by Karen Hertzberg on Dec 18, 2007
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.