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

[vertigo07]

I often wonder why people that profess to be fans of a game insist on tearing it down brick by brick at every opportunity.
So the patch is running a bit long, big woop, and only to be expected. It's not like Turbine just slapped you mother or something.

You can easily be a fan of something while criticizing it. In fact, I'd go as far to say that true fans of things are often the most critical. Critical because accepting anything less than what it could and should be bothers us. I often wonder why people that profess to be fans of a game insist on being apathetic about it at every opportunity. Perspective. Enjoyment of something often comes hand in hand with seeing the flaws and wanting to see those flaws fixed. What you see as no big deal, I see as a pattern of unreliability where there needs not be. It's as simple as that.

[serpman]

I often wonder why people that profess to be fans of a game insist on tearing it down brick by brick at every opportunity.
So the patch is running a bit long, big woop, and only to be expected. It's not like Turbine just slapped you mother or something.

Probably because if you were late with something at work you would get the same response from your boss? And if you tell him big woop, you would probably get fired. And this is couple hundred millions company we're talking about here.
PS : I never whine on forums about these things, im just replying to you cuz im very pissed with some other company called skrill, being late 16 days to send me my money on my bank account. Being late = not good, wherever, whenever.

[Gandie2]

Even if people don't leave because of that it is a poor reason to not strive to deliver things by timetables you set. Grievances are like paper cuts, one isn't going to kill you but you cut enough it will eventually, in a painful manner. A company that provides goods or services should be in the business of customer retention.

They should keep to timetables not because people will leave if they don't, it is just common courtesy to deliver on what you promise. Obviously, when something goes wrong you have to fix it, but you will probably find the same company wouldn't be as forgiving if you were tardy with your delivery time on paying them.

Games drive off players for many good reasons, they do not need bad reasons driving them away as well. It impacts everyone, the devs, the company and their owners and all the players. We are stuck with the present system because the game hasn't been able to generate or keep the players to have a larger player base. It has impacted everyone still here.

Apparently you missed my post about Turbine not giving a D..... As long as what ever they do does not result in people ceasing to play the game they do not care how much what they do upsets or bothers or inconveniences their customers.

[Amrundir]

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

They did not say which day. So it's { 26 minutes + n*24 hours } from now. ( n= 0,1,2,...)

[Errastas]

so, still no patch notes?

[Sleepwing]

I know. Why use English when cryptic technobabble is available?

"Log-in server is down" ... now that was hard.

pmsl. you guise making day somewhat
thanks, sincerely

[Strobie]

I don't care that the patch time has been extended. I just want to know why the game acts like it doesn't approve of my login password, that's all.

Because Turbine have far far worse problems to fix than an uninformative error message that you get when the servers are down. I don't understand why many people on these forums think that this isn't a issue and we should be grateful for what we do get; Turbine seem to be grossly unprofessional as a development organisation and their code seems to be of very poor quality.

Yes, yes, no need to tell me "you can go and play something else then". If it was a truly free market and a competent organisation could implement a LOTR MMO then I would happily give them my money instead, but I can't because if I want to play a LOTR-themed game I'm locked in to Turbine by the theme copyright and the commercial licence they have been milking for years. I actually did switch to SWTOR for a while, and it's a much better quality game implementation, but I don't like the theme as much.

[Arched]

It is a bit strange the way Turbine thinks. If they plan a 3 hour downtime why not post that it will be for 4 or 5 and then we we would be overjoyed if came back on earlier. They need to rethink their customer liaison stategies. I am available

[Grapold]

so, still no patch notes?

Nope. Latest tweet from LOTRO:
Those are from the previous Hotfix. Update 12.1 release notes have not been posted yet.

[Sleepwing]

swtor has very good customer care, agreed. if you're vip

[HoldumDown]

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.

Except the part where it wasn't released on release day you mean?

[Nobolo_Arturus]

Time to return to paper and dice!


<roll>


I got a 64. Does that hit?

[Tarmuar]

Yes, yes, no need to tell me "you can go and play something else then".

Okie-dokie, then we won't.

[Broniadoc]

Patch notes? where are they?

[Dragonscoils]

SWTOR recently had a bug that caused the majority of the player base redownloading the entire 20gig client...I wouldn't go running back to them any time soon.....

[mithelenthor]

They probably don't want to publish the notes until they are sure they can deliver the update.... (might be busy regressing as we speak)

[CheeseFan]

Time to return to paper and dice!


<roll>


I got a 64. Does that hit?

If so then that hits, but the game has minus 20 to log ins right now, so no damage taken.

[ISS_21]

Patch notes? where are they?

A patchnote is never late, Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to

[Sleepwing]

A patchnote is never late, Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to

Okie-dokie, then we won't.

oh my God, rofl

[LethalLethality]

Except the part where it wasn't released on release day you mean?

A bit different than extended downtime. That was delayed because the place lost power, the actual Helm's Deep release went off pretty damned smoothly.

[andbr78]

Are you having client loading errors???

[Alefroth]

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.

You're being stingy with the truth. They frequently are up before the scheduled time.

[randomthing]

I don't care that the patch time has been extended. I just want to know why the game acts like it doesn't approve of my login password, that's all.

Agreed, it makes no sense, and i thought: well this must be a bug and checked it up in the support site (last time i did that nothing answered my reply), and see that the game may be offline or there is an outage like with HD... so it shows me a link to the forums, got here and now see the usual.

[Tarmuar]

It is time...

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...46#post7040346

In other words...

CALM DOWN, PATCH NOTES INCOMING!

[Cluanar]

A patchnote is never late, Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to

nuff said 2 cookies for you