Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[Eagle_CT]

I can do one:

Roses are red, violets are blue,
I've finally connected and my patching is through.

Hehehe Guess I deserve some infractions as well

See y'all in Isen!

Yeah, yeah! You're lucky we're on different servers, bub! /grumble

Haha, congrats and enjoy the game! :-)

[Thane9]

There's actually been a cap for some time now.
.

Just a simple straightforward question.

Do you see it as potentially problematic that F2P reavers could be rolled en masse for all intents and purposes locking out your paying customers of several years?

As if we didn't already have a legitimate concern about how server performance would be affected by F2P in the moors...now we're up against not even being able to log in at all.

Surely you can appreciate why people are upset to read this on patch day.

[SabrielofLorien]

SO sad... I make it through the entire loading process get on and play for less then an hour and the client crashes. So now I guess back to the end of the line.... I feel that there should maybe be a way to get in with out spending hours waiting for those on the servers to load the update when I have already loaded the update

note: Plugins may cause your client to crash. Please check the Lua and Plugin Areas for updates or unload them.

[Starrywisdom]

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.

Too bad they already said they are adding more infrastructure to reduce the issues. So your argument is a little bit off, as they already had the tech they needed, they just didn't put forth the time and effort to 'connect it'. Had nothing to do with dollars, just work load(which can equate to dollars, but in this case you are talking about buying/renting more servers; which they didn't need to do).

[Gareth420]

i cant get it to show any servers in the settings of it and i can find no documentation for it, is there something im missing?

This thing is asking for usernames and passwords. Id steer clear of it and just wait for the demand to lower.

[Grimdale]

Yesssssss

Now patching - delighted.

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

No!!

Not patching... unhappy.

Yeah don't worry, we will all get in eventually

[Pepperdyne]

No problem. It's WAI. Really?

basicly what Sapience is saying , don't bother till thursday - friday

[Floxxx]

@lotro We are experiencing exceptionally high demand. Players may encounter delays in patching and while logging into the game.

Gee, we hadn't noticed yet

[Telestra777]

*A connection attempt failed* must be a new deed.

LOLz!!.... Wwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when i was typing this I got conneted, and now i'm downloading!!!!!! !!!!! Good luck to you all, hope you all get connected soon!

ps~ I left the launcher running for about 3 hrs, but it took 5hrs to get here.

[areyoulistening]

Everyone just needs to take a chill pill. I know there's a lot of new people, but seems a lot of the older crowd has forgotten the fiasco that was MoM Launch!!! Just sit back and relax, go outside, watch tv, play with the kids, come back later after you've cooled off, and remember it's just a game!

[flyingcircus]

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

if i'm not mistaken "today" doesn't end for another 7 and a half hours in the most eastern parts of the US

[Cenaith]

Start Lotro, let is run, do something else.
If you have more than one PC, start Lotro there to, if you can start Lotro twice on one PC start it twice, let it run.
If one Lotro start to patch, close the others, copy the patched lotro later or while playing.

1. the chance to get one lotro patched are higher
2. you can play
3. the additional started programs won't run in the servers anymore.

4. there is no spoon and no gueue.

[Norowen]

Problem was most of the people who installed the pre patches didn't have the common sense to read the instructions. Sure they worked, but sometimes with more of a headache than waiting patiently.

I don't recall there being any instructions to read with the preloaded update. We downloaded the update files, then on patch day first launch displayed a message to the effect of "installing preloaded files". I'm not a computer geek and I know I didn't do anything other than let the files do what they do. They did it flawlessly and with no hassle. Aside from any server queue issues, as far as I'm aware everyone who wanted to play was able to play.

[Laphy]

I still haven't even been able to download the patch.... and i've seen reports of people actually being on at 2:20p est. it is now 4:30 pm est here and I still can't download the patch, I have 1meg dsl... thanks

[Cherrio]

anyone with a 3rd party isengard patch or client ?? torrent please ?

[Celebrawn]

Oh well, just remember things could always be worse. Iran could set off a nuke in space over us causing an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) that would wipe out anything that involves microchips, including the game servers, all our characters, etc. poof! gone. But it would also send out society back to the 19th century for god knows how long, so there would be even worse things to worry about.

[wsnyderco]

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

winning this is epic win

[Screemer]

This is pathetic.. I mean I have been looking at countdowns from 00:59 to 00:00 for hours now. There is no information (as usual) from Turbine, other than they were going to launch a few more login/patch servers an hour back or so.

Still my friend (on the same network as me) has logged in, set up his first character and played for about 45 minutes now. I still can't even begin patching.

Come on Turbine.. Give us stand alone patches, can't be that hard to build or even distribute. I can't imagine a single kinship that wouldn't free of charge distribute the patches to their members.

I am going nuts here, after all i am a so called V.I.P
I certainly don't feel that today.

[stridair]

woot, after what seems like forever its finally patching. just gotta wait it out.

[KennebecDiamond]

New Update... Sorry Sapience couldn't be here to do it, he was sent out on a parts run for the new servers. The local pet store is going to have a REALLY good day on sales of Hamsters!!!!!!

[ElFenix]

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.

because only 1000 people can talk to the patch server at once and 50,000 are attempting to do so.

[Jacbo]

So any word on what to do if you're stuck at the "Examine Game Data" step for an hour or so? Not terribly concerned about it, otherwise preoccupied, but would like to know if this is a perpetual hang and I should just restart the launcher, or whether there's an invisible queue it's waiting in.

I think more than anything else it would have helped for the launcher to be more descriptive. There's all this talk of queues but nowhere in the launcher text does it suggest the existence of said queue. Informative tooltips are everybody's friends.

[Assassin12]

Maybe we all just need more .

That virtues sucks! On a more serious not was stuck on examining game data so I restarted client but now its stuck on retry

[Raran]

Here Ya Go

+rep epic haha

[sneakyuk]

So any word on what to do if you're stuck at the "Examine Game Data" step for an hour or so? Not terribly concerned about it, otherwise preoccupied, but would like to know if this is a perpetual hang and I should just restart the launcher, or whether there's an invisible queue it's waiting in.

DONT restart ya client...I did that and back stuck trying to connect.