Interview: Jeffrey Steefel on LOTRO Mines of Moria, Part One
Turbine's Mines of Moria expansion to its "one fantasy MMO to rule them all" hits today, and we've got the scoop in our four-part interview with Lord of the Rings Online executive producer Jeffrey Steefel.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008; 2:19 PM
What won't you find in Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online MMO? Lines like "No one tosses a dwarf!" But while Turbine trades cheap laughs for careful adherence to canon, their online rendition of Middle-earth is also radically different from the books because of all the world-building author J.R.R. Tolkien didn't do.
Mines of Moria, the new expansion to LotRO that's out today, adds even more content, inviting players to delve into what Turbine calls "the greatest dungeon adventure you have ever seen and played." I spoke with Turbine's executive producer Jeffrey Steefel yesterday to get the lowdown.
(This is Part One.)
I gather you're sleeping little and working lots this week?
Getting ready to not sleep most of the week, probably. We've been through this a few times, so we've got all hands on deck, and we're going to be here 24/7. You know, it's just watching things, and hopefully we'll just get to enjoy watching players drill into the new content, but we're mostly here in case anything tricky happens. You just never know with these things.
A little icebreaker for my readers who may be wondering who you are. You're actually an actor, it seems.
Well I was an actor. I guess once an actor, always an actor, right? Yeah, that was one of my many careers. Engineer, then actor in New York, and now whatever it is that I do.
You were actually in Godspell with Harold Perrineau, who people probably best know as Michael on ABC's Lost.
Yep. We were all young then, and that was before Harold was Harold. But yeah, it was a great group of people. In fact I had a reunion with them about a month ago. We all got together in New York for our 20th anniversary, and everybody showed up.
Any of them Lord of the Rings Online players?
Sadly no. I'm the only geek in the crowd.
