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http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?501471-Turbine-Maintenance-Update-2-15-2013
What was 24 hours downtime starting with 6AM Thursday with completion estimated at 6AM EST Time Friday is still "ongoing" at 37 hours.
Turbine doing the right thing and giving credit and TPs to VIPs.
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?501471-Turbine-Maintenance-Update-2-15-2013
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I wonder what's up with that? Restructuring a data-center maybe.
Is a major patch expected?
https://twitter.com/lotro
"Billing and Support systems upgrades and maintenance."
"Today's maintenance is for our back-end systems, like billing and customer service. Nothing is changing in-game."
Not even "gameplay" related, that's the kicker.
LOL Billing. To err is human, to really foul things up requires an accountant.
TY for ithe info, Never even considered that side of things.
Still down and closing in on the 48 hours down mark which must be a record for an MMO downtime.
They have said VIP's will get a day extra VIP time for every day they lose plus 1 extra day on top of that plus 250 TP.
Premiun players will get 250 TP as long as they have logged into their accounts within the last 30 days.
It does and they are keeping everyone up to date via Twitter which is good.
only got back into lotro this week hopefully it wilol be up later today . but someone has done a class one screw up i think
"Billing and Support systems upgrades and maintenance."
"Today's maintenance is for our back-end systems, like billing and customer service. Nothing is changing in-game."
Not even "gameplay" related, that's the kicker.
Billing might possibly be the most important system.
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Or not It's pretty common, at the f2p transition there were 1+ day downtimes, at the first Update after f2p again, and somewhere around Isengard launch too (though that wasn't continuous, they tried to gave back servers, only to switch them down again a few hours later... that lasted more than two days )
And of course the server migration to the US, but that doesn't count I think. And in Turbine's favor, they always give extra days when this happens.
Yes big downtimes are not unusual during patches, transitions etc... but this is scheduled maintentance. Maybe something has gone wrong that they didn't forsee.
I have faith they'll get it sorted though, they do listen to players and customers and keep this 5 year old game running.
One thing the downtime has shown me is that I am really keen to get back ingame and start playing again which hasn't happened in a long time.
I'm glad I started playing again as I have found a new vigour for MMO's again and LotRO in particular
not even close.....seen worse.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
Well Scummy I hope it gets back up for you and you enjoy youre time there. I enjoyed LOTRO until I was just daily grinding at max lvl but it is a decent game. Miss my warden and hunter there.
But for those whining they are at least giving you something for it and keeping you informed. Far more then most do.... like SOE.
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LOL, I remember the days of employees going to the IT department saying OMG I did C: del *.* by mistake I just got back into playing this game a few weeks ago, and miss playing it, but I sure hope they didn't format the character server :P
I remember the days of; rm -r *
What gets me is, why didn't they do the maintenance earlier in the week, then if anything goes wrong they have the whole week to sort it out (and contact contractors for help). By leaving it until the end of the week any issues are going to mean weekend downtime, which costs them more internally and upsets their client base who have the highest game time at the weekend!
Very short sighted.
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
You aren't the only one. I still do spring cleaning on my computer by backing up music and pictures, formatting and reinstalling everything from scratch. It's a bit old school, but I've been doing it for so long that it just makes sense to me. Get all the latest drivers installed without having old ones still lingering, etc.
My last "Spring Cleaning" happened a few weeks ago was by accident. I was doing a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux and I totally trashed my partitions... ooops..
I also do Spring cleaning of my computer by formatting the hard disc. It does wonders!
I think it depends, based on your purpose If you mean wipe and reinstall OS every once and a while, then nope, you're not the only one. If you mean cleaning the disk, erasing sectors and clusters, etc. then yep, you're alone nowadays... (I couldn't even tell when was the last time I typed format, probably before win95... btw never use format without /q with the 1-3T hdds of today:) )