The producers of Lord of the Rings Online have announced that the MMORPG is doing very well after switching to free-to-play in September 2010. Over a million new accounts have been created over the last month and the revenue has been doubled.
LotRO is now making money through in-game transactions. Apparently, 53 % of the gamers purchases new outfits, XP points etc. in the game.
In the mean time, Blizzard announced that the number of people playing World of Warcraft has grown to a staggering 12 million, showing that LotRO still has a long way to go before catching up with the market leader.
Lord of the Rings Online is one of the major players in the MMORPG field and together with the other LotR games is one of the most popular and influential fantasy games around.
Official website of Lord of the Rings Online.
Tags: Fantasy Games, Lord of the Rings Online, The Lord of the Rings
