Quote Originally Posted by Fealhach View Post
It took us 10 years to get from Shadows of Angmar (2007) to Mordor (2017). We are currently on 15 years of content with Raninia asking for a content plan for the next 15 years I don't think we will be seeing the Scouring In the short term. I'd guess at another 10 years (2027) for the journey back!
While there is no doubt no shortage of content (=landmass, but also lots of fill-in-the-blanks storylines as well as original ones, not to mention tales of yore style of content) you only reinforced my point here about 'it being more worrisome of it's too long' : P - from SoA to Mordor it covered almost the entirety of three books with associated landmasses (where most of key book characters resided in), even though that included lots of original made-up stuff as well, so to compare that with the tiny bit of book content that remains (excluding appendices) is a bit over-the-top comparison and inadequate : P Journey back in another 10 years would be a bad joke and an equivalent of "so we've covered almost the entirety of the known map right now so only now they can go back hihihi pause button off" :P Sounds needlessly silly and outstretched to extreme (and that's even without getting into... other potential issues with the timeline, depending on what kind of original content they may choose to depict at that point in time before unpausing the books)

What Raninia mentioned was more like "I've heard we're near the end of books, so what kind of content we might still do in another 15 years?" and the team being like "oh so here are all those plot loose ends not yet explored, here are lots of other ideas and wishes we have, more tales of yore, oh also there are appendices in the books so anything goes, and look at the map, it's still so empty!" rather than "here is a detailed plan for another 15 years of content" as if everything was already set in stone, clearly it's not ; ) Even the recent shift towards low level regions/Eriador shows this

Quote Originally Posted by Fealhach View Post
And even then that won't be the end. I'd give it another 10 years (2037) for the Last Sailing of the Ring-bearers. And even then that won't be the end!
Sure it would be the end, if by that time... we've covered the entirety of the map and going back just to revisit/remake old locations all the time - now, that wouldn't work game/mmo design wise because the spark would have been lost. So I rather prefer a "spread out" approach, do some stuff now in moderation, slowly turn the gears onward with the remaining book chapters, eventually get us further on the timeline, do even more epic original stuff, go back and redo some of the places if it makes sense (After Battle kind of thing), maybe take care of appendices/tales of yore stuff too (Numenor?), get into some Fourth Age stuff etc. So basically what the game has always done rather than have us remain on the 'pause limbo' forever now