Lord of the Rings Online - Interview @ WarCry

WarCry talks to Jeffrey Steefel, the Executive Producer of Lord of the Rings Online, about the game's launch.

 "So far, so good," he termed the entire process, "which unto itself is disconcerting."

In the first week and a half the game has only been offline once and in that case, it was intentionally taken offline by Turbine so they could patch some minor bugs and exploits that had cropped up. Historically, MMORPG launches are train wrecks and Turbine - now on their fourth launch - seems to have avoided that precedent. Overall, Steefel called it the best launch he'd ever been involved in and scored it "9 out of 10", with 10 being a completely perfect MMO launch.