u/Droney

It's a longshot, but I figured I'd try to ask here.. and before anyone asks: yes, I've opened a ticket.

I recently moved to Denmark from Germany, and I play Lotro through Steam. When I moved and got a Danish bank account, I updated my Steam store location to Denmark (since this is now where I live and the Danish bank card is how I pay for stuff). The Steam store's default currency for Denmark is Euros (even though Denmark has its own currency) for whatever reason, and they don't offer a DKK option. Straightforward enough and I have no issues buying Steam games, etc.

The problem comes up when I want to buy LP for Lotro. The Lotro store IS in DKK, and I cannot make any purchases due to an error code. I've opened a ticket, and per Standing Stone support, the reason is that my Steam wallet and Lotro store are using different currencies.

So here I am thinking to myself: surely there must be a way for Danish players who play through Steam to spend money on the Lotro store, since all of them will have the exact same scenario as me (Steam Wallet in Euro, Lotro store in DKK)... right?

Alternatively: does anyone know what happens if I download the client outside of Steam, log in with my Standing Stone account via the launcher, and then try to buy something on the Lotro store? Will it detect that my account is linked to a Steam account and that I need to install the Steam client to make any purchases, or will it allow me to use a non-Steam Wallet payment source?

Edit: god sometimes I miss the old days when you could just buy a time/in-game currency card for this game at an actual brick and mortar store.

Edit2: thanks to everyone for the tips. In case anyone in the future stumbles upon this post and has the same problem: install the game via the downloadable launcher and not from Steam, then make your purchase in-game with a non-Steam payment source. And if you're like me and added an extra layer of complexity on top of it (playing on Linux): I installed the installer via Lutris and ran it with GE-Proton (latest) and it kept crashing whenever I tried to enter payment information. Add the LotroLauncher.exe file (from the directory Lutris installed the game to) to your Steam as a non-Steam game, right-click, go to "Compatibility" and use Proton Experimental instead. Then log in, make your purchase, bing bang boom all good. What a completely avoidable hassle in TYOOL 2026 but that's where we are these days.

While I like the box art version and it feels very Jade Falcon to me (which is probably why they picked it for the box art), according to Sarna the 18th Falcon Regulars are part of Rho Galaxy in the ilClan era, and their paint scheme is quite different... feels almost Ghost Bear-ish to me.

Anyone painted them in the Rho color scheme or should I just stick with the box art?

There was a period of my life where I didn't have a gaming PC, and my now-husband and I spent some quality time together on the couch grinding out levels in a mobile-only (I presume) MMO(RPG, though I don't know that I'd call it an RPG so much as an Action RPG). It was available for both iOS and Android (since I had an iPhone and he had a Samsung, so I know it was on both). Gameplay-wise it was sort of reminiscent of Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast, both in terms of overall sci-fi aesthetic and in terms of the actual gameplay. Since it was pretty early on in the online mobile game genre, it was mostly autoattacks with I think the occasional triggered ability. Unfortunately beyond that, I don't remember anything else.