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The Lord of the Rings Online's Corsairs of Umbar expansion has finally launched and we're wrapping up our interview series on building the expansion. In this final part we explore how the studio sets expectations and pricing, localizes the MMO and then starts to show it to the community.

With any new expansion, it's not just the new region you get to explore that is exciting - it's the new systems and mechanics brought to the game. In The Lord of the Rings Online, that is mainly felt in the new Mariner class. We spoke to the Standing Stone Games team about the class' inception and how they approached building the sea shanty singing swashbuckler.