Pumping Irony

Turbine announced yesterday in a FAQ post that their official LOTRO character signatures have gone live.

This is Turbine’s first attempt at providing a service like this, so hopefully it will be popular and Turbine will expand it’s capabilities. Here’s a signature for Arwellyn: (Scaled to 80% to fit the blog, click for full size)

It’s great that it’s able to pull her crafting status, and kinship information (uh wait a minute… I’m an officer now?) which leads to the obvious speculation that someday a feature similar to World of Warcraft’s Armory may be available.

The current version is limited, however. Simply select one of the characters on your account, then choose a male or female avatar based on that character’s race. If it’ll pulling the other data, why isn’t it pulling gender on its own? In any event, choosing the character and avatar is all there is to it. No way to add any custom information or even upload your own avatar to use in place of the stock ones. But hey, it’s a first attempt. If it’s popular enough, maybe Turbine will make it more customizable, as well as just a little smaller?

Oh, and I just logged in to check: Arwellyn is not flagged as an officer, so obviously it’s getting some wonky data…

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