The Isengard Private Preview Program

[bigo2mags]

OMG! Have the WB execs been briefed about this snafu?

I love how this reads.... Basically sounds like a veiled message saying "I'm telling!"

Haha, poor Kehleyr. Keep your head up man, I'm sure you'll fix the test server issues the right way. No sense in building additions for the house if there's cracks in the foundation.

[gildhur]

THANKS for updates.

I hope this does not impact on the quality of the next major update because for sure significant new content not being tested by players is a worry.

I guess bullroarer can be opened early if need be.

Yeah, for something as major as the new zone and cluster we're expecting in B2, we're going to need rigorous testing somewhere, regardless of what the name of the server is.

[Ayrolen]

Haha, poor Kehleyr. Keep your head up ma'am...

FTFY.

moarwordz

[bigo2mags]

FTFY.

moarwordz

I was speaking in general LotRo race terms, specifically "Race of Man." I'd have have called Kehl a Dwarf, but that'd be presumptuous. Sorry I didn't make it clearer.

[mjk47]

If we're really going to get pedantic, I think that you can only specify 50% Race of Man. K'Ehleyr was half Klingon!

[KouklaGirl]

As usual, when we have news to tell we will tell it, but for the time being the Preview Program remains in limbo until certain systems decide they want to come out and play now.

Good to hear. Thanks for the info.

Maybe we can replace the hamsters with the Warner Brothers and the Warner sister, Dot.

[gildhur]

I'd have have called Kehl a Dwarf, but that'd be presumptuous.

Probably accurate in olfactory terms.

[evilping]

All due respect, I would think that whoever the Powers That Be are should be aware that there is currently no functioning test server for this game. Bullroarer isn't sufficient. Good (and swift) luck, regardless.

Agreed. What if a security issue arose? Or a critical crashing bug? I would assume Turbine has an IST environment internal to them that they could unit test these items but how do you evaluate on a larger, more complete scale?

Seems risky to have no functioning test environment beyond Bullroarer but if it's a software issue, I'd assume that Bullroarer would then have the problem if you loaded the software on to it.

Not informing senior management always comes back to haunt ya.

[Kehleyr]

Could we please keep this thread about questions on the program or the application process? All this speculation about why it's down, how long it's down, or what we are doing about it being down isn't helping anything.

Be assured this program is getting the attention it deserves from the people who need to be working on it.

Thank you for your compliance with this request.

[maradakia]

Any idea when invites will resume? I saw someone wrote a post saying it was back up and running and got excited : )

Ode to Isengard

Where one looks for bugs
And is gladdened to find them
And where does a patch
Truly make a thing new

Who walks unforged paths
To the smooth out the way
Who charts the uncharted
And incalculable too

Our eyes seek them out
We guard lest they stray
Like scouts for the builders
And kids to QA : )

[Kehleyr]

Any idea when invites will resume? I saw someone wrote a post saying it was back up and running and got excited : )

Unfortunately, no.