it’s sweet that you think the Book updates use to be world­wide

actu­ally in my expe­ri­ence that hasn’t hap­pened (been play­ing for a year now), the usual delay in Europe is about 3 – 4 days, con­sid­er­ing that the main­te­nance day is Thurs­day, that’s when we get the book updates as well.
(btw, Mines of Moria was world­wide so in that case we really got the expan­sion on the same day as the fel­low LoTRO-players in the US)

in case of the v2b7, the delay was going to be the usual few days only, first date for the update to go live was 03/19. then, CM announced they needed another week for to com­plete the local­iza­tions (Ger­man, French) and fix some text com­pil­ing issue. new tar­get date -> 03/26.
then again, another prob­lem occurred and the launch got delayed by another week. luck­ily for us they decided to imple­ment patch1 at the same time so no fur­ther update until patch2. On the other hand, they dis­abled the new raid due to the known issues — not just the instance itself, but the whole hand-in ‘event’ as well.

another blow came when they let us know that the stand­alone updater won’t be avail­able today, every­one has to have the client update itself. due to the huge num­bers of play­ers patch­ing at the moment, update speeds are about 40kB/s.

But we will even­tu­ally get there

as for being impatient…most of the play­ers are tol­er­ant, the rest behaves like arro­gant school kids, com­plain­ing about things they have no clue about…but that’s life, we’ve all seen that.

any­way, thanks for think­ing about us and throw­ing this few rows on ‘paper’. May Eru be with you!