Turbine opens dynamic forum sigs for LotRO players

by Shawn Schuster on Sep 9th 2008 5:00PM

Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Classes, Culture, Forums, Game mechanics, Guilds, Crafting, Professions, Races

The integration from game client to browser-based media is becoming more popular and accessible these days, so Turbine decided to implement a recent update to their Lord of the Rings Online account-linked forum sigs for all players. Any LotRO player can now generate a graphical signature with information about any of their characters over level five. This is for characters on any server, PvE and PvMP characters included.

This is very similar to browser-based character information available in other games, but of course there are some limitations currently. The portrait displayed in the sig is a general representation of race and gender only, so at the moment, it's not highly customizable. Also, there's a known issue regarding officer and member ranks not displaying correctly. It seems like this could be a step in the right direction towards getting more detailed character or kinship information in a web-based format, much like we have already in World of Warcraft, Dungeon Runners and more.

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Tags: browser-based, forums, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, sig, signature, turbine, web-based

Reader Comments (2)

They also give you HTML so you can link to it on your site, etc. That was nice.

It's a good step. I hope they open up some of this sort of stuff more as time goes on and maybe give players some level of control over displaying the data. Something ala what MS provides through Xbox LIVE would be fun, but I'd be surprised if it happens.