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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
| Middle Earth Online begun (again!) |
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I got this off the boards at RPGVault for your perusal:
"Topic: Greetings and LOTR MMORPG news...
LOTRsChris
Title: Middle Earth Online
Posts: 35
Registered: Sep 02
Date Posted: 9/5 9:12pm Subject: Greetings and LOTR MMORPG news...
Hello there!
My name is Chris Taylor, and I work for Black Label Games/Universal Interactive on our Tolkien titles. Our games are based on the books.
Just wanted to drop a quick note letting you know that we are working on a LOTR based MMORPG. The final title of the game hasn't been decided (I saw some confusion in another thread and I wanted to clear that up.) I refer to it as MEO (Middle-earth Online), but it's also been called LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online). Over the next couple of months, we'll settle on the real name.
We're still very far off from release, and lots of things are changing under the hood (so to speak), so we can't say a lot about the game at this point. However, I'll try to answer your questions as best as possible to the limit of my ability and what I'm allowed to talk about.
I'm not any more familiar with the previous incarnations of MEO than a fan (I followed it like many people did), so that particular topic is pretty much off limits. Also, I'd like to keep away from talks about the competition, but only because I really respect what other teams do and somehow those conversations never go right...
My background is primarily in design, which is why I'm producing now. I worked for Interplay for many years (on Stonekeep, Fallout, Starfleet Command and others). I did work on a couple MMORPGs that Interplay wanted to launch, but they never really got off the ground. My personal online experience starts in the mid 1980s, in the Apple // BBS world. I started playing online RPGs in the late 80s, and MUDed way, way too much in the early 90s. (I was Skuz on Genesis for a couple of years.) I'm currently playing EQ, and have tried all the major MMPs. We're very thankful for EQ and UO for opening the door for MMORPGs, but we are committed to not just making a clone of those games with different characters and graphics.
I think we have something really neat planned for you. And neat is good!
pax,
-Chris
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Chris Taylor
Associate Producer, Tolkien Products
Black Label Games/Universal Interactive
"Oft hope is born, when all are forlorn." "
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Now from Ammon777,
I dont know about this. Last time they started MEO they canned it prematurely and fired the entire staff... so everyone is kind of *sic* hopeful but cautious about this project. If they cancel it again I will be very disappointed. I am soooo wanting to go to the Lonely Mountain, hehe.
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Ekim
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Joined: 27 May 2002
Posts: 2365
Location: Montreal, Canada |
Let the hype begin! 
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Mon Sep 16, 2002 4:38 pm |
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Ammon777
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Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
As you can see on the RPGDot news page, Middle Earth Online is now officially re-begun! WOOT WOOT! I cant wait to explore Mirkwood!
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Provis
High Emperor
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 872
Location: Middle of the Forest |
*sigh*
I hope it does it (the book) justice, I doubt it will though.
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Thu Sep 26, 2002 4:10 am |
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Finarfin
Baron of the Court
Joined: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 345
Location: London |
any news???
first person or third person, (what ever happened to second person perspective????)
does anyone know anything??
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Thu Jan 09, 2003 11:39 am |
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Ekim
Eagle's Shadow
Joined: 27 May 2002
Posts: 2365
Location: Montreal, Canada |
Too early still. All there is about the game so far is a quick interview with the guy who's heading the team (forget his name... the guy behind Dungeon Siege...) and a Press Release. They don't even have a web site for the game yet 
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Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:39 pm |
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vaticide
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Joined: 21 Feb 2002
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Location: One step behind a toddler bent on destruction. |
quote:
Originally posted by Ekim
(forget his name... the guy behind Dungeon Siege...)
Chris Taylor, but actually a different Chris Taylor than did Dungeon Siege.
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Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:53 pm |
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Finarfin
Baron of the Court
Joined: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 345
Location: London |
does anyone have any ideas about a release date, sometime away yet i guess!
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Tue Jan 14, 2003 4:47 pm |
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vaticide
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My guess would be 2004 at the earliest. I am basing this wholly on the fact that I haven't heard enough about it for it to be this year.
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Tue Jan 14, 2003 5:43 pm |
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Finarfin
Baron of the Court
Joined: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 345
Location: London |
ho hum, i'll for get about this one for a bit then
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Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:54 pm |
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Ekim
Eagle's Shadow
Joined: 27 May 2002
Posts: 2365
Location: Montreal, Canada |
quote:
Originally posted by vaticide
My guess would be 2004 at the earliest. I am basing this wholly on the fact that I haven't heard enough about it for it to be this year.
-vaticide
They have no engine, no concept art, no web site, no class system... Yeah, 2004 would be a good guess. I would even go further and say end of 2004 because I doubt a game of this magnitude would take less than 2 years to make.
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Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:04 pm |
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Ammon777
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Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
Amen. It might even be 2005 if they make it good enough that tolkien himself would approve (and i hope they do, otherwise i will be very very very mad, and tolkien will be mad also). |
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Sat Jan 18, 2003 10:37 pm |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
I assume you mean his son, Christopher Tolkien, who handles his estate since "Tolkien himself" is regretably long dead. |
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Sat Jan 18, 2003 11:11 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
to be truthful answer, i meant that the dead know what the living are doing, and hence tolkien knows about the movies, the games, ect. but thats just a personal belief and might not have any bearing on truth at all. hence the expression "he rolled over in his grave" could be an actual event. the only way we will really know is to die and see for ourselves. until then, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, as they say on X-Files, with this additional phrase (which is mine) BUT WE DONT KNOW IT YET.  scared yet? i'm not. |
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