July 9, 2012
This week’s community update has been posted to Turbine’s YouTube account. This week we have the lovely Seraphina “Celestrata” Brennan updating us on what Turbine will be sharing with us this week.
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July 9, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Cool wallpaper
July 9, 2012 at 12:26 pm
This is an awkward video.
July 9, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Warbands are going to be great. I’m really excited.
July 9, 2012 at 1:32 pm
uhm… she is lovely, no doubt. but is it just me, or does she have an adam’s apple?
July 9, 2012 at 1:46 pm
She looks and kind of sounds like a man, but has an awesome name.
July 9, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Read comments on the comments on the youtube video. “I’m transgender dear. Male to female.
~Celestrata” Explains why the manly characteristics
July 9, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Call me crazy, but I don’t see how Celestrata’s gender identity has any relevance to the community update. Making an issue out of it while she’s trying to tell us about the game is in rather poor taste.
July 9, 2012 at 4:15 pm
I don’t see her making an issue out of it.. Someone asked and she explained. End of story.
July 9, 2012 at 4:39 pm
I don’t know about anyone else, but this is the first time I’ve seen Celestrata in person (as opposed to in text form). So the question comes up, and she answers it, which I think is very decent of her. It’s not unlike how certain other video updates spark debates about the law-tro vs. low-tro pronunciation. They’re totally off-topic, and I hope that kind of thing dies down as we get more used to these video announcement dealies.
I try not to read YouTube comments as a rule, unless they’re from the uploader. It only leads to heartache.
July 9, 2012 at 4:42 pm
To be clear, Celestrata is clearly not the one making an issue of it. But a bunch of YouTube commenters, someone on the LOTRO forums, and two people here have brought it up. It’s very, very tacky of them to do so, in my opinion.
July 9, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Amen to that. So “dude, looks like a lady?” Bah. Not the actual point here, but bigotry is everywhere, unfortunately.
I wish people would actually discuss the exciting news s/he brought to us.
July 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm
She is presenting as female. Therefore, “she”.
July 10, 2012 at 1:17 am
agreed. very tacky. She did seem a little nervous on camera? I am excited for the warbands
July 9, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Jouster type mob is what I am interested in seeing. That will be fun to combat as a minstrel.
July 9, 2012 at 6:31 pm
This update was exciting…Seraphina is an awesome ambassador for LotRO. Hanging out with her in the booth for a while at PAX a year and half ago was the highlight of the convention for me. It’s clear she loves the game and has a lot of passion for it and it’s contagious.
July 9, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Who cares if he/she is an olog-hai troll, or a beauty queen? The fact is a fact: these videos are pointless, amateur, silly, ant can’t convice me to buy the expansion. We need a good, long HD video with actual ingame footage and professional commentary. That’s all.
July 10, 2012 at 4:03 am
Actual in game footage that we can actually see, you mean? I want to see actual mounted combat, a group of people hitting mobs, and at least most of the classes represented. I’d like to see much more than that, of course, but considering the mounted combat is their main seller for this expansion, that’s the only video they should really bother releasing, well maybe the one about the music, as well.
So far, none of these videos have really gotten me excited. The closest I got was “The horse has a death animation!!!” but then again, that was never anything I was wondering about, and would have been content, and probably happier, to find out about that live in-game.
I wish they would just do these 10-second teasers (because that’s the amount of time that actually has information I care about) in text form. Save their time (money) from taking time off to do these, type up a whole page of teasers to be posted every week or a few times a week, and spend the rest of the time doing more important stuff, like fixing stuff, polishing, creating new things.
Totally off topic, but I’ve been noticing, I am totally in love with commas!
July 9, 2012 at 9:53 pm
I was confused about the Warband System. The Warband is what they call the conjunctions creep side. I hope they come out with a new name so that I’m not so confused!
July 9, 2012 at 11:27 pm
I thought warband was the equivalent of fellowship for Creeps?
July 10, 2012 at 3:53 am
Warband is the name of mobs FM’s also, not just creeps. Think of the Lieutenants in Fil Gashan, always yelling that they are doing a Warband Maneuver then holding the FM pose. I do hope they change the name.
July 10, 2012 at 6:27 am
Warband Manoeuvres are what FM’s (Fellowship Manoeuvres) are for creeps (and a few NPC’s), so Warband = Fellowship for the evil folks. Given it sounds like they are going to have multiple mobs with different abilities acting as a cohesive unit, Warband seems to be the logical name.
July 9, 2012 at 10:48 pm
I thought it was a nice quick update. I would have loved to see pics/video but I was lucky enough to see some of that at PAX this year.
July 10, 2012 at 5:54 am
By teasing the combat as much as they are they’re running the risk of having someone leak footage from closed beta as it’s looking to be the only way to see a decent length of actual combat.
Guessing that the jouster type will ride about and charge if they get lined up to do so. The others mentioned sound more like from the regular trio of roles.
OFF TOPIC…
Save the infantile yootoob style comments from somewhere thats not cstm, please. You’re bigotry tars us all with the same brush and shows how shallow a mind you have if you cant apparently listen to a person without focussing on their appearance. Game is rated as 12+ so we should all be well above that age where we tug a sleeve and go “oh look mummy that person looks funny”
This is a fantastic blog and I often point people towards it when I meet a new player and they’re after a good source of info. Nothing will disuade them more than the negative comments they read here, such as the gender bias ones.