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Ring out the New Year...LotRO style

The holiday season is upon us in full force and nearly every massively multiplayer online game has embraced the burgeoning spirits. The Lord of the Rings Online stands proudly among the games with slated holiday events, but the coming of the holiday season also means 2008 is just around the corner! The Ten Ton Hammer staff tracked down Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel and Public Relations Director Adam Mersky to check up with the game's future course and ask the devs a few questions about some of the changes that are being made to one of the more prominent live zones.

Jeffrey: This is an indication of our larger strategy in general. On the one hand, we need to make sure that we know where the game's going and where we want to take it. At the same time, we've gotten really good at understanding what is and is not working exactly the way we want it to in the game. We put a fair amount of cycles into pouring through what's going on in the forums to doing a variety of surveys to look at the various trends in the information and coupling that with data showing what people are actually doing in the game.

• Lord of the Rings Online Developer Interview: A Look Ahead to 2008
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