Q&A with Executive Producer Severlin - The Lord of the Rings Online

Standing Stone Games Executive Producer Severlin joins Community Manager Cordovan to unveil the upcoming Veil of the Nine servers named Angmar and Mordor, with Mordor being our first Europe-located server! Find out more about the 12 rings to be found and when the servers will open!
Thanks for watching. The show is live every Friday starting at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on Twitch.tv/LOTROstream. Have fun!

[@Tcynamon123]

This game is the best mmorpg I have played even though it is from 2007

[@erkjan]

Yes been there from 2008

[@WanderV1]

Same here. Just like the world and vibe.

[@lotrfan2023]

Getting jumped randomly by ringwraiths... That sounds so cool! And fun.

[@Tableschmock]

De-Leveling? EU-Servers? 64Bit? Wow. Seems like a good time to come back to the game!!

[@rhettorical]

Level-down combined with landscape difficulty sounds like a match made in heaven.

[@gscgold]

Oh these legendary servers sound awesome I am definitely playing

[@actualyalta]

"Soon™️"... Always giving me something to look forward to after all these years. Thanks guys :)

[@wkmowels]

Really good interview. Kind of excited for the legendary servers

[@The1337scientist]

Leveling down will be a dream come true! It is so hard to find a fellowship for low level content

[@b.1162]

Yay! This sounds great

[@thegenxgamerr]

Great news for all of our EU friends who play LOTRO.

[@user-cz1ex7kf2g]

I enjoyed Treebeard. Excited to try this one out.

[@jodydeats1195]

Looking forwards to birding!

[@n4itsirk651]

One server to rule them all

[@AZodiacCancer]

I havent played the game since Helms Deep expansion, it's nice to see the game still going. This was my frist MMO and I love lotr so it's bittersweet.

[@johnswaim1814]

So play again

[@user60550]

in regards to the quest lag, what if there was a centralized inventory for all the quest items with unlimited quantity. and your character would only access those items upon completion of the quest, and only have placeholders for the progress (3/7 warg tails).

[@MarcCHatke]

Sev with beard. That‘s awesome! ❤

[@bizantino]

As a Brazilian gamer, I have a deep passion for Lotro. I dream of the day when the game will boast enhanced graphics. With this hopeful vision, I see myself playing Lotro for eternity.

[@LarsSigvard]

Graphics are a novelty that wears off. I would rather play a GAME with loads of content, despite having graphics that were transient & short-lived - ...Rather than a pretty looking game with almost nothing to do.

[@alexanderfiedorov925]

​@@LarsSigvardWouldn't it be more awesome if you could have great graphics and great content in the same game? So... Do not settle for less just because a game have amazing content.

[@LarsSigvard]

​@@alexanderfiedorov925 You're right, it would be amazing, but it's not happening in the near future, that's for sure. For example, SSG has had several years to fix the lag. So, what makes you think anyone would trust them enough to invest in this game for them to undertake a project like overhauling the graphics? I will never call SSG incompetent, but they sure do take their time to fix things, despite being able to invest in themselves due to the money they take from VIP subscriptions, expansions, in-game store cosmetics, etc.

[@LarsSigvard]

@@alexanderfiedorov925 You're right, it would be amazing, but it's not happening in the near future, that's for sure. For example, SSG has had several years to fix the lag. So, what makes you think anyone would trust them enough to invest in this game for them to undertake a project like overhauling the graphics? I will never call SSG incompetent, but they sure do take their time to fix things, despite being able to invest in themselves due to the money they take from VIP subscriptions, expansions, in-game store cosmetics, etc.

[@Doug111973]

My account has been active since 2007, and my biggest turn off when I login to Lotro is the items.. Gotta do more with items.. I have so much stuff to deal with, when I make a new character, I dont have enough inventory to even open up all my boxes.. so my 1st thing I have to do when I make a new toon is run to the vault.. /sigh. Then I login to my alts and realize I have more toons that are made just for moving items around than I do character I actually play the game with.. Need to virtualize crafting materials, make them account wide, so if i mine with toon A and craft with toon B, I dont have to move materials around, just an idea.. BUT this game needs to make alot of items virtual, you already have the system in place, (The Wallet) just add more items to the wallet!!

[@brookefan4ever]

Carry Alls + shared storage is how you do this.

[@Doug111973]

@@brookefan4ever Ah so fix broken shit with store items.. gotcha

[@adamwic2984]

when it gonna start?

[@roblovicz1257]

I love trying new things. After 17 years Im bored with the stuff I've done 100 times. Would love LOTRO to do with an old expansion like WOW is doing with Mists of Pandaria

[@TinyMiniStealth]

A lot of content with few players makes it less fun imo, the deleveling idea is interesting but a fast pace or skip level makes more sense.

[@viewtifulpes]

please add Inventory expansion this would be great

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Nice news but what about the current problems, long loading times b4 quests and after them upto a minute, warsteed virus, my chars are doing combat without pushing a button, my mariner dazas while riding a horse and does combat, combat is also verry sluggish.

[@OdeeOz]

When are Beorning getting a better land with Quests and Instances like Bree, Corsair land and Riverhobbits have? 👍👍👑🤠

[@myteeone8619]

So the wraiths on only the legendary servers?

[@Caerulean]

For now. If they turn out to be successful and/or popular, they might be added to the regular servers as well.

[@lokerola]

Veil of the Nine sounds cool. Aren't all servers virtual these days? Why can't they spin up as big a server(s) as they need in AWS's Euro region?

[@Medik_0001]

This stuff works with modern architecture but remember this game came out in 2007. Their tech stack is probably really really outdated, convulated and not able to just simply spin up new server instances. Not really their fault, it is what it is. I'm sure they would do it if they could.

[@Slaintemaith]

When's the graphics engine update coming out?

[@baceff6478]

That was canceled a long time ago, EG7 didn't think it was worth the money

[@guitarchim]

Never, man

[@DeanFWilson]

The graphics updates are happening piecemeal over time, such as the Elf avatar update later in the year.

[@harvain731]

There was never a Graphics Engine Update. There were Visual Updates that would have been done much quicker if EG7 (Enad Global 7) had thought LOTRO would make a Profit back quickly & with interest. They determined it wouldn't. The SSG LOTRO Team still plan on doing Visual Updates but on a much LONGER time table.

[@Serahbella]

I'm just waiting on news about Elf housing.🥺 Still nothing. Ah well.

[@Tcynamon123]

hi

[@diannahimi7822]

Very exciting news, however, I need to honestly admit that I am disappointed that the EU-based physical server will be Mordod and not Angmar. Also, I hope this will be noticed by the LOTRO team, but I am confused.. the talk about lag seems to be directed towards hitching, FPS drops and performance - I don't think that this is the 'lag' that people have issues with. When I talk about lag, I mean the server delays, the delays and 'freezing' when doing an action, casting a spell, talking to NPC, rubberbanding, characting freezing in place and unable to move for half a minute, etc. Those things have nothing to do with FPS.. it is one thing to address stuttering, hitching, maybe even crashing, but let's not confuse the term 'connectivity lag' with game 'performance', please!

[@gscgold]

Why does it matter what the name of the server is for the EU, just curious

[@diannahimi7822]

@@gscgold Is that the name of the server? I understood it as it being a Mordor-based expansion locked. If it is just the name, I have 0 problem and in fact feel weird for misunderstanding it.

[@IcelandicFarmer1994]

I want to have this comment here as a prediction, having ringwraiths popping you out of the blue is going to be fun once and then no more, this feature will have the opposite effect from what is desired. Having RNG things constantly affect your gameplay sucks, please take the lesson WoW learned kind off and don't go down that road. I want to fail because I suck and can do something about it, not because a random number caused a random thing to happen that I have no control over....

[@gscgold]

Could you give an example of how that happened in wow because I really can't think of anything

[@maggikrissi6526]

​@@gscgoldwarforging, titanforging, random legendarys in Legion so that if you got a bad one re-rolling the CHARACTER made more sense than keep playing it, the whole BFA expansion and thousands of tiny details I could find. Get bad rng luck and you are screwed

[@Doug111973]

If items are causing LAG, stop selling inventory expansions in the store #FFS

[@Ninjahat]

LAG! HOW ABOUT FIXING THE DAMN LAG!!!

[@pierogiesAndKielbasa]

Didn’t even watch for 8 minutes did you?

[@TheOneWhoKnowsTruth]

main problems: - when you fix the lags? completly? - bring back balance to game, stop making every class as dps, restore previous game conenct - more interesting content, last update was extremly extremly boring. - again FIX LAGS Thanks and good luck

[@Pam_B]

I do miss how game play use to be. Almost the entire Kin (Legion of the Forsaken) that I belonged t, left after Mordor because all of the changes. And you can't just jump back into the game because so much has changed. LI's etc.

[@TheOneWhoKnowsTruth]

@@Pam_B They totaly fcked up class development. Warden is now dps not tank for example, one of the biggest fail i ever saw in mmorpg class changes across game. Also LM was class where you were using a brain and a tons of CC to play, now you just spam aoe range dps skills... this game is now extremly easy and extreamly unplayable by those changes and lags.

[@Pam_B]

@@TheOneWhoKnowsTruth It is such a shame. My main was an LM and yes you had to think about what you were doing and when. Agreed for warden as well as guards. I would not even know how to play my LM now. Too many changes.

[@harvain731]

Lag will never be fixed completely. Part of it is just the Game and will always in some form remain. Also people stating "Lag" have always used such incorrectly. Lag is only 2 things: Connection and FPS. What LOTRO's main issue has been for Years is Game Performance: how the Engine runs, how Systems work in the background, etc.

[@TheOneWhoKnowsTruth]

@@harvain731 if they cannot fix lag in game its mean game is crap so good job from doign that. Just remove this game and stop stealing money from people for broken product that you cannot fix. We can call it lag, game performance issue it dosent matter this game is unplayable beacause game freezing.