Update 38.2 is guesstimated to come sometime in mid-January, though no exact date was given as thecalendar is still somewhat in flux it seems.
The stream also touched on the Legendary servers in The Lord of the Rings Online, which operate much like progression servers. The chat asked whether or not the team would be interested in implementing a «hardcore» style «perma-death» server for LotRO like we've seen gain success in other games, notably World of Warcraft Classic and Standing Stone Games' other MMO, Dungeons & Dragons Online.
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