Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[Elevese]

Is it me? or is it every time there is a new major patch, the strain on the severs are so great that it takes hours, nah, DAYS! for some people to patch.

Surely WB/Turbine anticipate this? If so, you would think they would inprove the size of their patch sever so it can handle more people. Surley they can afford this now with everyone buying TP's. Please Turbine, help a poor addict out

[PuhFifer]

Still nothing, but not getting too annoyed since it looks like gladden is going to be the last server to come back up anyway.

[Valens74]

They could provide information and ETA's but don't....doesn't matter any more because all my characters are history and I'm moving on.

Now the LOTRO forum is not working....useless!

[frigar]

why not share it in p2p network? gazillion seeds and everyone would be updated and happy already...

[jckay2002]

I've just uninstalled the game and am looking for something else to play. Turbine have handled this terribly. You'll never get another $ out of me....goodnight!

Bye, thanks for opening another spot up for those who care and have patience.

[korat102]

You couldn't run that same software, coz these two machines have different OS's, hardware, processors and share only one thing - the brand name Atari. Atari 800 was an 8-bit, Atari ST - 16-bit. Correct me if I am wrong.

That's right but lots of things were ported across for the ST, they needed to keep their customer base since most people regarded Atari's as nothing but games machines. The 800 used an 8-bit 6502 CPU, the ST had a 16/32-bit 68000 CPU.

[Yogol]

They are working on it? What else you think they are doing?

Euh... except that they are not working on it ? ''There is nothign to fix'' is their statement. Believe it or not, that is what they say... After hours of waiting to connect and hour to wait to patch and then AGAIN hours of waiting to connect, they answer ''there is nothing to fix''.

It's never a good sign when they merge posts into one, it's easier for them to ignore things that way.

[Aeggil]

grats to those who are able to patch and play...

/sigh

patched != playing...i patched 1 pc (other still hasn't) 3.5hours ago, but can't still can't log in lol

Ah well, nevermind, glad it should be up all day tomorrow when my kids are at their nan's

C

[lockecd]

Several hours ago, after having been stuck at the "examine game data" stage for at least an hour, I restarted my client. Big mistake. Now I can't even connect to the server. (Still.) It would be very helpful to hear from Turbine that this is being addressed, even if the news is that we will just have to be patient, maybe for hours to come.

I to restarted...

[xtrader]

still can't connect and don't know anyone who can...

"update error occurred: a connection attempt failed"

something tells me this is not going to change tomorrow. imo

[NKolev]

What if i have patched but still cant go in because im stuck at the same connection failed attempt???

[EhrisTiubar]

Don't worry folks...

MMO Login Servers can only handle so many concurrent requests before a crafty network technician on the layer 2 network node towards the last mile to Turbine's Datacenter decides it is time to slow down all the "distributed denial of service" coming from all of us gamers :-) No way that'll ever change on days like this one. It is not failure on Turbine's part at all. Just common IT sense we're getting a taste of right now ^_^

Just hang in there - we're still early after all, with the release officially coming on 27th.

[Galadrias]

Man, I just started patching and I bet someone already killed Saruman and got his staff unique drop.

It's funny actually :-D but Saruman will never be killed unless Grima puts a knife in his back in the Shire. There will never be a chance for players to kill Saruman because it would break the lore.

[Beothryd]

Still retrying to connect o well we 'll w8

[LeatherGimp]

They could provide information and ETA's but don't....doesn't matter any more because all my characters are history and I'm moving on.

How old are you? 12?

[Spuddo]

This thread has already got past lvl 65 T_T

[NIckysmom2]

I have successfully logged in after letting the launcher cycle through attempts for about 20 minutes. I guess I had better look at my minstrel first, since it will have the most changes. Good luck to the rest of you!

[UwS-Harledir]

Would you rather have them sitting here answering every single question, or off working on their computers so that we can get into the game faster?

*Them* is (in this thread) only Sapience - and he is being payed to do this! He is not the administrator working on the servers.

[Stadic]

Bye, thanks for opening another spot up for those who care and have patience.

+Rep

Anyone complaining they can't play RoI before the 27th didn't the read ad very well. I'll count anytime today as "early"

[AlphaMan]

25 % patched and ticking away!

Just leave it auto-trying guys, it'll go through eventually. That's all I did

[Araglad]

Why had Turbine open the servers putting more stress on the patching server (you client need to connect with it every time you logon to confirm you have the lattest version of client) when there are loads of people unable to patch his clients?

...

[LeatherGimp]

Deleting your toons and game because Turbine tries to launch the game a day early.

When you think you've seen it all.

[angrolas]

Lol guys, dont restart the LOTRO launcher, expecting it to work faster.
Think about it this way. Right now, we are all in a single file line, waiting to connect to turbines computer. When you restart your launcher, all that does is put you in the back of the line, increasing your wait time.

[Yogol]

why not share it in p2p network? gazillion seeds and everyone would be updated and happy already...

<nod> This was suggested a zillion times.
They never listened to it.

I guess they rather spend DEV time to store-upgrades or to changing the basic game-mechanisms so you need to buy more store items, then to spend time on helping their customers.

Amazing how less they care about their customers, simply amazing.

[angryhands]

I did an ipconfig /flushdns and reset my Router to reset the connection to the Akamai server.

This didn't work for me.