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Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes with the QA team of an MMORPG? This week, a new LotRO developer diary explains the process and how the team works to make new content ready for release and ensure changes to the game are ready to go live. Join Amanda 'Brynhildr' Cosmos as she takes you through the process and explains just what it is the QA team is responsible for.

Well, we can’t just do whatever we want; there is proper procedure and documentation to follow. My team (we are called “Team Ramrod”) creates a lot of that documentation. We usually end up “playing” with spreadsheets more often than anything else. Team Ramrod writes up the test plans that the rest of the QA teams use to check all of the new content in the game.