Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[angryhands]

how about u shall not patch

Yes, even better!

[wsnyderco]

I certainly don't feel like a Very Important Person right now.

Very Irritated Person?
Violent Illogical Person?

[Spuddo]

a Haikui called "FUUUUUUU!&&%"

red cross
minutes become eternity
a man cries

[LegendOfKamikazee]

Finally started patch process after 3 hours of the red x trying to connect every minute

[Belnavar]

I tried to start patching when the patching servers originally came online at around 11am UK time. It's now approaching 9:30pm, some 10.5 hours later, and there's absolutely no progress whatsoever. Let me repeat that: 10.5 hours!

Absolutely failure of a launch day. I expect delays and waits, but this is ridiculous. Bring back the old expansion launches! They were much better than this. No wonder you didn't have to make an instanced area for the initial zerg - you're filtering us out on the patching and login servers instead!

-Bel

[Ailedra]

So you're saying that Turbine hasn't had the time and money to address this? Or that they didn't anticipate that there'd be the requirement for additional capacity?

Not at all. I'm saying a responsible business doesn't spend 20 bucks to protect 25 cents of potential revenue. Without knowing those costs and potential losses, I'm saying that neither you nor I know enough to know whether they should or shouldn't have spent that money.

[Glaumli]

Kind of sucks when 10 people in your kin, on TS, are in already and you are the only one who isn't *cry*

[duamarth]

I was literally thinking "If I see that 00 go back to :59 again I swear I am going to..." when it sped down to "updating game data.."
you got lucky this time, patch server, quite lucky...

[Pepperdyne]

I did it for all of the nifty loot I got, personally.

come on that nifty loot you speak of was pretty #### tbh lol. 1st thing i did was trash it all

[TreborPar]

Maybe we all just need more .

[Nodwick]

Good luck to all those patching, I'll be waiting a little while before doing so - I recall a most unfortunate incident in an old update that Eve Online went through, whereby the update modified the windows boot.ini rather than the games boot.ini file. If memory serves, this was only an issue for those using vista, but it caused a lot of people who restarted before the issue was fixed to have a corrupt O/S install.

Since then, I've avoided any major update for a good few hours or a day at least, just incase..

Just..incase.

Ahh yeah the fabled boot.ini incident. Was great, I remember that as well, coming home deciding to check forum to read about the update and seeing all those poor people who had lost their boot.ini file.

[PashionConscious]

I did it for all of the nifty loot I got, personally.

likewise. having that horse at Lvl 17 was like a sex-wee

[ThinkRSX]

If you are a pasty skinned basement dweller like me, get on Vent/Skype/The Comms you like and rage with your friends.

I wasn't going to say anything... but you do look awfully pasty in that photo...

[Cefely]

The best part of Patch Day? Reading the forums. I have been treated to a steady stream of whining, complaining, horrid spelling and abysmal punctuation. Quite entertaining.

haha right? We also have the obligatory 'I expect a refund' posts, 'I'm an IT guy/programmer/etc,etc and I know' posts; LOL cats, and even a 'Turbine ruined my birthday' post! Good times!

[Birpo]

Yesssssss

Now patching - delighted.

Don't worry folks, we'll all get in at some point.

[Moejo]

I was stuck on the Examine Game Data for the longest time. Finally I just shut it down and brought it back up to see if it would have any effect. It reconnected once or twice and then immediately went into the patch. Patching now.
Good luck guys.

I sat on examine game data for a little over an hour(after waiting to connect for 6 or 7 hours), restarted it and now I'm back at failed connections again. Glad someone's having better luck than me.

[Chrysoprase]

come on that nifty loot you speak of was pretty #### tbh lol. 1st thing i did was trash it all

I'm a cosmetics fiend. Also those 25% exp pocket items saved me a ton of time leveling up my 8 alts.

[madbadrob69]

Erm, that's a poor analogy. The "dealership" in this case never promised you the car on the 26th; their paperwork and all official communications always said you'd get the car on the 27th. You looked closely at your paperwork and saw that your car was being shipped from another dealership on the 26th, and so you got all worked up and excited about the thought of getting your car early. The car is ready in the middle of the day on the 26th, a day before it was promised.

But self-entitlement is a powerful thing indeed. So you get upset because YOU had decided that the car would be available on the morning of the 26th. Never mind that the dealership told you the car wouldn't be yours until the 27th. Never mind the fact that you actually took possession of the car a day before you were "supposed" to. You're upset because the dealership didn't meet the arbitrary and imaginary deadline that YOU came up with.

That's pretty unreasonable, really. They exceeded their promise. They got the car to you before they said they would. That's actually the bottom line.

However this was originally promised today and was then pushed back to the 27th. My receipt for the pre purchase quite clearly states today. As of now I haven't got it and therefore I am not happy

[Mandli]

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.

No problem. It's WAI. Really?

[RamsFan21]

I just tried something that may help others.... I emptied my Windows 7 Temp folder and the patch started immediately.

[lotroperson]

woohoo finally made it in

[Valens74]

Not at all. I'm saying a responsible business doesn't spend 20 bucks to protect 25 cents of potential revenue. Without knowing those costs and potential losses, I'm saying that neither you nor I know enough to know whether they should or shouldn't have spent that money.

I wonder how long it took them to spend all the money from VIP pre-orders on hookers & blow instead of extra servers?

[GrimaxeEU]

I've just realised what VIP means. Very Impatient Person.

[lordmg1]

anyone else besides me starting to think turbine just turned the update servers off and forgot to turn them on ?

and why isent some one smart enough to upload a patch on a torrent ?

and why if a company like turbine can make a game like lotro and fail on the simpliest of things such as TORRENT CREATION?????

u start utorrent u press make new torrent u put ur Lotro folder with isengard on it and u say UPLOAD!!!!!

seariously cant turbine even do that ?

I hate to burst your bubble...

But its not that simple.

Seriously.

[Cherrio]

im doubting that turbine has state of the art computer halls for their servers if they cannot even load a torrent with the patch on it.

what u running servers on ? p2 200mhz ?