Sapience posts this morning that the current and returning players as well as beta players will get to enjoy a two-day head start on September 8th with the new Free-to-Play system before it is opened to the free players to join on September 10th.
Current Subscribers and returning players will be able to access LOTRO Free-to-Play on the North American servers starting September 8th! The servers will be brought down on September 7th in preparation for the head start program. When they return on September 8th all current subscribers and returning customers will have full access to all Free-to-play features, the Volume III, Book 2 epic story, and the new Enedwaith region two full days before the official launch! You’ll also be the first gain access to our new servers and claim your name or start building your new kinship.
If you’re a returning customer, make sure you have your client installed and ready to patch up on September 8th so you can be among the first to experience LOTRO Free-to-Play. You can download the most recent LOTRO game client here.
View the official discussion thread for more information about Head start or to share your thoughts.
This is a good thing I think. Let us current players enjoy the new content before all our new friends jump in. Turbine has done head starts before and it has made for very smooth launches which I assume is their goal for this launch as well.
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August 18, 2010 at 11:34 am
I like the fact that they are letting us lock our names on the “new” servers.
August 18, 2010 at 11:35 am
Ah yes good point. I had forgotten about the new servers.
August 18, 2010 at 11:51 am
Woohoo! We now know “Soon” means September 8th or 10th. We can call them Soonsdays. lol. Nothing else of value to add.
August 18, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Anyword on when the EU servers will be live with this?
August 18, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I haven’t been able to find for sure. There is a post from Faya on the EU forums saying they will have information soon.
August 18, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Ok thanks for looking Goldenstar, stuck at work till 8pm so I can’t check anywhere other than this site, which luckily is not flagged as a games related site
August 18, 2010 at 1:33 pm
This is good news, I was not expecting free to play until much later in September. Nothing wrong with it coming out sooner.
August 18, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I would be curious to know how many plan to add alts or transfer to the new servers? I don’t think I will be going anywhere.
As for the 9/8 date, I guess that means I will really have to focus on getting my 56 burg to 65 soon. As Once the new content opens I imagine it will harder to fine groups for Moria coins…
August 18, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Transfers will not be available to the new servers. The new servers will be for brand new toons only. For now anyway.
August 18, 2010 at 3:29 pm
@ Dreadhed
Actually, it might get easier to get groups for Moria now.
GLFF (or whatever the global channel is) + Instance Join
August 18, 2010 at 6:44 pm
You don’t need to climb all the way to level 65 to enjoy the Moria instances. Remember they were all out when the level cap was 60
I don’t think you need to get all the way to 60 to go in to GS either.
August 18, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Very true. I guess it is just my personal preference to bring toons that are at max. I probably should start doing em when I get to level 58, everyone loves a burg right?
August 18, 2010 at 2:51 pm
I would love to play on a busy server like Landroval, maybe they will allow transfers again in the future. I guess free to play should bring more people to Nimrodel.