Server Woes

Tony posted this on April 6th, 2009.
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I, like many peo­ple, have been kind of frus­trated by the recent server issues. There are plenty of excuses to give for these things hap­pen­ing and I’d say many are fair and valid. Even so, it still remains an annoy­ance. I’m sure that’s true for Tur­bine as well as us play­ers. It’s cer­tainly not in their best inter­ests to have to deal with such problems.

They have kept up on these things as well as I think could be expected. I don’t really know where the buck stops with this and I sup­pose it doesn’t really mat­ter. I’m just hop­ing this lat­est round of fixes (which resulted in the most sig­nif­i­cant down­time thus far) makes a difference.

All of us who have played this game for a while now know this sort of stuff is rare. It’s never been this bad to my rec­ol­lec­tion, although I’m not on the most pop­u­lous server. I do won­der how many play­ers who have been com­ing back to the game due to the Wel­come Back Week­end are now won­der­ing if this is “nor­mal” for the game. Long time play­ers can cer­tainly pop in and say no to that pretty eas­ily, but it still doesn’t reflect well.

Like I said, I hope this is the end of the worst of it.

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3 Responses to 'Server Woes'

  1. Blue Kae says:

    I’m on Lan­droval, which I believe is the num­ber 2 or 3 server as far as pop­u­la­tion goes. As some­one who played open beta, head-start week, launch, and Moria launch, I can say that this is the worst period of server sta­bil­ity that I’ve seen.

    It is frus­trat­ing, but I do take some com­fort from the level of feed­back we’re get­ting from Patience. This is when the Com­mu­nity Man­age­ment staff really makes or breaks a company’s reputation.

  2. Dolgo says:

    I came from WOW in Decem­ber to LOTRO and I have to say even though I’ve heard that the game hasn’t always been like this it is very frus­trat­ing. While start­ing to get used to the over­all more lag, and rub­ber­band­ing that some­times occurs than WOW, these 4 months have not been ideal for a jump to LOTRO imo. While I am on Brandy­wine due to a friend get­ting me into the game, I was told that the game has no sched­uled down­time. Yet some­thing much worst has been hap­pen­ing. Chaotic down­time. I have also been get­ting my other friends to jump to LOTRO from WOW and with all this insta­bil­ity it sucks to show some­one the game when its in this kind of state while say­ing “No really its good”. I wish they would do a sched­uled weekly down­time till this prob­lem is over, or even take it all down for a few days if they need to. I’d like to see the bugs fixed (I want that Spring Horse) as well.

    Wel­come new writers!

  3. Tony Tony says:

    They actu­ally do sched­uled weekly down­time and always have. I imag­ine most peo­ple don’t notice it since it’s in the morn­ing. It’s sched­uled for Mon­days… They actu­ally kept the servers down longer after it yes­ter­day in an attempt to fix these problems.

    We’ll see what hap­pens I guess.

    You’re totally right though. It’s a bad time to show some­one that LotRO is fun lol.

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