Lord of the Rings Online - Interview @ HEXUS

Turbine's executive producer, Jeffrey Steefel, has been interviewed once again as part of Codemasters' Connect 2008 convention. This time by the website HEXUS.gaming, which asks:

HEXUS: There’s been a bit of debate over at the official LOTRO forums about what’s going to happen when Age of Conan and Warhammer arrive later this year and whether a chunk of the community will jump ship to play these big titles. What steps are you putting in place to ensure this doesn’t happen?

To which Jeffrey calmly answers:

Jeff: To continue to distinguish ourselves we’ll continue to evolve the game and bring new things to the arena. We’ll continue to uphold the level of quality and stability in the game. Besides WOW and LOTRO I don’t know if there is a game that has been able to do that, certainly not a new one and I think that makes us very competitive.

We know that gamers will want to look at what other games have to offer, but they’ll come back, they’ll even play two games at once, lots of people do that. We’re not worried about the competition.