March 21st Release Date for Echoes of the Dead?!?

Ten Ton Hammer reported incidentally that Echoes of the Dead is scheduled to be released on March 21st. Any confirmation on this from Turbine?

http://www.tentonhammer.com/lotro/features/playsession

Yeah, it has been quite the talk for the past couple of days:

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...-date-March-21
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...-on-21st-March

Also, the 22nd is the tentative date for spring festival to begin.

March 21 is the official release date for Update 2: Echoes of the Dead.

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Originally Posted by Sapience

March 21 is the official release date for Update 2: Echoes of the Dead.

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Thats a pretty weak 'official' announcement...the 'coming soon' got more attention. at least put something in the announcement forum. There isn't even anything on the LOTRO homepage.

/yawn

Well, I guess a little confirmation is better than no confirmation at all! :)
Looks like there was some miscommunication between dept at Turbine over the timing of the announcement.
"Just" another week before the new raid goes live...

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Originally Posted by Laokong

Well, I guess a little confirmation is better than no confirmation at all! :)
Looks like there was some miscommunication between dept at Turbine over the timing of the announcement.
"Just" another week before the new raid goes live...

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Sigh.

Well, it's good to know that if this goes live as is that my new trait will function about two out of every thirty times I log in... so long as I don't change my traits around at all... which immediately breaks it again.

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Originally Posted by Chroner

Thats a pretty weak 'official' announcement...the 'coming soon' got more attention. at least put something in the announcement forum. There isn't even anything on the LOTRO homepage.

/yawn

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The announcement was made after Turbine closed for the weekend at Pax. Look for something in the launcher and other places now that they have decent internet access. Sapience stated that the folks at Pax could use Twitter. The forums could not be accessed because the convention had grid locked the internet.

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Originally Posted by Yula_the_Mighty

The announcement was made after Turbine closed for the weekend at Pax. Look for something in the launcher and other places now that they have decent internet access. Sapience stated that the folks at Pax could use Twitter. The forums could not be accessed because the convention had grid locked the internet.

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I figured they'd make the announcement at PAX. Too bad the interwebz there was broken. :( I wish they had set something up to release it from their offices instead of a stealth announcement via Twitter. I even got that tweet but it was a secondary clause about people being able to get their new mounts that they'd won. It slipped right by.

still dont see anything on launcher or an official forum post hehe

ok, so some other site released the news, then turbine decided to twitter it, Sapience confirmed it in this thread, Pax attendees were apparantly told about it, but nothing on the official forums? See anything wrong with this picture?

Cmon Turbine, don't you want folks that have been taking a break to come back? There should be a splashy announcement both by email to subscribers and a post on the announcement forum as well as a splash screen when logging into game. Is it that hard to advertise the release date? I don't know, it just seems like Turbine would be excited about this update, I know most of the players are.

1 week too late

THIS week is spring break :(

Hey! Check out that horse's teeth!