The team was most proud of unveiling Saruman "in all of his glory" and the inclusion of free players into the sphere of Monster Play.The only mention of PvMP.....
Turbine also vowed to increase its content output in 2012, promising that this year will be bigger than the one before. The profits the game has been churning out since going free-to-play? Those will be reinvested to "double-down" on content for the future.PvMP too? *kitten face*
Expect to see a much more agile and responsive Turbine in 2012 as well. With the difficulties of unifying the game behind it, the team wants to focus on responding to player feedback and producing more content than ever before.Kelsen surely made a good start of 2012 giving the example!
About Rohan:
what's Riders of Rohan going to be like? [...] [Turbine is] trying to do the region justice by making it "crazy enormous." [...] It's so large, in fact, that the regions developed for this expansion will be twice as big as Moria.Twice Moria! I like!
But one has to keep in mind that Moria seemed huger because a lot was in tight spaces. If Moria was a big grassy land, it would feel pretty small. I hope they wont make very different zones in Rohan that are very different in environment.
Even more insane in terms of scope is the fact that the expansion will only be covering the eastern half of Rohan. It will be divided into two small zones (Amon Hen and the Eves of Fangorn) and one large one (East Plains). Looking at the map, we see the expansion drives a wedge right into the middle of Rohan with room to move east (to the marshes), west (the western plains and Helm's Deep), and south (Gondor).Possiblity open for a PvMP zone somewhere in the western plains (Saruman vs Rohan)? Assuming we wont get one with the expension.
The East Plains will be the only place in the game (for now) where mounted combat will be allowed, and the devs emphasized that it would not be wise to travel the zone on foot due to the size and danger.
Read the entire article:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/25/riding-into-rohan-lotro-maps-out-2012/
