I happened across the new link on VirginWorlds today mentioning an interview with Turbine’s CEO Jeff Anderson so of course I immediately clicked.The full interview is at WarCry and is apparently more of their AGDC content they’re continuing to get posted. The interview was dated last week, September 18.
An expansion pack is not far behind; Anderson hopes the team can launch their first retail upgrade in the next 12 months.
So, there we have it. I, for one, am disappointed at taking the retail expansion route. Yes, it’s more boxes sold which is a greater influx of cash but I was hoping — perhaps too idealistically — that Turbine would hold fast and true with their free content update model. For me, it’s not even an issue of the money involved with buying an expansion, I guess I just look at what EQ did back in the day, and even EQ2 to a degree and shake my head at all the boxes sold. I could easily have envisioned The Burning Crusade as being a content update for WoW. It only added roughly 20%-25% landmass and 2-3 months of content outside the additional raid/reputation grinds and brought nothing new to WoW’s table. I suppose I should remove the “additionally” since TBC completely invalidated all prior content anyway. But I digress.
Most of SOE’s stuff I felt was nickel and diming the customers, so I hope that if Turbine is going to the trouble of putting another box on the shelves that it contains a level of content equivalent to what LOTRO launched with and adds new dynamics to the game without rendering everything the players have done useless.
Tags: LOTRO
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