UI, writing, resolution changes?

[Just Terrible Gameplay]

Newish to the game and I'm trying to see if i can change the size of the writing on everything as its too small and fuzzy and the same with the UI. I know the game is old but I won't be able to play the game if i can't read anything or if everything looks like im playing on a pc from 2004 at super super low resolution. I'm currently at 2560x1440. Maybe it's the pixels? i don't know.

Also i do remember hearing about a graphics update to the game when is this happening or has it happened?

[Elitewrecker PT]

For now no. There are rumors they're working on better resolution support.
As for the graphic update - it probably won't be what you're thinking of. The game is not suddenly gonna look like Black Desert Online or anything.

[Harvain]

LOTRO's UI is best at 1920x1080. Currently there is no Official Support for anything beyond this for Resolutions and how various UI Elements look like (you can scale things but your results will vary).

UI Work has no ETA on it nor have they said to what extent they will be doing such work. Going back to 2022 when LOTRO still had a Producer, they discussed this and that Internal & External Data showed that while Resolutions higher than 1920x1080 are growing, they are still very tiny minorities compared to how many folks are using a 1920x1080 Monitor for their Primary Display. This has been one key reason they have not felt it is urgent to get any form of major work out.

Graphics Update was something misreported by various Sources and has been debunked multiple times. LOTRO is always getting "Graphics Updates" when they change how their Visuals look with the last few years having a very unique Style for how the Content is look (check out Swanfleet, Cardolan and Yondershire for the most modern style being used. This is Low Level Content so easily accessible).

A key thing to note: LOTRO DOES NOT have uniform Graphics across the Game and they WON'T be getting them uniform anytime soon or ever.

LOTRO's Short & Long Term Plans for Graphics is basically along the following lines:

- Short Term: The SSG LOTRO Team are going to keep making New Content using the Current & Improving Visual Style with this Year having a New Gondor and later in Fall 2023 the Expansion taking the game to Umbar. This the a-typical way LOTRO's Graphics have been improved during it's soon to be start of 16 Years since Launch.

- Long Term: The SSG LOTRO Team's goal is to bring Older Content up to a more Modern Visual Standard akin to whatever Graphics are the main style at that time. This will NOT be a full pass of LOTRO and there is no timeline for when we could expect to see for example all of Eriador's Older Content being updated.

[lefty1117]

This game receives some light content updates and that's it. They won't do anything that doesn't directly result in money coming in. They don't even have multi factor authentication, over a decade later. Even Amazon would be better owners than this.

[Allwynd]

You can only change the size of a few elements and quest text. If you have a high resolution, you should play the game in full screen mode on a much smaller resolution so everything looks bigger, it may look blurry, but it will be bigger and consistent at that.