Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[Apparently]

Help I am having a big problem also. I am in the US and can't get past connect to examine programs. Just keeps saying a connect attempt failed and 60 sec to retry over and over again.

Well, since you've quoted another post in this thread, you must have already read through the thread and discovered that this is a known issue and you are not the only one experiencing it, so I'll refrain from further comment.

[Dean340]

i wonder...are pre orders getting access to the patch servers before the rest of us?

[Kamikaze420]

It isn't like the employee in charge of the contest is the same one(s) who are working on the game, they have a few different employees in different departments. It's like being at a nice restaurant and having the valet drop everything to run in and help you prepare the food.

No, it's more like...

there's a fire in the restaurant, and the valet is still trying to park cars, instead helping the situation by getting the F out of the way.

[E_Loomis]

This is frustrating.

1) Because VIP people who pay for the full game should have patching priority over the countless hordes of f2ps.

2) Because people WHO ALREADY PATCHED ARE CLOGGING THE QUEUE FOR NO REASON AT ALL, and compounding the problem for everyone... WHY?

[AlphaMan]

No, it's more like...

there's a fire in the restaurant, and the valet is still trying to park cars, instead helping the situation by getting the F out of the way.

It's more like there's a patch server with thousands of players trying to connect all at once and limited spots, so people have to wait their turn.

[InsectorGadget]

read thread before posting

kthnxbai


p.s once connected took only 10 mins to patch at my network ~max speed, Uk

[Brethwyn_EU]

Don't you get it?

They're delaying it to harvest the last crops of money by showing the "Pre-Purchase" screen as long as possible

[Cherrio]

i wonder...are pre orders getting access to the patch servers before the rest of us?

no i doubt that very much. i have pre order and i cannot patch and i have not been able to patch dureing the entire day.

[ElFenix]

I'm still unable to connect, I've been trying repeatedly on three computers, and all three are getting "An update error occurred: A connection attempt failed."

stop trying with the other 2. you only need one computer patched and then you can copy the client over to the other 2.

[Louvre]

i wonder...are pre orders getting access to the patch servers before the rest of us?

No. I made the preorder the very first day, before the site went down. Still can't get a conection.

[Bedlamb]

This is frustrating.

1) Because VIP people who pay for the full game should have patching priority over the countless hordes of f2ps.

2) Because people WHO ALREADY PATCHED ARE CLOGGING THE QUEUE FOR NO REASON AT ALL, and compounding the problem for everyone... WHY?

quoted for truth

[Canticle]

What is wrong. Does this mean I need to resinstall the whole game again. Twitter is worthless. They only care about a stupid contest.

Anyway is anyone else have this connect problem????? my internet is fine. LOL i am on this so it is working.

It's server load, and lots of people are in the same boat as you are. Two seperate connections and accounts, and I'm 0/480 connect attempts (4 hours of retries every 1 minute).

Thankfully I just let the patcher run in the background and do other things while I'm waiting, but it's not endearing me to Turbine right now when I can't get even get to the Patch server, never mind the fact the servers aren't even up yet so when they are, the load of people trying to log in (and consequently, bogging down the patch server as their clients are verified) isn't going to make things any easier.

[dagnic]

Could someone please tell me how to find out if my client is already patched or not?

[Gamdred]

For those asking how to tell if you are patched; from what I remember of other patch days, once you are patched you go through to trying to login to the game servers, which, assuming they are down, should be producing 403 HTTP errors (Forbidden). So if you are seeing a 403 error then you are patched and the game servers are down, whereas if you are just seeing "A connection attempt failed", you still need to patch but the patch servers are overloaded.

Can someone who has already patched/Sapience, please confirm that once patched you will see a 403 error to indicate the game servers are down, and if you are seeing this to please close your launcher to save capacity on the patch servers.

[ty_shoe_33]

Guess there's also a F2P player or two who never experienced a serious update on lotro before.

Just hang in there if you really want to play today or else come back in a few when the rush is gone

i have gotten used to them been with lotro since high school so been through some big ones

[zclabaugh]

They're are taking the hobbits to Isengard, just wait a few more hours and they will arrive and the everything will start working again!!

[Glumposneak]

I am one of those who still can't connect due to the high load. Should I keep the client up trying to connect by itself or restart the client often?

I've noticed that even if you restart the client, it still puts you in the same queue, what I mean is, if the retry is in 45 secs and you close the client down, wait 10 secs then open another one, the retry will be around 30 odd secs, not 59.

I'm leaving mine open and reading forums and doing other things

[AlphaMan]

This is frustrating.

1) Because VIP people who pay for the full game should have patching priority over the countless hordes of f2ps.

2) Because people WHO ALREADY PATCHED ARE CLOGGING THE QUEUE FOR NO REASON AT ALL, and compounding the problem for everyone... WHY?

To answer 1) This is early. And servers aren't up. Priority wouldn't change anything (you'll have priority login when the servers are actually up, not just patching)

2) Because they don't read all the posts.

No need for yelling.

[newbismo]

Unfortunately, you see, there are a loooot of people who jump to conclusions about stuff.

The patch server's lagged under the launch-day demand? Then clearly it must be a bug brought on by shoddy code from lazy coders only out for money-grubbing WB, etc. etc.

Seriously folks, relax.

People just need to understand that it's like a huge crowd of people all trying to get tickets to a concert at the same time.

[Mariasha]

i wonder...are pre orders getting access to the patch servers before the rest of us?

We've only got one of three computers updated, and were definitely pre-order Legendary blah blah blah.... so I'm going to say... no. ;D

[Laire]

*sigh* Off to school. It's likely going to be even worse when I get back home, what with every US player coming back to patch... *sadness*

Oh well.

[Kamikaze420]

It's more like there's a patch server with thousands of players trying to connect all at once and limited spots, so people have to wait their turn.

Please refer to the previous posts regarding this. The discussion is regarding Turbine's tweets about some silly contests when there are so many upset customers.

[HolyGigi]

Turbine, can you haz moar bandwith?
@ newbismo: thats why you give the tickets out on a torrent file. That way everyone can print the tickets and instead of long queues, we call can get in as fast as we can run to that show.
Just to use you analogy

[Cherrio]

its getting annoying not to be able to download patch can WE GET A REAL TORRENT OFFICIAL ???

its soon bed time here so i wanna patch before i sleep <.<

[Thornpaw]

Wow I'm already level 67; these quests are really laid out nicely. The flow reminds me of the revamped Evendim. Cheers.