Lord of the Rings Online Book 11 Preview
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To him, each Book has moved the game and its systems along in significant ways. Turbine's goal with the Book concept is to ensure that their fans are never biding their time until the next expansion in a stagnant game. This is a problem many fans have had with World of Warcraft and one place Turbine has, to date, done better.
Turbine isn't prepared to just churn out content for their new golden goose until the well runs dry, though. Anderson told us they have people at Turbine whose job it is to prototype, actively, new projects. They're an MMO company, so it's safe to bet LotRO is not their last MMO.
Like many of their competitors in the MMO space, Turbine now has a portfolio of MMO titles to offer fans, one that can only grow. He admitted that one day, he'd love to see Turbine as a multiple studio juggernaut that competes in multiple online genres, distributes their own products (although he seemed to believe that the future of distribution is online) and offers things like SOE's Station Pass to its users. All of that though is quite a ways off in the future and for now, Anderson seemed exceptionally pleased with the financial, technical and critical success that Lord of the Rings Online has been for the Boston-based developer.
