Frelorn posted last night:
All LOTRO websites and web services (lotro.com, the forums, Lorebook, and My.LOTRO) will be offline on Wednesday, September 8th from 6:00AM – 12:00PM Eastern for a major update. The game servers will remain available during the web downtime. Please note that following the update, players must log into the community sites with their Turbine Game accounts instead of their former community logins, but their community names (displayed to other members) will remain unchanged.
I love web site updates. I am very curious to see what this major update will bring!
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September 8, 2010 at 6:44 am
Gah – I don’t like changing forum login to be the same as the game login
– just one more tiny avenue for security problems.
I know that people will likely start seeing ads on the forums and whatnot now – that is what happened over at DDO (though I have Ad Blocker so they don’t bother me).
September 8, 2010 at 6:46 am
Supposedly they are switching over the forum logins to be the same as account/game logins. Some people on the forums are/were concerned about this security risk. Discussion was just beggining on this change and of course the forums then went down for the upgrade.
Before logging back into the forums when they come back, you might want to dump your cookies and just go look at what they’ve done first. I’m a bit worried about the overall security myself.
I doubt I’ll be posting on my main account on the forums from here on out. Guess I’ll just use a Free account that has no characters on it for forum posting.
September 8, 2010 at 7:58 am
Hmm. And this literally 3 days after I’d been praising Turbine for the additional security of different forum/game logins on LotRO and DDO.
September 8, 2010 at 8:00 am
I’m curious if they really plan to do something with Lorebook.
September 8, 2010 at 9:09 am
Well, Patience just tweeted something about us getting a “whole new community site” today.
September 8, 2010 at 9:19 am
That might explain why the “community” link leads to Codemasters’ forum
September 8, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Is the site up yet? I’m not able to get in, but my work also blocks some sites, so I wondered if anyone could verify if the website is up or not.
Thanks
September 8, 2010 at 2:57 pm
The main page is coming up for me but the community section is still listed as down for maintenance.
September 8, 2010 at 4:33 pm
The site seems to be up…ish now.
http://my.lotro.com/home/
It is taking a long time to load, but that may be a combination of the number of people hitting the servers and the security I have on my browser.
September 8, 2010 at 10:18 pm
The problem I currently have with the new log in is that it doesn’t seem to have my community id linked to my game login. I log in under my game name and my blog is empty, I have no friends, its all blank – as if I had never signed it before. I’m hoping its just a timing issue and it will sync up in a day or two.
September 9, 2010 at 10:32 am
The My.lotro.com blog community is devastated. Most of the customizations that users made have been lost. Most of the formatting in posts have been severely altered. The links to my.lotro.com posts and pictures have been severed due to new paths.
Some new features have been added, but most are buggy or don’t work at all.
For myself, I have been telling the stories of my characters for over 5 months in over 60+ posts. All of the hotlinks in my stories are now broken and the picture links are broken. Do I spend the time to fix them all? Or give up? I am leaning towards giving up. What’s to keep Turbine from doing this again?