Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[Valens74]

Quick show of hands how many are stuck on "Examining Game Data : Waiting"?

I would be if I hadn't have deleted the game from my system in protest at customer service.

[Redplague90]

and ur even shareing this ???? when some of uss cant even patch ???

where is our torrent ????

where is the patch ??+

i apologise if u find this offencive but turbine should know better and give us a torrent ... so we can patch...

there should be a standalone patcher for it that released last week would have made it alot easier. tbh.

[Nostro44]

I wasn't even planning on entering Dunland today...

[zathscorp]

At the moment, my updater is is an endless loop attempting to connect to the server for the actual game update. It tries once a minute and fails.

[Raran]

we payed 50 USD for this expansion now we cannot even download it.

You payed 50 bucks for something on the 27th, not the 26th. So tomorrow you might have a point.

[Blaize_EU]

open your clinet and walk away. I've been waiting since 9am est to patch and at last it has started to down load. Once those that have patched are in game others will be able to start patching... Patch servers are working and game servers are up...

I'll see you 9am EST and raise you 9am BST. Fed up.

[Gareth420]

Why am I not suprised that no on (well, lots of people anyway) can't log in now that the servers are back up with the updates? Lesson learned: Never expect Turbine to do something correctly the first time..

I dont get why we didnt have the ability to prepatch like every other time. Just makes no sense. Hours and no word from anyone this is going to improve or what the issue might be. How they can just leave thousands of people hanging like this I have no idea. I do appreciate the mod telling people to stop making fun of others. I just dont get it how this could go so badly when Mirkwood went rather smooth. How can the patch servers after hours and hours of being up still not have capapcity? Seems to me like most just accept this shoddy service and they have no incentive to change.

[Natashaelle]

One of the problems with the update process is that the client has to connect to the servers multiple times, and every time it stops you get pushed back into the que[ue].

It's NOT a queue, it's more like a lottery.

[Horry]

Who else is playing Torchlight at the moment humming SHING SHING to himself?

[wsnyderco]

Restarting the client when you get the red X after having patched will do nothing to speed things up. It will most likely slow you down. If you are patched simply allow the client to retry normally.

We are seeing steady increases in the number of players per world and it is across all servers. So the patching servers and login servers are working as expected and players are getting into the game.

Good to know everything is going as expected. Thank you for clarification on this monumental accomplishment

[RoninT2T]

A few things here.

It took me 6/7 hours of 'connection attempts failed' to finally get the game patched. Once in it took 20 minutes to patch, which was impressive. Now can't get back in to actually play so I'll have to wait till tomorrow.

I can understand the frustration in here, but there isn't an unlimited amount of server time for everyone and when every player possible descends to try and patch at the same time there was always going to be issues. If Turbine have done everything possible, and to be honest it looks like they have by allocating extra servers and keeping everyone updated in this thread, then to me they don't deserve criticism.

We are getting this early. A day early. I'd say that by tomorrow the official launch date, everyone who wants to be will be patched up and playing. If that ends up being the case then it will be a job well done.

The launch date isn't the issue. The fact that so many are unable to connect to the updater is. I suspect if this had been released tomorrow we'd all be having the same problems. I spent 6hrs trying to connect to the updater, FINALLY got through only to have it get hung up on Examining Game Data for over an hour before I had to give up and restart the launcher, where I'm now stuck again at trying to connect.

Why are so many of us upset?? I don't know about other players, but I'm extremely disappointed because I've been playing this game since closed beta; I've gone through every update/expansion and NEVER EVER did I encounter this issue. At most I had to endure 15-20 minutes of trying to connect to the updater. I find it difficult to believe that since the last update this game has grown exponentially in the number of players to the point that we're encountering half-a-day wait times just to update. And when I see complaints on the forums and read that the devs are responding with threats to hand out infractions I lose all faith whatsoever in Turbine.

Solution? Next time Turbine asks for my vote in naming them as the top game in this contest or that, I shall politely decline. Next time Turbine asks me to recommend the game to a friend, again I shall politely decline. And if the rest of you are disappointed with how this update has unfolded, I suggest you do the same. Perhaps when they place last instead of first in the next Best MMO contest they'll get the message that they've disappointed a large percentage of their player population.

[lockecd]

How big is the patch? Does anyone know?

my screen says 1290/5080


hopefully this helps

[swamphobbit]

WOOT!!!

Just started patching.

[Cherrio]

conncetion refused conncetion refused

connection failed connection failed

conncetion refused conncetion refused

6+ hours of this if not more...

torrent torrent torrent torrent torrent torrent torrent torrent can we get a torrent torrent

[Droixhe]

Updating after 10 hours!! glory! victory! Now to start queue to actually log in to the game...

[UwS-Harledir]

So the patching servers and login servers are working as expected and players are getting into the game.

So you are actually saying that you / turbine expected these problems and went head on into them without actually doing something to avoid them?

[Jessy82]

we payed 50 USD for this expansion now we cannot even download it.


i call out to turbine GIVE US A TORRENT ITS NOT HARD TAKES 4 SECUNDS!!!

I was a bit disappointed when I realized I'd have to wait, but not surprised... There's a ton of people excited to play, just be patient. Pretend it's coming out tomorrow (that's what I though until 5 minutes ago, lol) and go outside for a bit.

[opus512]

This updating took (still taking) so long and I keep refreshing this thread so often that finally the situation made me enter the lotro community. here is my very firts post: btw the seals are so lonely..

I figure if anything this gives me a chance to up my post count, lol.

[Fendrone]

This is sad that people are dying over this. Tons of people are trying to get on, it's going to go slow. Can't you even appreciate that it's releasing a day early? That Sapience has been responding to so much pointless banter is incredible.

Let it keep trying to connect and download and go for a walk or go see a movie... it won't kill you not be first to 75.

[keewa]

It seems that my guildmates who patched after servers came up are having no problems getting onto the game, but those of us who patched before the servers came up are stuck with the "connect/reconnect" thingy. Any ideas?

[TKRain]

I haven't read all 93 pages of this thread but I would like to know if there has been any news as to why some of us cannot patch much less log in and play.

[Oregonstate121]

If I havent patched yet should I be restarting the client or can i just let it retry on its own?

[Gareth420]

Restarting the client when you get the red X after having patched will do nothing to speed things up. It will most likely slow you down. If you are patched simply allow the client to retry normally.

We are seeing steady increases in the number of players per world and it is across all servers. So the patching servers and login servers are working as expected and players are getting into the game.

So you guys expected that most would be locked out and not able to patch for most of the day? I do not understand this statement at all. You knew ahead of time this was going to happen then is what you are saying then did nothing to prevent it? I dont understand at all.

[jlr]

Restarting the client when you get the red X after having patched will do nothing to speed things up. It will most likely slow you down. If you are patched simply allow the client to retry normally.

We are seeing steady increases in the number of players per world and it is across all servers. So the patching servers and login servers are working as expected and players are getting into the game.

But what if we haven't patched? Should we keep restarting the client once we get the red x, or let it automatically retry?

[Celebria]

There must be an awful lot of game data because after 15 minutes, I'm still examining it.

LOL