Lord of the Rings Online is currently on Volume III, which began with the Siege of Mirkwood expansion late last year. 'We're going to continue that epic line but things are going to be a little big different.' 'We're certainly going to see Book 3 in the early part of next year,' added Campbell. Other areas of interest include the Paths of the Dead and the Misty Mountains. 'There are plenty of things there The fall of the tower, the fall of Saruman are things we'll see play out in the story.' 'Saruman's going a bit mental, he's spreading his influence far and wide, he's building monstrous armies of orcs, and he's not yet had his reckoning,' he surmised. 'I'm not sure precisely what form that will take yet.'įor those less familiar with LOTR canon, Campbell said we're at the start of the second LOTR book, The Two Towers. I'm not actually quite sure yet, but I know we're going to look at some really substantial encounters around the Tower of Orthanc around The Gap of Rohan and to Isengard itself.

'There are a lot of story elements and lore elements we have to be sensitive to, we're looking at the right time-line and as you know there are many steps to Saruman's corruption and his fall. Will we fight Saruman? 'I think we can expect that, yes,' answered Campbell.Īnd loot his staff? 'Ha ha ha ha! Well nobody said you're going to be able to defeat Saruman,' he said. Isengard is where corrupted wizard Saruman lives - he's the one who beat-up Gandalf and condemned him to the top of his Orthanc tower. 'We're going to be giving players the option to buy that in the Store.' 'Going into Isengard next year, that's going to be on the scale of an expansion,' he revealed. They'll be able to get up to level 65 and see all the world that's available to them. So our next major update - and we'll be talking more about this soon - starts to extend the world out for free-to-play players. 'What we're learning as we build free-to-play is that we can release parts of the world at a time. 'They have something along the lines of a new system they typically have a level cap tied to them and they have some epic piece of content or arc to hang their hat on - an important place in the world that people want to go to. 'Expansions classically have a few things tied to them,' Campbell educated. But don't worry - next year's trip to Isengard will be just as good.

The Lord of the Rings Online may never get another proper expansion pack, producer Aaron Campbell has told Eurogamer - the free-to-play relaunch has taught Turbine 'a lot' about 'pacing' of updates.

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