Casual Stroll to Mordor

The Echoes of the Dead launch date has been announced!

In celebration of this year’s PAX East convention, Turbine is having a sale on Bonus Points for the duration of the convention! (March 11, 2011 – March 13, 2011)

Do you have questions for Turbine? Send them our way!

Join us Saturday, March 12th for a special live episode of A Casual Stroll to Mordor after a day of exploring PAX East!

PAX East starts this Friday, March 11th and if you are one of the attendees or just someone curious as to what’s happening, we have a list of suggestions to help you prepare!

This week we talked about the instance dev diaries released this week, lag issues, stores sales and more!

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This week we go over the new dev diaries, talk about the compromised account reimbursement policy, what is going on with Bullroarer and more!

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In case you are unaware, PAX East is only 13 days away! For those of you heading out to Boston to join in the festivities, we have a party with Turbine you need to add to your calendar!

Turbine has announced the winner of the Design-A-Horse contest announced last month. Actually I should say winners as this steed was designed by a mother/daughter team.

LOTRO is hosting another horse design contest. If you were around for last contest you will recall the result was the beautiful Blue Roan Steed from the Spring Festival.

Finally back on our regular schedule after our week of interviews last week. We do a final recap of our PAX experience.

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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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Standing in line with close to 100 other press and media members at PAX East was an interesting feeling. Even more interesting to me after the fact is that with almost 200 booths and millions of dollars in advertising and PR display setups the only thing on my mind was the half a second glimpse I had of the booth as I peaked in the night before.

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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We have returned from PAX East and this is a super short episode as we mainly wanted to let you know that we have several mini interview casts coming out in the week from the Turbine folks we were able to speak with.

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So we’re back from PAX East and I think the fact that the login servers are down is a huge conspiracy to force me to edit the recordings I have.  I wanted to give a little bit of a “heads up” as to what we have in the way of interviews.  Some are traditional interviews, [...]

I’ve started uploading photos we’ve taken from PAX. We were in early this morning and spent the time meeting the Turbine staff and hanging out.

For those who don’t know, we will be attending PAX East 2010 and have scheduled an interview with some as of yet, unnamed employees of Turbine. Now we need your help to make sure we do the best interview possible, which means we need questions!

This week we duo The Battle in the Tower and have issues with the Frigid Squall lieutenant. Yes, I understands that the Frigid Squall is supposed to switch targets but chasing me around the room isn’t exactly “switching targets” and so I blame Merric.

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