Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsBest value ever for new and F2P LOTRO players, good even for VIP subscribers and veteran players.
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020
Here is what you get for $10:
1- Riding skill and a +62% mount for all existing and future characters. You get a pair of items which magically appear in each character’s inventory which can be used as soon as that character reaches “novice” status – which happens as soon as you complete the intro area and quests and enter the shared game world. This is a lot earlier than Level 20 which is when a VIP subscriber can get free riding skill (but not a free fast mount) for a character by doing a short quest and a lot less expensive than spending 95 LOTRO points for each character that wants riding skill earlier than that or is not part of a subscribed VIP account. This is the best part of the Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack because it will allow you to get the riding skill and a fast mount at the earliest possible time for each character with no additional real-world money or LOTRO point expenses or special trouble and all without juggling when or thinking about if you need to buy a month of VIP game time to enable the Level 20 riding quest for a newly-created character. This is not a big deal if you’re playing only 1 character but if you’re new and starting a bunch of different characters to get a feel for the 10 different classes or just because you enjoy the variety this is huge both in terms of convenience and cost efficiency. There is no other way to purchase this particular universal riding skill + mount bonus, not with real-world cash nor with LOTRO points in the in-game store, only the Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack offers this and it can no longer be purchased through SSG anymore, I’ve only seen it here on Amazon.
2- 15 additional inventory bag slots for every character. This can’t take you over the maximum, of course, so if you’ve already purchased the maximum number of inventory bag slots this will not provide any benefit – you probably don’t have this maxed already if you’re new to the game and thinking of buying a “starter pack”.
3- The currency cap is removed for all existing and future characters.
4- Because you pay real-world money for the Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack your account is changed from Free status to Premium status forever. There are too many benefits of Premium status relative to Free status for me to list here but they include 3 extra character slots for every server (so 5 vs only 2 for Free, any extra slots you buy add to those base values) and 5 auction house slots.
$10 will get you either about 750 LOTRO points to spend as you like in the in-game store or this Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack. If you’re only going to spend $10 you get a lot more than 750 LOTRO points worth of stuff with this Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack IN ADDITION TO the riding skill + mount for all characters (and there’s no way to get riding and a mount earlier than this). Even if you’re a long-time player and subscriber there is some value to the riding skill + mount for any new characters you might create. And for any new player, especially one whose account is still Free status rather than Premium or VIP, the Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack is an amazing value even if you don’t plan to play much, make a lot of characters, or ever spend another dollar of real-world money on Lord of the Rings Online.
Please note that you will receive instructions from Amazon via email as to how to obtain your redemption code. And then you enter the redemption code in the in-game store. You might have to then quit and restart the game in order to see the changes to your account.
Please note also that you might need to contact SSG’s LOTRO support to get all the benefits after entering the code. Their support might take up to a day to respond to you but tends to be both polite and helpful. Be sure to keep a record of your redemption code after you enter it in case SSG support asks for it and it’s a good idea to screenshot the code redemption success screen and your in-game store history and include those with your politely-worded support request ticket.
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