October 14, 2012
The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, October 15th at 6:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for the release of Update 8: Riders of Rohan! Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the game soon! Patch notes will be available on Monday, during the downtime.
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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[...] LOTRO has posted the release notes for Update 8: Riders of Rohan to the lorebook for your reading while we wait for the servers to come back online! [...]
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October 14, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Interestingly, no word about the restart time…
October 14, 2012 at 6:23 pm
If I had to guess I’d say it’ll probably be up by noon
October 14, 2012 at 6:29 pm
The timer on this site says 5 hours till Rohan. O_o
October 14, 2012 at 8:46 pm
because its counting down the time to the date not the time it launches
October 14, 2012 at 9:15 pm
From what happened when RoI came out the downtime lasted dam near the entire day. If i can recall, it came back 12 hours after the downtime began
October 14, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Just saying it might take just as long for this update so don’t get you’re hopes high if you think you can start playing at around noon. Be prepared for the worst
October 14, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Breaking News- “ROR is being delayed again till November 30th. We are sorry about the delay but there are just too many bugs currently in BETA. We will be giving out additional goodie bags containing – 5x Hard Biscuits, 5x Grey Dye and your choice of a free month subscription to World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 – your choice.”
Gotcha !
Nah this thing is finally coming out and I’m psyched for it. Would have liked to see a midnight release but who can complain its finally here. Hooray.
October 15, 2012 at 12:06 am
*/fishslap*
October 15, 2012 at 6:06 am
nice try, but GW2 doesn’t have a subscription – it’s basically a lifetime account with 1 purchase: the game itself for 50 euro or 60 bucks.
been playing lotro for 2 years and gw2 for 5 days and honestly it bears no comparison but hey, i’m looking forward for a couple of weeks of new lotro material just up to the point when the grind will resume, then it’s bye-bye till the dungeons come out.
October 15, 2012 at 12:37 am
Any clues on how to download the mac client? I can’t find it anywhere on the site.