Lord of the Rings Online has been sold from Turbine to a new developer called Standing Stone Games.
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This came out of nowhere and has taken the player base completely by surprise.
However, while there is a general sense of worry and hand-wringing since things like this rarely mean good things for the future of a game, there is also a seemingly widespread sense of optimism since Warner Brothers and Turbine were running the game into the ground.