Lord of the Rings Online - Ask Turbine #4 @ WarCry

Delmar: I remember in Asheron's Call the towns were all attacked at the end of beta by hordes of monsters and such. Can we expect similar events to be planned for the end of Closed Beta? Open Beta?

Jeffrey Steefel: There are two things. First at the end of closed beta, we'll definitely be doing some events. I won't comment on what they are or what kind of events they are yet, because that will spoil some of the surprise, but again, as I've mentioned before, we're very interested in doing live events in general. So, we'll do some global event at the end of closed beta.

For open beta, we're really looking at that as the beginning of our live service. So we'll treat that very much like we treat that service itself, which includes live events. So, our community services group and our customer services group and our development group have been already working together planning and working on more advanced tools to let us do even more stuff moving forward.

That's definitely a part of our consciousness and we'll see some of the evidence of that in beta.