LOTRO goes F2P, and other news

Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) goes "Free to Play" on September 10, 2010. The trailer is here. This means that you have the option of playing for free, but there are catches. You can only go so far in Free to Play before you HAVE to start paying, because you have to pay to access content (quests, etc.) in areas beyond the "newbie" areas.

In other news, students are flooding back to campus this week. Today marked the "academic" portion of Windsor Welcome Week, and we are giving talks to first year students about academic mattters - following the course sequence, study habits, keeping a balance between partying, studying, and a part-time job. I'm sure the students would rather be ANYWHERE else but listening to all this boring stuff.

Update to my quest to turn $0 to a fortune playing internet poker - the $6.75 I won from that tournament back in May got whittled down to almost zero, and then I won five dollars and change in another tournament. That was on Full Tilt. On PokerStars, last week I won thirty cents in a freeroll. I also seem to be doing better in multi-level freerolls, actually getting to round two a lot more often.

Stay tuned for updates.

TTFN,