If you're one of those players who let their Lord of the Rings subscription expire, you may have been intrigued by recent updates, as well as the latest expansion, Siege of Mirkwood. The folks at Turbine have been busy improving, changing, upgrading and adding all sorts of goodies, so what better time to offer another Welcome Back Weekend.
Lucky for us, Turbine has a very generous idea of "weekend". This one will run from Thursday the 17th until next Monday the 21st. All inactive accounts will be reactivated and given a +10% XP boost to help you catch up. Even better, you'll get to check out Siege of Mirkwood while you're there.
You won't need to do anything to reactivate your account, just log in -- Turbine has taken care of that for you. They haven't gone quite so far as to download the client onto your computer, thankfully. If you need to reinstall, you can take care of that here.
Enjoy the free weekend, and we'll see you in Middle-earth!
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:06PM koehler83 said
Maybe I'll jump back on this weekend and kill some bears and spiders.
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:57PM Serious Table said
They haven't installed the client on my computer?! Lazy developers.
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 2:45PM (Unverified) said
They do a lot of these. I'm sure LotRO is still a successful game, but to me these almost make them come off as desperate.
Regardless, I probably will take this opportunity to check out some of the changes. Last computer I had couldn't run it very will. Will be nice to see all the game at max, DX10 loveliness 8)
Regardless, I probably will take this opportunity to check out some of the changes. Last computer I had couldn't run it very will. Will be nice to see all the game at max, DX10 loveliness 8)
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 3:06PM TheJackman said
Apart of WoW everyone look desperate, LotRO spamming pass players with welcome back weekends and WAR and AoC put there first part of the game out for free! :) Wow was ok before but now with the new LFG tool its unbreakable!
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 3:26PM monoflakon said
lol, im gonna level up my hunter to the cap over those free weekends if they'll pop up so often :))
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 3:53PM (Unverified) said
So I guess this is only for US players?
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 7:09PM (Unverified) said
Dammit! If I had known we would get to play through SoM in this welcome back weekend, I would have power leveled my ass off, experienced all the content that's available and then not have to had bought the damn three month for $30.
Posted: Dec 17th 2009 9:51AM (Unverified) said
"You won't need to do anything to reactivate your account, just log in"
The game requires me to reactivate my subscription with credit card info to play the "free" weekend.
The game requires me to reactivate my subscription with credit card info to play the "free" weekend.








