Turbine has launched it’s European LOTRO Account Migration page! Time for our EU friends to prepare to join all of us into one happy LOTRO family!
Starting May 31st the LOTRO European servers will temporarily go down for service migration. After a short period (2-3 days) service will be restored and you can begin playing your existing characters once again. Begin your account migration before the worlds come up by visiting http://transfer.lotro.com and following the easy instructions. After May 31st you will no longer be able to play LOTRO in Europe until this process is complete.
Source: LOTRO Forums
It is recommended that players follow LOTRO’s Twitter and/or Facebook for updates during the migration process. Now is a good time to review the migration FAQ to make sure everything is ready for the move over!
Special Migration VIP Pricing Offer
Limited Time Offer – Get a Year Long Subscription for Just £79.99
Sign up for a 12-Month Reoccurring Subscription plan at an incredible new low price and receive 500 Turbine Points per month. Offer available for a limited time!
LOTRO’s twitter account also claims a similar offer to for U.S. players to be announced soon as well.
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May 27, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Um…why is 79.99 pounds a good deal for a yearly subscription? In the US we can already get four 3-month subscriptions (3 months of VIP for $30) for $120 and according to my currency converter, 79.99 pounds = $131.93.
Hopefully people will do the math first (unless maybe I’m really bad at math/conversions?)…
May 27, 2011 at 7:39 pm
The prices never followed the current exchange rates (well, they did back in 2007 but they’ve been kept the same since)
3-month subscription used to be £25 or so in EU.
May 28, 2011 at 12:22 pm
back before i bought my Lifetime subscription, i was paying £36 for three months – so £80 for 12 months is quite a discount.
and why are the prices not comparable? they never have been… one of the things we in Europe (€ were always higher than the equivalent £ price) are secretly hoping for from the transfer is that we start getting charged comparable US prices – it will be quite a considerable saving.
May 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I have a question. If I migrate my account now I’ll still have my month that I won right? The european client is taking forever to download…
If everything goes fine, I should be able to play on the US client with my codemaster account at most in june 5, right?
May 27, 2011 at 4:26 pm
If you have created your Codemasters account and applied the code to that account, yes. All game time applied transfers with you.
May 27, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Peter, your conversions don’t work because European customers will be charged VAT for the EU, which US customers obviously are not. The prices therefore won’t convert directly.
May 29, 2011 at 12:45 am
I haven’t really read any of the migration stuff because it doesn’t involve me at all… however, is joining the North American servers an option for European players? I would like to see more players stream into Nimrodel!
May 30, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Yes, all servers will be available to all players when the ex-european ones are back up properly. The current Turbine servers will be available for us movers as soon as our new Turbine accounts are made, while it’ll take a couple days for our old servers and characters to become available again. I just hope my names aren’t taken on Landroval yet
June 1, 2011 at 3:01 am
Hello, I was playing on Europe Lotro but now as the transition started I don;t really understend how to migrate and change my accaunt to turbine? If there would possibly be a chance for someone to explain I’ll much appriciate it. P.S. English is not my native.
June 1, 2011 at 6:05 am
There’s nothing for you to do at this time. Watch this page http://transfer.lotro.com which is available in english, french or german. When it is time for you to migrate your characters, that page will update with instructions for you.
June 2, 2011 at 8:06 am
Hi, can someone help me pls im just took out the 1 year subscription for $99 but i live in England so will i be paying $99 or the £79 and how coem its coming up in dollars for me instead of Gbp or euros?
June 2, 2011 at 8:17 am
Did you migrate your account or did you have a previous Turbine account? I would suggest you contact account support and see if there is a way to get your currency changed. Let us know if you were able to do so! I’d be interested if that is possible.
June 2, 2011 at 8:19 am
i only just migrated it, butfor some reason every is in dollars and i could not find anything on the FAQ on turbine and just wondered if anyone else having problems
June 2, 2011 at 8:44 am
Plus i cant even find a phone number for european account support or for england only american, there seems to be no support for europe?
June 2, 2011 at 9:06 am
I don’t think there is any difference. We are all part of Turbine and use Turbine Support.
Account Management phone support is available from Noon to 8:45pm (Eastern Time) Monday – Friday at (781) 407-4020.