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Lord of the Rings Online Interview Lord of the Rings (LOTR) is quite possibly the greatest and most in-depth fantasy story of them all, so when it was announced that a LOTR Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) was being created, fans all over the world jumped for joy. lotro gold Turbine are certainly not newbies when it comes to the MMORPG genre with titles like Asheron’s Call and Dungeons & Dragons Online under their ever expanding belt, so when they took over the project there was definitely a feeling that LOTR Online: Shadows of Angmar was in capable hands. On the 12th of March 2007 Corrosion Games got to have a one-on-one with the Lord of the Rings Online: Shadow of Angmar’s executive producer Jeffrey Steefel who was more than willing to answer the barrage of questions we had ready for him. We started off with the question that needed to be asked first, we wanted to know what LOTRO has that will drag players away from games like WoW and into Middle Earth. "If you look at WoW as the game that established what this genre has really become, MMORPG has now arrived into the mainstream - we are the next generation. We’ve taken all the things that players are demonstrating that they like about the genre right now, and we’ve tried to improve on those wherever we can. lotro gold Things that needed significant changes, we’ve changed – we know that player advancement is so important in MMORPGs and our advancement system is something that players can influence a great deal along the way, you’re not locked into the character build that you choose at the beginning, it is instead something that you as a player are constantly working on. Group combat is something that you are able to do a lot more of and the whole way in which we are presenting the story is much deeper than any other MMORPG which we thought was appropriate for LOTR!” There will be 4 different races and 7 different classes available at launch - the races are Man, Hobbits, Elves and Dwarves. The classes you can choose from are Champion, Guardian, Lore-Master, Hunter, Burglar, Captain and Minstrel. These classes are pretty standard to most other MMORPGS where the Guardian equates to a tank, the Burglar to a Rogue, the Minstrel to a Healer and so on. lotro goldYou may well be surprised that there are no evil races to choose from, but lets talk about PVP first! Steele went on to discuss the different twist on the Player Vs Player (PVP) system Turbine decided to put on the game. Turbine’s spin on PVP is called Monster Play. lotro gold “Players will have a chance to take on the role of a minion of darkness, a dark creature such as a goblin, orc, troll… or maybe even something fouler! Your monster player character is temporary – as a monster player, you have quests to complete, but you don’t level up as an orc. At launch, this is the only method by which players will be able to play as a member of an evil race.” Let’s hear that one more time, “At launch, this is the only method by which players will be able to play as a member of an evil race” Disappointing you say? Well Jeffrey has an explanation: “We know that people want to play as Uruk Hi, Orcs and as all kinds of evil minions of Sauron but at the same time if we created these races, first of all you’d have this very strange dynamic that would feel not right for Middle Earth where you’ve got Orcs wandering around the Shire [insert strange image of mixed race marriage – Hobbit and Orc], it would just be strange - right? lotro gold Hence Monster Play where you can actually experience that conflict of being a monster. We also wanted to stick to the rule-set of Middle Earth – Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits, they all have this incredibly diverse and rich history which Tolkein went on and on about but Orcs and Uruk Hi? They’re just creatures, evil things that are made purely for battle, so if we spent a lot of time creating a mythology for Orcs and Uruk Hi then we really would be rewriting Tolkein.” We got a quick run through of the Monster Play in a presentation, and it looks like it could be a lot of fun – there is something really cool about running around as a hideous spider or rock hard Uruk Hi picking on other monsters of Middle Earth. lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro lotro lotro lotro lotro lotro buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold lotr lotr lotr lotr lotr lotr lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade