The Lord of the Rings Online Interview

MMORPG.com has published a new The Lord of the Rings Online interview they recently conducted with Turbine’s Jeffrey Steefle.

For those of you out there who might not be aware, when you ride your own horse in Lord of the Rings Online, you auto-dismount whenever you are hit. On the surface, this doesn’t seem like a huge problem. The game isn’t built for combat on horseback, so there is a system in place to prevent it. The problem comes when even the slightest tap from a weak creature you have no intention of fighting will effectively unhorse you.

Jeff reassured me that Turbine is aware of the problem and is currently looking for an appropriate way to solve it. Mounts are something that they are paying a good deal of attention to in relation to the game’s future:

“We have to take mounts to the next ten levels by the time we get to Rohan. As we’re working on how to do that, we imagine that some of the fruits of that will work their way into the existing game over the next year.”