Game is beyond unplayable due to server lag

[Snobs]

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[maartena]

What server? I have no issues whatsoever on Arkenstone...

[DavidmeetHal]

I played Arkenstone this weekend with no issues. I heard that Landy had some problems.

[Snobs]

Evernight. PvMP. It's actually super unfun due to lags.

[Arnenna]

EN is unplayable atm. 98.8% packet loss, unable to move, unable to interact with NPC's but no disconnect and chat channels still up. WC showing tons of similar reports from lots of players.

Logging off now, and hopefully it will be cleared later.

[Ragard]

Arnor in similar state.

[Anaxapart]

Laurelin is unplayable today...

[Rosadora]

EN is unplayable atm. 98.8% packet loss, unable to move, unable to interact with NPC's but no disconnect and chat channels still up. WC showing tons of similar reports from lots of players.

Logging off now, and hopefully it will be cleared later.

I was playing on Anor a few moments ago, lag was horrendous. It seemed to clear up so I alted and I am now unable to log in at all, I get stuck at the loading screen

[Hobbit_bounder]

Laurelin is unplayable today...

Yeah, can't even move. Massive rubberbanding

[Arnenna]

I was playing on Anor a few moments ago, lag was horrendous. It seemed to clear up so I alted and I am now unable to log in at all, I get stuck at the loading screen

I just tried to log into Anor. Same problem.

[Seglord]

Landroval unplayable, rubberbanding, freezing, months of this, Why in the world can you not fix this game, or hire someone who can? this is getting absolutely negligent on you.

[krypto182]

getting major lag and rubberbanding on Gladden right now very unplayable

[Egoincinerator]

Brandywine is in the same state. Horrible rubberbanding, mounting/dismounting taking upwards of 10 seconds. Not good.

[peterbutt]

Brandywine lag is unbearable right now. Can we get a fix on this please?

[Naurien]

Gwaihir is the same, I had similar problems yesterday but now I am stuck in the loading screen...

[Grimkvnt]

Massive rubberbanding on Arkenstone, started about a half hour ago. I tried leaving MT to go to the south gate, got about half way there, and I keep rubber banding 30 yards back

[DavidmeetHal]

I won't be able to play for another 12 hours or so, anyone know how Arkenstone is today? Late last night, I was starting to get skill lag.

[Elrohir_of_Kellemar]

I immediately lost connection on Arkenstone, relogged and rode down the road about 15 seconds and froze. Gladdin was OK for a brief check-in before this.

[thinx]

Gwaihir, some phases with 0% loss, then long phases of 40%. /world is full of complaints.

[Thundertrain]

Confirming Arkenstone is in a similar state. Hitching and rubberbanding so badly in even low-populated areas that walking is a waste of time. *sigh*

Is this a server issue in the data center, or is this potentially some kind of connection issue? We're 2 for 2 on mornings this week, though yesterday everything was cleaned up and functional again about 2 hours after the issues started.

[Bryos]

Lag/rubber banding on Crickhollow for the last hour.

[Volospian_Grimfist]

Getting annoying now. We had the downtime a few weeks ago while SSG "investigated issues in their DC". I stayed calm and accepted that stuff happens and they would get things fixed... then the gameworlds were reopened... but very little actually changed.

Still getting connection issues, rubberbanding, freezing, etc. Still getting the random "no items in your house" issue, world transfers are back down (or were, not checked today), epic battles were unavailable.

My VIP sub runs out in a couple of days and, while I do enjoy the game, I have spent a lot of money on this recently, furnishing my house and my kin house with LoTRO points, as well as VIP... and I can rarely use my purchases as I can either not log in, not play the game, or not access my items. It gets worse when I try to play in a fellowship as the issues are spread across all parties (not working for one, impacts all)

SSG gave a basic apology and a few free tomes, etc. for the downtime, but they haven't really *fixed* anything. At this stage, there is no end in site, and not even a pretence that SSG are working on the issues. Can we desist with the new features and extra areas and instead focus on fixing the actual issues with the game? If this remains in this state for much longer I will cut my losses and move on to something else.

[Gildoriel]

Hah! You guys moan about not being able to move - I've been getting stuck at the loading screen after choosing a character and even the login server several times now. The "connexion" just times out. Ah well, I guess for me it's back to Dragon Age Origins again ...

EDIT: I'll just add this to my comment: Today, after coming back from a vacation without internet for 2 weeks, I actually thought about buying some Lotro points to be able to afford one of those fancy Rohan houses - after all they fixed the quest I was so mad about. But this experience is a dire warning to me: I won't invest one more cent into a game when I can't be sure I'll be able to play at all. When the game has been running (relatively) smoothly for enough time (not sure yet how long that is exactly) then I'll reconsider, but currently I am constantly thinking they'll end up not being able to make the servers work.

[Hankenstein]

Not true, Arkenstone and Landroval are very much playable, its probably your connection i had no problems on either and my internet is not even good, some hiccups here and there and servers are broke

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[Gildoriel]

Not true, Arkenstone and Landroval are very much playable, its probably your connection i had no problems on either and my internet is not even good, some hiccups here and there and servers are broke

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Lol, I was actually waiting for this response - when a large number of people have the same problem at the same time, what is more probable? That the problem is on all their individual sides at the same time or that there is one central problem which affects all of them? You know, the players that report problems come from different countries, different continents ... I don't believe some internet company cut a cable by mistake.