Lord of the Rings Online - Interview @ Ten Ton Hammer

Turbine CEO Jeff Anderson has been interviewed at Ten Ton Hammer, in a conversation which covers a bit about his position and then a bit about their acquisition of Lord of the Rings rights:

I have heard you talk a lot about LOTRO and it sounds like you are pretty “hands on” as far as the game goes.

I joking say that we have two rules at Turbine. The first rule is: Don’t do anything stupid. The second rule is: Don’t do anything stupid again.

I play a LOT and I think that everyone in the company has a responsibility to be “hand on”. We all are really focused on doing the best possible job that we can do. For example, I say down with Cardel who is a lead designer on the project and said “what can I do to help?” But of course I’m not going to go write the quests because I’m probably not as good at that but I do have the ability, being in the role that I am, to do two things batter than anybody. I can mobilize people to fix problems better than anybody else because ultimately they all report to me and I also can maintain a perspective when I look at the whole thing. I can ask, “why are we doing that?” I move people to fix problems that I see.