July 15, 2012
The LOTRO Game Servers, http://myaccount.turbine.com, and http://my.lotro.com will be offline for maintenance on Monday, July 16th from 3:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT). For updates during the downtime, you can follow LOTRO on Twitter or like The Lord of the Rings Online on Facebook.
Source: LOTRO Forums
Goldenstar plays a minstrel as her main and enjoys the small things in LOTRO like festivals, parties, & clothing. In her spare time, she will join in fellowships to root out evil from Middle-earth.
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July 15, 2012 at 4:21 pm
what am i going to do when game server is off line ?
play tibia ?
July 15, 2012 at 6:26 pm
that’s a long down time. Anybody know what they will be doing?
July 15, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Major back-end cleaning of all their servers.
July 15, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Draigoch needs to look for all of his lost loot.
July 15, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Exciting. Hope they have patch notes. They didn’t mention any though:(
July 15, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Well, this looks to be just maintenance, not a patch or update, so I doubt there’d be patch notes.
Sapience’s blog post about this, because link are fun: http://my.lotro.com/user-34/2010/09/17/i-dont-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/
July 16, 2012 at 8:21 am
Maintenance is usually one of two things.
A) like an MOT and service for the car where they go through a list and make sure things are ticking over and running well.
B) like an MOT and service for the car where the moron doing it goes through the list but cant be bothered to do the stuff as it’s almost knocking off time.
Sounds like it’s more a post christmas excercise regime type of thing to get the servers ready for the next influx of stuffing.
July 16, 2012 at 12:47 pm
As usual it seems that Turbine cannot achieve the basic business aim of communicating to their customers when promises cannot be kept – servers still down but no note to say why or a prediction of when they’ll be back.
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they don’t understand British Summer Time and see if the servers spring up at six rather than the announced five
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July 16, 2012 at 1:26 pm
They did post on both twitter and facebook that downtime is extended until 2pm.
July 16, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Aye about two minutes after I posted above … I suspect they are lurking in the CStM forums
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Still they were 15 minutes past the deadline before they finally bit the bullet and admitted to their failure – it is customary business practice to warn your customers you are going to fail to deliver before it’s already too late
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I’m probably just sour because in my line of work if we don’t deliver six weeks before the install date we are in trouble
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July 16, 2012 at 3:58 pm
First off, this is meant to be a positive, friendly post, not trying to troll anyone or start conflict. In my opinion, gamers often demand more from developers than they are willing to pay. For a game that costs, at most, $10/month to play + cost of expansions, I don’t expect the same reliability and level of communication that I would if I were a business paying hundreds or thousands of dollars a month for a service. If I paid Turbine $50/month for the right to play lotro, I’d expect a far higher level of quality, communication and reliability. Ultimately, my reason for posting this is to try to get people to think about their (in my opinion) conflicting desires to pay as little money as possible for something while at the same time asking for tons of features/communication. Again, I’m not trying to call out anyone in particular nor troll, I have a ton of respect and love for everyone who posts on the best blog on the internet imo!