Get Lord of the Rings Online quest packs super-cheap for one day only

If you are a F2P player wanting to get really far in the game on as little as possible...this sale is your chance!

That is a very good deal and I will definitely be picking this up for my F2P account. With these quest packs you can easily go through to lvl 40. Throw in some skirmishes and boom you are in Moria which you can pick up for $10 on amazon (just be careful which version you buy).

So for $20 you can explore 90% of the game and have packs open to get enough turbine points to unlock everything else worthwhile without grinding on multiple characters just for the points.

It is stuff like this that makes Turbines F2P model superior to most others.

Amazing! Thanks massively, for the heads up. And thanks, Turbine, for kicking ass.

-Birk

Pay for content I had already purchased when it came in a box, but lost when the game went free to play? No thanks.

Awesome. I will definitely take them up on this... now I'm hitting myself because I bought Lone-lands not too long ago when it was on sale for 280. But unless they start giving them away, this sale is hard to pass up.

that is really surprising. I can't really remember a ddo sale that was that good. Usually the best you can hope for is 20% off with a few higher things once in a great while. Now the only issue is if you are VIP and thinking of dropping to premium you won't be able to buy this in the store until your VIP status wears off (30 days from the last time you paid).

Aw, my VIP wears off on the 16th, very bad timing for me

No coincidence this sale drops on the day the WoW patch hits.

A good deal on content but the lack of fast travel still makes anything less than a sub an absurd waste of time.

The reason for so low prices is probably because Turbine is seeing huge dropout of players atm. I will probably buy this packs instead of subbing.

One or two months later, watch as Angmar, Trollshaws and Misty Mountains goes on 75% off. :)

Sounds like they are timing the offers to coincide with the bulk of casual levelers hitting level 20ish. (Ie. let the fast ones pay, grind or subscribe. Dangle a sale to keep the others going with content.)

Still a nice deal. I already bought an no-discount Lone-Lands from impatience and general uneasy twitchiness but was waiting for something like this for North-downs and Evendim - areas I quite like the look of, but could live without. Especially Everswim.

Hope my future prediction comes true. Scoring an average of 2 out of 3 areas at a discount wouldn't be too bad. (Got Trollshaws too, alas.)

Wonder if this could also be targeting EU players who want to play f2p cheaply?

Do you ever feel that MMO life is becoming one big advertisement?

A wonderful discount, and a terrible failure.
Remember when DDO had issues like this with the +2 supreme tomes? Limited time offers, and a character who had used a single +2 tome would never be able to see them in the store. 2nd time those were available, they had fixed that and I believe at the same time done something similar for adventure packs.

So how come LOTRO, which uses the exact same store system, has regressed in this manner? If you don't know what I'm talking about, these hugely discounted quest packs can not be viewed and therefore not bought as a VIP. Which is a HUGE bummer for people like me who have gone with a single month of VIP, but long term plan to stay premium.
And their only customer support option to remedy this is, they can force your account back down to Premium, but you will never get the remaining VIP time back. So yeah, if you've only got 2 days left, you can go with this, but not if you, like me, have 3 weeks left.

Why is this stupid? Let's take a real world analogy. Let's say you on principle limit yourself to buying 1 pair of shoes and only buy new shoes when the old ones start falling apart. The shoes you have currently are however, very worn, and you know you will have to throw them out in about 3 weeks. Suddenly, you spot a huge sale on shoes, 75% off. What turbine wants you to do is stick with your principles, because you can't use the new shoes... yet anyways. What I propose is a bit of loosening of your principles, so even though you can't use new shoes at just this moment, you should be allowed to buy a new pair.