A Casual Stroll to Mordor

It wasn’t too long ago that the LOTRO community was debating the validity of Turbine’s decision to sell armor in the in-game store. In an effort to resolve the ill-will that was generated by the initial integration of the store-only armor into the game, it was announced yesterday that…

I’m very pleased to point out to everyone’s attention, this post today by Sapience giving an official stance of their reasoning for putting low level store armour in the game as well as some responses to the most common fears and comments about the store items and in fact about Turbine in general.

Loge from Snowbourn was one of the friendly folks who attended GamesCom last week. He went armed with some questions of his own as well as some questions he gathered from the forums hoping to catch a quick moment with Sapience.

Yeah, it’s a cheesy title, but I couldn’t resist! All thanks to Caelas for pointing out today that Sapience posted on the Codemasters forum that EU players transitioning over to Turbine’s system will not need to download or install a new client.

Merric had an opportunity to sit and speak with Rick “Sapience” Heaton while we were at PAX East last weekend.

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Sapience posted today in a thread entitled “What we know is coming” confirming that Volume 2 and some classes will be getting updates with the Quarter 1 update.

Sapience announced today that there is a new Twitter contest going on for LOTRO

Well, it’s been just over a month since the Turbine servers launched “Free to Play” (insert glare at whomever is holding up Codemasters) and already people are speculating on when the next content update will be and what it might hold.

Sapience posted today that the following portion of the Volume I Epic Story line is currently unavailable

Today we not only get a new sale on items, but also clarification on the store on Bullroarer.

Just a brief note, patch servers are up so go start updating if you can! Secondly, today the WarCry network hosted a chat with Turbine employees. For those who were not able to attend we have a transcript here in PDF form.

It seems like the news just keeps rolling in today! Sapience pointed out today that deals.woot.com has listed the complete Digital Download of Siege of Mirkwood is on sale for $9.99 (US Dollars), which includes all previous content!

As with every patch, a list of known issues is bound to arise. So far there is only one, but a new thread has been opened on the official forums by Sapience today in order to keep track of them all.

We just learned via twitter today is the birthday of Online Community Manager, Sapience (aka Rick). We at CStM want to wish him a very happy birthday! Don’t work so hard today and we hope you get cupcakes that the duck army can defend for you!

This is a very special episode of CStM that we are so excited to share with you. We have Turbine Senior Community Manager, Patience and Online Community Specialist, Sapience. We talk with everything from their roll at Turbine to Siege of Mirkwood to how they are really the same person… or are they? We do know for certain that they at least share socks.

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We are fortunate enough to have Patience and Sapience from Turbine joining us for an interview this Wednesday (as in 2 days from now). I know we just had a Dev Chat last week where we got some questions answered but if you have any questions you would like for us to ask, please let us know!

Turbine will be sending random invites to active accounts instead of using the Beta Rewards Program as there seem to be issues with the system.