The official Lord of the Rings Online blog has been updated with a new Producer's Letter from Turbine's Kate "Nereid" Paiz. In the letter, Paiz reviews some of the information about subscriptions that was revealed during the Austin GDC. Paiz then continues on discussing Turbine's expanded view of LOTRO. Included in Paiz's remarks is information about a fundamental shift with regard to updates and how that will impact the game's development throughout 2011.
On the topic of updates, I wanted to let you know that we have shifted the way we think about our releases. In the past our updates depended on new Books being added to the Epic story. Going forward, updates will not always feature a new installment in the epic story line. By decoupling the Books from Updates we’ll have the flexibility to offer different types of new content and new features in each release. This will also allow us to do more releases each year. Don’t worry, continuing the Epic Story and continuing along the path of the Ring is very important to us! We’ll have more information to share about that and our plans for 2011 in the coming months.
Read the full Producer's Letter here.
