Hi. I'm a F2P player. I've been playing for a year or two now, on two servers, with two characters/toons on each server.

Two characters, because the "Character Slots" line on the "Account Type" page of the LOTRO Wiki said (still says):
  • VIP Players: 7 character slots per server (may purchase more)
  • Premium Players (i.e., former VIP Players): 5 character slots per server (may purchase more)
  • F2P Players: 2 character slots per server (may purchase more)


Today, I logged into one of "my" servers in the game, reached the "character" screen, saw my two characters there.

And, at the top of the list of my characters, I saw: "2 of 4 character slots." Wait -- what??

I pressed the "Create Character" button, to see whether it would send me to the LOTRO Store to purchase another slot. Nope, it sent me to the initial screen for creating a new character. I backed out carefully (I've seen these dungeon ante-chambers before!), and thought. And looked around -- at the Wiki, at this Forum (going back to May 2020).

I saw some verbiage that talked about "2 character slots" having been "added" to this-or-that account type, in the course of this-or-that major update (and there have been some update-doozies in the last year or so, haven't there?). But ... they might have been referring to the maximum number of character slots that an Account Type can have, once the Account Owner has purchased as many character slots as are now available. Nothing specifically said: "the old maximum of N free character slots per server has been raised to N+2 slots for this-or-that Account Type(s)."

As you know, when players create additional characters they have to make a lot of decisions. Which Race(s)? What name(s)? Which Class(es)? Which Vocation(s)? Not to mention the cosmetic aspects in their many, many categories.

I would hate to go through all those decisions, come to the end, press "Create" or "Go" or whatever -- and then find myself presented with a price tag from the LOTRO Store. "Approve this purchase? y/n"

So. Before I go to the trouble, and possibly find myself stymied -- has the number of character slots that "come with the [type of] account" gone up? By two? (Or also by other numbers, for other Account Types, for all I know?) Does anybody know?

Thanks for reading this.