Ques­tions always come with a new press release, espe­cially for an expan­sion. Tur­bine has clar­i­fied a few things on the forums so far:

Mar­ketroid On Price and Edi­tions:

Since this seems to have turned into the main thread on the topic I’ll address a cou­ple of things that have come up.

The announce­ment today didn’t con­tain pric­ing since we’re focused on announc­ing the game fea­tures and doing pre­views at PAX. A sub­se­quent announce­ment with those details will be out later. But since it’s being asked, here’s the scoop:

• Siege of Mirk­wood will have a base price of $19.99. As with Moria last year, we’re going to have a set of early upgrade offers that are very com­pelling. We’re not quite ready to unveil those details yet, but we’ll keep you posted.
• The epic story con­tin­ues on in Vol­ume 3 as a reg­u­lar con­tent update early next year.
• Some of the improve­ments to the game com­ing with Mirk­wood will ben­e­fit every­one, but the key fea­tures will require the Mirk­wood upgrade.

Hope­fully this clears things up a bit.

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