Post by OnyxBlade on Oct 14, 2008 6:46:53 GMT -5
Jim Crowley, Turbine's president and CEO, revealed some interesting news last week at the Tokyo Game Show that should get Lord of the Rings Online players pretty excited. According to an interview (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=256983/) with Eurogamer, The company plans on adding social a networking site to the their massively multiplayer online RPG by year's end. The new site will be reminiscent of MySpace and Facebook but connected to the online world of Middle-earth.
Gamers will be able to display full character profiles and upload other gaming data from LOTRO, and the site will also feature the ability to add friends, view live news feeds, and share videos via a YouTube-style interface.
Crowley described the new tool as "a version of Facebook or MySpace that sits directly on top of the gaming world. This is a fully-featured, rich, robust social network. It has every single feature that you would find in the major commercial social networks such as Facebook and MySpace."
Gamers will be able to display full character profiles and upload other gaming data from LOTRO, and the site will also feature the ability to add friends, view live news feeds, and share videos via a YouTube-style interface.
Crowley described the new tool as "a version of Facebook or MySpace that sits directly on top of the gaming world. This is a fully-featured, rich, robust social network. It has every single feature that you would find in the major commercial social networks such as Facebook and MySpace."
