Loading Live #10 - Post Vol. 2 Book 7 Dev Chat with LotRO's Jeffrey Steefel

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Posted Wed, Apr 01, 2009 by Ethec

Length: 40:27

Synopsis: Our tenth Loading... Live podcast is joined by Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel just days after the release of Volume 2 Book 7 and our arrival in Lothlorien. After our weekly MMO news report from Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye, host Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle quizzes Jeffrey on what Book 7 and the high reputation required respite will mean to players and where the action will continue in Book 8 and beyond. Afterwards Jeffrey speaks with the audience for a full 20 minutes, fielding questions about such hot topics as PvMP balance, boats, and mounted combat. Tune in for the full 40-minute podcast and be sure to check out the Q&A transcript as well!

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Participants

Hosts

Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle
Ten Ton Hammer Editor-in-Chief
Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye
Managing Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Co-Hosts

Cody Bye
Executive Editor- Ten Ton Hammer Network
Reuben "Sardu" Waters
Ten Ton Hammer Staff Writer

Guests

Jeffrey Steefel
Executive Producer, Lord of the Rings Online
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Introductions

0:23 Introductions

We introduce our special guest and not-so-special host and co-host, then move straight to the news so we have plenty of time for questions.

Links

Loading... - Ten Ton Hammer's daily newsletter and column

News and Events

0:30 The Machail Report
0:40 Gazillion's gazillion acquisitions
2:06 Vanguard Goes RMT
6:31 The Vin Diesel MMO??

In this week's Machail Report, Gazillion Entertainment is taking the MMO world by storm. We'll learn the ins and outs of Gazillion, Vanguard goes the way of the mercantile MMO with real money transactions (RMT),

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Dev Chat with LotRO's Jeffrey Steelfel

9:36 Meet Jeffrey Steefel
11:20 NPE Changes
12:48 Lorien, a rest?
14:24 Entry / exit requirements
16:14 Crafting
17:34 What's next?
19:28 Housing
21:50 Lvl 15-50 improvements
22:45 How many books in Vol. 2?
23:43 More hobbies
25:00 Legendary items and legacies
29:20 Boats
30:30 PvMP
33:00 Kinship tools
34:30 Pet classes
35:30 Random loot tables
37:15 Mounted Combat
39:40 Wrap-up

Jeffrey Steefel is a twenty year veteran of the games industry, and a former singer and entertainer who famously played Jesus in an off-Broadway production of Godspell in the late eighties. We won't give him the Good Friday treatment, but we and the audience grill him on some of the ins and outs of Book 7 and all about the game moving forward.

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