Middle-Earth Online Interview

Middle Earth Warcry has conducted an interview with Vivendi's Chris Taylor and James Altenburg at this year's GenCon about the upcoming MMORPG set in Tolkien's fantasy world. An excerpt:
Q: Where do you go when you die?

A: We will allow you to have skills where you can wake up an unconscious character heal them at that point. But, you'll go back to a bind point the last town center or something we're playing with the whole idea that if you're knocked unconscious then someone has brought you back to town and you're being nursed back to health. No final ideas on what the penalties will be on that either, but I don't think it will be as harsh as games where they take away xp and you go back a level.