AGDC 07: Lord of the Rings Online Interview Jeff Anderson

Today we bring you the story of our chat with Jeff Anderson, Turbine CEO, at AGDC 2007. He talked about Lord of the Rings Online, it's recent updates, Book 11, its first expansion and the future of Turbine as a whole.

The upcoming Book 11 is Turbine's top priority. This free expansion is the first of a wave of vastly new content - Book 10, to Anderson, finished the work that the launch began - and concentrates on player housing.

In Lord of the Rings Online, housing will be placed in instanced neighborhoods called "streets". The streets, within themes, will be roughly the same in each area of the world, but with different names. To access their house, the player talks to an NPC in the correct part of the world and "asks for directions" to, for example, Cherry Street. The NPC then gives those directions when he teleports the player to that street, on which their house resides.

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