General Discussion

Jon Wood brings us the second part of his interview with Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel, where they discuss The Mines of Moria, Turbine's console aspirations, and Book 14.

Last week, we published the first part of an interview with Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel where he talked about the upcoming Lord of the Rings Online Korean launch and the effects that it might have on the game for players here in North America. But what about the game itself? Today, we bring you the rest of the interview where Steefel discusses the current game itself.

“We’re in the final stages of Book 14,” Steefel answered when I asked him what projects were in full swing over at Turbine. “We also have another group of people who are working very hard on Moria, which is coming together.”

Mines of Moria, Steefel tells me, is going to be the major focus of all of the LotRO teams for the next few months. “Making sure that Moria is very high quality, really exciting and fresh with some new things for you to do.”

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Hrm, I wonder if that, what was it 40-50 million dollar investment recently was for them to make a LOTRO and DDO console versions!   While that would be great news for the console users its dissappointing to me!  I just hope that the PC versions don't end up suffering in the long run if this is the case! 

dude i cant wait!!!

I like how LOTRO has slowly been improving since release. It wasn't terrible at the start, and none of the updates have been terrible either. Although the delving of fror hurt monster play, but if you ignore monster play, then turbine has done a great job!

I would like to see some more major updates though, and I am worried that moria is basically going to be a chapter 15 that you have to pay for. For me as a casual player though, the updates have been coming at just the right rate to keep me interested.

No, Moria is going to be a major update. It will bring alot to the table so I don't think we will have to worry.

Can anyone tell me if the new expansion only will cover the mines of moria or will moria be a part of something much bigger?

Lorien, Moria and Eregion

Thanks alot for the fast replay. Now I want to play the expansion even more.

I know I can't wait to get into Moria and to start work on the new legendary items.

That company never ceases to amaze me. They truly bust their butts year after year.

AC is still getting monthly updates 9 years after launch.

 DDO and LoTRO get updates every 2-3 months and LoTRO is getting huge expansions once a year.

And if that's not enough work maintaining 3 active MMO's- they decide to develop Console games too:)