
Too help offset the bad news for North American and Oceanic players, there’s some good news on the European front: Book 7 finally went live.
Usually Book launches are worldwide(ish?), but Codemasters and Turbine delayed things a bit this time around. My hope is that some of the problems that the US version of Book 7 launched with are cleaned up this time around.
If I were in Europe I’d be pretty impatient by now. It’s hard waiting around knowing others are playing things you don’t have access to. Have fun!

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!