Casual Stroll to Mordor

Yesterday, Ten Ton Hammer’s Live podcast released Episode 30, where they interviewed Kate Paiz and Adam Mersky of Turbine.

We were lucky enough to be asked for an interview by the fine folks of The Dunedain podcast. We had a great chat with Maerech, Pariah and Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson.

Well, Sapience did tell us that there would be a number of interviews coming out, and so we have another one that was released today on Ten Ton Hammer.

Recently, Voodoo Extreme was able to interview Aaron Campbell and Adam Mersky and discuss next year’s expansion Rise of Isengard and other future information related to LOTRO.

Starting off with a bang, Eurogamer’s interview of Aaron Campbell states, “The Lord of the Rings Online may never get another proper expansion pack…”

Posted today was an interview that ZAM’s Senior Editor Chris Tom was to have with Kate Paiz about LOTRO, the Free-to-Play launch and what we might see in the future.

PAX was very busy today. It was a sea of gamers – all excited about this years biggest titles. They had the full Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) team Patience, Sapience, producer, and more. They were all very kind and as open as they could be.

This week we can talk about being in the beta! Thank goodness as it was difficult doing a weekly podcast and making sure you don’t break the NDA accidently!

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We have a special mid-week episode for you where we talk with Minstrels Moondog, Harperella and Mortermeer (Bryant).

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Tonight we will be hosting a Warden Roundtable where we will be talking with several Wardens (Docholidayj, Azzbuk, Savatage, and Ryodor) about the class, what their thoughts are, what tips they may have, and anything else we can think of as well. However, since we know that we can’t possibly think of every question (and because we have limited to no history with playing Wardens) we’d like to invite you all along to put in your 2 cents!

Today we have a special additional episode for you with Jerry Snook from DDOCast podcast. We ask him questions about his experience with DDO going free to play and what us in the LOTRO world may expect with this upcoming change.

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This episode we focus mostly on the Free to Play announcement that came out last Friday.

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I’ve found two gaming sites that have some official interviews with Warner Bros and Turbine staff discussing the merger and the free to play announcement today.

We are very excited for this week’s episode that includes an interview with Dr. Corey Olsen aka the Tolkien Professor. The interview runs a little long but I think the discussion is worth a listen! We appreciate everyone that sent in questions and we asked as many questions as we could in the time allotted.

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This is a special between episodes episode where we talk to Azz, Gor and Geiri from our kinship. They are our kinship’s primary players that will organize and lead group content.

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Our final PAX East interview is with LOTRO Community Manager, Sapience. We brought with us player submitted questions to ask him. The interview covers a series of topics including PvMP, Skirmishes, future enhancement questions and just general thoughts and suggestions.

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Interview four from our visit to PAX East, Merric talks with Game Master Nod, Anti-Fraud Supervisor for Turbine. He is in charge of preventing account compromising and gold farming in LOTRO.

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A little different interview for today’s PAX East release. Merric briefly speaks with Tolero, Senior Community Representative for Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO). DDO is of course another game created by Turbine and is free to play so you can play this game along side your favorite LOTRO addiction!

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This is the second of our interviews from PAX East 2010. Merric talks with Andy “Frelorn” Cataldo, Turbine Community Relations. Frelorn is mostly known for his updates and discussions about PvMP.

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