Turbine's RMT Manager position not for any current games

by Shawn Schuster Jan 5th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Business models, Forums, MMO industry

With RMT being the hottest topic of 2009 MMO gaming news so far, we recently ran a post about Turbine's job listing for a Microtransaction Manager. This news was not met with many open arms, as the most vocal RMT detractors spoke up against the speculation that this position could be for one of their favorite Turbine MMOs.

Well fret no more, oh saviors of the subscription plan. In a recent post on LotRO's official forums, Turbine's Sapience clears up the confusion and speculation: "We know the recent job listing has caused a bit of a stir, but please be aware that this posting is for an unannounced future project. We appreciate the thoughts and feedback on both sides thus far."

[Thanks Tony!]

Tags: breakingnews, jobs, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, microtransactions, rmt, sapience, turbine

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Skypp said on 5:30PM 1-05-2009

Sure.

Now go dig up all the responses by Smedley that there wasn't plans for Microtransactions in EQ1 or EQ2. Forum posts are not binding contracts and mean nothing. The fact is that they are setting up a RMT service for their corporation. They'll decide then what games it will be a part of and a forum post will not be a deciding factor.

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Tony said on 5:46PM 1-05-2009

Well if you want to be that negative about it... I'm sure every single MMORPG company in existence has people on their team who keep up with this stuff. It'd be dumb of them not to.

In the meantime, I'm not very worried about it.

Deryk said on 6:13PM 1-05-2009

Well that's a relief! I'm glad to see Turbine has paid close attention to the OVERWHELMING majority of LotRO players that do not want to see RMT / MTs in LotRO.

Let us hope it remains that way.