Turbine became too US-focused ?

[Aloro]

Tolkien's lore has to be respected.

If you place a world map over a map of Tolkiens universe you will find that Valinor and America are in the exact same place.

Valinor was a land of abundance, beauty, living dreams, and above all, a very well defined immigration policy.

I think this is no coincidence.

Lore > All

Lol! Hilarious stuff. +rep

[MataTahu]

Count yourself lucky that you have so many public holidays in your country then, as in the UK we have had precisely zero since the merger.

Turbine don't choose maintenance times with the idea of inconveniencing ANY of their customers. They do it when
a - their staff are available
b - their suppliers are available
c - a and be will still be available if anything goes wrong.

And a point that everyone seems to miss: these scheduled maintenance windows have ALWAYS been on Mondays (although in this situation I don't know if we're even talking about a monday. but I digress). Time was when we had a Monday Maintenance every 2 weeks.

[whheydt]

When the servers are down, one could always read a book. I understand Tolkien's _Lord of the Rings_ is pretty good...

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

[Ailedra]

its just not that popular like in USA because as stated Turbine is focused on USA. Not only with maintenace but also payment methods. Credit card is the most popular in USA. And as I have realised some time ago, we can buy time card but paying 30$ for 2 months instead od 3 like americans with their cards...

I know, right? How DARE a company conduct business in their native time zone and in their native currency?

[Ironcrown]

When the servers are down, one could always read a book. I understand Tolkien's _Lord of the Rings_ is pretty good...

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

WINNER! +1 rep for you

[Zarador]

When the servers are down, one could always read a book. I understand Tolkien's _Lord of the Rings_ is pretty good...

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

• Ironically, he avoided actual religion in the books...
• The books would one day be the basis for an online game...
• Which in turn would be down one day for a short period of time...At which time devotes to his works would complain that the company did not respect a religious holiday allowing them to play a game based on those works.

[Unique]

America leads the world in flag gif technology. I can't contain my pride, the patriotism, it bursts from me like an overripe pumpkin!

Overripe pumpkins can be fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q


/end "accidental" derail

Now back to our regularly scheduled entitlement thread

[Celestrata]

As with the last thread, I'm going to close this to prevent it from getting out of hand. (And because it's technically a continuation of a closed thread.)

However, I will say that our maintenance times are always posted well in advance of our maintenance, and almost always take place on Mondays (except the rare maintenance that may take place at another time of the week.)

If you want a heads up on our maintenance, look no further than the LOTRO launcher for all of your news needs. I always make sure it's at the top of the launcher news list when its posted. Or, you can always check our our Announcements and Service News forum for information on maintenance times as well.