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After 5 years since the PC release, developer Turbine is finally bringing The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar to the Mac, and it’s free to play. The Lord of the Rings Online takes place in the LOTR universe giving players the chance to build a character from one of four races, and seven unique classes.
“We are really excited to open up the world of Middle-earth to Mac,” said Kate Paiz, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online. “We’ve just launched our biggest expansion yet and we’re happy to welcome gamers to play the game natively on Mac OS X for the first time ever.”
Receiving only positive reviews since it’s first release in 2007, it scored 86 on Metacritic. Being free will be a key to its success, with players being able to enjoy the game without having to buy an expensive subscription.
The Lord of the Rings Online
According to TUAW’s interview with Turbine’s VP of Product Development Craig Alexander, Lord of the Rings Online will be a native client:
Turbine first considered bringing Lord of the Rings Online to Mac back when the game went free-to-play, said Alexander, but the reason it took so long was because the company decided to build a native port for the game rather than depend on emulation or other similar methods. “Trying to outsource the task just didn’t make sense,” said Alexander.
Not only will Mac users be able to enjoy all the features of the game that are available in the PC version – something that is compromised when porting to the Mac – they will also have access to the games’ latest expansion pack, Riders of Rohan, released only a few weeks ago, according to Kate Paiz, executive producer of the game.
You can download the Mac client here.
[Source InsideMacGames]
A general service announcement for Mac-users playing lotro. Apple released their newest Update to Mac-OS which will result in you not being able to run lotro on that specific version for the foreseeable future.
With the release of Catalina for MacOS in the near future, Apple will no longer support 32-bit applications. This impacts the compatibility of our WINE-based client for MacOS. Players can continue to play LOTRO as long as they do not update to Catalina for MacOS. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes to our MacOS users.
Lotro Macos
Short version – Lotro has no mac client, it uses Wine to allow you to use the windows client of sorts. Part of this won’t work for now. SSG has no say in Wine so for now no lotro if you decide to upgrade to the latest version.
Lotro For Mac Pro
Q – But i use the 64-bit client?
A – Doesn’t matter
Q – How do i keep playing lotro on my mac?
A – Use an older version of Mac-OS
Q – Any other options?
A – Use a windows PC,run a dual-boot of either windows or linux for now
Lotro For Mac Emulator
Q – How does that work?
A – Not a mac-use so i can’t help you with that.
Lotro Mac Catalina
Q – Any chance on refunds?
A – Very unlikely