Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[Darzil_Northshield]

If I had to guess they are staggering the update server, or have reduced it's load cap to enable it to speedily update the people who do manage to get in. The rest just have to wait and hope the guy at the gate lets them in. Wish there was a way to slip him a Benjamin for preferred access.

Could be. Could be that they put great thought into the required bandwidth, and didn't take into account concurrent connections.

The tales of patching I've heard here are incredibly fast for a new expansion day, once they start. It's the getting a connection in the first place that seems to be the issue.

Edit - eg I got to 40% whilst writing those two paragraphs, after 8 hours of waiting to connect!

[houndaos]

hopefully ill see you all online soon im almost at the login screen.....

Linham

[asimon]

Posting for a mate

[Gareth420]

Went very smooth so far. 15 minutes of waiting to start, then downloaded quickly and installed, game launches without problems, there's quite a bit of people at Laurelin.

My only complaint is it's raining outside Trestlebridge!

You know man rubbing people's noses in it like this isnt helpful. Its simply trolling. Go enjoy playing and stop making fun of those who cannot please.

[frgpugs]

well turbine has my understanding but my not quite my patience. 11 hours of seeing that GD red X is really starting to tick me off. With the way this thread is growing still faster than I can read it, it seems to me that the "additional servers" that turbine is adding slowly to catch up to demand is not being added fast enough. I fully expected a few hours wait.... 11 is approaching bull****.

[ThinkRSX]

Delivering huge data over the web to millions of people is the job of companies like Akamai and Amazon S3 to name 2 of them..

He said millions..... lololololol

[Screemer]

Which will not help since the patch client still checks to see if you have current files before you log onto the game.

Well, if they applyed the patch after login the problem would be solved.. Also that would make it possible to allow V.I.P's to get the patch before the rest of the crowd as would be expected..

[DobbelB_EU]

Yey, I've finally got in. One person less in the queue/lotery for the others waiting. Good luck.

[Valens74]

OK, its easy to say how terrible your life is because you have been cheated out of a few hours play. Its not easy to deliver this kind of thing. I do know something about this having been building software systems professionaly for the past 25 years.

What these people are attempting to do today is pretty difficult! The number of hits they are receiveing is huge and the volume of data they are transmitting is rediculous. All in all its hard!

I have played this game from day 1. Its robust, low error rates and a smooth play. Only issues were at big releases like this. Come on, they have a pretty good track record and if you dont think so, then spend some time looking at the industry a bit harder and then you may be impressed. I am!

Yes, they could always do a better job on days like this, but its only going to give you minor grief for a few hours. Big deal!!

And for my professional opinion, my fee is only 5000 Turbine points. Thank you.

Not my problem.

I'm only the jerk who pays the salaries that keep Turbines workforce comfortably employed, I'm no one important.

[kursatpolat]

I guess I finished patching hours ago, because I saw the login page(entering password etc). but then it gave an error that I couldnt log in, since then I am failing in the first step: connection... it's been almost 10 hours and it is really not funny anymore how many people are managed to log in the game??

[Valens74]

"Due to high demand players may experience long wait times or connectivity issues while patching or logging into the game. We are working to increase performance and will continue to do so as needed. We appreciate your patience and understanding."
Well, at least they noticed I suppose...

After 9hrs.

[Theorick]

Updating finally! I fear touching the computer now for fear of the client lagging out and crashing.

You cursed me! PC crashes, unable to connect

[Ulheronuil]

I have not been able to get out of work yet so I can start patching! Turbine should have contacted my employer to get me off work or scheduled this for a day I already had off work. After all I am VIP...

[Spydre]

Guess we can call this patch RisenFall

[Celebria]

After being stuck in the Examine Game data screen for a long while, I decided to retry.

Back to trying to reconnect again...

[Sable]

1.5 hours to connect, then 30 minutes and counting "Examining Game data". I have faith that patience will prevail!

[nickt54]

In!!

Updating Game Data 194/5080

Somewhat exciting...

[areyoulistening]

woot! patching and at 20%

[asimon]

lol I should do another Hitler movie about it
(check my signature - "..pop a token for you")

[Grimdoin_EU]

Trying not to get impatient but why have 3 kinnies who just fired up the launcher about an hour ago already managed to patch and get in while me and my missus are still stuck at the connect thingy for hours on end.

Luckily I know this feeling will disappear the second one of the clients manages to connect!

Come on Turbine! Feed those Hamsters some more!

[StormieLOTRO]

Just out of curiosity why did i an possibly thousands of other players preorder Roi 3months ago to sit at unable to connect for 10+ hours?, i was under the impression that pre-order gave you 1st priority lol,

Given that I (like many people, by the sounds of it) am sitting at at endless connect-fail-retry loop, before I even get a chance to enter my username and password, it would be a bit hard for the servers to give me higher priority for connection. If the problem was only occurring after the login process, you might have a point.

[BabbleEldar]

I'm just thankful this expansion is on time!

[TKRain]

Keep your launcher open whether you have patched or not. It worked for me and it finally patched and I am now loading into the game.

[Sable]

Has anyone stuck at "Examine Game Data" progressed to patching yet?

Not yet. 35 minutes here.

[Damrodil]

Sitting at 25% Game Data right now, though it's almost 1:AM here and school isn't canceled somehow in honor of the Isengard launch.