Today's maintenance has been extended until 2:00PM Eastern Time

[JaPp93]

Or have I lost completely track on time?

[Tarmuar]

Or have I lost completely track on time?

Soon™ (not Soonish as Soonish does not exist, and yes, I am padding my reply since Soon™ is not long enough)

[rosey21]

Something is going on. Forums are now acting wonky, servers are not up & Sapience is nowhere in sight.

[Sinthena]

Not only that, it's a pain just to log in to forums and post your concerns!

Turbine is really shady when it comes to updates.. no communication whatsoever as always... why do I stick with this careless company, I don't know.

[Errastas]

2hrs added ./sigh

source:twitter

[Gardhik]

LOTRO @lotro
We have extended today's downtime until Noon Eastern Time. We apologize for the inconvenience. #LOTRO


Finally, sapience remember to inform us... even a quarter later :P

[Tarmuar]

Facebook has updated the time to Noon.

[Grapold]

Forums going wonky, random "500 Internal Server Error"s and no messages on the launcher now.Seeing as everything was patched well over an hour ago now I'm guessing that they are having problems somewhere, lack of communication though is frustrating.Edit: Twitter beat me to it....We have extended today's downtime until Noon Eastern Time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

[vertigo07]

What's truly fantastic is that this is the norm for this game. As a customer, I would far rather a company make a downtime schedule that is excessive from the outset and be done earlier than expected, than to do what they traditionally do....give us a timetable and not be able to hold up their end of their own schedule. I understand it's just a game and all of that, but above all else it's bad business and a customer it feels disrespectful when it happens as often as it does here. Cheers.

[Deinok]

I will be happy if I can play before New Year's eve.

[Sinthena]

LOTRO @lotro
We have extended today's downtime until Noon Eastern Time. We apologize for the inconvenience. #LOTRO


Finally, sapience remember to inform us... even a quarter later :P

Fair enough, watch them extend that by another 2 hours lol

[Tarmuar]

Forums going wonky, random "500 Internal Server Error"s and no messages on the launcher now.Seeing as everything was patched well over an hour ago now I'm guessing that they are having problems somewhere, lack of communication though is frustrating.

They've posted updates on Facebook and Twitter, which are the two avenues they have always said would be updated first. New up time...Noon™

[MithrilMinded]

but ...what time noon is ??? that's kinda relative....and where are the patch notes?

[Chaoslord90]

2013- 12-16, 10:25 am. FAILED TO READ AUTHENTICATION REPONSE (ERR: UNEXPECTED END OF FILE)(LINE:1)(COL:1)

Last knowned announcement was downtime from 6:00 am to 10:00 am 2013-12-16 GMT -5 Eastern Time.
Is this entended?...extended downtime?...whats going on Turbine!??...why is it always so hard to get update with what going on with you guys!?? \

[Ilosodan]

Not only that, it's a pain just to log in to forums and post your concerns!

Turbine is really shady when it comes to updates.. no communication whatsoever as always... why do I stick with this careless company, I don't know.

"Not normally. Have good communications, but no patch notes and I am getting error logging in, so I am assuming authentication server is down."

[Maegren]

it's noon Eastern time US, so, 96 minutes from now

[maartena]

Something is going on. Forums are now acting wonky, servers are not up & Sapience is nowhere in sight.

Yep. sometimes things don't go as planned Helms deep was one of the smoothest patch times ever, and it was brought up in time. This one looks to be delayed a bit.

[Suicidalgrunt]

Same message, any reason for extended downtime, don't mind if there is, just wanna know why

[Sinthena]

Facebook and twitter say it is extended until noon = another 2 hours

[rodarin]

LOL why would you look on the OFFICIAL GAME forums?

I am sure facebook or twitter or instagram or massively or some other place you wouldnt go to first has some news.

[rosey21]

Not only that, it's a pain just to log in to forums and post your concerns!

Turbine is really shady when it comes to updates.. no communication whatsoever as always... why do I stick with this careless company, I don't know.

No communication ever.... love love love the dramatics around here.

[Gandie2]

Scheduled down time over, yet the servers are not up.

My question is not the obvious. The obvious question would be why? Rather my question is; Is there anyone surprised by this? Has anyone that has tried to log on after the end of the scheduled down time been surprised?

Or like me are you just thinking ... again, how long this time. Hours or days?

[Tarugorin]

https://twitter.com/lotro

We have extended today's downtime until Noon Eastern Time. We apologize for the inconvenience. #LOTRO

[L.Phoenix]

or have i lost completely track on time?

typical lotro lag

[LethalLethality]

What's truly fantastic is that this is the norm for this game. As a customer, I would far rather a company make a downtime schedule that is excessive from the outset and be done earlier than expected, than to do what they traditionally do....give us a timetable and not be able to hold up their end of their own schedule. I understand it's just a game and all of that, but above all else it's bad business and a customer it feels disrespectful when it happens as often as it does here. Cheers.

I'd have to disagree. It seems to me that most of the time, downtime may be extended an hour or two, but they usually have it up before then, unless something bad happens. It's a Monday morning anyways. It's mid-day in Europe and early in the US. I'd assume many Eastern Europeans are just getting home and Americans are getting up and going to school and work. The only ones that are largely affected would likely be Western Europe and East-Asia as West-Asia and Oceania probably in bed now.

Given this is an MMO, Turbine is actually in a pretty decent place when it comes to downtime as their timezone (EST) makes their work-time affect a relatively small portion of players. Good thing they're not on the west coast or downtimes would likely be started four hours later than usual.